Finally - time for me to come back to blog & let you know bits & pieces of what I've been up to. I've been playing with paper & this is the card I made for the monthly Tea Swap that Fran hosts. I love this swap not only for the tea that arrives, but for the challenge of making 1 card for 1 person. This month's theme was "Celebrations" & we were invited to use blue & silver. I love how this card turned out & included 2 English Breakfast tea bags for Becky in Indiana. I never sign my cards since I hope that they'll get to move along to someone else that might enjoy the visual gift that I'm trying to send.
I've also been working on a couple of swaps at Life on the {Scrap} Beach. The most recent one was a Valentine Card Swap. This card was completely inspired by the vintage image that I found online. I had to make 6 identical cards to send out to Belinda in Oregon & I'll get 6 different ones in return. This isn't one of the ones I sent, so it's not exactly the same, but it still relays the emotion that I was trying to capture & includes several of the elements.
We've been playing lots of Five Crowns. Our new friends, Sandy & Bob in California, introduced us to this game while we were all crossing the Atlantic Ocean together. Every afternoon we played from 1 - 4. When we got home Santa gave a deck to us & now we've introduced it to the girls. It's been so much fun.
I'm hoping to move my scraproom upstairs this month. Monday is a holiday & I've got some ideas that need to be put into action. We'll see how long it actually takes.
I'd love to blog more often, but can't make any promises. I don't have any trouble with the meandering thoughts. It's more the uploading of photos. I still don't have all of the ins & outs of our scanner figured out (evidenced by the extra white space around the cards above) ;-)
Happy New Year -- I'm certainly looking forward to 2012!
Aren't we all On the Fence about something? Is it this job or the next one? This hobby or another one? This meal or an alternate one? My blog is about the choices that I make. Sometimes it's as simple as "what did I cook" & sometimes as complicated as "where am I going on my next trip".... Come along with me & see which side of the fence I'm on.