I give you both a hundred congratulations on your engagement and I give you a hundred well wishes on your imminent wedding 🙂
… what I want …
My essay for this week is done, only three more to go! yeah!
Totally inspired by this layout by MG – The easiest kind
I have been doing some thinking, well actually I am always thinking in fact my brain feels like it is going 200km/hr most of the time making connections between things and thoughts, you know the six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing? that is what my thought process is like. I think of one thing that makes me think of one thing and suddenly I am no where near where I started off 🙂
One day I would love to find a phrase I have penned in a big important book of quotes, because that would rock 🙂
the ‘goats
Work, write, work, study, write, write, write, eat and create. I needed to take a break from writing so thought a little time spent creating would be just right 🙂 All the supplies bar the fonts are TracyAnn of course!
4 new layouts
2 paper, 2 digital and I can tell you that each paper layout is becoming harder and harder to do but I want/need to use up some of this stuff that adorns my desk.
The Mountain Goats are in town tonight and are playing at The Zoo and of course I am going 😀
Ok the first one is the one I did at Ali‘s house the other night (she has also posted her pics of our day out and I strongly recommend you go over there and check them out). The next one is from out trip to Tasmania back in the summer. The third one is that I started a while ago but never quite finished.
This one started out as a paper layout but I just couldn’t get it work how I wanted it to so I hopped on the computer and did it instead, it is a double pager. I really love how it turned out 🙂
the present day
You know how there is some things you just can’t get enough of? Well Tracy’s designs are one of those things, they always put me in a mood to scrap or just put a smile on my face when I see something using her designs.
You might just be sick of this photo because I used it on the post from 3 days ago but that is life 🙂
I am sitting here chatting to Ms Ali who I actually also visited with this arvo 🙂 Going through lecture notes preparing for exams and trying to think about a design for a birthday card 🙂
one desk, many purposes
First off, I want to thank you all for your comments on my last post, and I know there are many more blog birthdays coming up soon, so I want to see some more celebrations.
This is where I work, bludge, create, procrastinate, study, you know the usual.
If you click on the photo to view it at Flickr you can see all the little notes I have added to the picture.
This desk and shelves was a present from my ex-boyfriend for Christmas 2004, it allowed me to open up my room to have more space in as I previously had a desk and the old kitchen table in my room just to give me the workspace I wanted, it was cramped to say the least.
This is one big desk it is 2.6 long and 0.9m deep, computer gear at one end, creative space down the other end and uni stuff bang in the middle.
Due to the length, I can sit at the creative end whilst Mum is using the computer or I can sit on the desk and crochet whilst dangling my legs over the side. I love my desk.
The main feature are the two units designed for 8.5×11 paper and 12×12 paper respectively, they each have shelves that can be pulled out and re-arranged as needed. Like many scrapbookers, how I store my paper is a big factor in dictating how I use the paper, storing by company has never really worked for me as it never made sense, colour on the other hand is a much more Helen friendly method.
Arrangement 1 – cardstock on a shelf by colour in the 8.5×11 unit and paper on the neighbouring shelf in the 12×12 unit, with the extra shelves housing stickers, rub-ons etc. This was nice however it was difficult to flick through the shelves and I was collecting more 12×12 cardstock, which had no where to live.
Arrangement 2 – Pull out almost all the shelves in the 8.5×11 unit and arrange the cardstock (8.5×11 and 12×12) by colour standing vertically. Since I don’t have 9″ worth of cardstock the extra space was filled with my favourite idea books. This was much better except I wasn’t using much patterned paper now.
Arrangement 3 – Need to use more patterned paper, so pull all the patterned paper off their shelves and insert beside cardstock in 8.5×11 unit, much nicer and easier to deal with. Helen is now happy, but what about that space where the 12×12 paper used to be? Now filled up the idea books from the 8.5×11 unit, binder of UM stamps, box of paper scraps, photos etc. So much more practical.
Just a little insight into a portion of the 10.8m2 space which I like to call my room.