I'm actually kind of (in the itsy bitsiest way....) looking forward to 3 whole nights away from my family.
Here's the deal: I'm going to CKC Seattle on Thursday morning to work in the Rusty Pickle booth. I live in Salem so I'll be flying thus, not returning until Sunday morning. I have a 16 month old daughter who I have never been away from overnight since she was born. At first, once the reality of the fact that I'd be away from Terrance for 3 whole days set in, I cried. I'm a new mom, it makes me sad. But, after much thought and looking at the schedule that was emailed to me, I came to the realization that those three nights will have me "off" from work in the early evening and the rest will be spent by myself. I mean, I'll of course be rooming with the other girls I'm sure but, I'll get 3 nights all to myself of which I won't have to cook a meal, clean a dish, give a bath, brush teeth, change a diaper, or have sex (i'm just being real). I'll get to be around scrapbooking products all day and at night i'll eat dinner out, lay around in a hotel room and do homework. Honestly, I'm really looking forward to it. And, wow, I am so easy to please...and kind of lame.
Also, I got this layout uploaded and online.
It's for my client Jenny. It's presenting them as husband and wife. I LOVE this picture and that it has really captured their bliss--they look so happy!
The perspective of it and the colors made it fun and easy to design around.
Ooh, something else: I am very proud to say that my scrapbooking room is 85% clean. And I'm proud of that because it's been in a constant state of "being cleaned" for about a year. In reality the only cleaning that I did for awhile was to move stuff around to give me just enough tiny bit of space to work on while the piles and piles of things would stay and continue to collect. After awhile though, when it got really bad and I finally realized that I would never have an entire few days to devote to cleaning the room in it's entirety, I began to slip in there for ten or 15 minutes, and sometime less, and pick up and put away (keyword) one bit of a pile. So, with all of my progressive work and gaining a bunch of new storage I was able to really make a dent in it this weekend! Of the new storage, my favorite is for my paints. It's easy, keeps them accessible AND upside down (the best way to store paint)! I used a large wooden board and adhesive velcro. Yep, it was that simple and I now have a place for all 62 bottles of my paint to be visibly stored. One thing I didn't consider before I started was the weight of all of the paint! Those little bottles add up. My board didn't have proper hardware to be hung up with so it's sitting on a shelf against the wall for now.
Seriously, tomorrow, I'll take a picture of it because it's really neat. I can't take credit for it though. A few weeks ago I was reading a ladies blog (I'm not sure who, though) and saw that she had done the exact same thing but on a much smaller scale with her stickles. So, if that woman happens to read this entry, thanks for the idea and sorry I can't give you proper credit!
I'm now exhausted and going to bed. Good night.
-A
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