Episode #2 Give Me a Shove

Well, episode #2 finally made it to the podcast. I talk a bit about the technical difficulties I've had with the podcast, as well as about what's new with me. I also discuss my tendency to scrapbook the way I program. I like to look for a book, magazine, or sketch to give me a shove in the right direction and get me started.

The book I mentioned in the podcast is "The Joy of Scrapbooking" by Kerry Arquette, Andrea Zocchi, and Darlene D'Agostino.

And of course, as promised, here's the cute enormous buttons I picked up at the store. They are manufactured by Blumenthal Lansing Company. I so can't wait to use them!

Cadillac Tent

Camping has always been a big thing in my family. We camped alot when I was a kid. Most of it was RV camping, though I did camp a handful of times in a tent. When Hubby and I got married, I knew I wanted to go camping. I also knew an RV was WAY out of the picture for is. It was tenting or nothing. I created a layout to chronicle our first camping trip, with our new tent....our HUGE new tent.

Cadillac Tent is so named, because it's ENORMOUS. Hubby can fully stand up in the center of that thing. It was more like a house than a tent. (Well, except for the canvass walls.)

My color and cardstock choices were practically primary colors. Camping like this just seemed all retro to me. So I went with colors that screamed 70s to me. The buttons were kinda wooden-looking to me, which made me think of trees. We were camping in the woods, after all.

Supplies: I believe the cardstock is all DCWV. The buttons...are buttons. The dragonfly punch was a Whale punch. Circles were punched from a Marvy Giga punch (I love that thing). The alphas are foam Thickers, which I then covered liberally with Stickles. It came out with a neat effect, but took a very long time to dry. I had to hide the layout in a plastic box to protect it from cats bent on making a mess.

Episde #1 Start At the Very Beginning

I've done it! I've started a podcast! (And it really worked this time!)

So this is episode #1. As such, it's really an introduction to the world. I talk about my interests...my pets...and why I love to scrapbook. My goal for this podcast is to produce a new episode every few weeks, and to chat about the ins and outs of scrapbooking, and why we love it so much.

Hope you all come along for the ride! (and hope the technical parts are way less bumpy than they've been so far. Whew!)

Technical Difficulties

I've been absent due to some technical difficulties. (Ok, that, and I've been on vacation.)

I'm trying to set up a podcast. I think it'll be alot of fun. I want to use this blog to hold the all important show notes, as well as my normal fun scrapbooking posts. However, I've been having trouble setting that all up. Recording was a breeze. Figuring out the ins and outs of hosting sites and getting the file into iTunes...that's been a bear. In classic Noelle form, I bought several books. (Got a good deal on the one. A Borders employee handed me a coupon sheet, with one that was $10 off 1 computer book. Made my $25 book $15 instead. Not bad.)

Anyways...so the podcast show notes post for Episode one, keeps appearing and disappearing, as I monkey with the whole setup. Don't mind me...I'll let you know when I've finally got this thing licked! I'm a programmer by trade, after all. This can't be THAT hard. (bangs head on desk)

Four Generations

I did the above photo tonight. My grandma passed away last week. I was tasked with going through albums and gathering photos of her for the funeral home. They made them into a photo collage DVD that was played during the calling hours. So while selecting and scanning, I came across this photo that I'd never seen before. My grandpa apparently took it.

This picture struck me for 2 reasons: First, I knew my great-grandma had died when I was about a year old, but I'd never seen a picture of her and I together before. (I am the baby, in case you couldn't tell.) Second, great-grandma was suffering from Alzheimers at the time. My grandma had Dimentia when she passed, with is a skip frmo Alzheimers. And honestly...a couple weeks ago, when someone at her nursing home asked her how old she was and she said "23"....she might have already crossed that line into Alzheimers. (she was in her late 80s.)

I thought printing out this picture and scrapbooking it would be a fitting tribute. And since the photo is circa 1970s, I was going with all 70s kitch mod colors. Or trying to, at least. I remember that teal being on alot of vinyl chairs when I was a kid.

So. Supplies. Yeah. Ok, the cardstock is DCWV. The alphas are from Sotheby's. The metal embelly is from Making Memories, as is the epoxy button by the title. The flowered paper was a new paper pack from a company I've not used before, and thus can't remember the name. (Seriously, I should take notes.) The remaining scrap strips and the ribbon were scrap donations from an online scrap swap I participated in. Consequently, I have no idea who made those.