TEAM CHATS, Divas AND Marvels

That sounds like a giant pain, but I'm relieved - I thought for a moment you were going to say you had lost photos.

I've been working through some of my MANY flagged photos from last month, catching up a bit with my highlights pages. I have a few done, or at least mostly done. I even got fancy with some digital splatters, although I'm really not sure they're going to stay. I'm going to let them marinate a little while and then see if they're terrible and if they're done (or as done as anything I make digitally is) I'll share them. I really need to test print a couple of pages too and see if I've got the text size/proportions right. I find that hard to judge on the screen.

I'm feeling better now that I've caught up a bit. It's not a big deal, but it's a bit more of a slog when I have to do a whole month at once. At least I'm keeping up with writing down what's happening and what I want to highlight.

Actually I get more bogged down when I start trying to find online images for TV shows I want to feature. I had to set that task aside today because I wasn't finding what I wanted and I was wasting so much time scrolling looking for the perfect image.

I just watched the final seasons of 3 CW shows. I wanted to put them opposite my Stranger Things 3 poster page (I had found a great one for that with all the good stuff in one picture). The shows are iZombie, Jane the Virgin, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, so I was looking for poster images that summed up the final seasons in some way and also went together reasonably well. I found a great one for iZombie but I was mostly finding older images for the other two. I found them eventually, next day.

I guess I should pop them into the page and see how they look! I have lots of feelings about these 3 favorite shows ending. We're still catching up on the last episodes of iZombie but the others I've finished forever. 

haha, I know that feeling...
Like when your favorite show gets cancelled and you never find out who done it or what it all meant. I'm hanging off a lot of cliffs...

I was lucky with these shows that they finished on their own terms. Jane was always meant to be a 100 episode telenovela-style story and the network allowed them to do that. And Crazy Ex too - the showrunners had a vision for a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, 4 seasons long, and they finished the story, bringing the whole thing full circle with a really satisfying resolution. It's pretty rare for American TV. The Brits are a bit better at telling a story and knowing when to call it done, or at least done for now. I still miss the show when it's over but at least the story is resolved. And I don't end up hating the show because it dragged on several seasons too long (I'm looking at you, How I Met Your Mother!)

I could make a whole scrapbook about the TV shows and movies we watch...

kitbop I think you should go back and get more Field Trip! It would be a great way to get some older photos scrapped. And it's so cute! I really should order some because I love it. I don't really need it though...

I spent the last of my SSS gift card (which I bought for myself because it came with bonus money) and the $15 in loyalty cash they gave me last week. I got a sashiko stitched Japanese waves design embossing folder (LINK) and a "piece of cake" stamp I saw on a YT video which I won't be able to color like the YTer did, hoping it's still cut though, and a SSS floral MOM die they released this spring.

I bought a couple of new embossing folders recently which is reminding me to use others I have. I worked on some 3D embossed floral cards today. I was pleasantly surprised to find a shimmery cardstock I inherited a lot of embossed really nicely in the 3D folder. I made sure to dampen the paper first and it didn't tear at all I had been tempted by some background dies with stitching but they're SO expensive! The embossing folders give me basically the same look for a third of the price.

I've had too many projects going on my table. I had been trying to cut all.the.things on my ScanNCut while I had it out which led to at least 8 half-started projects on my desk (and even more on my other table) -- totally overwhelming. I had some major creative block. I finally cleaned everything up today and just left a couple of things out to work on. Didn't actually work on the thing I should've been doing though... but I did something else worthwhile, so -shrug-

I just spent a couple of hours stripping lavender buds off stems instead of scrapping. Oh well. Maybe I can do a little bit tonight.

I'm out for the rest of the month, but I can't remember which team I'm on. Either way, my total points are 665.

Well done Chinagirl828 and joblackford!! 

Who else is spending time on Friday and Saturday trying to finish up some last minute projects?? I've got about 4 half finished layouts on the go at the moment (more if I count my Vietnam album pages), but I think I'm going to run out of time this month. I want to get at least another two completed so I can break the 1000 point barrier. 

I spent all of Friday afternoon tweaking what I had already made so I could call it finished and trying to calculate points while being interrupted every 5 minutes. Sat and Sun we have family birthday celebrations, state fair, all kinds of craziness, plus some things I would like to do locally (the lino printing festival where they use steamrollers as the printing press!) but who knows... I still have to chop and mix 3 different salads this morning.

Have a good weekend everyone, whether it's a long holiday weekend for saying goodbye to summer or not  

I have a couple things I’m hoping to get done today.
Keeping my fingers crossed I get to finish them.
I’ve definitely slacked this month.
Slacking plus not getting point for shopping made my point count dismal for this month.

I have 2 LO’s left to point out this afternoon, but if it’s too late, I’ll just send in the total for what I’ve already done. Let me know!

You have a couple of days to add up your points for things you created in August. 

Sorry. I’ll get my points turned in tomorrow morning. I have company and little downtime.

I got 956 points. Big thanks to the story teller challenge, the time traveler challenge (14 hour road trip!), and the photo challenge.

I only got 65 this month