introspective

It's been a very introspective summer and that is a good thing.  It has also involved lots of crafting too ~ another good thing!

Currently I've been participating in Big Picture's Big Idea Festival which provides a daily one-word prompt for 12 days!  It has sent me scrambling for photos as well as for supplies but it has been a lot of fun!  I love Big Picture classes and this one is free so that's great as well!

I bought the class' products which included this great 6x5.5 inches (chipboard) mini-album.  I've never worked on an album and my scrapbook pages are always 12X12.  It's been an interesting challenge trying to squeeze my response to every prompt onto a 6x5.5 page or two!  On this particular layout, I used scrap Moda fabric and the scraps were from the first aprons I ever made.  I even sewed the fabric onto the chipboard, something I have never done before, but I used a "jean" needle on the machine so it didn't even squawk!  Today's word is "nesting" so I'm busy planning my next layout in my head.

In this class, I "met" Karla who is test-trying a new product, My Memories, made by Polaroid.  She's made some wonderful layouts which she has posted on her blog using this product.

I am interested in this product because of my experience with test-trying Photoshop Elements 9 on my iMac in June.  I was curious about Elements because I wanted to do hybrid scrapbooking or, if I really liked it, full digital scrapbooking.  Needless to say, many hours later, I gave up on trying to teach myself Elements on a Mac (as the product is obviously geared towards PC users).  Karla's blog is featuring a My Memories give-away in case you are interested in learning about this program and/or, if the winner, testing it out yourself!  Good luck!

which elderly person would you want to be?

This evening was 10% Tuesday which occurs on the first Tuesday of each calendar month.  My dh considers 10% Tuesday as almost a religious experience.

This evening my dh raced off with the cellphone and the school supply list to Walmart to purchase the majority of the girls' school supplies.  He phoned me to consult regarding the supplies.  Frequently.  After an hour of regular phone calls, the phone rang again.  Presuming it was my dh who had just phoned minutes earlier, I answered the phone in a serious tone without the typical "hello" greeting:

"If you phone again, I'm going to contact the police and tell them that you are harassing me".

The other end of the line was silent.  I then heard my dh's elderly mother (in her 80s) hesitantly reply, "Uh, Maureen?  Are you still bringing the girls over tomorrow"?

.....

My strapping late 40s year old dh returned home from shopping at Walmart & Safeway.  He had placed a 10 kg bag of flour on the bottom of the cart to wheel it to the cashier.  When he arrived at the cashier, he mentioned that he had the flour in the bottom of the cart and expected that she'd have some sort of wireless scanner to scan the price in or that she'd just code it to determine the price owed.  Instead, the 20-something (female) cashier walked around the counter to the cart, removed the flour and placed it on the counter to scan it.  My dh embarrassedly said to the effect, "if I had known that you needed it on the cashier stand, I would have picked it up for you!" to which she replied, "It's okay.  It wasn't heavy".