Let's start the day with some good news! I ordered some photos over the weekend and noticed that WalGreens has a 50% off photo processing code right now: FIFTYOFFPICS. It works for collages, too, so I loaded up on prints for scrapping this month. It looks like the code is good through Saturday. Hope someone else can use that deal to your advantage!
In other news, I am rapidly getting tired of this sort of scene.......
Besides the snow, do you know what I see? Hundreds of dollars of dog classes and STILL this is how he walks!
Rapidly.
Please let this be the last blast and bring on the rain and the flowers and the green grass.......
When I was trying to title this post, I was reminded of this video. It has nothing to do with anything except that it makes me laugh:
And I need to laugh, because what else is there to do when bad things happen?
This weekend I watched our dog, Junior - the star of so many of my pages - have a seizure. It was scary, and the treatment news from our emergency vet was sort of a shock. We were there once before, about 6 months ago, for what I thought might have been a seizure (we thought maybe he had just fallen off the bed and was scared or injured, but now I'm sure that was a seizure, too).
We talked to our usual vet (who was Junior's foster mom and who has been fantastic as a vet!) over the weekend and will do more with her this week. But walking out the door to come to work this morning was hard. I'm worried that this seizure activity may have happened when we weren't home, too, and we've never known it. I've been with him pretty much every minute for the past 3 weeks and to have this happen right as I'm coming back to work is really unsettling.
So while we wait, I'm just thinking about my puppy......and that made me think of posting these pages about him.....
I was at my LSS for a crop last month, and all the Christmas paper was on clearance. I picked up several sheets for no particular reason, and it sat on my table while I tried to get to work on some pages for my Counterfeit Kit. But my eye kept getting drawn to the new stuff, and first one piece moved to my project, then another, then a sticker, and finally I decided not to fight it, and I just moved my kit aside and starting playing with the new stuff :). So here I used all Christmas papers (mostly B-sides) in a completely non-Christmas layout.
Our next competition is in two weeks. We have not been training over the past few weeks, so I'm just hoping we can qualify a few runs and have a good time. Really, what else matters but some quality time with that cute face?
By the way, if you're interested, we are doing Rally. If you're looking for some bonding time and obedience training with your dog, it's a great way to do it!
Just a quick post today for this week's Counterfeit Kit Challenge - to use negative space on a project.
I picked up some Smash tape and wanted to use it right away, so I added it into my kit for this last project of the month. I've resisted the whole washi-tape craze for the most part, but this roll seemed so smart. With short little pieces of different patterns, it's like getting several rolls in one!
I just cut out a part of my title from the background page, and added strips of the tape to show through. It added some color to the otherwise toned-down colors on the page.
Be sure to link your own challenge projects to the Mr. Linky page before the end of the month.
Here is my layout for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge's July mini-challenge to create something that focuses on celebration.
"C-Bus"....short for Columbus :).
Hooray! We have curbside recycling!
As soon as I saw that this month's challenge was to document a celebration, I knew I wanted to do this page. I was very excited the day we came home to find rows and rows of fresh blue cans at the curb. I ran right outside to take pictures before everyone else started pulling their cans from the curb.
Our new recycling starts at the end of this month. It's not often (at least in my experience) that you get to see something GOOD and TANGIBLE come from a tax increase. I felt like this one was definitely worthy of celebration.
Be sure to check the Counterfeit Kit Blog to see the other Master Forger challenge examples today. And if you take the challenge, add a link here, too.
