6 posts tagged “scrapbooking”

Reason No. 429 that I should not have drinks in my workspace:  I just spilled a glass of water all over about $20 worth of scrapbooking supplies and some pictures I was planning on using.  Dammit.

In good news though, I have been using Open Office to do most of my titles and text boxes when I scrapbook.  The version I have is totally free and it looks like the MS Office -compatible version is CHEAP!  And it seems to do some things that office can't, like type text in a circular text box... and actually have the text format itself into a circular shape instead of a square box of text inside a circle!  (I could do that myself, thanks!) 

I was just going to say that those two things don't go together, but I guess one could facilitate the other.  EWWWW.

Anyhoo, I'm working on a family tree in a box project, just for something to do.  I got to looking through the research I did on my dad's side of the family a couple of years back, and then realized that I have nothing on my mom's side.  My mom's side has a long history in the US - I'm a direct descendant of Roger Williams (and the genealogy stuff my cousin sent suggests we are also Mayflower descendants, but I haven't had time to figure out how, yet).

But, OY!  The inbreeding!  OMG.  Husbands and wives who are first cousins (two different sets).  Two sets of families where the children are first cousins on one side and second cousins on the other (Tanners marrying Tanners and a particularly confusing Colgrove/Bailey/Tanner mess).  I'm not all the way through the tree yet, or I'd be able to tell which set of inbreds I'm descended from.  I'm still working my way through my mom's mom's dad's side of the family - I'm still dealing with people who lived, married and died in Rhode Island before the revolutionary war.

The only other major research I'll end up doing is to follow up on my Grandpa's (mom's dad) claims of a tie-in to the Hatfield and McCoys.  His family is in the right part of West Virginia, which would be Hatfield territory (or, the "Fancy Hillbillies", as Amy so thoughtfully pointed out) at the right time, I'm just not seeing names from my maternal Grandpa's side.  What I am seeing, which is scaring the hell out of me, are an awful lot of my last name (which I won't mention here).  Which means:  my dad's side may be related to my mom's dad's side.  UGH.

No wonder my family is so fucked up, LOL.

Once I get my dad's side into the software I'm using (which has a handy-dandy relationship calculator - so that you don't have to know the difference between first cousins once removed and 5th cousins), I think I'll make a complete companion book to go along with the scrapbooking project and get Kinkos to bind it up real nice like.  My dad wants to go out and see his Aunts at Christmas - his Aunt Ruthie (my grandma's sister) has done a ton of genealogy work over the years.  Hopefully she'll let me copy what she has. :)

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Now to the evaporative cooling part... 

I already have a low body temperature because of my thyroid problems (my temperature is usually between 95.5 and 97 degrees, which makes convincing my doctor that I'm running a fever interesting).  That means I'm in a constant state of Stage 1 Hypothermia, which is why I live here in Hell (a.k.a. Phoenix).

When I got back from the gym last night I was unusually cold.  I attributed that to having just eaten, but then Greg said that when he went to kiss me goodbye, my lips and face were actually cold also, which he said has never happened in our 9+ years together.  So we took my temperature - 94.6 degrees.  Stage 2 Hypothermia!  Woooo?

After a bath hot enough to boil pasta (it was fabulous), some sweatpants, turning the air conditioner off, and a pot of hot tea, I was feeling much more comfortable.

So, my question is this...  If the average high temperature in Phoenix in January is 65 degrees, am I going to need to run in a parka during the half-marathon?  There is going to have to be some serious layer planning - the idea of something wicking away all my sweat and making me cold is really not sounding appealing to me.  Who wants to meet me at the finish line with a dry change of clothes?  :D

Thankfully, the gym has been fine this week, and other than the freezing to death inside my 80-degree house nonsense, I've been feeling great.  I'm in the process of eating a metric ton of food right now so I can do my long run this afternoon.  I'll have a huge-ass bottle of Gatorade along for the fun as well.

Fall and winter are times of the year when I like to hole up in the Scrapcave^TM and create...  things.

Just after our annual jaunt to the Scrapbook Convention and vendor faire (which will probably be my last visit, because it sucked this year) the Scrapcave^TM has usually reached maximum capacity and a through cleaning is needed.

I'm procrastinating in doing some work from home, so seems like a good idea this morning...as per usual during these cleaning adventures, I'm mortified.  Do I need copies of Creating Keepsakes from 2002? No.  Do I need unused class packets from three scrapbook conventions ago.  No!  Do I need to hang on to this paper that I haven't used in 5 years?  NO!

And if I ever buy another stamp set with flowers on it, I want someone to kick my ass.  Seriously.  In my defense, I used to sell Stampin' Up! stuff...  But do I need twenty-fucking-one sets of stamps with flowers on them?!  Say it with me, FUCK NO!

Thank god for Ebay.

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Update:  I just found a picture of me playing golf at my former weight (this was from summer of 2005).  OH MAH GAWD.  WHO LET ME OUT OF THE FUCKING HOUSE LOOKING LIKE THIS?!?!?!

and....

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

<runs to hang picture on freezer so that the next time I "need" ice cream I can give this picture a good look first>

Hi, my name is Kacy, and I'm a scrapbook paper hoarder/whore.  If there is a 12-step program for scrapbookers, I want to stay the hell AWAY from it.  ;)

Ok, so I'm thumbing through the October 2006 issue of Creating Keepsakes when I stumble into this ad.

I MUST HAVE THIS PAPER (Far East).  Awesome ad, by the way. 

Die Cuts with a View does not sell this from their website (hi, 1999 called and it wants to tell you about this exciting new thing called an Online Shopping Cart), and the only place where I can find this online is Archivers (the wet dream of scrapbookers everywhere...  I've yet to meet someone who has been there, but I hear its something akin to the Promised Land).  And they are already out of stock of the 12 X 12!  ARGH.

HELLO?  Why does the most awesomist scrapbooking store ever not have a backorder feature?!  You know, so like you could, I dunno, gauge how much extra demand there is for a product, and then, like, order enough to satisfy the backorder peeps, plus enough extra to sell on your website?

Its times like this where I really, really miss my Dealer.  Yes, <sniffle>, I used to have a scrapbook dealer down the street that would not only call me when new stuff came in, but she would save me phat loot that she knew I'd like because I spent a lot of money there.  I bet she would score that paper for me... 

OMG!  I just signed up for CraftMemo.

It would take me weeks... ok, maybe months, to inventory all my crap, but...  I'd never buy a second copy of a scrapbooking book I already own!  I'd know how much of that blue yarn I had left in my yarn bin! (with internet access).  There is no way in hell I'm going to attempt to inventory all my paper or brads... but my stamp sets, stamp pads, the brand of my paper cutter if I needed a new blade, what sizes of knitting needles I already own, do I need more adhesive?!  The possibilities!!

Hmmm.  I should probably get cracking, and I'll need to bring my laptop to the scrapbook convention.

I wonder if craftzine is any good (via The Greg^TM)

[09:31] Heathen: so scrapbooking
[09:31] Heathen: whats that alla bout?
[09:31] Kacy: oh lord.
[09:31] Kacy: It would take me DAYS
[09:31] Kacy: http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com
[09:32] Heathen: sounds like stuff I would do to occupy my time while tweaking lol
[09:36] Heathen: ugh some of these are so sappy I wanna throw up
[09:36] Kacy: oh mah gawd, I know.
[09:36] Kacy: Mine aren't like that, you know, because I don't have feelings.
[09:36] Heathen: LMAO

Scrapbooking = tweak. Maybe they coat the paper with it?  ;)