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Category: Scrapbooking

  • As mentioned yesterday Sarah and I spent Friday and Saturday with nothing but scrapbooking on the brain! Ok and maybe a little food too. While I was getting Tuesday down for her nap Friday Sarah loaded up her car and as soon as Tuesday was down we took off. We got to stay at the Nines which is so fabulous. I don’t know how we managed the top floor but the view was great: Here you can get a better idea of why it was difficult to take pictures from our room: And what a pretty room it was: I…

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  • Oh I feel so smart. I figured out how to make my own mist, which is just ink after all. Obviously I’m not the first one to figure this out, since Ranger makes these great little mister things (they come empty), but still I felt quite smart. And less guilty because I have all this random ink from a failed attempt at calligraphy. And it was at least ten years old, so if you come across old ink at a sale, pick it up, shake it up and try this out! This mist is the richest of any I’ve tried.…

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  • Bj and I have a standing deal: we get one glorious morning each weekend day to sleep in. It’s beautiful and I love it oh so much. Of course I tend to go a bit crazy the night before I know I get to sleep in and this last weekend was no exception. In fact, factoring in daylight savings time changing, I stayed up until after three AM, oops! But I was on a creative roll and it felt so good. Spurring me on was some filing I was able to do (and thus de-cluttering) because I’m actually able to…

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