Month: September 2008

Zoo 2 Pager

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I’m working on my (noisy) mac and here’s another Zoo LO. I love these pictures!! The frogs were actually in a glass case. At first, we really had a hard time spotting them, since they were camouflaged so well!

Credits:

everything from Posh by Rachel Martin Designs

except

leaf paper: Tree of Life by Julie Marie

Alpha Angel of Love 1 (recolored) by digiscrap.ch

Defensive Driving and Aggressive Husband

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Today I went to a defensive driving course so I can get a discount on insurance. It was quite interesting, but I can think of at least 20 better things to do on a Saturday.. 🙂

On the other hand, we want to pick up our Mac – again – and brought it home. This time they put in the right 256 MB video card. But as soon as we turned it on it was plain apparent that something was wrong – the fan keeps running.
And this time my husband is really angry – and has every reason to be I must add.
So I’m still with very limited scrapping equipment – this is so sad! And I also missed Britt’s show off gift for this week. A beautiful paper pack! 🙁

Great News (Autocelebratory Post)

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I passed the Preliminary Exam and I’m now officially a 2nd year student.

And it feels good!!
OK, I can admit it now. I never thought I could not pass it, but it’s a big relief to actually get the results and know it.
Especially, it feels good to read: “Further congratulations are due, because you received a high grade on the exam”. 😀
Yaaaaay for me!!

Wordart, Bad News and Indiana Jones

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I was reading a few blogs this morning and on Misty Cato’s blog (great for tutorials too, you can find in in my favorite blogs’ list on the right) I found out about this funny website, Wordle, that creates a word composition with the words you input. I inserted my blog and here’s what came out.

And now the bad news: they didn’t take me for ScrapMatters’ CT call.. I was quite disappointed because although when I applied I realistically knew they would have a lot more talented scrappers to choose among, since it took so long to get the answer (9 looong days) my hopes inevitably went up.
Anyway, they have a brand new CT there (although I’m thrilled to see some names of the previous CT still there!) and I can’t wait to see what they come up with.

We went to see the latest Indiana Jones yesterday night. I thought it was fun; my husband said it made too much fun of itself.. Anyway, I’m happy they did it.

Another Zoo LO

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I did another zoo LO.

This is about a super fun show we watched there called Tales of Tails. The pictures we took were really bad, but I wanted to scrap about this because it’s such a nice memory.
So I tweaked them a little bit and here we go:

Credits:
Building Blocks Template by Heather Lee
Happy 2B {stuck with you} collab kit by Krystal Hartley and Marcie Reckinger 

Tamed Alpha by Creashens (used for ‘tails’)
I just love this kit (it’s the same I used for The Rhinos, another zoo LO I did previously, and I wanted to reuse it).
I did this LO for the Tuesday Template challenge at ScrapMatters.

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! 😀