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The Tree Story

For the past several years, our dogwood in front of our house has been slowly dying. Finally, we purchased a new redbud to replace it. Thanks to Matt's employer, a landscaper, and a couple of friends, we managed to get the tree home, remove the dogwood, and plant the new 15'+ redbud. Here's the story in pictures:

CKC-Buffalo

My friend and I spent two hours yesterday with Stacy Julian in her Finish Line Scrapbook class at CKC-Buffalo. It was fast-paced, inspirational, and meant to challenge our perfectionist tendencies when scrapbooking. Both of us are type -A, perfectionist scrappers so it was perfect. We were challenged to finish a scrapbook with 20-30 photos during the class. I almost made it. A little time this afternoon and I should have a 6 X 6 scrapbook of Matt's high school graduation finished. Here are the rules:

• sort photos
• crop to the core
• limit product
• skip the journaling
• assemble without over thinking
• embellish last--lay out embellishments and limit yourself to the pile in front of you

Stacy doesn't advocate this approach for all your photos, but it is a great way to finish one set of photos in a short amount of time. "Crop to the core" was hardest for me. I always think about the final size I want a photo, and cropping photos without thinking about the final size made me a tad uneasy. What I found at the end was I ended up cropping some of them even more in order to get more than one photo on a page. For some photos I think an 8 X 8 album would be easier.

We had a great time. Spent two hours at the vendor fair which was much larger this year. I bought a lot of  beautiful paper, but not much in the way of embellishments. In the afternoon we took a Making Memories class and used their tag maker. I was very impressed with it, and I'm sure I'll own one soon. I need to finish all four of those 12 X 12 layouts. This class, too, pushed me to try some things I might not otherwise try. All in all, a fun day.