It's ONLY PAPER Q2 Challenge Team Chat

Shakti, so sorry to hear about your job situation ((((HUGS)))). It sounds like you've already got some things in the works though - best of luck!

Good morning, Team! Don't forget that this upcoming Friday to Monday are worth DOUBLE POINTS for anything we do! I have not scrapped anything since Monday morning, but hoping to get at least a LO or a couple of cards done over the weekend.

As for travel scrapping, I have my Florida trip to complete. I have a full tub of travel scrappy supplies due to ordering every collection available for a couple of years. And another tub of Disney stuff. When I was going on a cruise every year or two with friends, I journaled every evening and after my first attempt at scrapping a trip, I actually journaled on one side of cards so I could use them directly on the pages later. The last couple of trips, I have relied on text messages and iPhone location & date info to keep my photos organized.

Hoping you continue to make progress on the job front and keep your positive attitude, Shakti. I always take--and then print--way too many photos. I loved snapping the different angles of buildings and the cobbled streets and mpsaic tiled floors in Europe. Looking at the photos now, I have no idea which was taken where. If you are using 6x8 albums, all you really need are a couple of photos per two page LO, so you should be good. If one of you took pic's of the people and one took pic's of the surroundings, that might help you coordinate. If in doubt, Google the towns you visited and the landmarks will pop up.

Have a great Thursday!

Sorry to hear about your job issues, I hope you find something that is above your expectations and fits perfectly Shakti

Let's see, I am divorced and have a son from that marriage, he is now 28!!  He is a chef and loves it.  The funny part of that is that he was such a picky eater!  In 9th grade he said he wanted to be a chef.  WHAT!?!  He says he really enjoyed cooking with my mom (she died at the age of 58 and my DS was 13 at the time).  She was his inspiration.  

I live with my SO going on 13 years now.  He as a daughter who is now my bonus kid.  She will be 19 this year.  She is a freshman in college and comes home more than she is not home.    Haven't missed her yet!

We are going to start a big project, which is remodeling the bathroom.  Tearing everything out and replacing it all.  Changing the tub for a shower, new vanity and sink, new drywall and insulation, new ceiling, new flooring, and new lighting.  The only thing we are keeping is the toilet, that is newer as we bought that when we moved in 9 years ago.  We are waiting for the shower to get here and then we can start, that should be next week!

I did many crafts and scrapbooks with my mom.  When she passed away, I have had a really hard time getting back into that so that is why I mostly do cards and have just started junk journaling.

My dad passed away unexpectedly on Christmas Eve, he just turned 80 and we (my sister and I), just spent time with him in November for his birthday.  He had a massive heart attack.  This has been a very rough road these past few months and I am trying to get out of the depression by hopefully getting into crafting. I don't know, we will see. 

I work full time, the same place for 24 years in June.

Good luck with your job search, Shakti.

(((((HUGS)))), scrappert. Losing a parent is hard. Especially in the holiday season. My dfil and my dd's dfil both passed away in the days just after Christmas, different years. And it casts a whole new shade now on the season. Can you find peace in scrapbooking happy times with him? Or do you want to craft about something completely different. And good luck with your bathroom reno. Are you going to do it yourselves? Or get a contractor?

Love that ceramic sign, scrappinwithoutpeas. Hoping you can squeeze in a bit of crafting to your busy life. Who is your NHL team? My Oilers seem to have cooled off right now. Hoping for another hot streak leading into the playoffs.

Anyone planning to snap up some double points this weekend? I am hoping to work on a two pager this morning. I have the photos out, have begun the search for papers that will work with them, and have printed some journaling. As usual, I am overthinking the whole thing. My preferred way to scrap is to do a little every day and in that case my crafty left brain perks and it all seems to flow smoothly. But my stupid right brain has to get involved if I come back after having stepped away for a few days. Thinking makes the creative process SOOOO SLOOOOW...

grammadee, my team is the Washington Capitals (for better or worse, LOL) - on the plus side, they are playing better than they were earlier in the season, but now they're running hot and cold  -- causing me a lot of angst as a fan! They're fighting for a playoff spot and they need every point they can get. As an Oilers fan, you get the pleasure of watching Connor McDavid's incredible goal-scoring career, and I get to watch Ovi's incredible goal-scoring career - they're both future Hall-of-Famers for sure. (And as Caps fans like to say, "we're watching the other Connor Mc's career rise" (Connor McMichael) -- or as some fans would say: "the better Connor Mc" LOL - Ours hasn't done much damage on the score sheet lately though.))

As for the ceramic pic from Capri, I did get some incredible photos that day. None of them are scrapped yet (grrr...not enough time). I hope to rectify that soon, but not sure if I'll get to it this quarter.

My dgs waffles between the Oilers and the Caps. His dad is training in Washington DC this year, so on visits to see Dad, he got to attend a live Nat's game last fall and a live Cap's game in November. He was quite enthralled with "Ovi". When asked which team is his fav he names either the Oilers or the Caps, depending on which won the most recent game LOL.

I'm crashing the party late! Thanks for leading Shakti . I'm glad to be here - we are moving - 3 weeks to possession - so life is uncomfortably busy but working towards a happy ending so I don't deserve any sympathy! But I might be more scarce and scrapping less for the next while, that's for sure.



My new house has 2 purple bedrooms. It is NOT my favourite colour but I am learning more to enjoy it (the recent purple thickers help) and we're leaving the bedrooms as is for now.
My favourite colour is any shade of aqua/teal. Always has been.



That's my plan too - get my new scraproom set up (kitchen first, then scrapbook room!), and rewatch before May 16! That's an unrealistic schedule, so then the temptation will be to watch the new season right away...



DH and I talk about this a lot. We are quirky/nerdy/awkward ourselves. DS is on the high end of the autism spectrum. DD is totally ADD. I see a lot of their issues in myself, but are they "issues" if they don't cause us disability? Even if I'm a high masker, I feel that the degree to which I'd have to unmask to GET a diagnosis isn't worth it since there is nothing to change really!



Other than my 6x8 december dailies, I have never "finished" an album, but in the past 4 months I've changed my approach to scrapbooking: I scrapbook segments (like DD's dance season in 2021) fully before moving on to another topic, and this gives me a HUGE sense of completing something!



My favourite things in my scraproom come from Ikea - the Kallax, the Alex drawers, my wall organizer (shelves and baskets, mean for closet org). I'm not convinced Ikea is the best, but it is "one stop shopping", like Amazon.

I'm going to try to set a few challenges today but I'm guessing the list is pretty long by this point!  I'm also hoping to take advantage of double points this weekend - I spent 3 hours yesterday so I've got a start!

That is super interesting because DS (on the spectrum) worked with OT in Kindergarten and she said he has super lax finger/thumb ligaments and that's why he has trouble writing. He to this day writes with straight lines and avoids curves (like he always writes his name, Matthew in capital letters so that he doesn't have to do the curves of the a,h and e. So I definitely see connective tissue differences there...

Good morning, Team!

Happy Sunday, team!

I managed to put together a fairly quick LO this morning, and have another one with some grit paste drying on it sitting on my counter. Trying to get my hockey pages finished before we are too far into spring and summer photos to scrap. Have three more dgk's hockey adventures to scrap. I find it is easiest if I stick to one theme until I lose interest in it. I don't clean anything up when a LO is finished, and that means there are always scraps and stickers and diecuts lying around just ready to be grabbed up and used on the next project.

Once the hockey pages are done I hope to be scrapping travel LO's. One ddil has shared photos of their March/April road trip to Phoenix, and another has promised pic's of their March trip to Hawaii. When I get those printed I can put them with my own February Florida trip, so that should give my travel bin a workout.

My late afternoon plans just got cancelled - yay! - so I'm working on some photo management. I finished a couple of cards earlier and read a little bit of my non-fiction book about 17th-19th century pockets (and women's lives, as evidenced by those pockets).

Good morning team! Looks like lots of creativity over the Double Stuff weekend. Hope you had a good time, and if you are back at work this morning that you are thinking about how you can squeeze in a bit of crafty time into your evenings or days off this week.

Now that I STARTED scrapping after a break of a few days, it is coming much more easily to me. I put together a couple of quick pages today with some pic's my dgk's had sent me with very little context. And shared them along with the pages I finished last night.

I took some time to leave some love on the GS Sharing thread and Flickr. Heading over to the Cardmaking sharing thread to oggle your cards, Shakti, along with the other creations that have landed there recently.

I am at work and just peeked out the window during the eclipse. I am at 90% so it just looked eerie, but still sunny. Pretty cool. I will see all the pictures tonight on TV I am sure!

Good morning, Team! How is everyone doing this sunny Tuesday? Shakti how goes the job search? (or the transition to being stay at home?)


I have a dr appointment soon so need to get ready to drive to town. But I finished a LO this morning. Scrapping every day and keeping within the same theme has definitely made this easier. Can't share this one cuz it's the sample for this upcoming Sketchy Saturday challenge.

What helps you feel productive--or creative--in the craft room?