Life 2.1

March 6th, 2012

The Result of a 4-day Scrap Bender

I scrapped for 4 whole days.

It was glorious.

Of course, I wasn’t going 24/7 but I was close. Below are the much overdue results of my long weekend. Some of the highlights in the layouts include a good portion of my time in New Orleans, specifically when the Saints won the Super Bowl, which was promptly followed by Mardi Gras. There is also the Christmas Eve travel debacle that will live in infamy. Who could forget that?

All these new layouts have been added to my gallery (doesn’t that make me sounds fancy?). I felt so productive when I saw all my creations. Then I saw that I still had Christmas 2010 and all of 2011 to go. Oy :/

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2009

The Watkins-Piper Nuptials

Christmas (what little I got to celebrate)

2010

The Super Bowl! (or, as we call it, Lombardi Gras):

Mardi Gras with Joe

My former (then-current) boss turned 40

St. Patrick’s Day in San Francisco

Weekend at the Beach House (May)

Big Metal came to visit! (July)

Morgan’s Birthday Shindig (August)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Saturday

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December 20th, 2010

Facelift

It seemed like it might be time to revamp CL.com. I have been wanting to redesign the site for a while now but wasn’t sure in which creative direction I should go but I did a super cute layout in the scrapbook nook the other night and I loved the colors so I finally knew the look and feel that I wanted CL.com to take. Hooray!

I have also learned that working events is not conducive to posting ‘Get Meaningful Fridays’ so I up and redid that too. Welcome to ‘Get Meaningful Monday’….it rolls better don’tcha think?

the fact that the holidays brings lots of my friends home to visit
spinach salad with homemade balsamic dressing
hours in my nook
Christmas music

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January 25th, 2010

I swear I'm 27

I spent the entire (almost) weekend scrapbooking and it.was.fabulous.

I had signed up for a Friday night/Saturday crop and I was really excited because I have been in this mood to create pretty things and I finally was going to sit down and do it. In the form of scrapbooking. Although, I was very excited when I created a cute little thing (I don’t even know what I would use it for but it’s adorable) at the end of Day 2 (thanks for the make-n-take Michelle!). See below:

It’s just a cute little thing that is currently hanging on the formerly empty key hook I have hanging on my wall by the front door. I didn’t come prepared with a picture so I used an extra one I had of my brothers and me at my dad’s 50th b-day party a couple years ago (clearly, as I still had long hair). It’s actually a paper-covered piece of acrylic that is distressed on the edges with ink and it’s just what I felt like creating.

Anyhoo, I had so much fun with the ladies there. We scrapped from 5:30 until midnight on Friday and then I woke up again and went back to the scrapbook store on the Westbank from about 10:30 until 5:30. And I got so much done (evidence below, click to enlarge). I consider Friday and Saturday time well-spent for sure.

The below layout is actually part of the above. You open the right-hand page above, and it becomes a 3-page layout with the above left next to the below. What can I say, I like sets.

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December 24th, 2009

Finally finished it!

When my brother Joe graduated high school in 2003, my graduation present to him was a ginormous scrapbook of all his sports accomplishments in high school. In truth, I had actually given him the first chunk of the album for Christmas in 2001, because there was enough material, and gave him the balance at graduation. I took alllll his football articles and alllll his baseball articles, combined them with photos (being nice to the yearbook lady in high school totally paid off, she gave me a whole CD of photos since I was in college myself during his junior and senior years) and the finished product was actually TWO ginormous scrapbooks.

Well, for those of you playing at home, I have two brothers. And Ted also received his first installment of his album for Christmas in 2005, with junior and senior years still owed to him upon his high school graduation in 2007. That came and went, and I still had a very large bag of newspaper articles that would have intimidated even the most seasoned scrapbooker. But…I finished it. Finally. Nevermind the fact that the kid is headed into his junior year of college. That’s neither here nor there.

But, since he is getting his present later today upon my arrival back on the west coast (assuming that ever happens :/ ), and because I’m confident he never checks my blog, I’m posting the images. Because that sucker is thick and I’m, adding it to the Scraptastic Gallery so it won’t take days to load on one page. Here’s the latest additions: