Cleaned out 363 emails from my inbox. About 400 left to go. How did my email get so out of control? And I do not have one email in my inbox since before I went on vacation at the end of January. YIKES! No wonder I never answer anyone!
Has been a very strange, do-a-lot-of-stuff, get-nothing-done kind of day (see above email purge!) My mum and Oliver dropped my book off to The Paper Tree for class next Thursday earlier this week so should post some pictures — the 13th if any of you care to join us. It’s a SIMPLE class. Not so many embellishments. I would like to teach a class, at least once, where everyone can finish IN CLASS. It kills me to see or hear about people taking class and never finishing the projects (who’s still working on their advent calendars?!?!) Time is too precious to spend 2 or 3 hours on something and then just let it sit. ENJOY YOUR ART! Finish it and display it! So, in this class you’ll learn how to construct the book, add a few MINOR embellishments, and it will be ready to hold pictures without any extra work. If you choose to embellish it further, you can do so from the display position in your house, not from the unfinished scrapbook bin in your studio. It does not require embellishment to display. SIMPLE. It will be a record class where you get THE ENTIRE BOOK DONE IN ONE CLASS! A novel idea for me I know. Pictures of the project are horrendous, for some unknown reason (small point and shoot digital camera that I REALLY dislike?) but here’s a couple…File folders and envelopes. Two of my favorites!
Pictures just plunk in the file folders and envelopes, so you really will be finished at the end of class. No cropping, pasting, etc. If you WANT to do this, of course you’re welcome, but every once in awhile you need a quick project that can be done in one sitting. (THINK GIFTS!) So that’s that. I’m off to finish up a couple things before I go to bed. I shall leave you all with a funny story thanks to my friend’s daughter. Oliver and I went over to my friend’s house to play on Friday. Her daughter (knowing that she probably SHOULDN’T mention it since we just had lunch) sends Oliver into the room her mum and I are in to mention that she’s hungry. Mother beckons daughter and explains that she should have made better decisions about eating at lunchtime and that now she’ll have to wait for dinner. Daughter proceeds to whine it up about how hungry she is. Mother asks daughter what she’s doing (CLEARLY in reference to the whining.) Daughter says “I’m hungry-ing!” at which time Mother and I are totally cracking up. It’s so hard to stick with your guns and be serious about your lessons when the kids are so darn funny. Enjoy your evenings and stay un-hungry!
