Monday, 14 November 2011

"Time Flies"

Within a day of publicly declaring I have not a scrap-happy bone left in my body, I developed an urge to create a new layout. Kinda figured that would happen.


This photo of Bree was taken via camera phone while we were on holiday in Taranaki a few weeks back. I loved the pic because Bree radiated with carefree laughter as she ran across the beach, and - if you squint really hard until you go a little cross-eyed - you can see this expression in the photo. It was a good moment. On an otherwise bleak bleak scrap of windswept Waitera beach.

The colours of the photo were edited to try and be all arty (and attempt to cover up the fact it's a bad pic taken on a low resolution camera phone that insisted on capturing the moment about 1.5 seconds after the moment had actually passed).  My real camera died on holiday and attempts to perform a zombie conversion on it have failed. Thank goodness we still have one working camera in the house  - thanks for doing a good job of taking care of your stuff Char!

The journalling says:

Run, laugh.  Throw yourself into life and hit the ground running.
Don't look back, unless it's to smile upon fond memories.
Time flies and quicker than you realise.
Soon you'll be all grown up and "too big" to run carefree and laughing.
Live in the moment and keep on smiling.

The papers and chipoboards alpha are 7 Gypsies.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

When the Get Up And Go has Got Up And Left

Don't you hate it when the well of scrappy inspiration dries up? This has been an issue for me over the past few weeks, and although I want to create a new page, I just can't get the creative gears in my head moving.
Short of chucking my brain in neutral and rolling it down a hill, attempts to jump start my inspiration have been attempted. And failed.

I've wandered through scrapblogs, thumbed through scrapbook magazines, flicked through the stacks of photos all printed out and awaiting a layout...  To no avail. My brain is dead.  Well, as far as scrapbooking is concerned anyway. (Actually, some might theorise that my brain is in fact dead, and it's only the electrical impulses from my nerves that keep my limbs moving.)

Though in saying all of this, I did finally finish a page for Bree's Kindy Portfolio this morning that I have been 'getting around to' for two or so months now. It was a forced effort and in the end I was sticking all the pieces down while I sat on the lounge floor with Bree climbing my shoulders and sliding down my back and Indie wiggling his way on to my lap every other minute. Things get messy in such circumstances. In particular; my handwriting. But, at least it's done...



Anyway, on to other things... Here's a long rambling question:

Do you find yourself printing out photos for several layouts that you want to make at once, then re-delegating them all to the 'actually I can't be bothered with that one right now, I feel like creating a different layout instead' pile? And then printing out entirely new ones??

This is another of my dilemmas. Maybe I need to start buying some normal photo albums, because I have a massive massive load of photos still sitting in their photolab folders and awaiting their scrap pages. Several are of the same photo but in a variety of sizes or with a variety of photoshop enhancement applied to them. It's a Things To Do List that just keeps growing.
  'Hmm. I'm not happy with this one as a 6x4 in sepia after all. I might cross-process it and a couple of others from that day, reduce their size and do another multi-photo layout.' 

 and then, two days later..
'I don't feel like doing this page at all any more. It's sunny today and I feel like creating something with a more summery theme. I have some beach photos printed already, but they're not the right size for what I have in mind. I'll need to print off fresh photos...'

This is less about having the right photo, and more about me stalling because the get up and go has simply got up and left.

Oh well, now that the Kindy portfolio page is off my shoulders, perhaps I'll get on with a new project tonight?

... That is, if I can decide on the right photos... ;)

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