A Challenge (At Last!)

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After too much time I finally scrapped a LO for a challenge.

I’m not 100% happy with this LO; it might be because I started it on my husband’s notebook with very limited scrapping supplies.. Anyway, I couldn’t get anywhere with it so I finished it as it was.
I’m not 100% happy with it because although I love the title idea, I’m not really happy with how it turned out.
Anyway, still not a LO I should throw away, IMHO. The picture was really poor quality and I like how it turned out after I tweaked it a bit.
I did this following ScrapMatter’s 8/30 Saturday Special challenge hosted by Lina with these rules:

  1. only one photo,
  2. something bling (a jewel, glitter, etc),
  3. no less than 3 papers,
  4. a binder (clip, stapes, etc)
  5. at least 3 flowers and
  6. you must use an alpha!

and here’s the LO:

Credits:

Background paper + (recolored) bling safety pin from SM August Daily Download Kit: Say It With Bling, by Designs by Tater

Other papers: The Depths by Kara Fredricks
Cottage Arts Tear Template
Flowers by AneczaW

Outrageous (I Talked Too Soon)

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We’re about to go back to the Apple Store because we found out that they did indeed replace the malfuncioning VRAM, but instead of replacing the 256 MB we had, they put in 128.

Wasn’t that smart?
We really feel we’re a bit unlucky.

It’s Back!!!!

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My Mac is Back!!!!!!

Yaaaaaay!!!
I had almost given up hope, since we were waiting on a part and I figured, with the long weekend, it would never come in. But it did and it’s working and I can catch up with all the things I missed this week. 🙂
Too bad I have to go back to work tomorrow! 😀

Almost Over

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My holiday is almost over, and after Labor Day my schedule is pretty busy.

I’m not really that eager to go back to work, but I’m not dreading it either, so the holiday did me some good. 🙂
My Mac is still at the Apple Store and I’m still very unhappy about it, but resigned.
At last, Indiana Jones has arrived at our discount theater, so on Tuesday we’ll go and watch it for $ 1! I’ve been waiting for it to arrive all summer! 🙂

Happy Birthday to Me!

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Today’s my birthday!!

And husband’s cooking me a nice meal tonight. 🙂
I was hoping to get a phone call from the Apple Store saying my computer was repaired and ready to come home, but no.. not even as a gift for my birthday!
I’m really feeling hopeless now. I’ve been waiting on 3 important things this week (computer repair, exam results and ScrapMatters CT call) and heard nothing from either! I’ve been trying to be really calm and patient, but after 4 days of useless waiting I feel I’m getting a bit nervous now.
But never mind, it’s my birthday today and I want only positive thoughts!
And tomorrow we’re spending the day at a museum so I won’t have a chance to think about the answers I’m waiting for.

Operation Spruce

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After spending yesterday at Letchworth State Park (loved it!!) today we went and bought a baby blue spruce to plant in our garden.

I’ve wanted this for a couple months now, and we finally went to get it today.
We chose the smallest (and cutest of course) of all the ones for sale
and as soon as we got home, we were very, very glad we did that!! In fact, the people at the nursery put the spruce in our car, but once we got home, we discovered it was awfully heavy!! In fact, my husband and I together could not lift it, and resorted to roll it over the grass to the designated spot.
After digging for almost 2 hours, with me getting really dizzy because of the sun, we finally managed it and achieved this:
We’re SO happy with the result!! It was a harder job than we expected, but totally worth it!
Now we’re almost ready for Christmas! 🙂
(In case you were wondering… The 3rd day is now over and my Mac is not ready yet.. And it should have taken “a couple days”…)

Science Center

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Today we went to the Science Center + Planetarium. It was fun!!

We spent about 6 hours there, doing all the activities.
I didn’t take many pictures, but I think a LO or two could come out of this. 🙂
There’s a Speed Scrap at Scrapmatters tomorrow evening (find info here) but I’ll miss it because it’s at dinner time for me and tomorrow is our monthiversary (plus, my Mac is still being repaired.. ugh!). Too bad, because I love speed scraps!! There’s also an awesome partecipation prize by Ellie Lash.

Mac News

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OK, here’s the news: we brought my iMac to the repair center today and it should take “a couple days”. I hope it doesn’t take longer than that, because I already feel unlucky enough that my computer broke during my holiday (=big scrapping time).

So, the plans for the next couple of days is to build some nice memories for me to scrap when my computer comes back home. 🙂 And if I really can’t resist, I’ll seize my husband’s notebook for a quick scrapping session.
Now we’ll decide what to do tomorrow: museum or historic village?

Zoo LOs

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Here’s the first LO I did yesterday about our visit to the zoo.
Credits:
Everything from So Sweet Mini Kit by Ellie Lash
except:
Flowers from Dream by Ellie Lash
i luv turquoise alpha (recolored) by Andilynn Designs
I did this for the Thursday challenge at Ellie Lash’s CT blog (check it out here) and for the Digi Dare # 96 – only I realized too late I missed the deadline for the digi dare. 🙂 It would have been my first digi dare: I just stumbled upon the website this week,  and I love the idea! Check it out if you haven’t already.
And here’s the second zoo LO I did today.
Credits:
Tilted Template Challenge template by Britt-ish Designs
Happy 2B {stuck with you} collab kit by Krystal Hartley and Marcie Reckinger
I did it for the Tuesday Template challenge at ScrapMatters.
This week’s is hosted by Britt – I just love her style and all of her templates! This one is no exception. 🙂
I fell in love with that background paper (by Krystal Hartley: I’m really in love with her style lately!) and couldn’t find anything that suited it to go on the photo mat, so I just cut the black&white part of the background paper and built the photo mat out of it.
The sad news of the day is that my Mac started malfunctioning!!!!! 🙁 It all started this morning when the screen filled with curly horizontal stripes. It has then done it repeatedly over the day, but quite randomly: the second LO I posted here was done after it did it a few times but gave me no problems as I was scrapping. My husband (the house guru) says it’s the V-RAM and that it’s serious, i.e., we must bring it to be repaired. This is horrible news for me. I have next week off and was planning to spend my holiday doing a fair amount of scrapping… 🙁
I’ll keep you posted with how my Mac holds up.

The Dark Knight

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Yesterday we went to the cinema! My husband had been wanting to go to see The Dark Knight for a long time, so I finally gave in since he deserved a treat too. 🙂

I usually am totally opposed to spending $10.50 at a regular theater when you can watch the same movie for $ 2 just a few months later, but this time, since he really wanted to go, and since the movie was at the IMAX, we went.

The movie was good and I must say I LOVE the IMAX!! 🙂