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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 28, 2021 17:54:32 GMT
Everyday life is 12x12 & that's what I scrap the most. WITL & DD are done in 6x8 albums. I have an 8.5x11 album I use for personal layouts that don't need to go in the family album, but don't use it very often.
Trip albums are the only variables as it depends on the trip--10 road trip to DC overfilled 3 12x12s, but long weekend trips to Wisconsin Dells the last 2 years were done in a 9x12 (2019) and a 6x8 (2020) with a little room to spare. I bought two 12x12s for this summer's 9 day road trip to Colorado & I'm hoping that's all I need (I like to take a lot of pictures & also like to do large pictures too...)
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 27, 2021 18:19:57 GMT
We've had joint checking & savings ever since we got married 23 years ago. He earns the bulk of our income & I spend the bulk of our income because I take care of the bills, shopping, etc. We are both on every bill. I have my own credit card that he is not on, but I am on "his" credit card although I rarely use it.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 27, 2021 13:36:33 GMT
I miss Archivers for their selection, their exclusives, and their crops. I'm thankful to still have an awesome LSS (where my favorite Archivers employee now works!) But the two were an awesome combination because I could get a collection kit at Archivers and then a lot of the extras at my LSS.
I miss Scrapfest at the Mall of America. It was close enough to make it a family weekend where DH & the boys did things around the mall or chilled in the hotel across the street while I did some classes & the make'n takes. Then we'd meet up for dinner. Best of all was it was a great excuse for stopping at IKEA on the way out of town!
I miss the magazines. I miss the variety of crops offered all over the metro area. I miss when companies did what they were known for and good at instead of trying to offer everything from paper to dies to albums,etc. I miss simpler kits and simpler PP that had subtle themes...not something to big that you don't know how to use it because you are afraid to cover it up.
I miss the boards at SC. I miss the 12x12 paper from SC...most of the time. I miss the active board of SB.com (it seemed to die down before I found SC around 2015, I know its still there, but I never look at it). I miss the crazy fun of Nat'l Scrapbook day at sb.com when you had one hour to make & upload the hourly project, but also the big week-long challenge with a great prize...that was fun to receive...even if you didn't end up using half of it!
But mostly, I miss all of the extra time I used to have to scrap before I got a real job.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 27, 2021 1:05:25 GMT
We did a lot of rearranging, cleaning and purging in our basement to get ready for a new fridge that's coming this week. I've been wanting a second fridge for a while now, but finally dragged DH to a store to look at options a few weeks ago.
After that was done I sat down at my scrapbooking desk and am now working on my final baseball layout from 2019! DS played 68 games that year and I watched 65 of them, taking pictures at most so it's been a chore getting through them. But I'm so glad I am finally working on the last one--it's about the fact that I sat through those 65 games!
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 27, 2021 0:56:12 GMT
Oooohh...thanks for linking that bag! I take my PM-400 to my annual multi-day crop, but usually just pack it back into the original box. This would be much cuter and more space efficient.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 26, 2021 21:08:46 GMT
I go in phases between colored cardstock & patterned paper, but I rarely use white as a background. It also can depend on what I'm scrapping--with sports I tend to use a patterned paper, mostly because I have a lot of it for baseball & football.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 26, 2021 19:22:59 GMT
SC posted sneak peeks of the July kits and I am excited! A lot of travel themed products, which is perfect for me since we have a road trip planned July 3-11. I love the stamp set and the color theory labels look very usable. I love everything I’ve seen so far. 🤦🏻♀️ I do too & I reeeeaaaaaallllly don't need more travel stuff!
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 25, 2021 20:58:34 GMT
We spent some hard earned money on refinishing hardwood floors before we moved into our house so it was no shoes for anyone the first 5+ years. After that it just became habit and now I feel weird wearing shoes in anyone's house.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 25, 2021 20:53:08 GMT
DH never cusses and I very rarely cuss (out loud, usually only when something bad happens unexpectedly, but I try not to do it too loud) so it's not a habit our boys have picked up. Neither of us like cussing so on the rare occasions the boys have something even close to swearing we do say something. That's as close to punishing as we get, but we certainly aren't going to allow it either.
I'm sorry, I just don't like it and see no need for it in everyday, general conversation. I'm sure it has to do with the environment DH & I were both raised in as neither of our families are big swearers. So no, I don't want my boys cussing around us.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 25, 2021 15:59:36 GMT
I say work on the new pages. Once you complete those, if you feel like going back to the old pages and either adding some updated sprinkles and such OR completely redoing them, you can decide at that point. 😁 Wow - thank you for all the feedback!! I think this may be the route I'm going to take - just start with new pages & if the old pages are really bothering me then I may either re-do them entirely or figure out how to tie them in to my new pages. I like my travel albums to be cohesive so we'll see how everything turns out. I'm going to a 5-day retreat in July so I'll be working on this project (as well as others) during that time. This is a great solution.. Since you plan to work on the new pages at a retreat, save all of the extra bits & pieces from the new pages to see if you can possibly add them (and anything else) to the old pages to make them a little more cohesive.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 25, 2021 15:54:07 GMT
Maybe stickers, die cuts or chipboard--depends on what I think I might need or actually use as to which of these 3 I might buy. But usually I need to have a project in mind before I buy anything other than paper.
I tend to skip brads, enamel dots, washi, stamps, etc.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 24, 2021 23:43:00 GMT
I bought my 2 items sight unseen. I would have picked up those printed wood veneers, which I didn't see in the blog post IF I had been able to see them. Oh well. Their loss. I missed the wood veneers too. Were they even in the blog post? Ali mentioned them in the video, but said she didn't have them when she made the video. She showed them last night in her personal IG stories.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 24, 2021 14:44:23 GMT
I know the half circle on the right is a map but it looks like the death star too. I'll be honest, I wasn't quite sure what that was when I first saw it on the blog...pretty sure I thought "Death Star" before realizing it was part of a map!
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 24, 2021 1:17:29 GMT
Really like the wood pieces they are now showing in the IG stories--Ali mentioned them in the product video, but didn't have them to show (and still aren't on the blog post).
I still don't know what I might get. I have so much for travel, but some of it would work good for our Colorado trip & DS's trip to Germany next summer.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 23, 2021 21:38:35 GMT
Themes I've been wanting for years & years:
Swimming that isn't at a beach or swim team. Normal summertime swimming at a community pool, maybe even a Waterpark. Or at a lake.
Road trip without camping/tents/RVs. Vacations with more than just traveling to & from. What we did, where we stayed, what we ate.
Sports for the non-best/greatest... the amount of homerun/grandslam/all-stars I have for DS after 10 years of baseball is insane...and he's a good player who has hit a few homeruns & was an all-star for 5 years! I want single/double/triple, bunt, strikeout, out, strike/ball, you know things that happen almost every inning of every game.
School for the non-best/smartest. My youngest hates doing homework, but I have a lot of pictures of him doing homework. School concert things too.
But I also agree that we need more themeless kits, papers than can be used for a multitude of themes.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 19, 2021 18:55:28 GMT
I'm watching along. It's been fun being able to watch live--I've always had something going on during various Prep days. Plus Laura is the type of person I like to watch/listen to during a presentation. I want someone who is honest, knowledgeable, creative, and a little goofy to make it interesting and worthwhile.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 17, 2021 16:55:06 GMT
Ours our pretty simple. Most of the time it's just the boys & I so I dice up red peppers and green onions (if I have the green onions), open a can of sliced black olives and shred some cheese (cheddar, colby jack, cheddar jack, or monty jack--some combo of those--but it has to be freshly grated, not the bagged stuff.) If I have jalapenos I'll add some to mine, but the boys usually avoid those. After they have baked we add salsa and sour cream, maybe guacamole if there's any on hand. I almost never do meat, but DH will find a meat to add if he's having nachos with us.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 15, 2021 20:54:26 GMT
Christmas lines aren't bad, but not my favorites--something about the light blue seems off to me--and I'm one that usually likes Cmas lines that have more color than red & green. I do appreciate how all three coordinate colorwise, especially if you want to add just a small part of the Ugly Sweater line. I don't care for the Cmas vintage one, the red appears to be too orange for me. Oh Holy Night is nice and simple, but I have pieces of the Echo Park lines that are very similar.
Vintage Fall is Meh, but I really like the Halloween line. It's cute without being cutesy. It's Halloweeny without being creepy. It would be perfect if I still had Halloween pictures to scrap.
I really like Homegrown, but I don't have a use for a lot of it. It's borderline cutesy, but better than other farm lines that are too vintagey.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 15, 2021 16:57:31 GMT
Anyone just get an email from AE saying the new prompt is available from the "Just Write" subscription? Except that I haven't subscribed to the Just Write. I checked my account..nothing there or ordered. ETA went ahead & changed my password. I got it too (and am not a subscriber to the write sub). I think that's happened before--nothing nefarious, just someone hit the wrong button so it went to the wrong group...at least that's my guess.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 15, 2021 15:53:16 GMT
I'm excited for the stamping day--especially since I don't have anything else going on for once (and it's going to be hot!)
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 14, 2021 0:33:13 GMT
I think I'll probably cancel after & (intrigued by this one) or maybe Teach. After that none of them excite me.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 14, 2021 0:28:50 GMT
The response for this line is overwhelming. Having only seen this line and the Echo Park/Carta Bella Cmas lines I can totally understand why--it is great! I don't buy much for Cmas because I usually get a DD kit, but I will look for pieces of this line. I love lines that have more colors than red & green.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 13, 2021 19:26:07 GMT
A dining set for our patio that doesn't cost an arm & a leg, that won't fall apart/rust in a couple of years, has a hole in the table for an umbrella, that fits our small patio yet is big enough for at least the 4 of us...and is in stock...
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 13, 2021 19:15:10 GMT
I love the colors of the July SBTM kit and love the kit ONLY because we're going on vacation in Colorado in July...otherwise I'd b annoyed with the mountains!
I'm ok with the Laugh kit. My biggest issue is a personal one because my boys have entered the surly teenage years and I rarely capture them smiling, let along laughing... I'm not a huge fan of the color scheme (at least it's not all pinks or pastels though...) but it does match the theme. I still harbor ill feelings towards the color scheme because it's what was used for Listen and I hate that kit a little more every time I pull it out because the colors never match what I need it for (mostly school concerts).
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 8, 2021 2:25:57 GMT
I honestly don't know what type my different inks are...
I like Ali's inks and tend to reach for them first. My only complaints are the dark blue is still too juicy and the black ones have a weird thing going on with the pad which is annoying because I like the black. When I think of it, I like being able to use clear embossing powder to emboss images.
I have quite the colorful collection of inks from Stampin' Up. I like their ink and appreciate having ink refills.
I recently got some inks from Catherine Pooler, but haven't used them much. I like the black, but didn't realize it will not come off the stamps or I would have maybe passed on it. Even though it doesn't spread to the next color, it's just annoying and odd.
I still have a big collection of Distress Inks, but only use them when I feel like inking edges. Until I made a few pages from the Half & Half class I hadn't inked edges for several years!
I never liked Studio Calico inks, thankfully most of the ones I have came in either a kit or the disastrously interesting warehouse boxes.
I also have the black versifine that I still really like and Staz On, but I'm having a hard time using it lately because it seems to slide on my photos creating a bad image.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 7, 2021 18:15:45 GMT
We have that style downtown, but I've never tried it & have avoided it. I would maybe try it in DS's car because it has a bigger backup camera screen than my van.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 7, 2021 1:21:53 GMT
I don't know if I'd classify this as a new normal or if it's just a result of changes due to both a new job and the pandemic, but I'm starting to hate having to take the time to go shopping at Target and the grocery store--I'd much rather order online to pick up or have it delivered. I don't mind the actual shopping, but it's fitting it into my schedule. I drive by a grocery store that isn't my usual one, but still part of the chain, which makes it easier to order ahead and pick up on my way home from work. I've had a free Shipt membership thru Target since November and I've love being able to order regular Target things, and even groceries as needed, to be delivered any time on the day I order it. The only downside to the Target part is that I have to go in to do any returns. I won't pay for the membership when it ends, but will certainly miss it.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 6, 2021 17:52:26 GMT
Yes, pretty much back to normal here. The only places I've come across that are still requiring masks are medical office, but most places still have the distancing stickers on the floor. But we've been normalish for a while--eating in restaurants, going to the local amusement parks, sports seasons, in-person school all year for DS13...just wearing masks where it was expected/asked of all patrons up until a few weeks ago. The only non-normal times since a year ago resulted mostly because of a pissing match between the superintendent of DS16's school district and the state (no fall sports, online only for the first quarter). We do have a few covid-related changes at our church that haven't been changed back, but it's mostly just not passing things around.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 6, 2021 14:03:51 GMT
I can see the finish line! I am working on my last day and then have some general embellishing to do to see what I can add in order to use up any extras I don't really want to keep around.
I do have a 6x4 pocket to deal with every day. It's the day of the week card from the PP kit that I intended to do some general Journaling on, but instead recreated the "ing" card from Ali's kit. The day card is still in its spot for each day, blank, but I'm not sure yet if I'll write on it, add a photo to part of it or print a 6x4 photo for each day & take it out completely...
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 6, 2021 2:30:48 GMT
Red is my favorite for eating either raw or cooked. I only really like green when part of certain dishes like Sausage & Peppers, fajitas, or sometimes when stuffed. I like yellow & orange, but only buy them if they are part of a set or on sale because they are more than the reds.
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