Scrapperdee's Ramblings as a SAHM

Friday, September 21, 2012

Kate & William - Solomon islands

Here are some more photos from their trip

I like the style of the dress, not sure about the color or pattern in the fabric though

The hat seems like an after thought and doesn't really belong. When I first saw it, I didn't know what it was.

LOVE this pink dress - I couldn't wear it, but it looks fantastic on her!

The next day:

Love style of the dress and she can pull off yellow - not many can

I love this little navy number - BIG surprise. Its classic and love the color!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Will & Kate - more from asia

These are some from Malaysia - I liked more of these outfits....poor girl did well, these were taken right around the topless photos of her landed in the French magazine.

I love this dress - color, style - I want it!

WOW - so beautiful!

Some more:

LOVE it - a little pale, but other than that, its fantastic

She looked amazing in this one I thought.

It looks ok on her, but I find it a little buzy - love that its BLUE!

MY FAVORITE!!!!! WOW!

Jungle fun:

she really needs to gain some weight

I, of course, was watching for photos of Will & Kate on their Asia trip to see what outfits she'd pull out...and see if there were any funny photos of the couple's experiences. Here are a few I found:

Singapore:

Not sure about this dress - color, style, kind of old-lady for me.

Not too sure about this dress

The GIANTS have arrived!

Not a fan of this outfit - makes my eyes go ziggly

This one is cute

Monday, July 30, 2012

WEEK 29 - Room and Space Decor

TEE HEE we should be done now...ha ha ha The original post is HERE.

OH MAN...I wish I had a space to decorate! I'd keep it fairly neutral and then have a few accessories that are, well,...blue...big surprise...blue. I'd like to have enough space that I'd be able to use some of it to display photos or pretty things, a nice clock...rather than just used for storage.

Enjoy your new, beautiful, organized crafting space - I know I will...IF I EVER GET ONE! ;)

Monday, July 23, 2012

WEEK 28 - Cards and Card Making Supplies

Another small post for me...see the original post here.

I keep all handmade cards that I receive and they all fit nicely in a photo box from Michaels - and still have lots of room to grow. I don't make alot of cards - really only for Christmas and one-off thank-you notes - so I pretty much only make the quantity I need - so nothing to store.

The original poster has a lot of ideas - please go look if you have a lot of cards to deal with.

Monday, July 16, 2012

WEEK 27 - Fonts

This post (original post is here) is about organizing your computer fonts.

She says to NOT install all fonts (which I started to do already) - it slows down your system. She suggests if you have thousands of fonts to maybe have folders for the different types - san serif, blah blah. I don't have thousands (well, I'm not really sure)...and she suggests to get "the font thing" for organizing (which doesn't work with Vista) - which I also have...but I don't think I've used.

She says to unzip any fonts and put all fonts in their one location. I have all my fonts in 1 location, but I think I've kept them all in their zip file....hmmm. She says to print them out so you have them in 1 location and can look at them easily and see which ones you want to use.

Remember to back-up your font file - wouldn't it suck if you lost your fonts when/if your hard drive crashed?! I lost my personal printing font because our computer crashed...boo hoo.

Currently I only really use 2 or 3 of my available fonts, so I'm just going to leave it alone.

Monday, July 9, 2012

WEEK 26 - New Items and Keeping it Neat

HA HA....see the original post here....keeping it neat...baa ha ha ha ha ha.

She suggests that when you purchase new things, they can only go into your workspace if you immediately put it where it belongs - ha ha .. when I get something new, the bag lands on the floor! I clearly need to get my act together.

She also says that after you finish a project, you can't start another until cleaned up everything from the current project..oopps...I fail on that one too. I keep all the 'scraps' from the project in a pile...which I add new scraps from the next project and so on until there isn't any room...THEN I put them away. I guess I'll have to try to stop that. Have a pristine workspace before you start the next project...BAA HA HA HA! I barely have room to work on a current project...there's no place for pristine...see, I NEED a scrapbook area!

She also talks about organizing your albums. If you want to keep them together (I like that), they don't have to be in your craft area. Gee - I wish that I had a place I could put them that wasn't in my craft area, but I don't. She changed all her albums so they look identical...DROOL DROOL! I would love that....but alas, its not a priority....she even has the spine labeled...wow...what a concept...I have to open an album to see what is in it...except those that are obvious from the album cover. I also have mine stacked, rather than like books - not sure why, but I think its because I didn't want to waste the space that the 12x12 album didn't fill...if I stack them, I can get more in the space.

IF I ever get a scrapbook space...I'm going to try to get all my albums identical...but I dread the thought of the work required to do it...as it is now, I wait until I have an entire album's worth of pages ready before I fill an album - that's one part of scrapbooking I hate - filling the albums.

Friday, July 6, 2012

World Triathalon Championship

My little brother (ha, he's in his 40's and is 6'2") qualified to be a member of the Team Canada's triathlon team for this year - the championship is in New Zealand in October - so cool!

He qualified based on some races and his age (they send "others" based on age groups - there's a techinical term for it...but I don't remember). He's pumped, but now has to get the $ to get over there...and while there...he might as well tour some of Australia too!

He just received his uniforms - so cool!