The weather here this past week was so bitterly cold! For 4 days straight the temperature was -30 degrees Celsius, with the windchill it reached the -40's!! The coldest day time temperature was -44 degrees Celsius! During the day! I don't even want to know the overnight temperatures! Are you kidding me?? They warned on the news that exposed skin would freeze within 2 minutes! Needless to say we didn't leave the house too much! We bundled up, cuddled under blankets and tried to stay warm. We get weather like this at least once a year but it's always like the first time each time it happens. Brrrr.
Page one: I decided to add in some sticker & chipboard words this week. I was needing to embellish and this did the trick.
We went to the Pet Expo on Saturday and I wanted to include the brochure. I placed it in a 8x8 page protector, trimmed off the excess and sewed it up with my machine. I also used a card collector page protector for a bunch of Pet Expo pictures.
On the reverse side of the Pet Expo pictures I placed a group of Mumbo Jumbo pictures and notes. I am the only mom there taking photos each week, they probably think I'm crazy but someday they'll wish they had more photos.
This is Anna's craft from Mumbo Jumbo. It was oversize so I created another custom page protector. I placed the art in a 12x12 page protector, trimmed off the excess and sewed up the opening. Perfect.
Page 2: I wanted to include the story about our little car crash and decided to journal right on the picture. I like how it turned out. No worries, everyone is all okay and hopefully the quote to fix it won't be outrageous.
6 comments:
I just love it when I remember to write down those cute things they say. We think we're going to remember them forever, and we just don't. So good to write it down! Loving your pages!
Nadine, I love the idea of sewing up the page protectors. Do you use a regular sewing machine or a specialized scrapbooking one. I have the scrapbook sewing machine and I am not really a fan of it, but I also have a regular sewing machine and was wondering if I could use that to sew pages and protectors.
Thanks
Tash,
I use a regular sewing machine and a straight stitch. It works great! I would probably use a zigzag one if I knew how to change it because I like the look.
Nadine
I like the "favorite thing" idea - they change so fast, huh? I also like how you use the bigger slots for journaling cards and print more smaller pictures. So fun to see what others are doing!
So awed by the tempetatures you are enduring, so hope you can keep warm, hope your car is ok, absolutely love the mumbo jumbo and think i took hundreds of photo's weekly for ages and then got a mobile ph with camera...and its just not quite the same as prints... we think it's cold here if it's minus anything...it's rainy and drizzling and the trees in the park are looking spooky today...a few days ago it was sunny i havr a wordpress at www.wollypark.wordpress.com (soz to put the info here, but there are uk winter park pics) stay happy dont get cabin fever till winter is over i love the pinboards...mine only have a few pins...a link is on the blog
Love your pages! I also love using the alphabet stickers to add simple words to my pages. Love the coffee cup w/the word "relax".
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