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Post by anonrefugee on Nov 21, 2015 21:42:54 GMT
Ok, I know this is lame.... But I specifically made a (tiny) extra donation so I could get a "prettier" map. The helpful docent used her highlighter to mark our complete path, AND the three available trolley circuits.
She apparently thinks flourishes are good.
I realize I'm shallow, she was trying to help. I told myself our route was memorialized, so it's scrap worthy. But I almost ripped the fluorescent green pen from her hand when she started adding the trolleys, and circling restaurants.
My family thinks I'm crazy so venting. Hopefully somebody understands my first world gripe. What's yours?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 22, 2015 4:36:45 GMT
You're not crazy. I would have to get a second, UNMARKED, map for the scrapbook. That would really tick me off!
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Post by oaksong on Nov 22, 2015 5:01:07 GMT
Lol, I don't blame you for griping. Fluorescent green? Who has paper that blends with that? And it probably clashed with the colors on the map, right?
Here's mine: Please don't just randomly rip my ticket apart. Tear it carefully so that my remaining piece is pristinely scrap-worthy.
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 22, 2015 5:20:49 GMT
I preplan outfits to match premade layouts. No judgement.
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Post by alissa103 on Nov 22, 2015 5:36:32 GMT
I understand and validate you!
DH threw away my "good" pristine copy of the Disneyland park map that I was going to use on a layout. Dude was in the doghouse for that one!
I get excited when DS's friends accidentally coordinate with what he's wearing and our activity. Those pictures are always fun to scrap! On the Flipside, I was kind of miffed when DS's friend was wearing a springy lavender dress at the pumpkin patch. Lol! I kid, I kid, but it does make things more challenging.
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Nov 22, 2015 6:01:43 GMT
It is summer here. We usually have 30 deg C weather at Christmas so I fill the closed-combustion fire "box" with pinecones and battery operated light strings. So far so good, buuuut, my wire Baobab African Chrismas tree is white. The fire box is black. Humpf.
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Post by mikklynn on Nov 22, 2015 14:21:28 GMT
Oh, I would have had to buy another map. DH knows to always take two maps or two brochures. One to use and one to scrapbook. And he knows not to fold the scrapbook one!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Nov 22, 2015 14:44:52 GMT
Mine wasn't a vent. Sorry.
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Nov 22, 2015 15:03:18 GMT
Tear it carefully so that my remaining piece is pristinely scrap-worthy I love it!! Yes please! |
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Post by anonrefugee on Nov 22, 2015 23:03:13 GMT
It is summer here. We usually have 30 deg C weather at Christmas so I fill the closed-combustion fire "box" with pinecones and battery operated light strings. So far so good, buuuut, my wire Baobab African Chrismas tree is white. The fire box is black. Humpf. We need photos of a Baobab Christmas tree! Thanks y'all , glad to know I'm not alone! |
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Nov 23, 2015 5:12:13 GMT
It is summer here. We usually have 30 deg C weather at Christmas so I fill the closed-combustion fire "box" with pinecones and battery operated light strings. So far so good, buuuut, my wire Baobab African Chrismas tree is white. The fire box is black. Humpf. We need photos of a Baobab Christmas tree! Thanks y'all , glad to know I'm not alone! We close our company somewhere between the 12th and the 16th. We shall decorate soon after that- time for me to learn how to upload a pic here  |
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Post by miominmio on Nov 23, 2015 6:29:28 GMT
Oh, I would have had to buy another map. DH knows to always take two maps or two brochures. One to use and one to scrapbook. And he knows not to fold the scrapbook one! You have trained him well. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 23, 2015 11:39:20 GMT
I would have to get a second, UNMARKED, map for the scrapbook. Definitely! My vent: Too many electronic printout tickets for things like museums and such. I want a pretty ticket stub to use in my scrapbook. Also, map and program quality has gone down hill. I'm tired of being handed scrap-worthy items that are printed on copy paper. I love the look of glossy pamphlets. |
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Post by bethquiroz on Nov 23, 2015 13:54:23 GMT
I would have to get a second, UNMARKED, map for the scrapbook. Definitely! My vent: Too many electronic printout tickets for things like museums and such. I want a pretty ticket stub to use in my scrapbook. Also, map and program quality has gone down hill. I'm tired of being handed scrap-worthy items that are printed on copy paper. I love the look of glossy pamphlets. This goes along with my vent. When you buy tickets online, you have to print them out at home and they take up a full 8.5x11 sheet of paper. Very tough to use as an embellishment! |
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Post by LisaDV on Nov 23, 2015 13:56:16 GMT
I agree with the map and program quality but they don't get me going nearly as much as the ticket printouts that fade in months or when they give you a good quality one but then take the whole thing!
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Post by threegirls on Nov 23, 2015 14:01:00 GMT
My silly vent - When I'm at a public place such as the zoo and I'm trying to take a picture of my girls and some dude with a bright, neon blue shirt innocently steps into the background of the picture. I think to myself, "Come on dude, move! Please move out of the picture. Your shirt doesn't match what my girls are wearing and it's going to stick out." So, I try to wait until the dude moves and by that time my girls are over having their picture taken.
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Post by Elsabelle on Nov 23, 2015 16:27:12 GMT
My vent: Too many electronic printout tickets for things like museums and such. I want a pretty ticket stub to use in my scrapbook. Also, map and program quality has gone down hill. I'm tired of being handed scrap-worthy items that are printed on copy paper. I love the look of glossy pamphlets. Ditto! I got a great looking pamphlet from the San Francisco Botanical Garden and DH accused me of caressing it but I didn't care. Also, I really hate that the movie tickets I'm getting lately are so thin and cheap looking. Don't they understand what they're doing to my layouts??? |
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Post by mikklynn on Nov 23, 2015 17:52:48 GMT
You are my people! All of these annoy me.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Nov 23, 2015 20:28:05 GMT
Don't make me surrender special Christmas coupons or gift cards once used. I might want to use them in December Daily!  |
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Post by threegirls on Nov 23, 2015 20:53:39 GMT
Don't make me surrender special Christmas coupons or gift cards once used. I might want to use them in December Daily! I have used a gift card in a layout about a local restaurant we love. The waitress always takes the card and if there is nothing left on it the card does not come back to you. I was too embarrassed to ask for an empty card back so I went one time and purposely ordered certain items so I would have a small balance and get the card back. I considered my card a 95 cent embellishment. |
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 23, 2015 23:06:20 GMT
My son and I took a bus two hours to go horseback riding in the ocean in Jamaica. His main goal was for me to get a picture of him looking like the Old Spice commercial dude. I had a perfect shot of my son and can ride well enough to stay on a horse plunging in the ocean and still turn around and get a few good shots. I really didn't notice until later that his horse went a little too deep and appeared to be drowning. It was like an Old Spice bloopers reel.
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 23, 2015 23:09:50 GMT
When we travel I always take about 6 large Zip locks. When we get a pamphlet I always take an extra (when possible) and put it in the ziplock right away. I have also been known to take a skinny Iris 12 x 12 container in case I find paper or larger embellishments. I'm a tiny bit OCD with this stuff.
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Post by beaglemom on Nov 23, 2015 23:34:15 GMT
I understand and validate you! DH threw away my "good" pristine copy of the Disneyland park map that I was going to use on a layout. Dude was in the doghouse for that one! I get excited when DS's friends accidentally coordinate with what he's wearing and our activity. Those pictures are always fun to scrap! On the Flipside, I was kind of miffed when DS's friend was wearing a springy lavender dress at the pumpkin patch. Lol! I kid, I kid, but it does make things more challenging. We are headed to Disneyland next week. I would be happy to pick up a map and send it to you! I do have to say I was disappointed the last time we went, they are much flimsier than they were 10+ years ago. I have one that I cut up in a scrapbook from 12 or 13 years ago that was really nice paper. Now they are magazine paper feeling. |
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Post by lakritze on Nov 23, 2015 23:52:24 GMT
Oh, I would have had to buy another map. DH knows to always take two maps or two brochures. One to use and one to scrapbook. And he knows not to fold the scrapbook one! Mine does exactly the same and by now he really sees the advantage of having two maps/brochures. He has even started telling the concierges not to mark anything on those maps, so I have two to play with  |
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Post by lakritze on Nov 23, 2015 23:56:53 GMT
We are flying a lot and the tickets you get nowadays are fading so quickly, so after a trip I usually copy them, to use on my layouts/in my albums later on. Is that crazy???
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Post by mich0222 on Nov 24, 2015 1:09:52 GMT
I would have to get a second, UNMARKED, map for the scrapbook. Definitely! My vent: Too many electronic printout tickets for things like museums and such. I want a pretty ticket stub to use in my scrapbook. Also, map and program quality has gone down hill. I'm tired of being handed scrap-worthy items that are printed on copy paper. I love the look of glossy pamphlets. I have started taking a screen print of them into paint, reducing 2 tickets together into a 4 x6 size and then having them printed with my photos. So when they come back with my photos I cut them apart into my 2 tickets. So they are more "ticket size" to scrap about the event. Am I weird? Makes me happy ! |
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Post by alissa103 on Nov 24, 2015 2:14:53 GMT
We are flying a lot and the tickets you get nowadays are fading so quickly, so after a trip I usually copy them, to use on my layouts/in my albums later on. Is that crazy??? I did that with our honeymoon plane tickets! Worked great. |
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Post by alissa103 on Nov 24, 2015 2:16:22 GMT
I understand and validate you! DH threw away my "good" pristine copy of the Disneyland park map that I was going to use on a layout. Dude was in the doghouse for that one! I get excited when DS's friends accidentally coordinate with what he's wearing and our activity. Those pictures are always fun to scrap! On the Flipside, I was kind of miffed when DS's friend was wearing a springy lavender dress at the pumpkin patch. Lol! I kid, I kid, but it does make things more challenging. We are headed to Disneyland next week. I would be happy to pick up a map and send it to you! I do have to say I was disappointed the last time we went, they are much flimsier than they were 10+ years ago. I have one that I cut up in a scrapbook from 12 or 13 years ago that was really nice paper. Now they are magazine paper feeling. You are so sweet! I've already scrapped that trip, but we are going back this spring so I'll do the plan I originally had in my head with the next trip's photos and map. I know DH won't dare throw it away this time  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 24, 2015 2:42:06 GMT
Normally I'm really bad about getting around to scanning stuff that I'm pretty sure will fade, but I made a point to do it with my ultrasound photos of DD and saved / backed them up digitally. I *KNEW* I would absolutely kick myself around the block if I didn't preserve those images and they faded. (And LOL, they still aren't scrapbooked yet, and said baby is now 5.5 years old...)  I probably should get on that! |
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Nov 24, 2015 8:04:22 GMT
Oh, I would have had to buy another map. DH knows to always take two maps or two brochures. One to use and one to scrapbook. And he knows not to fold the scrapbook one! My SO is also well trained - he usually picks up half a dozen extra maps just in case any of them get damaged. My vent: Too many electronic printout tickets for things like museums and such. I want a pretty ticket stub to use in my scrapbook. Also, map and program quality has gone down hill. I'm tired of being handed scrap-worthy items that are printed on copy paper. I love the look of glossy pamphlets. You would love the ones from Hampton Court Palace - the tickets are beautiful to look at with images of past kings and famous buildings, and the maps are more like mini guide books. My favourite though is the scratch and sniff map. |
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I probably should get on that!
