Something I meant to show you!

I knew there was another link I wanted to share with yall on the last post.I was added as a contact on flickr by Hillary Haden, of The Cutting Edge (I love flickr ). In her flickrsite she's got a ton of stuff that you can get off her Etsy site. So many cute things!! I love the drive in tags!Some of her stuff has even made appearances in Jenny Bowlin's kit club!! Def check it out ...

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Good things to check out, good news and updates

Updates first: I'm now to the seriously considering starting up a forum that crosses the scrapbooking globe if you will. I'd love to see us all together sharing what we have from our different kits, LSS shopping experiences, conventions, online vitories and Hobby Lobby overbuys. Plus with so many of us considering breaks (or at least spending less time) on other boards linked to different kits, it would be shame to see friends go their own way without a home base for us all to come back to. So right now I'm just working on putting together details with which site i want to run the forum off of. I've narrowed it down to about three different sites. I just need to do more research. Expect things to get launched very soon though. I'll need your support getting things going and getting others...

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kit clubs

So most of you know I'm already getting two kits every month: Little Red Scrapbook and ScrapGoods. I'm adoring LRS. The kits are fully of papers that I wouldn't even consider buy sometimes, but then there's always a few pages where I'm like, "yes i would buy this on my own". The pieces go together nicely, the colors are usually pretty vibrant the material choices lend to different styles (you can make it more modern, or bohemian, or traditional, depending on how you use it, what you add to it--although you don't usually need to add too much to it.). There have been some problems with SG though. They recently changed the kit style with a smaller kit every other month. This doesn't usually bother me, because I've looked at The It kit, which is the same premise. But I feel like you get...

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Apologies and frustrations

I owe yall apologies. I've been MIA. Totally not on purpose (I've been posting on my other blog like a lunatic). And I've not given up the 365 projects either. My flickr is still full of new pictures of me (and other things). I got some good scrapping done a few weeks ago, but I've had to take a huge break because of life getting in the way of my hobby. Starting kickboxing has been amazing, but it's starting to actually take up time. Luckily I love hitting things as hard as I can for a hour. Hopefully this week I can break into my LRS kits (Jan and Feb, oh and Dec) a little bit more. I'm seriously loving the kit. The small-kit for Scrapgoods was somewhat of a let down. It just wasn't as exciting to get such a small ammount of things. On the upside my stuff from Story of My Life showed...

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inspriation

A friend today showed me this, which got me all creative-feeling. Started thinking about getting where I get inspiration from in a blurb. Thought about it while walking around work. And I thought it would be a good idea to share it. I'm deep down, born or at least completely trained to be an engineer. I'm awed by symetery, aerodynamics, order, patterns and math. Fractals even. Airflow, shockwaves and the way things break. But I also consider myself a writer, so I'm captured by words, by synonyms, by long novels and short peoms. Imagery, metaphors and sometimes even the run-on rambling sentence. And there's inspiration in other places too. In the sky, with its sunrises and sunsets. In colors...all colors. In flight. In smiles, movies, friends and family. In things created by...

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tattoo musings...

I've been thinking about my next tat a lot lately. I thought i had it all figured out, what i wanted. I KNOW i want some sort of cheery blossom (sakura) tat, but I was thinking i'd just get the branch on my shoulder blade. maybe toss in the kanji for it. But then I figure I'll have to wait on that, as my mother would have a fit if you could see it in wedding pictures and since i'm not even engaged yet...You catch my drift. That was like on the five year plan.So i started thinking about my foot again. I desperately wanted a shooting star on my foot, something small ya know? But last summer or the one before that (probably the one where I was living at home after graduating from college), a family friend brought her younger sister with her over to the house and she had this great tat that covered...

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