Credits: Scrap Snap#10 QP and Bumble Bee Breeze, Petite Collection - Designs by Anita (@ PickleberryPop); handwritten words - Mary Ann Wise (@ Two Peas in a Bucket)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
New Page
Yep, nothing to update except a new page that I did at work today. I don't usually use quick pages, but I won this one from Designs by Anita, following her on Facebook and her blog ** waving at Anita on the off-chance that she stops by! ROFL **
Credits: Scrap Snap#10 QP and Bumble Bee Breeze, Petite Collection - Designs by Anita (@ PickleberryPop); handwritten words - Mary Ann Wise (@ Two Peas in a Bucket)
Credits: Scrap Snap#10 QP and Bumble Bee Breeze, Petite Collection - Designs by Anita (@ PickleberryPop); handwritten words - Mary Ann Wise (@ Two Peas in a Bucket)
Monday, October 26, 2009
Busy Bee
Almost another month has passed and we're headed into what I call the "downhill run" to the end of the year. Halloween ... Thanksgiving ... Christmas ... New Year - and hello 2010! Can't believe another year will be ending soon - where has the time gone?
We're all pretty busy right now, hence the lack of posts here. DH is connecting with family members that he hasn't seen or heard from in literally 20 years or more ... and discovering a number of new cousins and extended family members. It's been great exchanging messages and photos ... and now we need to get to California and Michigan to catch up with everyone in person (hi Don, Marge, Caroline, Shelley, Linda, Eric, Tom - and Tom ... and all the kids!). DS is enjoying finding out about everyone, too.
Been busy over on FB - will need to add a link here, I guess. Yep, I bit the bullet and got an account ... and now I'm addicted (well, kinda ... not really ... yeah, okay) to Farmville. It's a silly game where you run your own farm, harvest crops, help out neighbors with their farms ... but still, a fun game.
Oh, the knee update ... quite funny, actually. The MRI results showed arthritis - knew that ... lateral disclocation of the knee cap - knew that, although the knee cap seems to be in a better position than we original thought ... and some minor tears of the meniscus - ouch, that means surgery to scope out the knee and clean everything up ... but thankfully, not now. AND, with all that, none of those 'conditions' had anything to do with my not being able to walk! LOL I had iliotibial striping (IT striping) ... an inflammed muscle on the outside of the knee, running up into the quad. Are you kidding me? The meniscus tear was having no impact, and yet a sore muscle had me pretty much disabled for 3-4 days? Oh boy. Good news is everything is back to "normal" now - such that "normal" is for me. LOL
Digi scrapping wise, done a few more pages since my last update ... here you go:
Credits: Fall Jamboree - Jen Allyson; Photocuts Masks #8 - Carina Gardner.
Credits: You Frame It 1-6, Fruit Salad kit, Basic Beige papers, and Temptations #9 template, Noted Element kit -- all Kate Teague.
Credits: The Basics - Drawn Frames, Best of Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Key Lime Pie -- all Kate Teague.
Credits: Deckled Curled Frame and Sticker Doubles - Mary Ann Wise; Fall for Me - Michelle Underwood; date stamp, Spot Color Collection - Jen Allyson; Font - journaling, Century Gothic; place names on photo, Dear Joe.
Credits: PhotoCuts Masks v.4 (modified) - Carina Gardner; Spot Color Date Stamp and Spot Color Word Rounds - Jen Allyson; Sticker Doubles wordart and Curled Photo Frames, Deckled - Mary Ann Wise.
... and for more detail, some close-ups of each page:
Credits: Children playing (recolored) and papers used in trees, August 365 kit, Crystal Wilkerson; hills (altered), March 365 Challenge kit, Crystal Wilkerson; Tree Farm Brushes, Kate Teague; Home Is Where The Heart Is, Sande Krieger; PhotoCuts v.8, Carina Gardiner. Fonts Century Gothic and Al Serenade.
We're all pretty busy right now, hence the lack of posts here. DH is connecting with family members that he hasn't seen or heard from in literally 20 years or more ... and discovering a number of new cousins and extended family members. It's been great exchanging messages and photos ... and now we need to get to California and Michigan to catch up with everyone in person (hi Don, Marge, Caroline, Shelley, Linda, Eric, Tom - and Tom ... and all the kids!). DS is enjoying finding out about everyone, too.
Been busy over on FB - will need to add a link here, I guess. Yep, I bit the bullet and got an account ... and now I'm addicted (well, kinda ... not really ... yeah, okay) to Farmville. It's a silly game where you run your own farm, harvest crops, help out neighbors with their farms ... but still, a fun game.
Oh, the knee update ... quite funny, actually. The MRI results showed arthritis - knew that ... lateral disclocation of the knee cap - knew that, although the knee cap seems to be in a better position than we original thought ... and some minor tears of the meniscus - ouch, that means surgery to scope out the knee and clean everything up ... but thankfully, not now. AND, with all that, none of those 'conditions' had anything to do with my not being able to walk! LOL I had iliotibial striping (IT striping) ... an inflammed muscle on the outside of the knee, running up into the quad. Are you kidding me? The meniscus tear was having no impact, and yet a sore muscle had me pretty much disabled for 3-4 days? Oh boy. Good news is everything is back to "normal" now - such that "normal" is for me. LOL
Digi scrapping wise, done a few more pages since my last update ... here you go:
Credits: Fall Jamboree - Jen Allyson; Photocuts Masks #8 - Carina Gardner.
Credits: You Frame It 1-6, Fruit Salad kit, Basic Beige papers, and Temptations #9 template, Noted Element kit -- all Kate Teague.
Credits: The Basics - Drawn Frames, Best of Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Key Lime Pie -- all Kate Teague.
Credits: Deckled Curled Frame and Sticker Doubles - Mary Ann Wise; Fall for Me - Michelle Underwood; date stamp, Spot Color Collection - Jen Allyson; Font - journaling, Century Gothic; place names on photo, Dear Joe.
Credits: PhotoCuts Masks v.4 (modified) - Carina Gardner; Spot Color Date Stamp and Spot Color Word Rounds - Jen Allyson; Sticker Doubles wordart and Curled Photo Frames, Deckled - Mary Ann Wise.
... and for more detail, some close-ups of each page:
Credits: Children playing (recolored) and papers used in trees, August 365 kit, Crystal Wilkerson; hills (altered), March 365 Challenge kit, Crystal Wilkerson; Tree Farm Brushes, Kate Teague; Home Is Where The Heart Is, Sande Krieger; PhotoCuts v.8, Carina Gardiner. Fonts Century Gothic and Al Serenade.Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Update
Visited the orthopedic doc yesterday, and he ordered a MRI of my knee ... had that done last night and will get the results tomorrow. Everything "seems" to be getting better, except that the knee if really tight and I don't have full flexibility back - yet. Doc is looking to see if there are any tears in or around the knee that could be causing the problem.
No scrappy updates for me - was home with a swollen leg yesterday, so my evening was Ibuprofen, heating pad, ice, and rest. *sigh*
No scrappy updates for me - was home with a swollen leg yesterday, so my evening was Ibuprofen, heating pad, ice, and rest. *sigh*
Sunday, October 4, 2009
On a Roll ...
Well, I WAS on a roll. Work has been going well - got a lot of projects finished recently, the 25th anniversary for our manager went well (although I put some pictures in her book that, um, weren't her - oops, my bad ... well, it LOOKED like her!), participated in Friday's online crop at Two Peas, and did a Boot Camp style workout at Curves yesterday morning ... and that's where it stopped. *sigh*
The workout yesterday was great. The instructors/staff pushed everyone through their paces, working the circuit hard, no rest. Felt GREAT after ... for a while. Then, yesterday afternoon, I noticed that my knee had stiffened up ... and now, I can hardly walk. Crap! I have a sideways dislocated kneecap (lateral patella dislocation), and have had for about two years. The orthopedic doctor doesn't want to due surgery as I am not crippled by the injury, plus he believes my recovery would be too long and painful (I need to lose some weight). So, I work within my limits ... usually. Sure, he says don't kneel, don't over extend or bend the leg back ... so I know gardening for a few hours will result in pain. But, Curves? I've been going there for about six months. Sure, this workout was a little more strenuous that usual ... but ... c'mon. Damned if I do ... damned if I don't. Need to get the weight off, but the more I exercise, the more my knee hurts?! In fact, that's how we think I injured the knee if the first place - exercising! "E" really is an evil word!!! LOL If things don't improve overnight, guess I'll be off to the doc tomorrow or Tuesdsay for xrays, just to make sure I haven't done further damage.
Maybe I was tired Saturday morning after Friday night's crop ... maybe that had something to do with it? Gen, Jen, Shimelle and Meredith ran a four-hour crop-fest of challenges, mini-challenges and games on Friday. For me, everything finished at midnight - and boy, was I exhausted or what?! Four pages in four hours. I usually like to take my time (although Gen will tell you that I take so long 'cause I redo all my pages). So, here's what I did:
For Gen's use all colors of the rainbow challenge - my goof-off bird. This guy was so funny. Each time I tried to take a picture, he would tilt his head sideways. In the end, I just gave up and took a photo:
Credits: Element-ary Inked Edges, Carina Gardner; Vacation Word Strips, Sande Krieger;
Round Brushes (modified), Rhonna Farrer.
Gen's challenge was the 9:00 pm one, the third one - and by then I was already playing catchup! LOL The 7:00 pm challenge was Meredith's All About Me challenge, and then at 8:00 pm, Shimelle's challenge was to do something with her new freebie digi kit I'm in Love. I generally don't scrap photos with me in it - I usually behind the camera, not in front of it, so I had a hard time actually finding a photo with me in it. I eventually found a family photo from a few years ago. And for the love challenge, I just had to do something with the puppy ...
Credits: Tons of Scallops template (modified), Crystal Wilkerson; papers and elements, Isabella Mini Kit and Extras, Erica Hernandez; Word Spot (recolored), Jen Allyson; Vignette, Sande Krieger; Curled Photo Frame, Mary Ann Wise; chipboard arrow (used as clipping mask), Anne Langpap.
Credits: papers and photo overlay, I'm In Love freebie, Shimelle Laine; Curled Photo Frame, Mary Ann Wise; Pet Wordart, Mary Ann Wise; Worn Frame, Mary Ann Wise; PhotoCuts Mask v.1, Carina Gardner; heart (recolored), Moments kit by Fei-Fei.
The last challenge of the night was from Jen M. and using one of her new Simple Scraps templates, available at Two Peas. Some of my non-digi friends seem to think that using a template is like a short-cut and makes things go must faster - just whip out a page. Well, maybe Gen has a point - I think things over too much ... it can take me longer to put together a template page vs. one I start from scratch! LOL I ended up using a picture of the outside of the National Museum in Canberra, Australia - I just loved how architectural the building was (okay, and the exhibits inside weren't too bad either):
Credits: Playground, Crystal Wilkerson; Simple Scraps Template #1, Jen Martakis; Brads, Sande Krieger
I've finished off a scrappy weekend by doing a page about my cousin today - he's only 13 years old, but he seems to have figured out how to pose for the camera. I joked with his Mum that we might have a model in the making. This is a challenge two-fer - the weekly 2Ps challenge to use B&W background and elements but a color photo, and then digi challenge to use the Hue & Saturation options in Photoshop to manipulate a photo, element, paper, etc.
Credits: Curled Photo Frames, Flourish Corners - Mary Ann Wise; Spot Color Date Stamps - Jen Allyson; Midnight Bloom (Garden Vignette Collection), PhotoCuts Masks Set #1, Clear Gel Alpha (Peony Place Collection) - Carina Gardner; file folder tab (recolored), Fall For Me - Michelle Underwood.
Dishes are calling, and maybe some cooking, too ... and a Tylenol or two for my knee. Later!
The workout yesterday was great. The instructors/staff pushed everyone through their paces, working the circuit hard, no rest. Felt GREAT after ... for a while. Then, yesterday afternoon, I noticed that my knee had stiffened up ... and now, I can hardly walk. Crap! I have a sideways dislocated kneecap (lateral patella dislocation), and have had for about two years. The orthopedic doctor doesn't want to due surgery as I am not crippled by the injury, plus he believes my recovery would be too long and painful (I need to lose some weight). So, I work within my limits ... usually. Sure, he says don't kneel, don't over extend or bend the leg back ... so I know gardening for a few hours will result in pain. But, Curves? I've been going there for about six months. Sure, this workout was a little more strenuous that usual ... but ... c'mon. Damned if I do ... damned if I don't. Need to get the weight off, but the more I exercise, the more my knee hurts?! In fact, that's how we think I injured the knee if the first place - exercising! "E" really is an evil word!!! LOL If things don't improve overnight, guess I'll be off to the doc tomorrow or Tuesdsay for xrays, just to make sure I haven't done further damage.
Maybe I was tired Saturday morning after Friday night's crop ... maybe that had something to do with it? Gen, Jen, Shimelle and Meredith ran a four-hour crop-fest of challenges, mini-challenges and games on Friday. For me, everything finished at midnight - and boy, was I exhausted or what?! Four pages in four hours. I usually like to take my time (although Gen will tell you that I take so long 'cause I redo all my pages). So, here's what I did:
For Gen's use all colors of the rainbow challenge - my goof-off bird. This guy was so funny. Each time I tried to take a picture, he would tilt his head sideways. In the end, I just gave up and took a photo:
Credits: Element-ary Inked Edges, Carina Gardner; Vacation Word Strips, Sande Krieger;Round Brushes (modified), Rhonna Farrer.
Gen's challenge was the 9:00 pm one, the third one - and by then I was already playing catchup! LOL The 7:00 pm challenge was Meredith's All About Me challenge, and then at 8:00 pm, Shimelle's challenge was to do something with her new freebie digi kit I'm in Love. I generally don't scrap photos with me in it - I usually behind the camera, not in front of it, so I had a hard time actually finding a photo with me in it. I eventually found a family photo from a few years ago. And for the love challenge, I just had to do something with the puppy ...
Credits: Tons of Scallops template (modified), Crystal Wilkerson; papers and elements, Isabella Mini Kit and Extras, Erica Hernandez; Word Spot (recolored), Jen Allyson; Vignette, Sande Krieger; Curled Photo Frame, Mary Ann Wise; chipboard arrow (used as clipping mask), Anne Langpap.
Credits: papers and photo overlay, I'm In Love freebie, Shimelle Laine; Curled Photo Frame, Mary Ann Wise; Pet Wordart, Mary Ann Wise; Worn Frame, Mary Ann Wise; PhotoCuts Mask v.1, Carina Gardner; heart (recolored), Moments kit by Fei-Fei.The last challenge of the night was from Jen M. and using one of her new Simple Scraps templates, available at Two Peas. Some of my non-digi friends seem to think that using a template is like a short-cut and makes things go must faster - just whip out a page. Well, maybe Gen has a point - I think things over too much ... it can take me longer to put together a template page vs. one I start from scratch! LOL I ended up using a picture of the outside of the National Museum in Canberra, Australia - I just loved how architectural the building was (okay, and the exhibits inside weren't too bad either):
Credits: Playground, Crystal Wilkerson; Simple Scraps Template #1, Jen Martakis; Brads, Sande KriegerI've finished off a scrappy weekend by doing a page about my cousin today - he's only 13 years old, but he seems to have figured out how to pose for the camera. I joked with his Mum that we might have a model in the making. This is a challenge two-fer - the weekly 2Ps challenge to use B&W background and elements but a color photo, and then digi challenge to use the Hue & Saturation options in Photoshop to manipulate a photo, element, paper, etc.
Credits: Curled Photo Frames, Flourish Corners - Mary Ann Wise; Spot Color Date Stamps - Jen Allyson; Midnight Bloom (Garden Vignette Collection), PhotoCuts Masks Set #1, Clear Gel Alpha (Peony Place Collection) - Carina Gardner; file folder tab (recolored), Fall For Me - Michelle Underwood.Dishes are calling, and maybe some cooking, too ... and a Tylenol or two for my knee. Later!
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