Bye Bye Wheelock Place

Some of you might have already heard....Laine's is moving out of Wheelock Place.   I knew that this might happen one day, but where did all the time go?!!! (warning - nostalgia ahead)

Bye bye Wheelock Place:

You saw our beginnings... (sorry Laine and Iver, couldn't find your aprons!)

I will miss the little piece of sky I get to see through the classroom windows

and the sound of the shutters lifting in the mornings.

Most of all, I will miss the special Laine's 'feel' (and smell!)

Bye bye, Wheelock Place...and thanks for the

 

We'll be taking a while to move out so there'll be a moving sale and lots of packing to do over the next few weeks.  And just in case you're wondering, classes will still be on in March but come April, us teachers will be moving too ....to PaperMarket that is :)  Promise you'll come by and visit me in my 'new home' K?

Cardboard Book

Hey ho! The March challenge is up over at scrapforhelp and the challenge this time is to use corrugated board.  The thing I use corrugated board (or cardboard box) for most often is for book covers.  Sometimes I wrap it up but this time I thought I'd let the lovely kraft colour of the box be seen and just dress it up a bit with stamping and other bits. (kraft goes with everything!)

 

The book opens...

 To reveal lots of lavender paper from Majadesign's Ska' vi ta en collection.

For you bookbinding fans out there, the book was bound with long stitch.  And I ended up hating the string I used for stitching so I found something to cover it up:

 

And of course, that turned out to be my favourite thing on the book. typical. But I'm still looking out for an old antique spoon so I can replace the one I stole from the kitchen....

This album (or rather a slightly modified version of it) will be taught as a part of a scrapevent in Uddevalla (Sweden) that Maja Design is sponsoring.  A very very big thank you to Creativica and Karin for this opportunity. My sweet friend Karin will be teaching the class and I hope everyone will enjoy making the book from scratch.

The link to the event’s blog is: http://creativica.wordpress.com/scrapevent-uddevalla/ if you’d like more information.

Nomination Day

That's what yesterday was.  It always amazes me how scrapbooking links us together - people from different parts of the world, encouraging each other.  :)

Thank you to
1.  Lisa S. for this award:

The idea behind this award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread knowledge and readership. To accept the award, you must:

1. Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.
2. Post the award to your blog.
3. Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.
4. Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know.

So, thank you Lisa!! :) and I want to spread the love to these 5 lovely bloggers (very hard to choose!!)

Justina (Mum in the Making) - because she is so real, and always reminds me of God's love
Grace (Simply from the Hut) - because she is so sweet has such a love and passion for scrapbooking
July (It's a Work of Art) - because she is so lovely and I wish I could paint like her
Blossominch - because she is always daring to try new things and is one of the sweetest blog friends
Julie (Life with the Tucker and Wolek clan) - a lovely new blog friend I met who just is so sunshiney and friendly

2.  Thank you to Graphic45 

for the privilege of entering the final round of auditions (Susan's in too! yay!).....and thank you thank you thank you EVERYBODY who was so kind and encouraging and leaving comments on my blog.  Finally brought all my new Graphic45 papers home from the store....time to get to work! :)

Things I Like

little boys who make funny faces:

sun-kissed little girls

and albums with lots of kraft and brown:

with strange objects (a cheesebox) embedded into the cover

and bites chewed out of the pages to accomodate the cheesebox

 Now all it needs are photos...

I like those too... :)