Scrappy Randomness

Well, if it's scrappy randomness, here goes:

Right now I am scrapping photos that are not really exciting. They are fish photos from a SCUBA trip in November. I take hundreds of fish photos each trip. I have already scrapped the best ones; but these are good too, so I made them into collages. I don't usually scrap chronological, so theoretically I could scrap something else. But I feel like these are just hanging around and I will feel better when they are done, so I soldier on.

It feels so good to finish a big project like this. I usually just put this type of photo in pocket pages and call it good.

Yesterday was dd's 13th birthday and I've got a couple of HAVE TO get done house projects. One has to get done ASAP as the more important project had to be put on hold for it. So my crafty time is really limited. I created 2 pages last week and I'm trying to get process videos of them done so I can post the video and the layout photo at the same time. I'm still learning on the video making end of things and I struggle. It really makes you appreciate those that do process videos. I need to finish the 2nd by tomorrow. I upload at night, so one will go tonight and one will go tomorrow.

I did the same thing with DD15's room back in May, swapping out furniture and everything, but a ton of her stuff is still sitting in my craft area waiting to be sorted (and a lot of it donated or thrown out, I hope). It seems like there's always something going on that keeps us from getting to it. 

Best of luck getting it done so you can get back to scrapping!

I have a layout using a SG sketch laying out on my desk with all the accent paper and a few embellishments but I cannot find a background paper I like so I keep wandering in there trying one or two get frustrated and leave it again. LOL I do have some camping papers I would like to get but just keep talking myself out of it. Hoping to get a wedding card made before the weekend.

Randomness: I want to scrap, but I am just drained. I ran a bunch of errands. Set up kiddie pool and let them play.

And ants are killing my mojo!

Seriously.

So, a flying termite died on my window sill, without my knowledge. I woke up to a line of tiny ants coming from under the baseboard, to get the dead bug.

Oh hell no!

Thankfully this is all in one corner, contained.

So, I have four terro ant baits and those ants called all their friends, and on heck I just want them to die quick and leave the inside of my home alone.

I have a two page LO that has been sitting on my table waiting for a title and journaling for two weeks. I have no mojo to finish it. I'm hoping the July challenges are going to give me a jump start. Of course that hasn't stopped me from shopping lol. I just got the EP school papers this week lol

I'm stuck trying to move my space to the family room. I keep thinking about it but doing nothing about it.

THEN I have over 500 pictures of my trip to Germany and Paris and most are on my Iphone in some weird format and they will not load onto my computer (PC). I am soooo frustrated by it. I read I could put them in Dropbox and then my computer, which I did, but after doing 500 of them one by one.. I opened one and they are like the size of a stamp. I can't enlarge it either. ALL that work for nothing. So now what do I do? Ugggg.

Ants suck. I've been using peppermint on cotton balls to keep them at bay. But you have to resaturate the cotton balls often and I forget. Luckily, they're home invasion attempts only last a couple of weeks in the late spring/early summer. I think next year, I'm going back to terro.




That is so frustrating! I just wanted you to know I empathize with you. I can't upload from my phone it puts random dates that weren't the date the photos were taken on my photos. I've taken to downloading from icloud. Do you have icloud for your photos and have you tried that?

I will join in tonight. I have this big new wonderful craft studio to scrapbook in, when I used to have no where to scrap and I just can't seem to settle in and get to work. I'm feeling completely overwhelmed because I have not printed pictures in over a year and a half. I'm the type of person that prints all her pics and has them on hand organized in those iris photo containers labeled and ready to go. Everytime I start to sit and get my butt to getting an order ready to be uploaded to print, I get so overwhelmed.

And then when I tell myself to just sit and scrap I get overwhelmed with what to scrap. I feel like I have so many important events to do and just can't focus on one. I feel like I am all over the place and just can't focus. But the last year of my life has been very unsettling, and lots of change and trials have occurred. And some are ongoing. So I think a lot of that is affecting my ability to scrap.

Sigh, I remember the days when I would say to myself, I would just get so much scrapping done if I just had a space of my own!! 😂

Last night finished two layouts while listening to an audiobook. Fairly simple layouts, but still good.

It was good to be able to reach for embellishments and have them all organized, so no wondering if "that perfect sticker" was still lost in the void. No hunting. Just take out the bag labelled Birthday, and embellish.

It's dance recital day in our house so I took the day off work. My dd is in competitive dance, so the year end show is BIG. Lots of photos to be taken at dress rehearsal today!
And I started a journal this morning - going to treat it like a "day in the life".

We also have the floor AC. It's currently in the bedroom where DD and DH are still dozing, but it needs to be moved to the main floor pronto! Humidity! My LSS has a %15 off if you spend $50 today, but I'm honestly not sure there is $50 worth of stuff I want! The selection these days is so diminished from the big years of scrapbooking And I don't want to buy just for the sake of shopping IYKWIM.

I don't even remember which team I'm on or who is on my team with me!!! Have to tally my points. Hoping to get 1 more layout done tonight. I would go scrap now, but don't want to start because we have costumes to organize and I have a compulsive need to stay on top of busy days!


I have one of these right now too. I had a background completed but pulled it apart because I hated it. Going to start fresh.

Ants - uuuuuuuuugh. We have diatomaceous earth we use for grease ants when they appear. They are my nightmare because they are so small and so many... At least the diatomaceous earth isn't toxic so I don't worry about the animals.

I am using Flickr now for this - so easy to upload photos off my iphone, then download to my PC for editting. I know it's an extra step, but it's less frustrating than arguing with a machine for an hour

Happy year end recital day everybody!!!

kitbop you are on OUR team! Loving what you have done so far. Hope you get more time to play tomorrow and can get your points in to stinkerbelle .


Team A: "Stinker's DIVAs"?


stinkerbelle *team leader
LisaDV
christinec68
craftymom
grammadee
Linda
highkeycrafting
kitbop
DawnMcD
tonyatoo
tammiem2pnc1
justjac

Still recuperating from my scrap retreat last weekend.

This was the first time I had made up page kits. I'm a bit disappointed. I completed 20 8.5x11 layouts -- about the same as when I don't pre-plan anything. The embellishing still ate up a good chunk of my time.

I also found that some of my page kits just did not work. I do not know what I was thinking when I pulled papers for some of the layouts. Then there was one page kit that I didn't have any photos with.

I still have at least 20-25 page kits remaining. Hopefully I'll have better luck with my layouts at the October retreat.