tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75562302624903952952024-03-19T16:25:07.866+10:00Kelly Ann Oosterbeek - DesignerKelly-annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00479467708206770591noreply@blogger.comBlogger431125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556230262490395295.post-81811062381966759222020-07-13T14:23:00.000+10:002020-07-13T14:23:45.314+10:00Diary of a Designer #11<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>'Tis the Season 🎄</i></div>
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<i>Today I walked out of my bedroom to find my 3 youngest girls sitting in eerie silence with a MOUNTAIN of Christmas cards piled in front of them, madly scribbling messages to friends.</i></div>
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<i>The girls looked up from their epic task as I entered the room wide eyed at the scene before me and all at once started begging me to buy candy canes to put in with their cards. Darling Daughter number 2 stands up and declares</i></div>
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<i>'we just need..... wait.... let me count! one, two, three....'</i></div>
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<i>All I could think of was that I just needed some coffee to make it through!!</i></div>
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<i>As I listened, from the kitchen, to the counting continue, interrupted only by the occasional instruction to move this or that and then everyone groaning as they had to start again because they had lost count, I realised this marked the beginning of the next 6 weeks of my life.</i></div>
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<i> The silly season had arrived.</i></div>
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<i>I'm exhausted just thinking about it! Our whole house will now descend down into an unending spiral of parties, end of year events, award ceremonies, get togethers, family reunions, gift hunting, gift wrapping, gift giving and gift begging. </i></div>
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<i>There's nothing for it... I just have to take a deep breath, put on my big girl pants and go and face it!</i></div>
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<i>Filled with courage only a double shot skinny cappuccino can deliver, I headed back to Christmas Card <strike>Hell</strike> Central where I was informed they just needed me to buy 113 candy canes to finish their monumentally important task. </i></div>
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<i>I looked at the adorable creatures and told them they could have 10 each to give away, that if I caught them eating any I would cancel Christmas ( yes I'm looking at you Daisy) and that if I heard one complaint about it all I would also cancel Easter. </i></div>
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<i>They got ready for school and left in a cloud of dark brooding silence. Again I was struck by the sheer irony that children still use silence to punish adults!!?! Bring it on I say.</i></div>
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<i>I happily trotted off to my workshop, I had been planning on doing a layout today but now I couldn't shake the feeling that I should really should be making some Christmas cards myself! </i></div>
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<i>And here's where my deep dark secret emerges... I loath making Christmas cards :( </i></div>
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<i>So much effort for cards that get admired for maybe 30 days then tossed out ... it's enough to make a grown craft lady cry. </i></div>
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<i>It might feel more worth it if you could give them out in about August!?</i></div>
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<i> And its the same theme over and over and over, year after year!!</i></div>
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<i>I turned over the Christmas papers, chipboards and embellishments for an hour then swept them all aside and ran straight back into the arms of my first love .... a good old fashioned layout. </i></div>
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<i>I'll try cards again tomorrow, but today....</i></div>
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<i>I got busy with this beautifully Australian Open Road collection from Kaisercraft.</i></div>
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<i>I used a black sharpie pen on these chipboard words then a medium nib white gel pen to add the shine lines to each letter.</i></div>
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<i>We had to eat dinner outside on the balcony last night as the great Christmas card ordeal of 2017 continues on the dining room table. Now darling daughter #1 has joined them and Darling Son #2!</i></div>
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<i> I've never been so pleased DS#1 doesn't ever leave his room and has only online friends, I assume he will send his online mates an online card? Actually thinking about it, I dont know that he and his gaming mates will even know its Christmas? Probs not. </i></div>
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<i>I often wonder what my virtual reality, aname grandbabies will look like?</i></div>
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<i>I attempted to sit down and make Christmas cards again today, but no ideas came to me at all, after a while I just gave up and decided to look up ideas on Pinterest.</i></div>
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<i>Talk about going down the rabbit hole ... I was looking for 3 hours... </i></div>
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<i>and this was the only one I found that really tickled my fancy!!</i></div>
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<i>Lets face it ... I'm just not a christmas card person.</i></div>
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<i>So I did this layout instead...</i></div>
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<i>Again using the Open Road Collection from Kaisercraft.</i></div>
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<i>The disease is spreading ... today there are Christmas cards all over the dining table, the coffee table, the kitchen bench, and the end of the lounge .... WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? </i></div>
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<i>Apparently everyone is trying to 'sort' out their friend groups, or drive me crazy by covering every flat surface in the house!?! honestly I'm not sure which one is actually in play at this point?? </i></div>
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<i>I can promise you I'm getting over it all though. </i></div>
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<i>One more day and then I set fire to everything! 🔥</i></div>
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<i>I didnt even attempt Christmas Card making today, I went straight into the comforting embrace of a layout. I have accepted that my Christmas cards this year ( just as they were last year) will be made from whatever is left over on the dining room table after the children finally pick all theirs up!</i></div>
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<i>I did manage to calm down while scrapping though. Today I realised that scrapping is like therapy for me. I become calmer and more focused when I'm enjoying myself crafting, I'm able to let go of my anger and all my pyromaniac tendencies... which, lets face it, is only ever a good thing!</i></div>
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<i>I'm happy to report that the Christmas cards are for the most part gone - YAY!</i></div>
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<i>The kids sorted them all into bags last night ( Friends from school bag, friends from kids club bag, friends from the neighbourhood bag, friends from church bag etc) and off they went with them all this morning for delivery. There were just a few left on the dining table after that.</i></div>
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<i> I decided I would finish up early in the workshop today and write some out myself to send out, since there was a snow balls chance in hell that I was ever going to actually make one!</i></div>
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<i>After that fabulous crafty adventure, I was just the mood for writing messages to friends so I sat down at the dining table and got to it. But as I worked, I realised more people belonged on the Christmas card list, that I carried around in my head, than I first thought. I mean I cant give a card to that couple and NOT give one to those guys, that would look strange!?</i></div>
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<i>I abandoned writing the cards in favour of writing a list of people I need to send cards to. </i></div>
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<i>I was madly scribbling names when my husband walked past and said something to me.</i></div>
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<b>Sunday the 9th July 2017</b></div>
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<i>I woke up this morning so nervous it was ridiculous... tomorrow I head back to Uni!!</i><br />
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<i>I applied for and was accepted into a 4 year double degree in Arts/Education at Southern Cross University... I did a degree in Social Science when I first left school twenty....something years ago.</i><br />
<i>They say it's just like riding a bike ...</i><br />
<i>You never forget! And for the most part this is true.</i><br />
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<i>I never have forgotten how to ride a bike... but bike riding has changed over the years .... it gets SUPER harder to ride as you get older!</i><br />
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<i>I now I need one of those extra wide padded seats and after a mere 4 km, one of those paddled resuscitation devices comes in handy too.</i><br />
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<i>Yeah I can still ride a bike ... but not very well!</i><br />
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<i>What if studying is just like riding a bike ? Sure I can read a text book, but will my brain understand it?? How will I keep up with all those young whipper snappers straight out of high school?</i><br />
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<i>It took 3 seconds for all of these thoughts to pass through my mind when I opened my eyes this morning and by the 5 second mark my heart was jumping out of my chest. There was only one thing I could do after that ....</i><br />
<i>Avoid thinking about it all together!</i><br />
<i>So off to my scrap studio I went and picked up photos from our last family holiday ...</i><br />
<i>and reassured myself that 'today I shall just scap these and try not to think of you-know-what!'</i><br />
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<i>So I used some of the new Maja Road papers to make this romantic layout. I used purple and gold Colour Blast paste with templates, a heap of laces I picked up at Bella Paperie and these divine Imaginarium Chipboards...</i><br />
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<i> I love to use these complementing chipboard flourishes on layouts</i><br />
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<i>As always Imaginarium have the biggest and most beautiful range of Chippie titles</i><br />
<i>and this is one of my favourites... here I've covered it in Inka gold wax.</i><br />
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<i> So it ended up being a nice day after all ... with all thoughts of my inadequacies successfully avoided</i><br />
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<i>OMGosh .... so I got up early this morning, got the kids organised pronto and on the bus by 7.45am .... my first lecture was not due to start until 12 pm so I has all morning to do the 15 page reading they suggested you do to prep for the lecture. </i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">The course is called 'Framing Modernity' ... after I googled what this was ... I started the reading. I KID YOU NOT .... if it had been printed in Chinese characters I suspect I would have understood the same amount of the content!! </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">And honestly ... I still couldn't work out what this subject was about?</span></span></i><br />
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">I don't have another lecture at uni until Thursday and there are no prescribed readings for that unit anyway so I'm free to scrapbook to my heart's content. </i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">I've decided creating is the cure for stress of every kind ... I can't worry about anything while I'm cutting, gluing, painting... I get lost in the process, it's so sublime ... unless I cut the wrong thing or drop paint on a photo ... then I scream like a little girl and cuss like a sailor... But you know all the other times it's a calm blue ocean of craft </i><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: small;">🙂</span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">Another day to kick back and create ... my next lecture is tomorrow, the subject is called 'DESIGN' .... sounds awesome ... exactly what are we designing? Why can't I find a course outline? Half the battle of going back to uni is learning to navigate the online universe where apparently EVERYTHING now exists, and every lecturer uses differently!?! </i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">On Monday in the tute, after the lecture I was asked if I had checked Black Board to see if this tute conflicted with VAS? I looked at the man next to me and honestly answered ... </i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">Uni may turn out to be an excercise in working out what levels of humiliation I am and am not willing to live with ... when I put it like that though .... it sounds A LOT like normal life!!</i></div>
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<i>I treated my Chipboards with purple ink to compliment all the green tones on the page and popped some little flowers on the shapes to pull in the flowers theme in the photo.</i></div>
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<b>Thursday the 13th of July 2017</b></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">TODAY WAS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE!!</i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">I was under the impression that my lecture for DESIGN was starting at 2pm today, but just to be sure I ducked into my 'Black Board' resource center to check ... and there in big bold red was an announcement that had been posted on Monday that the Thursday class was being canceled and everyone now had to join the Tuesday 9-12pm class.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">the rest of the day was spent in a vicious cycle of self loathing ... </span></span></i><br />
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;"> Yet another day spent in self loathing/hissy fit land.</i></div>
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<b>Saturday the 15th of July 2017</b></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">today I received an email from the Australian Government just letting me know that as of last year they have a new exam that I am required pass before I can be allowed to complete my education degree ... they suggest I sit it next month and it only costs $180 !</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In order to pass I must understand the basics of literacy and show competency including, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>but limited to the following areas of numeracy ... </i><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i>proportional reasoning, ratios, fractions, percentages, decimals, scientific notation, interest calculations, and formulae calculations!!!!!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Right... </span></i></span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I </span><span style="color: #222222;">grabbed</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> my husband and told him I would be ducking into the uni on Monday to withdraw from this </span>degree<span style="font-family: inherit;">! </span>Literacy<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I could handle but I'm dead in the water when it comes to maths ... thats why I want to be Art teacher and NOT a maths teacher!!!!</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was some additional howling ... more hissy fitting... and even a good amount of tears. In the end my husband had to give me the old </span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">' You can't quit the first time things get hard' speach... one he had long practised on the kids to perfection.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I agreed to try.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">While at uni today I found out that I don't have to sit my basic literacy and numeracy exam until the very last prac session of my degree, so it turns out I have almost four years to prep for the test rather than 1 month! Thank goodness!! I may just be able to handle that.🙂</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">I also managed to get some scrapping in this afternoon ... finishing this layout made with the new 'Lilac Whispers' collection from Kaisercraft and Imaginarium chipboards...</i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">I had the most amazing day today ... things might actually be looking up for me. </i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">At 9am I FINALLY made it to my 'DESIGN' class ... it turns out to actually be about 'Photoshop' .... I was so stoked ... I have ALWAYS wanted to learn how to use Photoshop. Especially when I gain weight - I can see MANY practical application for this program when it comes to weight gain</i><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">😜 </span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">But the best part of the class was at the beginning when the teacher explains that just before he starts teaching us how to manipulate images using the computer he wants us to experience what its like to use the original tools .... then he hands us magazines, scissors and glue. </i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">it's SCRAPBOOKING!! I think to myself .... YYYEEEESSSSS .... </i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">well the rest of you can just go home now because I own this .... I WIN this round!!!</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Darling Daughter #1 has just started her HSC exams and I swear to you I have never seen a more irrational, emotional and unstable teenage girl in my life. Are they all like this??</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earlier this morning she explained in depth her extreme frustration at the unjust HSC system that requires english students to memorise a ‘ridiculous’ number of quotes. Half an hour later she was in tears sure she would fail no matter what she did. Then she came home after the exam exclaiming that it wasn’t that bad!!?! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well the battery on my laptop is almost done so I’m going to have to sign off for tonight. I can still hear DD#1 out there ranting at anyone in earshot so I might just enjoy the peace and quiet a moment longer here.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I noticed a distinct lack of people moving through the house this morning, when I did eventually locate several of the children I found out they too are doing their best to avoid their sister and her crazy moods DD#2,3 &4 all said they would rather not eat breakfast at all than have to listen to DD#1 rant even further about the distinct lack of polylogism in today's schooling environment. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>my way is to tuck myself away with some fabulous papercraft supplies and see what is born </i>🙂</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can’t take this any more, there was no exam today but there was a torrent of tears as DD#1 asked me if would still love her if she failed to get into law school and ended up working at McDonalds for the rest of her life? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have no idea where kids find the pressures they put on themselves … I’ve never asked her to be a human rights lawyer …. that was all her idea … I think the job she had at maccas for the last 3 years is awesome …. But somehow it's the worse-case-life-scenario for her now?? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't think her teachers put that much pressure on her either, all I’ve ever heard them say is ‘just try your best’ … so what's this question about me not loving her anymore if she doesn't get a HSC mark of 99 or above??? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I find empathy in light of my daughters first world problems difficult to muster …. I just think ‘you are a crazy person who cannot be reasoned with, please don’t speak to me anymore’ </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead I hugged her and said ‘oh baby ….sadly If you don’t get into law school you will actually have to change your last name as your father and I will have no choice but to disown you!’</span></i></span></div>
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<i>what's the go with this heat? and where has all the water gone?</i></div>
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<i>We rang up the water delivery person to order a load. $350!!!!??!!!! ... for HALF a tank!!!</i></div>
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<i>The worst part is that it's a 3 week wait...</i></div>
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<i>So now our whole house hold has gone into EXTREME water saving mode: </i></div>
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<i>*The washing machine is hooked up to a huge recycling barrel </i></div>
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<i>...and my LEAST favourite of all water saving measures...</i></div>
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<i>IS THIS WHAT MY LIFE HAS COME TO??</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">For the record, I strongly disagree with this last measure.... all colours should be flushed ALL THE TIME. Sadly I was over ruled. Stuff global warming and holes in the ozone ... this is the true tragedy of global warming</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 😭</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><i>I would console myself with vodka but sadly that has also run out. Damn you elnino.</i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">This shortage of water thing is getting out of hand ... I caught one of the kids standing IN a bucket in her swimmers washing herself with a dribble coming from the shower head!! </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">I explained that it wasn't quite that bad yet ( post apocalyptic that is) but she was sooooo very proud of how little water she had used and how she had recycled 100% of the water she did use... I took a photo of her so she could use it on an inevitable 'recycling' school project one day.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">She excitedly exclaimed that I could do the same thing...</span></span></i><br />
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<i>These boards with repeated sayings are AWESOME ... I keep a dozen different ones on hand always in case I need to whip up a card for some reason</i></div>
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<i>Add a simple flourish and card making is just too easy!</i></div>
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<i>today we have entered a whole new level of water saving skills....</i></div>
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<i>WE ARE LIKE WATER SAVING NINJAS NOW!</i></div>
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<i>We convinced our teenagers to shower at school ... 'tell them you have been doing sport and just need to freshen up' ... hopefully the school won't notice the ALARMING amount of hair care products my 17 year old daughter took to school with her this morning!</i></div>
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<i>My husband also said he will use the showers at work ... despite them not having doors!!???! WHAT THE? </i></div>
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<i>no gesso on the title though ( as per my no washing anything ever again commitment) This title was simply coloured in with my white gel pen</i> 😎</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">This simply has to come to an end ... the kids came home and informed me that it was 'just creepy' showering at school and refuse to ever do it again, My husband said he just couldn't go through with the 'no door' thing. And I dont know who is going to clean the toilets in my house after this last week ... </span></span></i><br />
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<i>BUT ITS NOT GOING TO ME!!!!</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">We are half way down the outlet valve on our last tank and I just can't live like this anymore... I spent the morning calling every single water delivery company within 100km and managed to get someone who would deliver a half load tomorrow.</span></span></i><br />
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<i>THANK GOODNESS! </i></div>
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<i>The madness can't end quickly enough for my liking. Feeling very pleased with myself I ducked off and created this birthday card.</i></div>
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<i>Now that I'm trying to squeeze in work, uni and family, life it seems is just a tad crazier than usual and keeping up has become quite the effort. </i></div>
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<i>This week the uni has given us a 'study break', so there are no classes or lectures. </i></div>
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<i>This couldn't have come at a better time... because I'm EXHAUSTED!!</i></div>
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<i>I've been desperately trying to keep up with a mountain of work and readings mostly centring around French painters and art critics from the 1850 -1900 period.</i></div>
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<i>Now don't get me wrong... I'm actually loving it .... there's just something about staying home with 6 kids for 20 years and watching Wiggles reruns endlessly that makes pretty much ANYTHING ELSE in the universe mind blowingly interesting... but still, I've been buried under all the paperwork!</i></div>
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<i>I dont know why but most of my assignments were due at the beginning of study week ... of course it would have been nice to use study week to complete them in .... but none the less it has resulted in the boon of actually having no work left for study week which means .... a week off!! </i></div>
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<i>The house is filthy again and I haven't had a chance to scrap in ages so this week off is going to be AWESOME :) </i></div>
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<i>I started today by creating a fabulous storage box for myself ... during August the Imaginarium blog featured loads of ideas for storing your chipboard collections and I confess ... looking at them I became quite jealous and covetous !! </i></div>
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<i>I have traditionally stored my chipboards in the package they arrived in ... but after seeing everyone else's cool ideas I decided to create something for myself.</i></div>
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<i>Not wanting to make the same mistake twice the kids were out the door early today and securely placed on the bus!</i></div>
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<i>I managed to get the bath rooms done before the first of many annoying phone calls started. Now i'm not talking about two or three rings here .... it was ridiculous ... every 5 mins the phone would sound with another person offering me the deal of a lifetime or some fabulous solar installations! </i></div>
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<i>After 7 calls in one hour I just couldnt believe it, I remember ages ago signing up for the 'no advertising calls' register, that you can do here in Australia, and I hadn't been bothered by sales call much at all after that. </i></div>
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<i>I figured their system was broken and I needed to let them know this, but when I called the hotline I found out this directive only lasts for 2 years and mine had run out the day before!! </i></div>
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<i>I just adore the full picture (or photo) pages and loved creating this layout that feels like an extension of the photo...</i></div>
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<i>I melted embossing enamel onto the chipboards to give them that vibrant and shining effect and they were all that I needed to add to this layout along with some pearls and butterflies. I can get a tad tizzy with my layouts but I do love it when a page can look full and complete with little effort</i> 🙂</div>
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<i>I got to bed at a terrible hour last night as I had to duck into town after hours for some late night shopping so I was totally stuffed this morning.</i></div>
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<i>Left home for the craft show at 6 am this morning ... returned at 6pm today.</i></div>
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<i>Another full day at the craft show today and I've talked so much I have lost my voice now.</i></div>
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<i>I packed up after the show and brought everything back home ... </i></div>
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<i>the place looks like a bomb has hit it. </i></div>
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<i>Boxes, products and craft supplies EVERYWHERE in my studio and the house.</i></div>
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<i> It was an awesome show but it's going to take me week to clean up from it. </i></div>
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<i>The next exciting instalment from my monthly blurb over on the Imaginarium Designs blog...</i></h3>
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<b>Tuesday the 16th of May 2017</b></div>
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<i>Dear Diary...</i></div>
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<i>Well there truly can only be one layout this month...</i></div>
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<i>It all started in New Zealand... or Middle Earth as some know it...</i></div>
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<i>But I put on my big girl pants and got to work yesterday .... it was an utter miracle when I managed to finish this one page over the course of the last 2 days ... </i></div>
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<i>bit by bit I pulled it all together using Imaginarium Chipboards, Kaisercraft Keepsake paper collection and many stretching and walking breaks!! 😊</i></div>
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<i>And that is the end of me, diary ... I really can't manage any more sitting this month.</i></div>
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<i>I will go now... find a good laying position on the lounge and wait there for just another 5 weeks or so. </i><i style="font-size: 17.6px;">I'm thinking TV, Movies and popcorn...</i></div>
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<i>And the Lord of the Rings Trilogy of course ...</i></div>
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<i> I've had a hankering to watch that for ages now!</i></div>
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<b>Wednesday the 19th of April 2017</b></div>
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<i>What a week!! I honestly have <b>NOT</b> fully recovered from Easter yet...</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">It was a typical Easter this year, full of kids, fun, stories and chocolate. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">As I do every year I swear I'm not going to touch chocolate, and as it does every year, the temptation gets too much for me and I end up eating all the chocolate I can find!! </span></span></i></div>
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<i>Another day .... Another layout ... I love the simplicity of creating ❤</i></div>
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<i>Using Kaisercraft Sage and Grace papers, some beautiful lace and Imaginarium Designs chipboards I got stuck into this page...</i></div>
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<i>Oooohhhhhhh ..... I'm so excited today ... I was up before the sun and couldnt wait to get to work using these new papers from Kaisercraft .... Bombay Sunrise!</i></div>
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<i>I started out the day with a headache thanks to small incident with some pineapple lumps the day before... Alison warned me to stay away from them ... but I have a problem with this particular food group... so my 'After Easter Resolution' to never eat chocolate again only turned out to last 6 days ... 😐</i></div>
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Projects made from the Wildflower paper collection from Kaisercraft and Imaginarium Chipboard.</div>
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<b>Monday the 6th of March 2017</b></div>
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<i>I was looking over the themes for the April blog posts at Imaginarium today ... to my COMPLETE shock and horror the theme is 'my scrap space'..... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!</i></div>
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<i>I should have finished that damn business degree and become an accountant .... no one cares what an accounts work space looks like!! </i></div>
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<i>So now have to clean up ....</i></div>
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<i>I hate cleaning up my work space ... I always get 2 minutes into the activity, find something interesting that needs to be put away and decided I just have to use it instead... hence creating an even larger pile of carnage than was there before the so called 'clean up'.</i></div>
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<i>It is a vicious cycle that never ends diary!! And there are no support groups out there for people like me with this particular problem ... I've looked!! :(</i></div>
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<i>and now the fateful day has arrived where I have to make this space public!!</i></div>
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<i>Well.... I'm going in... wish me luck , I'm off to clean my scrap space up so that its presentable for next months ID blog.... I will pack a lunch first of course... but I'm definetly going.....</i></div>
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<b>Tuesday the 7th of March 2017</b></div>
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<i>Well I did it ... Ok I didn't ... but I did try!!</i></div>
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<i>I packed myself a small survival kit and headed out to my workshop yesterday and began cleaning.</i></div>
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<i>I would dearly like to say I kept on cleaning, but sadly it's just not true :(</i></div>
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<i>It took about 3 minutes of cleaning the table when I came across this box that went to toss out .... I had a bunch of photos developed and they came in this box....</i></div>
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<b>BEST CLEANING TRIP EVER!!</b></div>
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<i>And YES ... it still folds down flat and fits in a very large envelope :)</i></div>
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<i>I cleaned for a solid boring, lonely, depressing, life-sucking, morbid half an hour then I rang my friend Sue and asked if she wanted to go to maccas for coffee .... this of course was a trick question ... Sue <b>ALWAYS</b> wants to do coffee ... any time of the day or night I can count on her to drop what she is doing and join me for a cuppa :) Turns out she was cleaning her scrap room also and couldnt wait to get out of there ... so she grabbed a few magazines and we hunkered down with coffee's to autopsy all the layouts in the latest scrapbook magazine :)</i></div>
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<i>Now let's be honest here ... the piles themselves were not terribly neat, but eventually the piles on my work table receded to reveal an alarming number of coffee cups that had been suspending what resembled a second story balcony of paper supplies. I kept cleaning until I was down to the bottom layer which was where I found this awesome canvas I had started who knows how long ago!!?</i></div>
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<i>I'm completely jealous of other designers with grown up kiddies ... Alison Bevis never has to take the holidays off to pull her hair out for a few weeks .... she just keeps on creating gorgeous work month after month ... I just want to rub up against people like that so some of their inner magic can transfer onto me ... I'm pretty sure I actually tried that at last year's Brisbane craft show ... do I have a picture of that? Must look into it for tomorrow's project!!</i></div>
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<i>Found this FABULOUS photo of myself, Alison Bevis and Sue Smyth ( drop names much?) at Brisbane craft show last year ... Was determined to scrap this one today ...</i></div>
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<i>I drafted a lengthy and indepth post to owner Jane Tregenza suggesting this and several other less heard of titles be made into chipboard phrases... am convinced she will see the wisdom and massive revenue raising potential in such a collection and am eagerly awaiting their release.</i></div>
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<i>In the meantime I had a ball creating this page ... I used midnight black dew drop ink on the chipboads .... which I must say turned out suspiciously like gold!!???? In any case I loved it and sealed them with clear embossing enamel before popping them on this page I made using the new Kaisercraft 'Wildflower' paper collection.</i></div>
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<i><b>In order not to be accused of taunting people I have decided that I if anyone wants to send me a self addressed and stamped envelope ( to 19 Brumby Place Casino NSW 2470) then I will send them 2 meters of this fabulous yarn for free :)</b></i></div>
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<i>These are the bits I use on this page ... there really is no better way to lift your page than with these funky and trendy chippies!</i></div>
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<i>Still feeling all springy and fresh with the kids trotting off to school every morning :) I think it's fascinating the way our moods are reflected in our pages.... I learnt a long time ago never to scrap angry .... the pages I make when I scrap angry are just DISGUSTING ... this rule also applies to drinking .... but for different reasons of course.... unfortunately I can't hold my grog at all either.... one glass of wine and I'm on the table dancing...two glasses and I'm under it asleep! </i></div>
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<i>Take for example the page I did today ... I scrapped this super cute photo of Daisy with her first loose tooth .... I used the ID chipboard title 'Cheeky Grin' because it suited it so perfectly ..... </i></div>
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<i>Have just finished reading the ID blog post for today entitled <a href="https://imaginariumdesigns.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/its-marvellous-monday-with-alison-bevis.html?showComment=1488192230659#c4853442308961717224" target="_blank">'Marvelous Monday with Alison Bevis'</a> </i></div>
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<i>DAMN THAT GIRL IS GOOD! I really should have rubbed up against her more!</i></div>
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<i>Despite my scrap jealousy she inspired the heck out of me today so as the doctor suggested I channelled that energy into another layout using more ID chippies .... this time a distinctly pink page also made using the Kaisercraft Wildflower paper collection.</i></div>
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<i>Its one of my favourite tricks to take the chipboard frames and cut them in half to use on layouts and thats what I did again here on this page. All the chippies on this layout have simply been inked in Pink.... that beautiful flourish at the bottom of the photo is of course the hero of the layout ... I love the way one good embellishment can make or break a design :)</i></div>
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<i>Had to prepare a project for Imaginarium Designs today looking at my favourite altered Chipboard technique... didnt take long to do as I just love stamping on embossed chippies but at the end of it I had all these chip boards that I had made and had no page to live on.</i></div>
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<i>It's about finding the right photo to go with a DROP-DEAD-GORGEOUS EMBELLISHMENT!!</i></div>
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<br />Kelly-ann Oosterbeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04743979728320153368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556230262490395295.post-59953697819952027542017-02-14T17:49:00.000+10:002017-02-14T17:49:02.616+10:00Excerpts from the diary of a designer 2 <i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>No Pressure ...</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Cannot believe how beautiful it is at the beach ... heard from a friend in Casino that it hit 152 degrees Celsius yesterday!! Soooo glad we have taken this camping trip despite the ever present sand in my shoes/eyes/underwear. </i><i>Still. Worth. It !</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Wandered up the 'high' end of the park this morning to try and get 2 bars of reception on my phone... if I stand just so with my tongue in just the right spot I can actually get my mail to download and look at facebook. The second I connected 10,000 mail messages appeared .... I waded through them and to my pure and utter delight I found out I made it onto the Imaginarium Design team .... YES! I did a fist punch to the air and promptly lost connection. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">. Bugger. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">After climbing a BBQ block I was able to reconnect and get a good look at my fellow designers .... OMGosh .... I'm not joking these girls are pretty much all spectacular designers.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to be honest here, I was a tad intimidated at the line up .... Alison Bevis, Leonie Neal-Dawson, Sonia Thompson, Tracey Fowler, Adriana Bolzen, Louise Nelson, Sandi Spink, Solange Marques, Chitose Nakamae, Karyn Schultz, Miriam Hagger, Belinda Spencer, Tanya Palamarchuk and for heavens sake .... Sue Smyth!! Thats Right SUE SMYTH!! </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>These guys are ALL AMAZING .... a fact that really struck me while I stalkerishly Goggled them ... I'm feeling a bit worried about my ability to keep up with a group this talented! Not to mention there are certain people in this group who I'm pretty sure have some questionable video footage of me .... you know who you are!! </i><i>'Intimidated much Kel?' </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">was the very question I was asking myself when I suddenly slipped and fell off the BBQ ... on the upside it was really relaxing in the air conditioned ER room at Taree District Hospital and the staff were all really very lovely :)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Friday 6th of January 2017</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Am home from holidays …. I have determined that I will not let my awe of fellow designers intimidate me … I will just have to get extra clever in order to keep up with their brilliance :) </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The first chipboards I have to use are these brilliant arrows and chevrons …. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Did not sleep a wink last night and cannot think of anything Tricky!!!????!!!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Slept like a log but was too overtired to remember dreams </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">so if I did dream of something tricky it's long gone now!! :(</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">OK so this is just silly now!!!!!!!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I feel like I have massive performance anxiety … </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">do you think Sue Smyth has performance anxiety? </span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Methinks NOT!! </i></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">would form before it even landed!!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">‘OK’ I thought to myself ‘enough of this nonsense … I’m just going to take my chipboard out and see what happens’ so thats what I did… and I was thrilled with the layout that popped out of my suspiciously uncooperative mind.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">getting my hands on the products was all I really needed to do I think because quick as a wink I grabbed some more of this beautiful paper range ( Cherry Tree Lane collection from Kaisercraft) and did a second layout … this time using some glimmer mists to colour butterfly chipboards and black ink and a white gel pen to make the ‘Little Cutie’ title pop. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I just adored those butterfly chippies … and the best bit of all was when I sprayed the chipboard thoroughly with the purple glimmer mist it caused the butterflies wings to arch up slightly … once I stuck their centres down they still had the perfect little natural lift to their wings :) </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">In my house now there are 7 children at home on holidays … for this reason I have decide to abandon the house all together . </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">It is a sign of my superior reasoning skills that I can assess and accurately understand the situation as it currently stands … if I clean a surface at this present time it will take roughly 7.5 seconds for someone to dump something on that clean surface ... therefore there is no point in cleaning anything again until the 30th of January when they all return to school where they belong!!</span></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I am not lazy …. </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I am the smartest woman alive!!</span></b></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">So I spent yet another full day out in my workshop creating while my beautiful family continued to spread the school holiday carnage.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I think I’m actually on a roll now …. I have all these beautiful ornate chipboard frames that Imaginarium sent me and I know just what to use them for :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Kiah wants to redecorate her pigsty of a bedroom in a vintage country theme.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I explained to her that you can decorate a wheelie bin any way you like…</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> in the end it’s still just a place for garbage!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">She insisted that she would be significantly more inspired to clean her room completely if she had some new decorations to hang in there.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">So today I decided to make her a banner in the vintage country theme.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This was soooooo fun to make …. Im overjoyed at how it turned out and really felt like I had succeed in channelling my inner Sue Smyth :)</span></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Kiah loved it and thought I was extremely tricky :)</span></b></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">With the leftovers from this creative forey I managed to squeeze out one more step card as well </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The extra chipboard I added was this beautiful Imaginarium flourish which anchored the card perfectly.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">And so I am done!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I have no more tricks up my sleeve.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">It's going to be quite a year trying to keep up with this brilliant new DT</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sure this shove in a new direction will do me the world of good :) </span></i></div>
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<i>received a card from post office saying I had a parcel waiting to be picked up </i>:)<br />
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<i>Broke speed limit twice getting to town and back but did not get booked this time.</i><br />
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<i>Opened package to find to my utter delight a huge pile of Imaginarium chipboard products ... </i><br />
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<i>THEY SMELL SOOOOOO GOOD!! </i><br />
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<i>if chipboard can make me feel this good then I will never have need of illicit drugs </i><br />
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<i>woke up soooooooo excited about getting to do another page today with my new Imaginarium chippy supply... thought about it while getting breaky...thought about while getting kids ready...thought about while dropping them at school.... thought about it while at the gym .... didnt think about it much after the gym ... was just kind of trying survive the walk back to the car!</i><br />
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<i>Finally got home and got into it .... todays theme .... ARROWS and CLOCKS :)</i><br />
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<i>had to go to the kids school for an assembly today .... OMGosh those things are mind numbingly BORING .... </i><i>why why why do they invite parents? What do my kids always want me to go? what benefit is there to us all having to suffer through that??</i></div>
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<i>Regardless of horror at having to attend yet another of these events I did my best impersonation of a focused, dutiful stay at home mum .... felt like I totally smashed it!! </i></div>
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<i>This time I wanted to try cutting up an ornate frame and using the pieces as corner adorners ... </i></div>
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<i> .... so thats what I did ...<b> and it worked</b> - while I totally couldn't find my black embossing powder, I did find a sharpie that managed to do an equally awesome job of getting those corners to compliment the B&W photo :)</i></div>
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<i>I had a class booked to teach this afternoon so I knew for sure I would NEVER get to make a whole layout today so ignoring all house work I got started on a step card the second the kids were at school.</i></div>
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<i>All I really wanted to do was find a way to use this off-the-charts cute bicycle chippy that Imaginarium created ... it's THE PERFECT size for a card so I was determined to make it the centerpiece.</i></div>
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<i> At first I thought I would make it silver like a real bike ... but then as I was digging through my embossing powders looking for silver ... I found my lost black pot YAY !! </i></div>
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<i>I just got it finished when people started turning up for the class ... tucking it away I was quite pleased that I had managed to finish on time ... class went well .... but I had one last idea kicking around in my head for a project with some of the butterfly chipboards .... bring on tomorrow!!</i></div>
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<i>the kitchen floor actually made a crunching sound as I walked through it this morning </i>:(<i> </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">'Follow your heart, and happiness will follow you.' </span></i></div>
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<i>Today I was excited to be using Colour Blast Mica powders as paints on the chip board to create what I hoped would be beautiful iridescent butterflies on a mobile with dangling hearts :)</i> </div>
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<i>The clean up after this last project was of course EPIC ... whilst wishing I had a small army of forest animals to help me with this task ( not unlike snow white) my husband popped his head in the workshop and suggested I get a real job to pay the house cleaner we now need to hire for inside the house ... he gets the cast off next Friday. </i></div>
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<b>Kelly-ann Oosterbeek has been a scrapbook and paper craft designer for the last 17 years and lives in Northern NSW with her super-sized family.</b></div>
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<b>She has her own line of gloss finish butterfly stickers ( featured on the projects in this post), and sells these along with Kaisercraft Collections and layout kits online ...</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well I'm off today to the Brisbane Scrapbook & Paper Craft Expo .... what an exciting opportunity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and teaching 3 layout classes, using this design ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And teaching 3 step card classes consisting of these 5 cards...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all I need to do now is....</span></div>
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I know this Timeless Collection from Kaisercraft is an old one now ...</div>
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I couldn't help putting together another set of classes using these divine papers :) </div>
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and I finally got to have a really good go at using my Brown Butterflies lol!</div>
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You can find these at <a href="http://amothersart.com.au/Die-Cut-Butterfly-Packs/product/366-brown-butterfly-stickers.html" target="_blank">THIS LINK :)</a></div>
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Hi All I'm back again this month with the <a href="http://whitewith1.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">WW1 monthly scrap challenge</a>... this time it was quite a challenging colour...</div>
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I had no orange butterflies to add to this colour pallet, BUT ... I managed to get some by using an alcohol pen to colour some of the light pink ones :) I was stoked with the results!</div>
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