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  • Sarah and I had another fun craft day together last weekend. I was going for super simple on my layouts, since we usually talk more than we scrap. ๐Ÿ™‚ The name was cut with the Silhoutte, it’s only in two pieces. I found that welding (over lapping the letters) is really easy to do, and it makes it so easy to stick the cut outs down. That little heart was crocheted by Sarah’s mom, she also made me this: So sweet. I may have to give crochet another shot… Title is from the Silhoutte again (why yes, I will be…

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  • Oh Best scrapbooking (and lots more) tool ever! I’m going to give you a little review, based on my whole three days of ownership ๐Ÿ™‚ I am in love with my new Silhouette SD! I took it to my in-laws this weekend and played around with the software (which is brand new and works with a Mac!) on the way up. I did what I never do and read the manual (it’s in the software, not a hard copy, at least not the full thing). On the drive I figured out how to group objects, scale things and generally have…

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  • I am having serious trouble standing over my layouts and taking pictures of them straight on. Since my lovely daughter has been crazy beans lately and I haven’t a chance to re-take these shots, here are some not so great pictures of my layouts. Gosh I bet that really makes you want to read on ๐Ÿ™‚ I do need to figure out a better way though, ideas? This was a quick one, not sure about the numbers, so bold. But I have this sheet of thickers that got used up in the worst way and now I have the most…

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