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"LOVE ACTUALLY IS ALL AROUND"...Little Black Dress Kit Club January

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Ok, anyone who knows me, or who has read anything about me knows
how much I love movies! One of my favorites is 'Love Actually.'
I honestly don't think I have ever not cried after watching it.

I love all the music from it and the way all the stories become connected
and mostly I love the beginning where the narrator, "Hugh Grant"
is talking about being at the arrivals gate at the airport and how all the people are
so happy greeting loved ones, and how "Love actually is all around."

Well, not be cheesy, but I feel that way too, I feel like sometimes I

have to look harder for it that others, but that may be a fault in my 'vision.'

This was a LO for the Little Black Dress Kit Club January kit,

appropriately called, "Every Little Piece."

I knew what I wanted to do with this page, lots of loving from

my Silhouette and arrows and a circle to reinforce the theme/title.

I kept fussing with it, trying to get it all lined up in a perfect circle

all layered on top of each other, and I could not get it the way

I wanted to...I kept walking away and coming back and still wasn't happy.

Finally, in the interest of time and laundry and life in general,

I started to go ahead and adhere things and my husband came, with the voice of calm,

(as usual) and made the point that love isn't all lined up and symmetric and perfect.

It is messy and can get off center and sometimes unravels...

but we stitch it back up and hold it together, all around us...

Turns out that is one of the reasons I think the photo goes so well with

that theory. It is off center and out of focus, but I still love the photo!

Well that was maybe a little too deep, but I did start writing this post at 2am...
More importantly, I actually used a couple ideas I had pinned and
kind of forgotten about...I sort of combined two pins into one idea,
layering hearts that were sewn together and then another
set of hearts that was cut from book print.
One resolution: pin less, do more of the tings that were pinned!

HELLO MY NAME IS stubborn...Little Black Dress Kit Club January

Saturday, January 12, 2013

I have been going back thru old photos pre-digital and thru lots of college photos,

completely incriminating! And very funny...can't decide how many will make it to

being documented. Need to check which friends might potentially run for

some sort of political office...;)

Anyway, these were in a group of photos I had printed out taken with a

real live 35mm camera, no auto focus, real honest to goodness photography...

My Dad would be so proud...sadly, there isn't much of that left.

Lots of slides I need to convert.

Anyway, this is using the new January Little Black Dress Club Kit...

It is actually one of my favorites, subtle but so full of rich versatile patterns.

I really am having a little love affair with white washed wood grain paper

at the moment. And the only reason it ins;t on this LO is because I

am hoarding it...don't you touch it!

Anything that has a "My Name Is" tag rocks...especially when I can fill it in with

a little snarky reference to some 'tude of my children's...I don't have an attitude.

That was totally inherited from my husband's side of the family.

They are Sicilian after all...heh, heh...

I will so be in trouble for that...oh well, it is late as I am writing that...

linked by the LOVE of LEGOS...Color Me Scrappy

Thursday, January 10, 2013

This was my second LO as one of the January Guest DT's

for Color-Me-Scrappy's January challenge.

linked by the Love of LEGOS

This challenge featured a beautiful bright assortment of colors from a photo of an
aged red door and the copper pulls of the door that have a green patina to them.

The other part of the challenge was to use the work 'Link' in the title or journaling of the project.

This is the link to their post with the details:

http://color-me-scrappy.blogspot.com/2013/01/challenge-25.html?m=1

I pulled just about everything from my scrap bin...this is after all 'scrap'booking...
Layered several stamps on some shipping tags and added some new Elle's Studio tags!

Obviously, I used the word "link" in my title but I had thought of it to begin with
after sifting thru Christmas photos, or after Christmas photos.
My son is obsessed with Legos right now and got some for his birthday as well as from Santa.
And Shawn is just as in love with those little bits & parts as Sam is.
So, "link" is also for the way the Legos snap to together...

The weather was pretty miserable the few days after Christmas and since this
is the first Winter we have had a fireplace, we pretty much parked it in front
of the fireplace for days, playing with Legos and other new toys, drawing, reading
and watching Lord of The Rings...it was blissful.

Sadly, reality hit a couple days later with a few sleepless night, worrisome days and
finally spending New Year's at Children's Hospital! Woot, woot! Happy New Year!
But that is a whole other story....

Check out the link, they have some neat challenges!