Someone saw the mini envelope albums I have been posting for the past year and recently commissioned me to make her two albums. We discussed topic and theme ideas via email, and after a bit we agreed I would make one album in a celestial theme, and one on a general nature theme. She sent me payment and I set to work. I mailed them to my customer, ( Read more... )

This is not a reporter's website, FYI. It is a stay at home mom who just likes to write like a journalist. So there is some good information on new products and product lines, plus pictures you can click on to get a better look ( Read more... )

I just checked my friend's blog.

Baby Joseph has passed away.

Thank you all for your prayers. I will be making a little envelope album for them of his life, hopefully mailing it this weekend, if I can.

In 2003 I wrote an article on scrapbooking for the Pagan market. It was supposed to run in PanGaia magazine back then, but the article got bumped. Well, I just got an email from my co-author [she wrote a definitions insert] saying they are laying it out now to appear in PanGaia's "Sacred Crafts" issue! And I just emailed her to tell her I have ( Read more... )

Finished! An album for my friend Joyce with her recent European vacation pictures. She was overwhelmed with the over 400 pictures she shot on this trip to London and Paris, so I offered to make her an album out of the tag travel album I had made at CKU. But most of her pictures were horizontal, blocky pictures of buildings that could not really be ( Read more... )

These are follow ups to redwink's baby album, posted here.

( 3 albums, lots of pictures )

Life is exhausting and busy right now. At work, I am busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest, as I keep saying. At home, I have not time to rest, since I am packing and moving boxes and calling contractors and visiting home improvement stores and worrying.

( swimming, packing, moving and another ticket! gr! )

This weekend I went camping at Wisconsin Dells with my brother and his son. Normally I hate camping but this was pretty nice [someone else doing all the work, ha ha]. I just don't enjoy sleeping on the hard ground wrapped in a blanket is all. The Dells are gorgeous and the campground was so nice. This picture shows exactly where we were camped. We ( Read more... )

So much lovely time off ( Read more... )

I am so damn busy today.

( quick weekend update, including a brief interlude of swearing; you've been warned )