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Added a couple more today :) The first is when my workplace (Belmont U) hosted one of the 2008 presidential debates. It was CRAZY.
Then there was my 9th grade sports teams. This one made me insane - who knew I had so few sporty digi-elements?!
It also really got me really thinking about how we choose to spend our time . . . and the skills that culture as a whole values in others, and the pressure we put on kids . . .
I've actually been doing a bit of digi-scrapping! Well, kind of. When I started checking out the new Facebook timeline, I realized it's the perfect opportunity to put my Photoshop skills to good use. (To everyone who has resisted learning Photoshop: suckers.)
So here are the images I've made thus far to represent my life events. (I magically guesstimated the size fairly well - I've been using 11x4 canvases.)
Pretty good summary of my life thus far, I think. :) There will be more to come, I just need to scan more pictures!
When I rearranged my living room earlier in the year (we went from a couch to two armchairs and a loveseat), keeping the remotes in once place became a huge problem. There just wasn't a place for them anymore. After living with this configuration for a while, I realized that I need a place not just for the remotes, but for my phone and for the pencils I'm always reaching for (and losing) while I'm reading. I spend a lot of time in my comfy reading chair.
Ok, I'm back with a super-easy gift.
The ladies who I buy coffee from every morning at my university mentioned this morning about not getting to attend the yearly staff Christmas breakfast -they're not technically university staff since they work for our food contractor. And the food contractor didn't do anything for them for Christmas, so I wanted to make them feel loved.
My mom saves plastic food packaging, and these originally had turkey in them. (We washed them in the dishwasher, don't worry LOL.) They now each have bakery treats inside, which I know these two ladies love. I grabbed some double-sided Christmas scrapbooking cardstock, and I eyeballed the size I would need to make a card (don't underestimate pencil hashmarks! Hold the paper up to find the size, mark it and make a cut, see how close you are. Just make it twice as tall as needed and fold it in half for a card.)
Since the inside of the paper I liked was dark green, I grabbed an index card for a message surface (I have index cards sitting around EVERYWHERE) and just marked with a pencil where I should cut it for the inside. Then double-sided taped the cards to the plastic lids, and tied with a ribbon. I think this took me 10 minutes total.
It's a small gesture, and so easy. Who in your life needs to know that YOU appreciate THEM? Get them something simple and make it pretty :)
When I was in 6th or 7th grade, my mom sent me to school with some cross-stitched Christmas ornaments for my teachers. I was in the library all the time, so I had one for the librarian, too - when I gave it to her, she got tears in her eyes. She said she'd never gotten a present from a student before! This made me kind of sad, since she dealt with hundreds of students! So when I do Christmas gifts, I include the front office ladies, the librarian, the music and art teachers, etc. I made 10 of these bags - I bought 5 different kinds of Christmas candy - like York Peppermint Patties, Nestle Crunch Bells, etc - and divided them into 10 piles. Then I threw them into paper lunch bags, folded them down, and stapled these tops to them.
I made this 2 or 3 years ago, and somehow never put it on the blog. Not sure why I didn't get around to it. Altering an advent calendar is a popular thing for us crafty people to do, so I don't in any way claim this as my original idea LOL. Here's a grainy cell phone picture for some context of size and how I display it with the rest of my Christmas stuff (it's on the left, behind the snowman.)
We don't use it to count days or anything, just as a decoration. :)
