Saturday, September 28, 2013

YeeHa!

I get to play a little, but my brain is not really "with it" LOL
Been busy, with life things, mind things and friend things. On their own, none take a whole bunch of energy, together..... I'm wiped! So here is a quick rundown.....
It seems like I've been running for a month, but it really only has been a week.
I'm in need of some sleep in longer increments than 3 hours at time and I'm way behind on my scrapping.
I signed up at The Studio for the photo contest, but don't have the energy to find the picture I want to use. Thought I had a really cool picture of a spiderweb with dew drops on them, only to find out that all you see is background, and the spiderweb completely dissappears...... so no entry there.
The LayOutArtist challenge I did enter. but something went wrong with the shadows, and I don't know how to fix it..... They look ok on the computer, but when I post the page in the gallery, the shadows are soooooo dark and wide, it wipes out the page completely. Since it is now 2AM, and the pages have to be posted at the studio and 2 more places before midnight EST..... I don't have time/energy to figure it out, so they're going "as is".
Here are they. The Bear page has the problem in the gallery, but here it looks like it does on the computer.......

For this page I used elements from DBB, Feli, LGrif, BLD and JanetB. Papers were by: Studio4, LGrif and NS

the kit is the Collab for September You Make Me Happy and can be found here at the studiohttp://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio...ducts_id=23106

For this page I used elements from LTH, Feli, LLC, BLD and Aveziur. Paper by: Loucee and overlay by LLC

the kit is the Collab for September You Make Me Happy and can be found here at the studiohttp://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio...ducts_id=23106

Played on Ancestry a little last weekend.... found some cool stuff including another ancestor of Mike's that was part of the Civil War. Every time I think that I have all the veterans, another one pops up in an unexpected corner. At a reburial after the second spouse died, the fact that he was a Civil War veteran was not added to the information. Not in the paperwork, reburial papers, or with a Star, so we never knew.... Now we do. He served in the PA Army.  Still can't find part (read most) of my paper familytree, and lost the computer-tree a long time ago, so it's really not even fun to go look for stuff although I can't help it, but those unexpected bits of information are still cool to find. I added it to the information to add to the tree, and meanwhile keep plugging away on finding that one box that will have all the information I so dearly want to get to.  I'm starting to get worried though. I swear there ARE no boxes I haven't at least opened twice, but I haven't come across it yet

Well, I'm starting to really make no sense, so I'm going to say "good night" for now, post the pages in the last gallery, and call it good. I'm sure I'll miss something, and get "disqualified" but so be it :-)

Don't forget to hug a loved one?
Hugs,
Pauli



Wednesday, September 11, 2013

I think I'm caught up

with all my required things, except the house chores ROFL!

The Birthday Bash at The Studio is in full swing. The Lay Out Contest, designer challenge and I believe the photo challenge, have public voting, so if you have time... go look at the galleries and vote for your favorite? If you don't want to vote, go look anyway. There are some amazing things to see!

Personal challenge update:
- I started on the scavenger hunt, but haven't added anything since my last post.

Mike and I went for a walk the other day. We needed out of the house for a bit, so we went to the Brunssumer Heide. It's about 10 minutes from the house, so it wasn't an all day thing, but we managed to get about an hour of fresh air into our system inbetween the rains. The heather has been blooming, and I finally got to go see it. I always loved the fields of purplishpink, but never seem to be able to catch it at its peak LOL. It is so funny though. If you look at the total picture..... the blooming heather shows as purple, but if you get closer, and look at the individual flowers... they're bright pink...

- The Photo Contest was all about fall colors, or at least Color, so...... This is the picture I posted for the Photo Contest:


- The Lay Out Contest is interesting. The kit to be used is Holiday Hoopla, and the assignment is to make 2 pages. One holiday themed, one absolutely not, and one needed a photo treatment done to at least one of the pictures...... 




Boo has a couple of new kits coming out, and I can actually show you one of them already......
Its not out at The Studio yet, but it IS in the Scrap Book Bytes store: It's called Rainfall.
We've had a good deal of that in the last 10 days or so. The geese have gone south already, and the leaves are starting to turn. Rumor has it, that we are in for a heck of a winter. IF that is correct, I can make new snow pictures LOL. But I'm getting ahead of myself.....

The Kit can be found here




Memory Keepers is out at The Studio. I absolutely love the kit. I think it will see A LOT of use in the family tree pages........

everything is from the kit only

everything is from the extra's. 

I think you're "up to date" with these postings. And since it's almost time to get up, I think I will go to bed for a little while. The mechanical alarm goes off at 5 (Mike has an early day) and when the fuzzy alarm will go off is anybody's guess. In all probability, it should go off any minute LOL.

Don't forget to hug that loved one! :-)

Love and hugs,
Pauli


Monday, September 9, 2013

Happy BIrthday Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

THAT'S where I've been!  Partying.... Yup! That's me......

First challenge was to update and dress up the avatar. So I did. It now looks like this:


Than, I failed to sign up for the LayOut Artist contest.... Came to the realization on Wednesday or Thursday, that I hadn't seen the post in my mailbox, stating which kit to use, and what the challenge was to be......... so, put it on the calendar to sign up for week 2, and almost blew that out of the water too, but I got it done in time, and I'm busily thinking what to do about it.

I was dead set on participating in the photographers challenge, but couldn't for the life of me not figure out what the heck BOKE stood for, how to achieve it or what the end result should look like, so I decided I'd give week 2 a chance..... Still have to check that out.

Signed up to play CLUE :-) Waiting for the instructions on that one. 
Trying to go thru the store for the scavenger hunt......

Getting the urge to join in with all the fun? Come on over to The Studio

And, besides playing around in the studio shop/gallery, I got some scrapping done, some planning and a whole bunch of napping. Have not been feeling right, am starting to freak out about my check up in October. Not sure if I want it to go quicker, or not, but I'm worried.  Had some pains I just as soon want to forget, but shouldn't ignore.... Hope it is still "getting back to normal" things. Saying prayers for everything to be "right" every night, but it doesn't stop the nightmares, so I'm trying to sleep as little as possible, which is also not really a healthy responds, but what do you do?

AND I got some scrapping done. Boo is back from vacation, and sent out a couple of kits, so I'm playing around with those. We're working on some stuff for the birthdaybash over at IvyScraps in October, I'm working on my scheduled CT-things  AND I'm trying to set up some kind of schedule, balancing, fun, job-hunt and chores around Mikes very erratic work schedule......... So I'm having fun, I think.... LOL

Well, I can't show you any of the pages yet, but as soon as I get the OK, you'll see them appear.

For now,  go check out The Studio, hug a loved one, and I'll talk to you soon.

Hugs,
Pauli