Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Still scrapbooking

You think I would of lost my mojo by now after a weekend of scrapbooking but no...I had a casual scrap at the craft store today. Only me and another lady had the room to ourselves as the scrappers who do weekly workshops were absent.  I didn't scrap much as I was too busy helping the other lady with a couple of layout ideas. 

But the thing I learnt from the craft store today was how to knit without needles.  They called it elbow knitting but to me it looks more like french knitting minus the equipment.  It looks very simple to do which I might try out next winter if I can remember to.  I don't knit or crochet during the summery months because it's too hot.  Long before I had kids I used to knit and crochet alot but once scrapbooking was introduce, my other hobbies I used to do have more or less went to the back burner.  It was my Nanna who taught me to knit while I learnt to crochet at school when I studied Home Economics during my junior years.

What a weekend it was!!  I was away for two nights at our scrap camp at our popular venue spot.  It was a full house at the centre with three other groups of scrappers in their conference rooms.  Don't know what time the other rooms finished up each night but our group finished up by 1am on each night.  Like always I was the last up on both nights so I had to lock up, etc, etc. I did managed to meet a couple of other ladies from groups.  One lady came up from Sydney and had three nights at the centre with that group. 
 
Surprisingly I was quite a productive person being creative and managed to finished off two smaller projects and started on a new one.  I have noticed over the years I am getting better with page layout ideas.  Some are that good I don't wish to give those great pages away to anyone. Definiately time to get my camera out and take photos to remember what I have done.
 
The food at the camp was great. That place sure knows how to feed the army.  I am not really a big intaker of food at meal times so my tummy was quite blotted by the time I left the conference centre on Sunday afternoon.  It was my first time I tried sushi and surprisingly I quite enjoyed it!
 
Because of the accomodation availably, my CM consultant only could book 15 ladies to attend this time so it was our first time in history we all had a table each to ourselves.  She set up the room with most of the tables in a big rectangle and only afew tables were placed in the middle.  There were jokes made about the seating arranagements in the middle as the time out tables for naughty people,  But I sat near the main air conditioner on the outer ring so most of the time I had the control of the remote of the air conditioner. 
 
As for the sleeping arrangements I was the only guest who had a room all to myself.  Honestly the room was just big enough to fill with four single beds, four mini cupboards and a mini vanity sink near the entrance.  I didn't have a bathroom so I had to use the next unit bathroom at time of need.  There was no wall between these two units.  It was a long hallway for me to walk down to the other end.  The other unit had more private rooms like a normal house with bedrooms .  Each room had either one or two single beds but one of the rooms did have a double bed.  Lucky person who had that bed because the bed I slept on was so uncomfortable.  I should of just stayed up and scrap all night! By the time I got to sleep it was too close to daylight.  But I was good to be home to sleep on my own bed again since.
 
Since Christmas is only a month away I need to sit down and get my newsletter completed and cards written to be sent off by the time school ends for the year.  And make some small goodies for the kids to give to their teachers.
 
 

Friday, 18 November 2011

Scrap camp

The weekend I have been waiting for is almost here.  Only have around 90 minutes to go and I will be off travelling to my scrap camp destination for two nights.  I spent many hours on camp preparation and I have four albums to take with me.  I will try to be a productive person and complete many pages as I can.  Three of the four albums are more to finish off some pages not completed and one 12 inch is to start from scratch.  I am not expecting to complete all projects I packed in one weekend as I need breaks for meals, read, sleep and possible swim in the centre's pool too.

It doesn't matter if outdoors is humid and hot this weekend because we will be all inside in air conditioning comfort scrappin' away to our heart's content, gossiping about any good old subject, share jokes, laughter and pigging out on the meals and snacks that has been prepared for us. 

A good thing about this weekend I don't need to be stressful about SAHM duties or be the taxi driver for my kid's sports this weekend.  Have a great weekend everyone!

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Scrap tips

I only had one scrap meet this week. It was just a casual meet with three ladies at the craft store.  It was nice to catch up with these ladies as we haven't been there for two weeks.  This time I decided to go back in time and finish off one of my diary years where my eldest daughter was at preschool.

Next week will be busy because I have the final touches to do before weekend.  I will be away for two nights at a scrap camp, west of Brisbane.  I can't wait as I need abit of a break away from homelife.

Before I sign off here I have a couple of scrap tips for this month.  It involves sewing and stickers to create interesting fonts. 

If you are scrapbooking school days, have crayon stickers and don't know what to do with them, create letters with the crayon stickers. 

If you a keen sewer, you can either hand or machine stitch around your large diecut letters.  Also you could do the simpler stitching around a particular subject of any photos.  This shaped stitching will give the focal point of your photo/s.

Saturday, 5 November 2011

A scrap workshop

I only had one scrap meet this week as the craft store was closed on Tuesday.  The owners of the store decided to do a shopping day tour with afew craft people as part of the celebration for Melbourne Cup Day. 

My only scrap meet for the week was held last night at my CM consultant's home. It was a four hour workshop to do a Christmas layout.  Only eight of us ladies were there to do a simple layout using smaller sized photos and lots of 1.5 inch squares from scrap papers.  I decided to go for more the bauble look by cropping my papers and photos into circular shapes.  I completed a cat page of my cat.

Well...Christmas is now 46 days away and I guess it is time to start to get into the festive season spirit and my consultant plans on using this month on getting some Christmas page layouts done from past Christmas.

Our camp is now only two weekends away and I have almost finished preparing my page layout ideas for the weekend. Just got to use my cricut to cut some big fonts and the cuttlebug for some dry embossed pages so I don't take these machines as extra baggage for the weekend.