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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 3, 2021 17:22:21 GMT
I want to like the travel sneaks because of the colors and because it's NOT beachy/flying/travel the world themed, but if it's too much towards camping/RVs I'll have to pass...which isn't the worst because I already have too much travel product...
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 2, 2021 20:24:16 GMT
Am I the only one who is afraid there will be a typo (or two) on the National Park set? Maybe I'll find my missing o, w and 5 in that set...hmmm... (FYI, still haven't heard ANYTHING from KP/PaperPerson despite having sent 3 emails...)
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Post by huskermom98 on May 31, 2021 19:53:50 GMT
Love it!
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Post by huskermom98 on May 29, 2021 16:00:17 GMT
Honestly, I don't know because I generally don't pay attention to other people when I'm out & about. I do know that almost every store I've been in the last week has taken mask signs down (in the only one with a sign half of the employees weren't wearing one...) When I do pay attention I am definitely seeing more without a mask than even a few weeks ago.
I'm definitely in the "you do you" camp. Want to wear one, go for it. Don't want to wear one, ok. If a business asks you to wear one (and the employees are) then I'll wear one. No sign, I'm most likely not going to wear one.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 28, 2021 20:39:19 GMT
In the menu, try looking under "Just Added"--it should be one of the first ones listed. If not, it makes me wonder if HBO can somehow exclude it from free trials...?
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Post by huskermom98 on May 27, 2021 21:48:29 GMT
I loved it. I was worried when I saw the guest list, that it wouldn't focus as much on the 6 and instead hype up others, but it was put together really well. It was a nice mix of clips, reminiscing, interviews, and fluff to make it fun. Some revelations I knew from watching the extras on the DVDs, but there were a few new tidbits. I was also thankful it didn't focus on what the show wasn't compared to today's standards.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 26, 2021 2:44:35 GMT
I finally got my day 1 photos printed out! That's always the hardest part each year, just doing it. It helps that I finally decided that I should get my photos printed so I can take it along with me this weekend since the weather's going to be more appropriate for fishing than swimming at my dad's lake.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 26, 2021 2:41:51 GMT
Eclectic other than the fact that I do 12x12 (unless I'm doing a mini-album) and put the date in the bottom right hand corner of the page...otherwise it's "anything goes". Some LOs are simple and clean, others are distressed/mixed media, and others are somewhere in between. I do anywhere from one photo to as many pages as it takes to get the story of the event told. I don't usually make mini-albums "just because", but I do WITL and DD every year along with a vacation album (not usually a mini though!) There's a fine line I hover near of "get it done because I've been doing it so long" and "having fun creating something and I don't care if anyone every looks at the albums".
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Post by huskermom98 on May 24, 2021 23:28:03 GMT
No word yet. I'm at a baseball game so I can't easily quote people...
Thanks for the link with an official photo. Honestly it took me several looks through (saying the alphabet) before I caught both of the letters. But PP posted a picture of a project on IG that featured the set--the person had to use the zero for a lowercase o, so you know someone has to be aware of the issue.
With both a 6 and a 9 there's no way the intention was for people to use the m upside down or the zero for the o...nothing works for a 5! Those three were cut off somewhere in the design/production and there no one noticed.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 24, 2021 16:39:48 GMT
I like the purple, but don't need it. I like the green & while I have similar SU greens I decided to get it. I use the original red a lot & thought the new red looked too orange, but decided to give it a try.
I also got the new circle stamp set and then alpha stamps from last DD & WITL. I really like the idea of the conversation bubble stamps, but know they are not ones I'd really use.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 23:49:27 GMT
My vent of the day is that every time I look at the schedule for DS's JV baseball team it has changed...again. The latest change is a couple of games were canceled and most of the remaining ones moved from 5pm to 10:30am...ugh. I'm sure my boss will let me adjust my schedule, but I hate to have to ask to do it again (had the same thing happen last year for their short season).
I know it will be good for the teams because there are a lot of 10th graders so this split schedule will allow some to play in the morning and still be available for the evening varsity game. But it's a pain for the parents who work a day job & have a kid that will play mostly on JV.
...and BTW...the season starts tomorrow...
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 21:07:46 GMT
So many things...
Going to the grocery store because I only need a few things.
Working on my Week In the Life album
Figuring out our Memorial Day Plans...now that we can go back to Nebraska to see family, I kind of want to stay home and do nothing because we've been just busy enough with baseball and school stuff!
I'm sure I have vacation planning I could be doing--especially figuring out what my growing boys will wear to my sister's wedding...I hate shopping for guys' pants when they are too tall for youth and too skinny for mens.
Starting my laundry.
Schtuff around the house...
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 20:10:12 GMT
I don't sit around "tanning", but do get a tan from regular activities such as baseball games, taking my boys to the pool, just being outside, etc. If I'm at a pool or lake I will sit in the sun, but I can only do that for so long before I get hot or bored. I do put on sunscreen so I don't burn.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 17:45:17 GMT
It depends on the fabric. For certain shirts, yes I have to iron because it's pretty obvious it needs to be. For most pants, no because they are going to wrinkle as soon as I sit down anyway, but I will if I feel like the fabric needs to be be ironed to look presentable.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 14:09:16 GMT
For starters, finally using an alphabet stamp 3 months after buying it only to find out its missing "o", "w" and "5"...as in no stamp and not even on the cheat sheet. The zero is too tall to be used as o so I can't even substitute that. The whole reason for buying the set was because I wanted a small set with uppercase, lowercase and numbers that all matched.
Otherwise one of my big issues lately (besides time) is photoshop. I've had PSE13 for years & thought something was wrong with it because I couldn't print anything from it. So I broke down & started a monthly PS subscription. PS is so not user friendly coming from PSE! Either that or I need to figure out how to change some settings. Part two of that whole issue is that there is something going on with my laptop--the dialog box is completely different for printing. It recognizes my printers, but won't let me print bigger than 8.5x11 on my wide-format Epson. I could be something with that printer too (almost 10 years old) but the odd dialog box is the same for all of our printers (at least my PM400 works ok!)
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 1:14:47 GMT
I do tend to say "no problem" because it usually truly wasn't a problem doing whatever they were thanking me for. I want to say "you're welcome" more because I know it's more polite, but I've been saying NP for too long.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 23, 2021 0:39:23 GMT
Did anyone else here order the Colette alpha stamp--I want to say it was released in February? It looks like a typewriter font, has upper and lower case plus numbers...only mine doesn't have the number 5...! Not just no stamp, but 5 isn't even on the sheet. I pulled it out to do some work on my WITL album and thought "oh good there's both a 6 and a 9 in case one day the high temperature was 69, I can do both numbers at once..." now I'd rather have a 5 instead of one of those numbers...
I sent an email, but I'm guessing it won't do any good since it's no longer listed on the website.
...and now I see there is no lowercase "o"...ugh...and no "w"...WTH?
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Post by huskermom98 on May 21, 2021 18:09:35 GMT
I wonder why they didn't include those that got the antibodies naturally because they got Covid and therefore don't feel the need to inject the antibodies. I wondered this too because it describes me & my entire office since we all had covid in February. At least two of them with ongoing medical issues were told to wait at least 90 days from date of positive test to get the vaccine. I know it's a short term excuse, but it's certainly a reason some people haven't been vaccinated. I just had my first shot on Wednesday & can completely understand why people are worried about missing work afterwards. I was in bad shape yesterday & didn't want to do anything but sleep for most of the day (thankfully I'm much better today). I really hope I don't have a repeat experience with my 2nd shot next month.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 20, 2021 20:01:20 GMT
I was excited for the fastener so I could try something new, but now I'm trying to figure out how I'll do my pages. I wish SC still had a gallery so I could how others use the faster (without having to hunt them down on IG). Maybe after i finish my WITL.
I sincerely hope someone gets something useful out of the class. I waited a few days to post my opinions but no one else was posting about it. It is rare that I get thru a class that fast, but we were traveling over the weekend so I had time to watch the short videos in the car.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 20, 2021 12:56:10 GMT
Has anyone started Kari's class yet? What do you think? If I get sometime this weekend, I plan to watch the lessons I went thru it last weekend... I like her finished album, buuuuuut... It was "here's few photos I took each month...and by the way you have to remove the pages to flip thru them. It was not as introspective of 2020 as I was expecting--almost like they planned the class in 2019 because of the phrase "hindsight is 20/20" and didn't adjust anything after going thru the crap year that was 2020. There was no focus on the story, just the photos. I guess I don't want a doom & gloom themed album, but something that helped to summarize 2020, looking back on it 6 months later. There was very little information about the album itself--especially how to attach (and where) the binder, which doesn't quite work in an album like this. She did have a good video about editing photos in one batch. All in all, I thought the class was useless, but I am glad I got the kit. I know it was only a $10 class, but I don't feel I got my money's worth. I just hope the other 3 classes are better since I went ahead and got the bundle.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 12, 2021 16:06:40 GMT
Bear paws would have been cool (at least for me) but the hands are just weird...
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Post by huskermom98 on May 10, 2021 21:52:17 GMT
We've been back almost a year. We took a lot of chairs out of the sanctuary so we could create seating groups that were spread out. We double stacked the communion cups (cup with wafer below cup with juice) and only put a handful on each tray--the trays were spread around the room and people took turns going to the tray closest to their seats. Mask were "required" when not seated, but could be removed once seated--some people were more lax about wearing a mask while up and about, others wore their mask the entire time.
We had probably less than half of our usual attenders when we restarted and it slowly grew over the last year. We had the periodic person that we knew of test positive, but the only "outbreak" that we know happened in the building was when all of the staff got it over the winter and it spread to others in small bible groups and the worship team. Thankfully no one was sick enough to be hospitalized, it was pretty much a bad cold for everyone. But I honestly don't know of anyone who we know tested positive that only came to the buildings on Sundays.
We continue to offer the service online, but the numbers are dwindling as people continue to return now that they are vaccinated. We have changed up the seating so that it's back to rows, but they are still more spread out than normal.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 10, 2021 21:33:48 GMT
I do, but not to just drink whenever. If I'm filling up a glass or a water bottle I will either use tap water or fridge water. I keep bottled water on hand for on the go type situations--travel, ball games (when I will need more than what fits in my reusable water bottle), etc.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 10, 2021 16:06:19 GMT
I started yesterday because this is the first year I wanted to include Mothers Day (been busy with baseball or delivering flowers the past several years). I'm not sure if I'll stop with Saturday or do next Sunday too...mostly because we'll be spending Saturday night at my mom's house following a graduation party...so excited to see her for the first time since Cmas 2019!!! So it would feel weird to end it on the road.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 10, 2021 16:03:05 GMT
I'm not sure I'm going to like having a class on Facebook (it's my first FB class). I tend to scroll thru a few posts here & there during the day when I'm at work, so I'm not wild about coming across a random post or two for the class.
Maybe I just need to set a reminder to look thru the posts/videos on Monday evenings. Otherwise I'm sure I'll forget about it.
I do like the sketches & the concept of using 6x6 pads so I want to make it work.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 9, 2021 19:30:23 GMT
The layered templates she has this year make zero sense to me in terms of how they relate to the available kits. The kits are geometric and largely clean lines and the templates are...not. Absolutely. I did buy them because I love how different they are, but they are so different that it's hard to believe that she even had anything to do with the layered templates. It's almost like someone created them without knowing what the AE kit looked like and then added the colors in later.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 9, 2021 19:14:38 GMT
DH usually leaves it on the table for me, but does hand it to me (picks it up from the table) if I haven't opened it yet.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 9, 2021 19:13:14 GMT
My favorite casual one is from LLBean, but I bought it on clearance in 2015. It's a decent size so it holds a fair amount without being too big. There's a pocket for a phone on the outside flap and then on the body (under the flap) is a zippered pocket that has several slots for various things.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 9, 2021 12:44:51 GMT
If I've convinced myself that I'm only getting a few things I will use a basket...and then end up filling it too full because I find other things I didn't know I needed. Most of the time I know I will need a cart in grocery stores or target.
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Post by huskermom98 on May 9, 2021 3:19:44 GMT
I hate it and only do the bare minimum unless we know we are having visitors. DH is good about doing a lot of it on a regular basis, but not me. I'm fine with laundry because we need clean clothes. I'm fine with doing dishes after I cook and cleaning up the mess I made while cooking. If the bathroom reaches a certain level of messy/dirty then I'm ok cleaning it, but everything else...nope.
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