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Post by justcindy on Sept 29, 2014 21:15:45 GMT
Hey guys! So today's layout that's stumping me is the same cruise album I've been working on...Here's the scene: watching our home team, the Houston Texans, play the Thanksgiving Day game. We're watching this game at a bar in Belize with about 50 other Texans fans, on a 25 year old TV set behind the bar. Coolest day, surreal way to watch the Thanksgiving day game! Awesome, right? I have great photos. Title? I got NOTHING. UGH! Titles. My kryptonite. Any suggestions? justcindy
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Post by justcindy on Sept 22, 2014 18:27:53 GMT
Man, Ashley, your scrap room sounds like my dream room! I love vintage style stuff! My craft room is the smallest bedroom in the house, and has a twin sized bed set up as a day bed, for a place for my boys to flop and hang out with me in here. LOVE that they do that! I also have an antique kitchen table as my desk, it's small for a kitchen table, 48x30 but perfect for what I need. That's currently in the corner by the closet. I also have an ugly 6 ft long folding table, that I have against the wall and underneath the 3 wood shelves I have mounted on the wall. I have burlap thrown over it as a tablecloth, and then over that is clear vinyl9?) used for table cloths or something, I bought it at walmart from a huge roll. I can dirty it up and wipe it off without messing up the burlap underneath. This is where my computer and printer are. When the room is being used for company, I will take down the folding table and move the antique table into it's spot underneath the wall shelves, to give more floor space, and I move the wicker chair from the gameroom in for our guests. ( side note- which is actually done way more than I had anticipated! My daughter lives in another state and visits a couple times a year, my sister has stayed with me, and a friend is coming down from Chicago next month. Who knew I had so many single, traveling chicks that actually like me!??) I keep ALL my scrapbook and craft stuff in the closet, nothing is stored in the room itself other than my photo boxes that take up one of the shelves. In the closet, I took out the rods and have 5 wire shelves along the length of the closet, and have removed the sliding doors. ( That was an accident, way back when this was my youngest son's room - he kept pinching his fingers in the doors so we took them off) Now I just have a shower curtain tension rod with a sheet hanging off it for a closet door, which is usually pulled off to one side and draped over a hook on the wall so I can see and get to my stuff. The walls, my son's sweet girlfriend helped me paint them a beautiful tranquil blue this summer. LOVE it, with the warm wood of the desk, and wheat colored simple window panels. I love the rustic-ish, vintage beachy vibe. Not that you asked about it, but above the daybed, I have a collection of my favorite beach photos taken on various vacations through the years. I adore this room, it by far reflects my loves and taste more than any other room in my house. Smallest room in the house, but it's where all four of us plus the two dogs can be found hanging out together. Go figure.
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Post by justcindy on Sept 18, 2014 18:20:36 GMT
Have to admit, "holy ship" cracked me up! I ended up going with "getting there is half the fun!" It was a cut phrase on my silhouette that I came across when I was about to cut out the word "perspective!"
As far as using a larger print, I actually enlarged the hull photo to 8x10 and it's on the first page of the album. :-) I've never actually shared a layout, and this one didnt end up how I envisioned it, but it's done and I like it well enough to move on. :-) if I have time to figure it out, I'll try to share it with yall. Thanks so much for the suggestions, this is was fun!
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Post by justcindy on Sept 16, 2014 19:03:04 GMT
I'm trying to figure out dinner for the next few days, and I'm wondering what everyone else in the world likes to eat. :-) Nothing special, no company, just nice dinner that you'd love to come home to.
A new favorite that I've made twice in about as many weeks is Emeril's recipe for Chicken Marsala. oh my WORD it's good. we had the leftovers for dinner last night. Not as pretty as the first time, but still delicious!
I can't wait to hear what YOU like to have for dinner, not just what our kids, DH's ask for. :-)
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Post by justcindy on Sept 16, 2014 18:49:13 GMT
Jeanene, unfortunately, I've already used that title earlier in the scrapbook, but thanks for the suggestion. Dictionary, I love your name, by the way. I do plan on doing a bit of journaling, maybe I should start there....when I know I have more to say than just the basics, I tend to write it out on a scrap piece of paper to work it all out. I could do that and see what I end up saying, and if anything title worthy jumps out at me. Thanks for the suggestion! Scrapperlady, I really like your suggestion, a lot! I'm keeping that one in mind, in case nothing works with the journaling idea. Thank you! Thanks so much ladies, for knocking me out of my rut. Hopefully I can get going and finish this page - I'm at a point to where I don't want to go any further until I figure out how much room I'll need for the mystery title, so I'm stuck.
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Post by justcindy on Sept 16, 2014 15:07:13 GMT
So, I basically suck at coming up with titles. So much so that most pages don't have one. But this page I really want to have a title!
Working on my cruise vacation album, and the page I need help with has photos of our ship, taken from the tender boat as we were being taken from our ship into the port of Belize. The ship looks H U G E from that angle! One shot is of the bow of our ship, the second is looking up from the tender boat at the side of the ship, and the third is of another ship in the distance with a tender boat approaching. I'm such a dork and I'm not even sure I'm using or spelling the word "tender" correctly, so forgive me and please correct me before I put something stupid on my page, LOL!
Any suggestions would be most appreciated by this title challenged chick!
Cindy
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Post by justcindy on Sept 6, 2014 20:32:54 GMT
In the past, I've seen the stamp sets that have coordinating die plates, but I have a silhouette so I can't justify purchasing another pricey and large gadget to use the dies. So, can anyone point me to some stamps that have basic shapes and sizes, that can fit in the few circle punches I still have? I'd LOVE to get a label punch that had coordinating stamps. Thanks so much!
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Post by justcindy on Sept 2, 2014 12:40:02 GMT
Just last night I was using some MME paper, and it had silver accents,silver bow ties on one paper I had, some silver pieces in the die cut pack,and the pack of enamel dots had a row of silver dots on it. I remember it was the Now and Then collection,but not positive in what group... Izzy, I think?
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Post by justcindy on Aug 6, 2014 2:43:22 GMT
oh my gosh this is hilarious!!! I'm cracking up and have watched it twice...this is MY kind of humor, I love puns! I can't wait to show DH...LOL!!!!!! I love when she cracks herself up, repeating the last line again.....ha! Thanks for giving me a laugh!!
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Post by justcindy on Aug 6, 2014 2:33:33 GMT
thanks Get out of TOWN those are way too cute!!!! I love every one of them! Did you use silhouette cuts, or dies, border punches? I honestly just looked over on my scrap desk at the layout I was working on this afternoon and thought that some of those stitched border-y pieces would have been PERFECT in place of the wimpy two scrap strips I put at the top of my layout - I really may pull it up and attempt a little sewn grouping like you made. TOO CUTE! Thank you for sharing!
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Post by justcindy on Aug 6, 2014 2:16:28 GMT
oh my WORD!!!! I've had internet issues all stinkin' day!!! Sorry I've been MIA! I am loving the pages done so far, yall are so creative! I wouldn't have thought to use washi tape as some of the borders/strips on the day one sketch, that's really cool. So, I'm still working on today's challenge, I think I'm going to start getting up at like 5 in the morning to work on my scrapbook stuff, because something ALWAYS comes up during the day to pull me away from completing any of the challenges so far. I've started both, but haven't completed either. UGH. LocoCoco, I'm going to be right there with you, probably uploading 3-4 challenges at a time, if I ever get around to finishing the little devils. Crystal, the fire/ice challenge is so cool! I had no idea where you were going with it! I chose fire. NO idea what photos I'm going to use for that, though, so it may end up being a card, unless I can dig something up. I'm not great with using those colors, and actually don't have much red in my stash. I have lots of oranges/gold/yellows though....hmmmm..... I want to wimp out and switch my answer to ice, but that would be defeating the purpose of a challenge, so I'm gonna give this a go! Thank you for the prompt!
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Post by justcindy on Aug 5, 2014 3:42:06 GMT
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Post by justcindy on Aug 4, 2014 18:04:55 GMT
YAY! Thanks for pointing me in this direction!
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Post by justcindy on Aug 4, 2014 17:50:40 GMT
sbartist I can't see a layout I am already working on TOMORROWS challenge! Its a perk of knowing what is coming! THAT is SO CHEATING!!!!!!
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Post by justcindy on Aug 4, 2014 17:49:22 GMT
My day ONE. I didn't follow the sketch exactly but I loved the strips so I used washi and deco runners to get that effect. I also mimicked the sprinking a bit. I ended up with FIVE photos (overachiever? LOL) Overachiever is the exact word I was thinking when I just saw that you've already completed today's challenge, before noon, ya brat! THEN I actually READ your post and see the layout and you did it with five pictures....and I thought to myself, "kiss up".... but since you're the one challenging us, who are you kissing up to, is what I wanna know....I hope he's cute! LOL!!! I can't even start playing yet, but I had a couple minutes before my friend comes over so I popped in to see what's going on. I'm another one glad you'll be posting the challenges the night before, my day is filling up quickly and I haven't had time to get anything together for today's CAD....I need to quickly start planning my days better and getting organized, SHEESH!!! And I'm so excited about the journaling prompt!!! thank you thank you thank you!!!!
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Post by justcindy on Aug 4, 2014 4:12:26 GMT
Dude, I'm already excited about the pre-challenge, LOL! I have a box of pictures that will fit this description - I can't wait to see what we do with them! I just said goodbye to the last guests from our family get together today, so I'll actually choose which photos I want to play with and journal about in the morning. And YAY for double pages in Monday's challenge! I mainly do double pages because I take so many pictures, lol. I'll try to get with the times and figure out how and where to post my finished layout. Crystal, you may have said so in an earlier post and missed it, but can you recommend a place to upload my layouts so share them?
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Post by justcindy on Aug 3, 2014 18:49:03 GMT
Hi Ladies! After posting this question, I got so busy with other stuff I forgot to come back, I'm so sorry! As it turned out, my son's girlfriend found a recipe that actually sounds a lot like what most of you suggested - crab, parmesean, etc. I'm not a big crab fan either ( my friend says I have the palate of a four year old, LOL!) but we went with it and they were a hit! We had a bit of the stuffing mixture left over, so we made a couple of crab cakes to use it up. I tried a bite and it was pretty tasty. I felt very grown up, enjoying a bite of crabcake. And worrywart, that sauce you described sounded delicious! I wonder what else that might work with, have you tried using it on other dishes?
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Post by justcindy on Aug 2, 2014 19:20:57 GMT
Yay! Pretty sure I will be able to participate for most challenges. Can I request some challenges that are prompts, like a journaling theme, or type of photo...not explaining it right, but NOT technique or supply based, may be a better way to say it...I'm needing some help in getting out of my rut of just reporting what happened in that photo, ya know?
Thank you so much for all the work you put into these challenges! !
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Post by justcindy on Aug 1, 2014 21:22:28 GMT
My son has requested stuffed mushrooms for part of his birthday dinner. ( I know, the kid's weird. ) I've looked around allrecipes.com and pinterest, but the problem is, I don't like mushrooms, so I don't know if a recipe sounds appetizing or not! What do YOU like mushrooms stuffed with - cream cheese, other cheese, bacon, meat, what? It all just sounds blech to me, lol.
So, what's your favorite stuffed mushroom recipe?
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Post by justcindy on Aug 1, 2014 15:13:44 GMT
I've been scrapbooking for 18 years and remember the chatterbox name, but can't remember the style of papers....anyone want to share a picture of your favorite chatterbox patterns?
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 19:46:58 GMT
How disappointing! Hope you get some better weather soon! I'm kind of in a grouchy mood because of the weather, myself, but it's mainly because our stupid A/C isn't working and it's making me hot and pissy. I've been home all day waiting for the repairman to show up - the time frame given to us will be up in 15 minutes. GRRRRR!!!! I can't EVEN think about cooking dinner - making the house even hotter than it already is. Oh, and I have cramps. Sounds like a PERFECT night to eat out. with wine.
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 19:42:47 GMT
Have you tried wiping everything down with dryer sheets? It is supposed to keep the dust from sticking??? Also, I have only noticed the cobwebs on the legs of my furniture and kick plate thingy this year! What's the deal? ETA: I just read that peppermint oil deters spiders. I'm going to try it. Hopefully peppermint oil won't attract something else! I'll try this, thanks for the idea!
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 19:42:03 GMT
You must be unfamiliar with my motto: A house is not a home unless you can write the word *love* in the dust. I must have the homiest home that's been called a home, sister! LOL!!! GAH it's so embarrassing though, since that stupid bookshelf is right as you walk in the living room. No other options for furniture placement, unfortunately. I haven't heard of the peppermint oil...I did hear that lemon oil works, I guess that's why so many cleaning products have lemon oil/scent? I did clean/dust the everliving crap out of my kitchen table and chairs before we had my son's grad party with lemon endust or something, hoping there was enough lemon OIL not just scent to keep the little devils away for awhile. Not sure if I'd say it really worked....
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 18:27:02 GMT
UGH!!! We have a dark stained wooden bookshelf thing in our living room, near the front door. Our kitchen table is stained wood, and the dining chairs are distressed black. Between the two shedding yellow labs and my son going back and forth through the garage/kitchen door a gazillion times a day, I am so OVER this dark wood furniture. I've thought about building some kind of doors with glass for the bookshelf...it's pretty wide, and I don't' use it for books, it has framed family photos and a couple of vintage cameras on it.
I've thought about painting our kitchen table and chairs some version of white and distress them, but our kitchen cabinets are white, and not distressed...would that look weird? The way our kitchen is arranged, you pretty much walk around the table to go from the garage door to the back door leading to the patio. Can I just add in here WTH is the deal with cobwebs on table and chair legs, as well?!? Is it because of its location between the two doors? BLECH! I also get them constantly under...I guess you call it the kickplate? no...I don't know what it's called, but it's where your toes go when you are right up against the counter....that indention at the bottom of the cabinets.
I just can't stand how I can literally BE DUSTING and I watch more dust settle before I'm done. I sweep, mop, vacuum almost every day! (Ok I don't MOP almost every day. You have me there.) As far as the shelves, I LOVE my family photos, I have some really special ones, it's not like I have 953 little framed pictures crammed in, some shelves just have one or two larger frames on them. BUT I HATE DUSTING THEM!!!!!!
Any tips, suggestions, advice on painting everything dust color? Paint sample and names will be helpful.
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 18:06:58 GMT
I don't like pie. I don't like cookies. I tolerate ice cream. I love cake. I am a cake addict. Cake is my thing. I could buy a whole cheesecake at our local grocery store and eat it all. It is a very good cake though and it's not that big. I love cake. Sometimes on Friday night when I have worked out during the day I go to the store and get a piece of cake. I love cake. Cake... This sounds like a poem....a beautiful poem....
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 18:04:53 GMT
Too early in the morning for cake here. no sure of what time zone you live in, sister, but there is no such thing.
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Post by justcindy on Jul 30, 2014 18:02:09 GMT
good for you for knowing your limits on what you can properly attend to during this time - I am horrible at that and end up either making a huge mess of it, or stretch myself so thin to the point of tears and exhaustion and not have the energy or mental resources to invest in what's really important.
I am so sorry you and your family are going through this, it's never easy, no matter the circumstances. You don't need to worry about what you will say. Just love your uncle, hold his hand. If words are needed, they'll come to you.
Praying for your strength during this time, and that you and your family will be able to soak in these moments and appreciate them for what they are.
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Post by justcindy on Jul 27, 2014 21:45:46 GMT
I haven't done it yet, but I have come up with a couple of possibilities on HOW I want to do it that I can share. As far as organizing the materials, I have a list of recipes I want to include, and I'm typing them all out in word. I want to add family photos, of grandmothers, aunts, uncles, kids, cooking in the kitchen, holiday or not, so I'm collecting those as well. I plan on asking my siblings for any family stories or memories revolving around a meal, recipe, or cooking in general to add here and there. My mom was an awesome cook and had some hilarious idiosyncrasies involving cooking, so I want to include those. As far as the album itself, I haven't decided which direction to go, but here are my options... The first idea is the traditional scrapbook, but maybe 8x8 size. print multiples of the photos, recipes, etc and make one as a prototype, then make the other 3 assembly line style, to hopefully minimize time, although I know this is the most time consuming option anyway. Second idea is a photo book type thing from an online place, but I've never done one of them and don't know how much text you can insert, so not sure if this is a realistic option. Third idea is digital scrapbook, which isn't my thing. I have zero experience with them, almost zero patience in learning new stuff, unfortunately, and while it will be cheaper (probably?) and much less time consuming, since I make it once and then have it printed as many times as needed, I just LIKE the textures of different papers and embellishments ( although this project wouldn't be heavily embellished) and real handwritten notes here and there, ya know? As far as the holiday theme and looking for ideas, maybe take a look at some December daily pages on the pinterest boards and elsewhere - there are several out there that include recipes so that could maybe give you some jumping off points.
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Post by justcindy on Jul 27, 2014 17:49:28 GMT
Probably over 100 since I host a Scripture Challenge so I am always using hymns and contemporary Christian music. Post hijack, sorry! Patter, I'd love more information on your Scripture Challenge - is it hosted here?
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Post by justcindy on Jul 27, 2014 17:45:02 GMT
Oh my word, been there, done that, a few times! We seem to go through seasons where we hang out a lot together, and then times where either everyone's kinda busy with their own thing, or we are just having a rough patch with getting along. My kids that live at home still are 18 and 14, so they aren't young tikes anymore, no more time outs or hugging it out, ha! I have learned with my kids, not to talk about it or make an announcement that we're going to start spending more time together - they are so weird. If I make it a "thing" they will buck up about it, but if I just plan something, they happily go along with it. Realizing that has made all the difference in the world. If I whine to my 18DS about not hugging me or cuddling, he rolls his eyes and avoids me like the plague, but just last night, he was flopped on the couch watching tv and I didn't say anything but made him move his feet, and sat with him, laying his feet back on me. without a word, he handed me a pillow, and re arranged the blanket. We hung out like that for about an hour and a half. Maybe come up with a few ideas that you think will appeal to the majority...load the dogs up to take to the park or beach, etc. Then say, on Wednesday, bring up the weekend and give them the choice of a couple of the things you came up with. They get to choose the activity, and you get to spend time as a family without that part being the focus of the planning, for them at least. Something we've done several times that has been a real blast, and actually we are wanting to do it again pretty soon, is have a cooking night. I know that sounds weird, but for instance, the last time we did it, it was DH and me, and our 18DS and his girlfriend. We had a pretzel throwdown! We choose four different pretzel recipes, and DH and DS chose two, and (what's the shorthand version of "son's girlfriend" ??) son's girlfriend and I had the other two. We had a flipping BLAST making the pretzels and seeing which recipe came out best. It helps that we all enjoy cooking (to different degrees, but it's SOMETHING, ya know?) We've done it with pancake recipes and other stuff, and DSGF ( I came up with that on my own - Dear Son's GirlFriend, hee!) loves French toast, so that will probably be our next throwdown night. I know what you mean though, it breaks my heart that we as moms do things for the family because it's important to THEM, but oftentimes they don't reciprocate and do things simply because it's important to US. It's a lesson we try to teach them, to be compassionate for other's needs, but for some reason it doesn't get associated with parents.
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