JYC Day 8

Today has been quite busy and therefore the layout for today has been kept very simple. I'll show the layout first and then chat about the day - if you're interested in hearing about it ;o)

With Mr Snowman Close up

Close up of the photo collage I printed off for this page

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Ok, so what did I do? First stop: took Claire to work, then popped in to the school to sign the consent form for Emily's cervical cancer jabs. (She was so nervous about having them done and I was called after lunch to go and pick her up; she's fine - she just felt a bit dizzy.)

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It was beautiful outside when I was driving home - and more importantly, not raining! I came in and got the dogs ready to go for a walk straight away; if there's one thing I have learnt, it's make the most of the weather while it's fine. It was an extremely slow walk this morning as Wallace was in a real dawdling mood. I had put his coat on so I guess he didn't feel the need to step it up as he was quite cosy as he was.

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Emily had mentioned yesterday that she really fancied some cake and, because I was feeling sorry for her having to have her jab today, I decided to make her some cupcakes. Nothing fancy this time - vanilla cupcakes with vanilla icing (with a dash of food colouring to make the icing pink!). However, when I went to get the mixer out the cupboard, I noticed one of the bottles of mincemeat had started leaking - time to make mince pies?? Sure was! Made some pastry and a batch of mince pies and I have to say, they were delicious! I wasn't sure that home made mincemeat would make much difference but I do think they tasted better - perhaps that was because I knew I'd made the mincemeat, lol!! With all the baking done it seemed only fair to share ;o) so I called Mum and Dad and invited them round for coffee. A most enjoyable afternoon and I'm still feeling quite full.

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However, I MUST do some sewing tomorrow!! and write cards tonight!! and post overseas cards tomorrow!! I thought I was doing so well but now I'm beginning to wonder ;o)

Have a lovely evening

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You Tube Video must see

I was reading through a couple of blogs before heading off to bed when I saw this link on Ruth's blog and thought I'd see what it was. It is truly worth watching, what an amazing man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMbk9dtpdY xx

JYC Day 7

I'm afraid taking photos of layouts at night under Tungsten lighting does not result in the best shots ;o) but I'm sure you'll be able to get an idea of my latest offering.

I know it looks awfully flat in this photo but it does look much better in real life! Honest!

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And I can hear some of you saying; "Hang on a minute, did we see a page for day 6?" and the answer would be no, you didn't! It's not that I'm missing that day out, just that I'm still thinking about what I might want to write. A case of "Watch this space!"

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As for what we've been up to, it's pretty quiet around here. A bit of craftiness went on this weekend (though not in any of the areas where it was actually needed) and today I finally got stuck in to doing a bit more sewing. I haven't got much time to finish, so I need to get a move on! Of course, there was the ironing to catch up with from the weekend, as well as the washing to be done. After doing the shopping on Monday mornings the Starbucks coffee is much appreciated - thank you Mum!

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And for the rest of the week: a bit more sewing, maybe a bit of baking, cards to be mailed overseas, more journal pages to be made and ... we also wait to see how Jon did in his interview today. Lots of prayers going up. I'm still a firm believer in if it is meant to be, it will be!. Let's hope this is one of those 'meant to be' times :o)

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Starting to go Digital??

Today I've been playing with Digital Scrapbooking. I signed up to do Jessica Sprague's Up and Running with Photoshop quite some time ago but then decided I wasn't interested in doing digital layouts. Over the past few weeks I've been playing around a bit and decided it was quite interesting, much quicker, less messy and perhaps, in the long run, cheaper. So, I went back to Up and Running and this afternoon I've been playing - a lot! I'm finding it quite interesting but am still not 100% sure that it'll be the way I go. My main problem with it is printing out the pages. I don't have a printer that could do 12x12 pages so I would either have to go 8.5x11, 8x8 or smaller.

This layout was the assignment from week 1.

Week 2's class layout. And finally, Week 2's layout that we had to design and complete ourselves. I wasn't sure how I would get on with this but I'm quite pleased with the end result. However, when I tried to print it onto photo paper at 8x8, the colours were very wishy washy and I'm not as happy with it any more. (Kit:Promise by Shabby Princess, stamp:Stamped Moments by Katie Pertiet, white paper:White Tighties by Amy Teets and Alphabet:Snow Kissed Christmas by Betsy Tuma which I've changed to fit in with the colours in the paper)

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If anyone else has recently gone digital, I would be interested to hear what you think of the whole process and whether you're happy with your layouts once they're printed out.

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