random reflections

DW 2006 Challenge

I'm really enjoying the Designing With 2006 Calendar challenge on 2peas. I'm creating layouts of pictures I thought I would scrap years from now when I retired! But the challenge to scraplift four or more layouts from the calendar each month is inspiring me to look for photos that will complement the layouts. So this week I did one of Sarah in 1980 with her great-grandmother, a two-page layout of her 6th birthday (this is for a current album of all her birthdays I'm working on), and a photo of her college graduation. For someone who scraps primarily by theme this is an unusual approach--but an enjoyable one.

Some of the layouts are of cards and I've been on a real roll with those. Doing them for the challenge has prompted me to make cards from scraps of  layouts and just because! All the photos are now in my album on the sidebar. Took me a while to get an album going. As always it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Inherit the Wind

We saw a moving and thoughtful production of Inherit the Wind today at GeVa Theater. We are so lucky to have this wonderful professional theater in town. Then we had dinner at The Olive Tree--another Rochester treasure--to celebrate Tracy's St. Patrick's birthday. He decided that St. Patrick's Day on a Friday would be too crazed to go out. Dinner at The Olive Tree was totally relaxing. Great Greek food and great service.

It's Beginning to Seem Real

A few of the wedding invitations went out last week--local ones before the bridal shower invitations arrived! The rest of the invitations go into the mail tomorrow. but the exciting part was receiving six RSVPs so quickly, several with lovely notes on the bottom. There have been hours of planning, but it's just now beginning to feel real.

The Weather

My daughter loves to rub it in. But here's what we're faced with in the Northeast--plus high winds!!

Hard Work?

Blogging has seemed like hard work the last few weeks so I’ve just avoided it. Getting back to it reminds me of how hard it is for me to get back to the gym if I haven’t gone in a couple of weeks. I could plead being busy and it would be true, but it’s not the real reason.

Yesterday I went with a couple of friends to our lss and took a card class compliments of the Arctic Frog company. One of the design team members for the company lives near Rochester. She came to last weekend’s all day Saturday crop and we made a cute matchbook album. Yesterday we made this:

The little wooden box came from AC Moore and we make these six cards to go into it. I know exactly who to give this to, and will make another one in colors to match my study later on.

Here are the cards that go in it:

I’ve actually gotten a lot of scrapbooking done recently. Made two batches of cards for the March DW 2006 challenge. You can see them here. Thanks to an all day crop in January and another one in February I have years 1-10 finished in Sarah’s birthday album. I can identify all but two of her friends in the photos. I’m hoping she’ll be able to tell me who they are when she’s here at the end of the month. She doesn’t seem to have much confidence that she’ll know either.

Sarah and Adam's wedding is only 76 days away and although we have many, many plans in place and I have absolutely wonderful help from my sister-in-law, I am beginning to wake up in the night and worry about what I don’t know about or the little details that we cannot yet make decisions about. Finding something to wear is also preying on my mind. A friend and I spent one entire day looking (only tried on three things--none right) and I’ve ordered and returned several other items. No more ordering! I’m going to assume that if I don’t see something here before we go to Atlanta in April that I will certainly find something there. It’s the little things--or maybe that’s a big thing.

Well, I’ve done it. Back to blogging. I’ll try to be more conscientious although this is not a week to make promises. I have commitments after school or in the evening  every night except one.