katharyn brine

Do it as it Happens

Two posts in one day, hey!!??   You = Lucky. Me = Procrastinating.

Just wanted to add in a page that I did within the week that it happened, simple and fast and recording a funny moment by cutting and pasting part of a blog post. Too Simple! Feels great to get it down before it was forgotten! Also uses an old "stock photo" because I have not got out my camera in yonks ... Just another example of how to use a text-based theme.

Part of it is blurred out to spare you the gory details and to spare little Riley mortifying embarassment!

Cheers.

Sometimes Projects

Every now and  then it's time to return to your "unfinished projects" pile and tackle those jobs that just didn't quite make it to completion. But I hate it.

I always scrap whatever I feel like on the day, and unless I get the whole project done then and there, (usually late into the night!) I find it very hard to go back and find that same mojo I was feeling when I first started it. And somehow the enthusiasm for it wanes as time goes on.

But it has to be done. Because you realise it was a great idea to begin with, and deserves to be finished. 

One day a few months ago, I started this text-based project because I had no fresh photos of my own. I kind of stumbled along, not really realising what I was getting myself into. In the back of my mind, I had been meaning to compile a heap of emails from my old school friends, which described what they were all up to at this point in their lives. Some sent pics of themselves or their children, which were a great source of enjoyment for me. So I wanted to use them somehow too, even if they were only low-resolution thumbnails (not great print quality).Then I got the idea to scan in some old photos of us all during our school years. Then I wanted to print out enough to make booklets for everybody included in the project. Then the whole project became a bit BIG, but still enjoyable. But just so BIG - especially going thru old photo albums finding scannable photos. And chasing up some friends who had not yet written their "bios" but who I knew would want to be included.

Anyway, I got stuck into it (and soon became a bit obsessive about it, tee! he!) but then life happened and it's been on the backburner. I hope to get back to it, but can't see it happening as pleasantly as it started, because now I've turned it into a "MUST DO" project instead of a "WANT TO DO" one.

So, it is now a "sometimes project" that has no deadline (unlike my secret scrapping business, of late!) and that makes it much more doable. No one is expecting it anyway (I haven't told anybody because I wanted it to be a surprise). So, in the interests of breaking up great big blocks of text like this, here are some unfinished pages;

  

So, now it's your turn to do some Spring Cleaning and finish off an unfinished project.

Secret Scrapping Business

Had to laugh today while visiting the doctor for a poo problem 3yo Riley's been having. Riley sat on my lap as I went through all the details about it, with Harvey chiming in occasionally to tell the doctor just how terrible it was that Riley kept having little accidents. During a lull in conversation, Riley turned to me in full confessional mode and shook his head as he guiltily admitted - "And I guess we should tell him that I pick my nose too, Mum ..."! Poor little guy!

I've been busy doing secret scrapping business so I've not got much to show tonight. Although I can say I'm enjoying a lot of freebie supplies I'm finding here after a friend recommended this site that collates all the digital supply freebies available from other blogs. Only thing is that it uses up a lot of time on my slow computer.

Here are some quick LOs about some milestones that Dana is reaching lately. They are more for the sake of getting them documented, rather than demonstrating any kind of design principles.

 

 

And a quick one to use up some cowboy pix:

 

And some old photos I scanned in:

 

And I've started doing some more grandparent LOs:

   

 

Some more on the boys using a point-form journalling technique and I've re-jigged an old tutorial a bit. Doesn't matter that they are very similar - they will be living in different albums:

 

 

But after getting another order back from my favourite American 12x12inch photo processor here, I'm loving this LO the most.

A lot of the texture in the papers does not show up on screen, but IRL (in real life) it's just exquisite!

A big thank you to anyone who is lurking here that participated in my secret scrapping project. I'll post the completed pages at a later date. Cheers.