Design Your Life: Week 9

Week 9 in my Design Your Life scrapbooking class was focused on elements of design, specifically line and shape.

Layout 1: The End of the Line


I needed to revise this template a little to fit the story I wanted to tell. And that story? That's the one I was reminded of at Cheeseburger Night last week and realized that was one of our family's travel stories and it wasn't recorded in my scrapbooks. Now it is! I didn't have photos from the specific incident from the story, so I downloaded a picture of the guitar from the internet and posted the pictures I did have from the trip and called it good. I got the most recounted story from the trip told, and got the photos scrapped too. I call that good.






Journaling Reads:
In March 2003, for spring break during my freshman year of college, Jenny and I went to Cancun for a few days. Everywhere we told our hotel staff we wanted to go, they’d point one direction or the other and say “five minutes by bus”. The first night we got on the bus and headed to the Hard Rock Cafe. We knew it wasn’t far, and we knew it had a huge electric guitar out front, so we couldn’t miss it. Except we rode, and we rode, and we rode...no electric guitar. By this time it’s getting dark, the bus is getting empty except for us and the driver, and we’re getting out of the touristy area of Cancun. Finally, the bus driver pulls up next to a curb on a dark street in downtown Cancun, opens the door, and says “off the bus!”. What?! “You have to get off the bus now!” It was the end of the line. We’d ridden the bus to the end of the line. We managed to interpret from his broken English that if we crossed the street and waited, there would be another bus coming that would take us back to the resorts. So we huddled under the lone streetlight until that bus came, jumped on it, and rode it straight back to our hotel, where we happily ate supper at the hotel restaurant. We did make it to the Hard Rock the next night, about a five-minute bus ride right down from our hotel.

Layout 2: Tiff's Wedding


Since this template included a lot of pictures and a spot for journaling, I used it to create a few different two-page spreads from one of my last events from 2009 to scrap: Tiff's Wedding.






Layout 2b: The Ceremony - Otherwise Known as - My Dad with a Camera







Journaling Reads:
So I gave my dad a quick mini lesson on my camera, sent him to his seat (or so I thought), and went back to the room to wait for our cue.

That bathroom picture is the first picture he took. Just trying to document all the details I guess. Thankfully, that is the only
bathroom-related picture of the day.

The next picture he took was of my cute husband doing his job as an usher. Not bad, Dad, not bad. Nice composition.

Then you can see Norm escorting Jenny to her seat (ALONE) and the odd looks my dad was getting from the guests in the pews. Then you can see Kim, Matt's sister, who walked out just before I did. At this point, I had just walked out where I could see into the sanctuary. This is when Norm says, "did you see your dad? He's taking pictures". I said, "oh, good". Waiting for Kim to get halfway down the aisle when the church-lady will cue me to go. Norm says, "no, he's STANDING UP AT THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH taking pictures". WHAT?! Craaaaappp. Norm and I both motion to him through the glass to sit down. He's not getting it. It's almost my turn. We both start doing the "throat slash" motion. "Stop! Sit Down!". We're hoping he can read lips. Finally he gets it.

The picture to the right is the next picture he took. Craaaapppp again. I took my camera back for the reception (well, most of it).

Layout 2c: The Party






Journaling Reads:
Every wedding has its drama and Tiff and Matt’s was no exception. We found out during the rehearsal that Jeremy was taken to the hospital with severe stomach pains. He had his appendix removed around midnight the night before the wedding. Rodney and Cheryl spent several hours that night calling anyone they could think of, and eventually lined up another singer. However, Jeremy was released from the hospital around noon on Saturday, his band called the new singer and told him he wouldn’t be needed, and the show went on. They’re a great band and we’d heard a little of their stuff at Jeremy and Mary’s wedding, but it was so cool to see them do their thing knowing what had happened just the night before. Awesome.

Layout 3 Real World Color: Tiff's Shower


The colors chosen for this week's Real World Color assignment were pretty blue-greens, orange, black, and white. I'm so close to being done scrapbooking 2009 but I hadn't scrapped Tiff's personal shower, so I just picked my one favorite picture, converted it to black and white (those bottles in the bottom of the picture were red), typed a short bit of journaling, and called it good.


Journaling Reads:
Jean and Jessica hosted a fun personal shower for Tiff at their house. It was a fun afternoon of family, friends, food, and of course a lot of laughter. November 14, 2009

You Know You Grew Up in...

I've been seeing these on Katie the Scrapbook Lady's blog this week, and I couldn't help but play along.

You Know You Grew Up In The 80's if:

• You watched the Pound Puppies (I don't ever remember watching the show, but I had a bunch of the little Puppies).
• Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts (all in bright colors!).
• You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own (I remember reading the books and wishing we lived in town so I could be a baby-sitter).
• You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
• You wore a ponytail on the side of your head (see evidence below).
• You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side (I so wore those!).
• You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House) (Remember? The folded paper game? It was the bomb!).
• You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
• You ever wore fluorescent clothing (check out the socks in the picture below!).
• You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes (and they hurt my feet every day).
• You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates (I lived in the country so we didn't go often, but I broke my wrist at Lia's little sister's Brownie party at the skating rink when I was in 6th grade).
• You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
• You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks (Ha! Pink high top Punky Brewster Reeboks!).
• You wore socks scrunched down (see photo below).
• You remember Alf.
• You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool (I had their tapes, a sleeping bag, sheets, and a blanket...oh yes, I did).
• You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
• You just sang those words to yourself.
• Homemade Levi shorts (the shorter the better) (I'm pretty sure when I cut off my own they had about a 1" inseam).
• You tight rolled your jeans.

Check out my cute hubby in 1988. Does anyone think his feet look abnormally small compared to his ginormous head?

You Know You Grew Up in the 90's if:
• You can finish the phrase "Ice Ice..."
• Talk to the hand... enough said.
• You rented VHS tapes at the video store (not so much the video store, but the old gas station at Centennial - 41 and CR 800).
• You had a strong opinion in the whole Tanya Harding versus Nancy Kerrigan thing.
• You watched the OJ Simpson Bronco chase live on TV (we were at a cookout in Lafayette at one of Mom and John’s friends' house - weird that I remember that, I can’t remember anything!).
• You watched the OJ Simpson trial live on TV.
• You know who Urkel is.
• You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton.
• You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom (he annoyed me, but he was too cute).
• You owned flannel shirts (many!).
• You did the Macarena.
• Disney classic animation movies were back (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid).
• You or a girl you knew had the "Rachel" haircut.
• You had a Tamagotchi or a Furby (I think my Furby was pink).
• You used to watch DuckTales or Power Rangers after school (Duck Tales and a cereal snack at Grandma’s!).
• You owned a pair of overalls, and not because you were from the country (that picture also involved pigtails and was too embarrassing).
• Cell phones were brick shaped (haha, Dad had his bag phone forever!).
• You loved the line "I'll be back!"
• You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE!
• You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets (I had a bunch).
• You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence (not really, but I said it way too often).
• You remember when Michael Jordan played baseball (barely, was that for like 5 minutes?).
• Thursday night on NBC really was "Must See TV" (Seinfeld, Friends).
• You remember the first time you logged onto the internet using an AOL disk.

Friday Gratitudes

1. So thankful for my amazing husband who took care of me all last weekend when I was sick.


2. I’m grateful for Halls Breezers strawberry cough drops. Saved my life last weekend, and are oh so good.


3. SUPER excited about some house stuff that went on this week…now we wait, and wait, and wait for a few more months.


4. Very thankful for my father-in-law who gives good advice and asks the right questions.


5. Wednesday I was grateful for downloadable Norton Antivirus. Gave me much peace of mind after a weird email issue Wednesday morning.


6. I’m grateful for a fun night at Cheeseburger Night last night with both of our parents.


7. I’m thankful for stories. Last night was the second Cheeseburger Night in a row that I came home with little scraps of my placemat scribbled with family story ideas I was reminded of during supper. The scrapbook page I made from last week’s story will be posted sometime this weekend.


8. I’m excited about what’s looking like a sunny warm weekend coming up.


9. I’m excited about a new show on tonight (NBC, 8:00ET) called “Who Do You Think You Are?”. It’s a family history/genealogy type show about different celebrities trying to trace their family roots. Love family history stories.


10. I’m thankful it’s Friday!!!!

And because no post should be without a picture, here's a little sneak peek of the story I was reminded of last week at Cheesebuger Night. Jenny and I's 2003 spring break to Cancun (and Senor Frog's). Oh my.