paper: pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

Please, please, please understand how very difficult it is to lead with that image. Please don’t run away! I promise these are not an experiment in my newfound scrapping style. In fact, these are some of the very first pages I ever made.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to teach a layout class for the Scrapmates in Enfield and in thinking about what we would do for the project, I stumbled upon a class page I taught on that very same May bank holiday Monday in 2001. The supplies for that double page spread included four sheets of cardstock. Nothing else. So I had a little challenge to see if I could use a few basics from that original double page spread while making it up to date…like adding a few zillion pieces of patterned paper to the kit. But anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself.

All this inspired me to go through my old scrapbooks. The ones I keep on a bookshelf in the spare room. The ones that are filled with pages that make me cringe…some a little, others a lot. And see if I could track where I have been as a scrapper. So over the next four days, I will possibly scare you a great deal with some images of old pages. But hopefully there will also be some things that make more sense…a visual evolution of a scrapbooker. And a little project at the end of it all that you might like to do too. I call it time warp week. And as there will also be a great deal of explanation, you might like to listen to the time warp in the background, for added humour and enlightenment.

I discovered scrapbooking in the autumn of 1998 at that fine American shopping establishment known as Big Lots. If you’ve never seen a Big Lots well…it’s called Big Lots because they buy giant lots of random close-out items and sell them very cheaply in stores that are big but basic. Every Big Lots I’ve ever been to has been housed in what used to be a Wal-mart before Wal-mart decided they needed a bigger, better building. There was a Big Lots store in the little town where I went to college and it was a huge hit with college students, as the pay cheques from our minimum wage, part-time jobs went a bit further when you weren’t paying for pretty store displays or correctly spelled packaging. And there in a giant box of random items, I found a scrapbook kit in a box for the princely sum of $3.99.

The kit contained a cardboard 3-ring binder, ten page protectors, ten sheets of white cardstock, a dried up glue stick, some faded construction paper and a plastic shape template. And I did actually use all of the contents of this kit to make my very first scrapbook, a gift from the cast for the director of a play I was in that term. So if you haven’t figured it out, that means I can not hide my very first pages from the world. They are in someone else’s house. Sometimes this gives me nightmares. Because I remember just how terribly frightening those first ten pages were. And of course I was already taking it seriously—I had to double my investment by paying at least another $4 for a set of Crayola markers to make the beautiful titles and clever captions in that book. Imagine the beauty.

Shortly after giving that album away, I discovered that there were people who used the word ‘scrapbooking’ with a real ‘ing’ at the end, almost as if it were an athletic event. I discovered that Wal-mart had a scrapbooking aisle where they were hiding all the good pens, far away from the Crayola markers in the stationery section. Then I found the scrapbook aisle (singular in those days!) at Hobby Lobby. It was there that I bought an out of date, marked down issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine and had the biggest scare of my entire life: I WAS SCRAPBOOKING ALL WRONG.

See, those pages at the top of this post…they are actually significantly less scary than my very first pages. They were made in late ‘98 and show that I had discovered some things (like the pack of coloured cardstock that had navy, hunter green, brick red and a yellow that didn’t match anything) and not others (all the pastel and brown papers are just typing papers…not at all from the scrapbook section). So I suppose this is where it all started.

In 1998…
I shopped at Wal-mart and Hobby Lobby.
I scrapped on my lap, while sitting on my futon in my just-off-campus apartment. I usually scrapped late at night while watching a strange combination of MTV and HGTV.
I kept my scrapbooking supplies in a small plastic file box. All of them.
My camera was a point-and-shoot 35mm I had had for at least six years.
I scrapbooked on both sides of the cardstock.
My favourite tools were a plastic template with a circle, square, oval, heart and star, deckle edge scissors (though I didn’t know they were called ‘deckle’. I called them ‘ripped’.) and my very first punch: a small star.
I journalled with the four-colour starter set of Zig Fine & Chisel tip pens.
My pages didn’t stand alone or have titles—I would just do a run of pages with a roll of film and move on to different colours with the next roll of film. ‘Different colours’ meaning a little more navy on the first roll; a little more hunter on the second roll.
All of my pages were 8.5×11. Most of them were navy, hunter green or brick red.
At the very end of the year, I bought my first patterned papers in a book from Hot off the Press.

And in trying my very best to take some inspiration from those pages to come up with something today, I ended up with this:

It surprised me just how much I had to search in my stash to find navy blue cardstock when it used to be my staple. This was the only sheet I found. And I had absolutely none of that hunter green, so I had to opt for a springier shade (oh, what a shame, I hear you say!) of green. Before you think that’s the only thing I could ‘lift’ from those ten-year-old pages, I did include a tiny bit of patterned paper cut with my current favourite punch (the 2” scallop circle) as a nod to my melodramatic overuse of the star punch in 1998. But yeah, that is pretty much all I could do. I wasn’t going to crop anyone into a heart shape just for laughs.

In 1999, I like to think things got a little better. But only a little.

In 1999…
I shopped at the giant chain craft stores and Two Peas in a Bucket.
I scrapped on my dining table, which was only once used for a meal, though it was sometimes used for studying for exams.
I learned not to scrap on both sides of the cardstock, so I could move my layouts around.
I started making pages with titles—pretty much all double page spreads.
My favourite tools were punches and the Fiskars circle cutter.
I journalled with a black Zig Millennium pen, but I hadn’t realised they came in different sizes.
All of my pages were 8.5×11. The colours got a bit more varied, but only to include derivatives like burgundy and baby blue.
I had a few more patterned papers, most by Keeping Memories Alive.
I learned I could cut titles by printing out fonts on the computer and tracing them onto paper.
And let’s not forget, I started making crazily random opera singers with viking hats out of paper. That had to be a real skill. Maybe even one that would get me a job someday? Surely not.

In trying to find something from that opera page to scraplift, I had no choice but to try to paper piece something. Though I once spent hours and hours working on paper pieced figures, I really can’t imagine doing that today. It just wouldn’t hold my attention that long. But I managed to cobble together a tree…and I did my best to work with that burgundy cardstock, but in the end I had to relegate it to the very edges and brighten things up with the yellow.

So you can see where this is going…tomorrow we venture to the valley of the (paper) dolls. I know you can’t wait.

xlovesx

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It’s the 22nd…which means it is getting close to the 25th…which means soon we will be snapping everything in sight again! As promised, I wanted to make sure we took a minute to look through the different covers that have been posted in case you’re still stuck with what to put on the front of your book.

My cover is still looking pretty plain, and I am okay with that because I think it will come together over the year and be just another little reminder to me to keep the project going. I used two square punches (I have this one which has two squares in one punch, and I’ve had for approximately six and a half thousand years and all is still well) to punch twelve large squares of patterned paper and twelve smaller squares from photos. Except I can’t punch the twelve smaller squares yet, because I want one for each month. So right now there is just one little photo square from April. But next week there will be one from May. And onward we go. The buttons aren’t actually attached yet. Once the photos are all in place, I’m going to add the buttons but I wanted them to overlap the photos so they will have to wait. Which also means I reserve the right to change my mind about the buttons at any time over the next year! But for now, I am thinking pink and green buttons. There’s a bit of pearl white paint on there two, but that’s pretty much it. I’ve left the big window empty for right now. I will eventually put something there…possibly something similar to the hand photo but since this is going to last all year, clearly I don’t want to commit this early in the game.

There are some fabulous covers out there to share with you. Have a look…

Starting in the top left corner:
one, two, three, four, five.
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five.

And I’m afraid I had to stop there for today! But definitely keep them coming.

Scrap your Day links & schedule:
About this project
Sign up for reminders
Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02: coming tomorrow (Friday 23rd May)
May Album Prompt: coming Sunday (25th May)
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread

So…what will your 25th bring this month?

xlovesx

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Still doing the morning warm-up page routine, but am taking a little break from the calendar to play with some class kits from other crafty girls. It’s always a bit of a bummer not to get to take the other classes that are on at the same time, but sometimes we can trade class kits at the end…and I have a small collection calling to me to do something with them. Working on some big projects right now (well, aside from the wedding!) so it’s still nice to wake up and follow someone else’s ideas and see what happens. Little discoveries to be made.

When Karen Russell and I traded kits at Scrap Fever, I instantly felt like an absolute child. My kits were all pink scribbles and candy floss and her kits were just lush, divine, grown-up papers. But with those darned cute scalloped edges that are just too much temptation. This week I’ve made two pages that are so grown up I just don’t know what to do with myself. Both of these are from the Interactive Scrapbooking class kit—the strawberry layout (because yes, happiness is strawberry season) is pretty much exactly like the class sample, so I’m just showing bits and pieces. It has a book of photos that folds out with a calendar behind, so I’m keeping track of everything I cook with strawberries this season, listing it on the calendar, taking a photo and paperclipping the recipe into the book. (The recipe cards are from Martha Stewart.) The beach layout is a little more of me playing rather than following directions, but all the samples she includes are so lovely it is difficult to pick somewhere to start! If you can’t take the class in person, Karen sells the kit and instructions on her blog. And if I can grow up on paper, you can grow up on paper.

The other thing that really keeps me living for the first page of the morning is current photos. New photos are almost always more fun. The strawberry photos are from yesterday’s dessert. The seaside was last Saturday. Today has been the first grey day in a week, and those photos made it a little less grey in my mind. Hurrah for modern technology.

xlovesx

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The Boy + Me + the Mackintosh exhibit, Paris, October 2005.

I think one of the reasons I am blogging far more in my head recently than I am actually getting time to type out is because there is such inspiring blog fodder out there at the moment that I feel inspired to actually get up and do something rather than sit and type about it. There are a few series of blog posts out there that I’ve been meaning to ‘respond’ to in a way…just because the original posts have made me think about something in depth. Some of them are going back a bit so I’m going to need to go back through bookmarks and reread, so I’m going to start with something more recent: Ali’s photography questions. All this week, she’s focusing on words and photos as the cornerstones of storytelling. And it just has good timing for me—a four day week seems more relaxed even when you work for yourself; I have this coming weekend off and we are doing some things that will definitely have stories. More about them later. Good weather for taking pictures and getting outside. Even switching our menus from heavy winter foods to sashimi and summer salads. A good time to be reflective and set summer goals.

Ali posted her personal photography basics on Tuesday along with tons more perspective and information. It spurred me on to some notes of my own.

Tia is a Nikon girl, Washington DC, February 2008.

1. My everyday camera is a Canon 30D. I would never have bought this camera for myself—it was a birthday present a year and a half ago. It took a while for me to learn its ins and outs to use it like a 30D, but it was definitely worth the time and trouble. I have always been a Canon girl: I learned on a Canon AE-1 series, upgraded to the Canon Rebel/300 film SLR in 2001 and shot entirely on film until I switched to the same camera in digital format, which must have been Christmas 2004. It’s not that I have anything against Nikon—but once you know your way around one brand, you can keep your lenses as you upgrade the body and you just know your way around it. I guarantee if you shoot with a Canon dSLR, you would be able to use a thirty year old Canon A-1. I like that familarity.

2. I usually leave the Canon 50mm/1.8 lens on my camera, because it is lightweight and small enough that I can still fit this big camera in my handbag, plus I really like it for everyday photos. I also use a Canon 100mm/2.8 for macro shots. That is still the highest quality lens I own and you can tell in a second when you compare the shots, but it’s not as versatile as the 50mm and it is super heavy. I have a Sigma 28-200mm zoom that is useful but old and really on its last legs. It was a bargain six years ago, but it doesn’t capture colour very well at all. And I have an 18-55mm that was my everyday lens before I had a 50mm. It’s still quite lovely and I often feel guilty that I don’t use it as much any more, but the 50mm just captures a better depth of tone. (Also, it has to be said that the Canon UK website shows prices that bear little resemblance to the prices you can get if you buy on holiday or during a sale, so don’t let them discourage you. They are not nearly as scary as they look!)

The Boy + Me + Leaves, Bellevue, Washington, November 2007. With thanks to Jon Madison for taking the photo.

3. When we go on holiday, we follow the two camera rule: The Boy and I both carry a camera. He has a Sony W100 point and shoot that actually has about the same megapixel level as my SLR, and it’s small enough to fit in a pocket rather than a handbag. He would much rather take pictures than be in them, but I think he has given up trying to continually fight that battle. I also really value an opportunity to go out and about with friends who also love their cameras, because it means we can have a few photos of us together without the stress or the fee of going to a studio or hiring a photographer.

4. I have managed to convince a fair few friends back home to join Flickr and post photos even if they don’t blog. It has been lovely to get to see a little snippet of them and watch as their kids grow up and such.

5. After a few months of getting the hang of it, I now shoot in fully manual pretty much all the time and I’m much happier about it. I don’t know why, but I let myself get talked out of shooting in manual when I went digital. That it would just be too difficult and I would be fiddling with my camera too long and miss the shot. But after figuring it out on my own terms just through trial and error, I am seriously hitting myself for not doing that years ago. That and shooting in raw format. If I could go back and do anything, it would have been to shoot in raw when we went to Iceland. But live and learn. (And watch for sales from IcelandAir!)

6. We definitely keep the camera out. My lenses actually live on a shelf in our living room because if I put them in a bag, I will forget where I’ve put the bag. And we keep the point and shoot near the door so we can always grab it as we’re going out. I don’t carry my camera constantly, but if the weather looks nice or I’m headed somewhere interesting, I’ll take it along. Sometimes I’ll use it, sometimes I won’t.

7. I also use Photoshop CS3 to edit photos. Usually just a little, but sometimes a lot just for something different. I actually do most of my tweaking in Adobe Camera Raw, because I find it more straight forward and I like the results better, but for ages I didn’t even know it was there. Whoops. I only have full Photoshop on my home computer, but I have a really ancient copy of Photoshop Elements on my laptop that I use mostly for cropping or minor fixes.

From there on out, I found Ali’s notes interesting because our philosophies are very similar and yet our styles are very different. Much like Ali, my photos and journaling come before my embellishment in a layout because the stories are what inspire me to create. But I am not as disciplined as Ali in the deleting of images. I delete what I consider to be rubbish and I will leave a lot of the mediocre just on the off chance. Sometimes I do use them, so for the moment they are worth keeping. I use iPhoto to organise my pictures and I love the events feature they added in the last big upgrade. It makes things so much easier for me and I rarely have to reshuffle. And I use the ‘hide’ feature so when I click on an event, I will have deleted the photos that were totally rubbish, hidden the ones that are just okay and I can instantly see the ones I like. But I only get away with this right now because my computer has plenty of hard drive space. And I would not be surprised if I became more ruthless with the deleting if there were children about, because I can totally imagine that I will take fifty photos a day of relatively little, but that is not now so for the moment, I can keep five photos of Sunday breakfast and not be too terribly troubled by it.

Tucker, Kansas City, October 2007 & The Boy, Seattle, November 2007.

Over the past year or so I have been more aware of light and how light differs from place to place and how that appears in an image. I love how the light changes as you go north, and I never realised this before this year. In the photo above, the image on the left was taken in Kansas City and the image on the right was taken in Seattle (quite a bit further north, if you’re not familiar with American geography). Both were shot on overcast autumn days at a similar time of day with similar camera settings. In Kansas City, the light was still quite harsh and flat. In Seattle, there is more warmth to the light. It’s not something that I have any expertise with—I’m just becoming more aware and trying to use my camera to find the types of light I like.

Cupcake Peddlers print by Emily Martin from The Black Apple on Etsy.

When we moved house, we were also more conscious of light and more than a bit lucky. Our last place had very little natural light, as the largest windows were blocked in and the sun couldn’t get to them. Our current house has more windows than real walls, and this has made life with a camera far more fun. The two shots above show you the difference—old flat on the left, new flat on the right. Beyond the camera, I really find that good light (which can still come right alongside rain or storms!) makes me worry less and feel more upbeat. That’s probably why I am more aware of it in my pictures now.

From Ali’s posts this week, I have realised the extent to which I scrapbook with just a few photos at a time. I know one and two photo layouts have a reputation for being more about pretty paper than the story (and believe me, I have nothing against pretty paper) but in my case I think I use relatively few photos because I like to tell the story in small parts. So much so that sometimes my layouts overlap and tell the same part of the story twice because I’ve forgotten that I included it elsewhere, but that doesn’t bother me. I like to see the layouts come together to tell the whole story as an album, even if it’s not an album with a particular theme. And I like finding that I wrote about something in 2005 and then again in 2008 and finding that the perspective has changed in some cases. That doesn’t mean I am scrapping the same photographs in most cases, though that does happen sometimes too. I don’t have any rules on getting certain photos scrapped or not scrapping a photo twice…if something sounds like a good idea, I give it a try. I really think much of the stress that we come across in our creativity is just that—created—and we have to find our own ways of getting past the barriers we build. The pages above are from an album I made about our trip to Iceland and they are a couple years old now and this album looks different than any of the rest I have made, but it is just perfect for me. Almost everything is in two page layouts, which has been a rarity for me over the past four or five years. (Pre 2002, I scrapped 95% double pagers. Just how it goes I guess.) Lots of empty space, but lots to look at too. The entire trip broken down into pieces of the story, from the reasons why I so wanted to go there to how we nearly crashed our rental car into a volcano. And colours that remind me of the place. Colour emotion on layouts is a huge topic for me…something for another day perhaps.

I don’t have lots of photos from my childhood but I have enough to help tell those stories. They come from a variety of places—family who have photos, scanned them and emailed or posted them to me as a surprise, a box of photos I found when I cleaned out some of my old belongings on a trip back home—full of shots from my first days snapping on any camera with lots of finger-in-front-of-the-lens and overheated film snapshots, and a stack I rescued from the dark room of my high school yearbook. I always wonder how many scrappers were part of the yearbook committee if their school had one. It’s very scrapbooky. I suppose putting those pages together on a combination of tiny little computer plus actual paste-up with spray adhesive and a giant light box…that must be early hybrid scrapbooking! Who knew? But that photo of a bunch of classmates dressed up for the ever-academic Hippie Day was one that had been in the yearbook then came back in a box headed to the bin. I didn’t know what a scrapbook was then but I already knew I shouldn’t throw photographs in the rubbish. (Amanda is probably going to fight me for these now. She would be the one with the gorgeous flower in her hair!)

Interestingly, when I flipped through albums thinking about this, the pages with the most photographs are actually from Ali’s Week in the Life class (there are details about this project in her Life Artist book as well). Everything you hear about making this album is true—it is positively divine and I love to go back and look at it. There are eight photographs on this double page spread and yet so much space for words as well. The album starts with Monday and this is Friday’s page, and I purposely left some of the cards with very little writing that day because in real life that day was quiet and emotional. Other days that week were very, very busy and every bit of space is filled with words and pictures. Everything coexists in a very lovely way here, and it takes less time than I ever thought possible. This was the first week in July 2006. The same week in 2007, I took very different photos as I started to box up my classroom with my last few days teaching in a traditional school setting. The same week this year will include the final fitting of my wedding dress. So these pages make that interesting to revisit. Definite storytelling.

Alas, this has taken me all week to write, on and off! But it has been useful thinking for me, if quite lengthy for you to read.

Still much to update but we will get there, little blog. We will get there. We might even look at layouts that I made in the last twelve months. But that is crazy talk today.

xlovesx

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I think I was meant to hibernate.

If it weren’t for a few superbly lovely things that tend to happen between December and March, much would be better with the world if I slept through those months and woke up to the wonderment of spring. For now that it has hit, I want to stay awake all the time to soak it in. I just think that if I had slept for a few months before now, it could feasible.

Admittedly it is raining a lot recently, but it’s the kind of rain that comes and goes and then everything is more green and everything smells amazingly. Yesterday the park smelled pink and green to me. Like sweets and new grass all wrapped up together. When it was cold enough that I needed to come inside, I felt like I should ignore my work and make a quilt that would be suitable for sitting on the ground for long periods of time. Since we moved in, I have been looking forward to days when it is warm and dry enough to sit in the park with a notebook and actually use it as a workplace. Just now and again. It seems so frivolous a goal, and yet so perfect.

At the same time, I am quite shocked that it is nearly May. But increased productivity over the past few days may have made me miss the days as they passed. Good things are happening. I did stop for a bit last night to watch something I have been wishing to see for so long: Salmer fra kjøkkenet, a beautifully simple film about post-war kitchen research in Norway. Except it’s not really about that at all. I laughed, I cried and I remained very grateful for short bursts of fresh blue sky.

xlovesx

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album cover created by Gertie

Gertie is zooming ahead with her album cover all ready to go!

More info on Scrap Your Day will be posted here and on UKScrappers on Monday. Everyone is welcome to play along.

In the meantime, I am sorting out some extra kits from recent events, if anyone feels like taking them off my hands. Just a few bits and pieces left to box and weigh up. It’s a pretty gloomy day out there so not such a bad one for a lazy morning and a computerish afternoon. Tonight we’re having dinner with the boss!

I do wonder if she’ll order a banana fritter for dessert.

xlovesx

PS: I’m closing the comments on this because I can’t offer kits for free as I don’t get them for free, and I don’t want anyone to comment here and have their heart broken!! There will be some shopping opportunities soon – we’re just working on making it all tick. Thank you so much for your support and trust me, I do wish I could send supplies to everyone, just for fun!

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They said can you come up with something that will be different?
They said it needs to be something we can finish.
They said and everyone will cheer each other on.

And somehow, I think I said we can do that.

Different as in a little different than a regular cybercrop class. Because we’ll do a little bit before the cybercrop, a little bit during, and a little bit after. Some long, long after. And because you don’t need to participate in the cybercrop at all to join us for this.

Finishable as in I don’t want to feel behind before I start. So we’re going to prep some pages in advance (and they are super quick). Then we’re going to all take pictures on the same day. Then we have a month to stick them into the book before anyone can consider feeling behind.

Cheerable as in we’re going to do this together. As the project progresses, you’ll get tips from lots of people. And every month, we’ll share ways to keep it fun. And you can cheer on your team mates or friends or someone who has just joined UKScrappers for the first time.

Because starting this month, the 25th of every month is Official UKS Scrap Your Day day. On the 25th, we will all snap photos of our everyday. We can share them online and scrap them in an album. And twelve months later, we’ll have documented an entire year of snapshots. Whether you love scrapping the everyday already or wanted to give it a try and weren’t sure where to start, we’d love for you to join us.

One way you can join us is with this kit. It contains one 15×7 spiral bound album by Making Memories and thirteen sheets of 12×6 patterned papers in the designs shown above, by American Crafts, Sassafras Lass and Crate Paper. The 12×6 will make sense when you start to work on this project, I promise. To the kit, you’ll add your own cardstock, photos, journaling and a few of your favourite embellishments like flowers or ribbon to customise your entry each month and keep it looking like your album.

There are a limited number of kits available on a first come, first served basis. Each kit is £10 plus £2 postage and packing. Kits are available to UK addresses and ship by First Class Royal Mail. When you purchase a kit, you’ll also receive a PDF with the instructions for putting the pages of your album together for the project, so you can started before we start snapping away Friday after next.

ETA: All sold out now! Thank you so much! More details to come! If you didn’t get a kit, never fear, as there will be plenty of ideas for using your own stash too.

Any questions, please just ask!

xlovesx

PS: The prompts for this project are free and will be available both here and at UKScrappers, so you are more than welcome to join us even if you are far away. Oh, glorious internet, how we love you!

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When I left home on Sunday morning, there were thousands of people arriving in our little corner of the world to run the London marathon. I was catching a train in the other direction to get to Alexandra Palace to stamp trees, birds, hedgehogs, polka dots and bunting on tiny pieces of paper all day, which is far more my type of activity. Though we did start to realise that standing still for the same amount of time as it takes to run twenty-six miles is not easy either, but we all made it through and managed to sell a few sets of woodgrain and cakes and woodland creatures along the way. All good fun. And lots of lovely people who said hello! It’s lovely to see a friendly face during the day.

Today I’ve at least had the luxury of sitting down a while…first to pack kits for a little something special from UKScrappers, then for dinner, then to watch Dr Strangelove (The Boy had never seen it and has been strangely obsessed with it lately) and knit a new rug. I collected all sorts of chunky wools when I started knitting, before I learned the important rule that jumpers knit in fat wool look even more fat when you’re wearing them…so I have made many chunky scarves and now I’m thinking the rug is the new answer. The floor doesn’t mind if it looks a bit extra thick around the edges.

The little something special from UKScrappers goes on sale here tomorrow morning at 7am, so do stop by in the morning if you fancy knowing a little more!

And thank you for all the lovely wedding stories…this week has a lot of real stuff happening, and then it will practically be around the corner. My goodness!

xlovesx

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