Another Day, Another...
Whew, so it's Monday and the weekend is over. It was supposed to be unscheduled, relaxing time. It ended up being halfway scheduled, though we still managed to just chill a good part of the time.
A brief recap:
I had too many Margaritas at a birthday party on Friday night. Saturday night, we blew off the DMC and a rainy night at the Pavillions car show in favor of a nice dinner for two at our own Outback on Bell Road. On Sunday, we went out to eat with the client with whom I'm currently working (and who I really like a lot) and his girlfriend who was really cool. That was a good time. Earlier in the day, I'd been out to avoid football, I mean, to knit with the girls at Borders' cafe and had a really fun time.
I had to buy Ollie a coffee because she said that Maggs and I had been mean to her earlier in the week. Honestly, I don't think the woman gets it that we are compelled to be that way because that's who we are. We wouldn't pick on a stranger or someone we didn't love like we love our Ollie! Kim was a blast to be with as always, as were they all. I am more than ever convinced that Kim's supposed podman and angel boy (husband and son) are mere figments of a mind that spends way too much time knitting. We missed Mel but she had family in town which we can understand. It's always a good time with my Diva Girls. If I can't be with Dan, I want to be with my Divas. It's where I can really be me. I love them all. There were other knitters there too, one of whom we know from ages ago when we knitted there regularly. Dale wasn't there but I'm not used to him being at that place with us since he joined the Divas once we'd moved to the knit shop.
Anyway, another day, another dollar, right? There's work to be done and now that I've got my charms in Fed Ex (how you send them when you're really late!) and I've got my February pages done for the BookArtz monthly chunky page swap, I may get some real work done.
I have work in a deco nearly designed. It's a gorgeous book with the theme Inside Every Woman. I asked to work in it (from the abc_decos group) because I had an idea of what I wanted to do. Of course, when I opened the book, there was my idea done very nicely indeed on page one! I thought I'd show all the things a woman is to herself and others coming out of the top half of her head. I quickly re-thought that one. My fall-back idea is based on the saying that 'Every woman should be a lady in the drawing room and a harlot in the boudoir.' I thought I'd find a photo or drawing of a lady-like woman and put it in a frame that's hinged on one side and then put her in sexy lingerie on the other side. (Which reminds me to wonder why so many groups are interested in lingerie, especially corsets. I have no less than two groups with corset page swaps going on!)
Why am I so drawn to interactive books? I did a page with a door in it for my very first Chunky book last summer. My next one had to have at the very least stuff that was floppy or could be lifted. One upcoming swap for Chunky pages is on the theme Museums. Of course, since I love museums, I am doing two pages for it! One of them has already been mentally designed. It's the National Gallery in DC and I want to do the outside of the building with an inside wheel showing some of the contents in a window framed by the doorway. I have to measure a CD. Maybe I can use one for the wheel part.
Both of the spreads I've done for the Eiffel Tower Deco Round Robin from the BookArtz Yahoo group so far have been three dimensional ET popups from the Some Assembly Required die-cut kit. My pal, Joy from BookArtz, told me about it and once seen, I had to have it! Then of course, I had to have a Sizzix too! But I got that on sale 40% off at JoAnn's. The thing weighs a TON!
On the left is my spread in Sandi R's book. I really love what I did in this one. I ended up really liking what I did in Brigitte's book too (on the right), though I didn't at first. I ended up just working with it until I liked it. I think that's just part of working out the design. If I had it all worked out perfectly before I started putting it together, I would probably have zero interest in executing the idea!
Maybe I'll go do some real work now. And then later I might take a photo or two of my February pages to upload here.
Have a good one!
A brief recap:
I had too many Margaritas at a birthday party on Friday night. Saturday night, we blew off the DMC and a rainy night at the Pavillions car show in favor of a nice dinner for two at our own Outback on Bell Road. On Sunday, we went out to eat with the client with whom I'm currently working (and who I really like a lot) and his girlfriend who was really cool. That was a good time. Earlier in the day, I'd been out to avoid football, I mean, to knit with the girls at Borders' cafe and had a really fun time.
I had to buy Ollie a coffee because she said that Maggs and I had been mean to her earlier in the week. Honestly, I don't think the woman gets it that we are compelled to be that way because that's who we are. We wouldn't pick on a stranger or someone we didn't love like we love our Ollie! Kim was a blast to be with as always, as were they all. I am more than ever convinced that Kim's supposed podman and angel boy (husband and son) are mere figments of a mind that spends way too much time knitting. We missed Mel but she had family in town which we can understand. It's always a good time with my Diva Girls. If I can't be with Dan, I want to be with my Divas. It's where I can really be me. I love them all. There were other knitters there too, one of whom we know from ages ago when we knitted there regularly. Dale wasn't there but I'm not used to him being at that place with us since he joined the Divas once we'd moved to the knit shop.
Anyway, another day, another dollar, right? There's work to be done and now that I've got my charms in Fed Ex (how you send them when you're really late!) and I've got my February pages done for the BookArtz monthly chunky page swap, I may get some real work done.
I have work in a deco nearly designed. It's a gorgeous book with the theme Inside Every Woman. I asked to work in it (from the abc_decos group) because I had an idea of what I wanted to do. Of course, when I opened the book, there was my idea done very nicely indeed on page one! I thought I'd show all the things a woman is to herself and others coming out of the top half of her head. I quickly re-thought that one. My fall-back idea is based on the saying that 'Every woman should be a lady in the drawing room and a harlot in the boudoir.' I thought I'd find a photo or drawing of a lady-like woman and put it in a frame that's hinged on one side and then put her in sexy lingerie on the other side. (Which reminds me to wonder why so many groups are interested in lingerie, especially corsets. I have no less than two groups with corset page swaps going on!)
Why am I so drawn to interactive books? I did a page with a door in it for my very first Chunky book last summer. My next one had to have at the very least stuff that was floppy or could be lifted. One upcoming swap for Chunky pages is on the theme Museums. Of course, since I love museums, I am doing two pages for it! One of them has already been mentally designed. It's the National Gallery in DC and I want to do the outside of the building with an inside wheel showing some of the contents in a window framed by the doorway. I have to measure a CD. Maybe I can use one for the wheel part.Both of the spreads I've done for the Eiffel Tower Deco Round Robin from the BookArtz Yahoo group so far have been three dimensional ET popups from the Some Assembly Required die-cut kit. My pal, Joy from BookArtz, told me about it and once seen, I had to have it! Then of course, I had to have a Sizzix too! But I got that on sale 40% off at JoAnn's. The thing weighs a TON!
On the left is my spread in Sandi R's book. I really love what I did in this one. I ended up really liking what I did in Brigitte's book too (on the right), though I didn't at first. I ended up just working with it until I liked it. I think that's just part of working out the design. If I had it all worked out perfectly before I started putting it together, I would probably have zero interest in executing the idea!
Maybe I'll go do some real work now. And then later I might take a photo or two of my February pages to upload here.
Have a good one!
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