Author: cristina

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!! 🙂

Zoo!

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Yesterday we went to the zoo! It was fun!
We love to visit zoos but hadn’t visited the local zoo yet. So finally we did it!!
The zoo does not have that many animals, but we enjoyed it. 
We especially liked the events such as the feeding of penguins and alligators, and a show about animals’ tails.

I already started scrapping some of the pictures we took (even though they’re not great, thanks to our point and shoot.. 🙁 ), but here’s some raw pictures to start with before I get my LOs ready.
  

Speed Scrap

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Speed scrap last night at ScrapMatters, hosted by Denise!

Here’s the instructions:

1. Choose your photo. You can only use one and …and here’s the toughie…you must be in it!!!

2. Choose your papers. You must have at least 2 papers, and one of them must have a pattern.

3. Attach your photo to your page. You must use something metal, and it cannot be a staple.

4. Use something in your layout that is hanging…a clip, a charm, a tag…it must be hanging off something.

5. Create a small cluster of elements. You may put it wherever you want, but you need to attach it in some way. Embellish however else you want.

6. Title your layout. You must use an alpha in at least part of your title, and…wait for it…your title must have a number in it.

7. Date your l
ayout and add journaling…even if it is only a few words.

And here’s what I came up with:

Journaling:
With a new haircut, just so happy to spend Christmas with my family
Credits:
Papers: Be Merry kit by Cherie Mask
Tag by Ditters Doodles
Frames and hangs (all recolored): What’s Your Hang Up; Vellum Glass Alpha (recolored) by Ellie Lash
Snowflakes (recolored): Whimsical Wonderland by Flergs
Star pin I’m A Dreamer by Britt-ish Designs
Font: FG Bonnie’s

I’m happy with this LO. I did some photo editing to improve the picture and it really meant a lot.
Plans for today? Next to new sale at our Chuch, and then, the zoo!!! 🙂

I’m done!!

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Yaaaayy!!!! My 3-day exam is over!!!!
So I’m finally back to a normal life! For the past 5 weeks I did nothing but study and scrap. 🙂 My dear husband was such a great support!
And this week he was so sweet, too! Monday after the first day of exams he bought me sushi, without knowing I’d been secretly craving it for a few days!
Then today, after I finished the final exam, he gave me as a gift a Bamboo tablet!!!!!
He’s such a dream! And he’s letting me speed scrap at ScrapMatters tonight. 🙂
Off to dinner!
OK so here’s the LO I mentioned earlier.
Credits:

Template by Melanie on Ellie Lash’s CT
Hanging clips, glittery dust and paper on bracket mat from I’m A Dreamer by Britt-ish Designs
Balloon (recolored), glitter swirls and journaling strips from New Beginnings by Rasberry Road
Center and horizontal papers (recolored) from Secret Sage by Erica Zane
Other paper (recolored) from Friday Flea Market collaboration kit at ScrapMatters
Twirl Alpha by Shabby Princess
Font: FG Bonnie’s
I did this following the color scheme for the Photography Phriday Challenge at SM (we also had to scrap about something new) and also for the template challenge at Ellie Lash’s CT blog.

Almost Done

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I’m about to start Day 3 of my 3-day exam so I’m almost done!!!

I must admit that I couldn’t resist and yesterday night I started working on a new LO. I should be able to give it the final touches later today, then I’ll post it. 🙂