Well I have been away so that’s my excuse. Our family took a vacation to the Oregon coast for a couple of weeks. We were staying in Gleneden Beach and visited the neighbouring places like Lincoln City, Newport, sand dunes (as you can see I forget where they were) and then went to Eugene. In Eugene we got to visit my mom’s Auntie who is 84. She was my Granny’s best friend for years so it was very neat seeing her. She lives in a nursing home not far away from her daughter and son-in-law.
While we were away I did get to do a bit of scrap supply shopping. (Not just clothes) so this was a good thing. I found a few really great LSSes while there. I also went to a Dollar Tree and got some of the $1 thickers which was a great deal. I wish we had Dollar Trees here. All for a buck and NO TAX. Gotta love Oregon for that.
I am loving my Silhouette and it’s cutting really well. I am finding I need to use the magenta blade the most. It’s not just for cardstock but a lot of my patterned paper is thicker cardstock weight so I have just been using it. I have also found I am not able to cut out swirly fancy fonts. They just do not cut out well at all. That was kind of disappointing but live and learn I guess.
I have been doing a lot of scrapping lately. I got about 7 pages done on Saturday night. Amber and I skipped our Friday night routine b/c she had to work all day Saturday so we decided at about 10 pm on Saturday night we would start cropping. I was using my newer stash (because it was out and oh so inviting). I got quite a few photos of DS’ last day of school and used Junkitz’s Extreme Boy papers and embellishments. I am now sick of that paper and have used just about all of it. It feels so good to use things completely up! Wow. That just felt so good.
I am now working on a lavender layout of my folks using Karen Neurenburger’s papers. So far so good. I will be glad when this one is also done because I am such a simple scrapbooker and this is a very simple layout LOL. I wish I had a ton more creativity but I do not. (No big surprise) and this layout is simple. I am also loving all my Versamagic chalk ink pads. I got all of them a couple of years ago and they are sure coming in handy.
DS starts school again next week. I keep hoping the teachers are going to call and set up a meeting. I have plans for tomorrow and Wednesday so those days are out. They always have an introductory meeting to meet the teachers and talk about goals and expectations for the year. DS is having a new teacher this year because one of his regular teachers is going on maternity leave. I have never met “Danielle” but I hope she is good.
Other than that I think that’s all the news. PJ my on and off boyfriend of oh so many years is emailing me and we will probably go out for a drink (or a diet coke as the case may be) at some point this week. I am not sure how I feel about him. He isn’t sure how he feels about me either. It’s complicated and weird. Who knows.
Hugs,
Elannah
