Sofia's Scrapbook

Miss Sofia will be one soon, so I thought I'd start her scrapbook of her first year.  Here is the first page of the book.  I guess I should put her name on it?  LOL I started scrapping again a couple of months ago for my step-son Philip's wedding scrapbook, so I thought I'd continue with my niece, Sofia.  I have been collecting different things for her pages, and am using some of the stuff that we used for my step-daughter's wedding too.  I had a lot of leftover flowers too.

I really like how it turned out.  I wasn't sure at first.  But I really like it.

Handy Dandy tip...

 

 The other night I was trying to open one of those clamshell packages, you know, the one they heat seal together and that you have a hard time cutting apart.  Well, I was trying to figure out how to open it without getting up and getting a pair of those special scissors that they sell at those, As seen on TV stores, when I spotted a used paper trimmer blade.  My thought was, "Hmmm, it might not be great for paper anymore, but I wonder if it is sharp enough to cut the package?"

So I picked it up, and scored it around the edge of the package.  And it worked!  I just pushed the package and it opened!  What a great solution, and it's a bit of recycling too!  

Martha Stewart's Circle Edge Punch

So now that I've started scrapbooking again, I've been introduced to a whole world of new scrapping tools that I haven't seen before.  I mean the last time I actually scrapbooked a page must have been 7 years ago at least?  So the whole scrapbook world has moved forward while I have discovered other crafting.

So while making decorations for my daughter's wedding bbq, I found Martha Stewart's Circle Edge punch. And if I had known then what I know now, we would have had a bunch of decorations made with this. 

I was intimidated at first with the instructions and such, and it was, I thought, too much for me to figure out in the limited amount of time we had to throw the bbq, so I just put it aside. And since I was home sick with the stomach flu today, I was bored and thought I'd try it out. 

OMG, have I told you how smart Martha Stewart's people are to have invented something like this?? 

You don't need to cut up the paper in a circle first, or have to know advanced math, they've done it all for you.  I just really love it! You put the piece of paper under the small round magnet knob.  You should mark crosshairs on the page to make sure you have the center of the paper.  Figure out how big you want to have the circle by using the two size indicators, and there you go.  Just punch, turn the knob, and punch again. Crazy easy to use!

Now I want all the punches....curses!

Here's a video on how to use it...

Makes me so angry....

Today one of our installers saw that someone had left a dog, in an expensive dog crate  with a collar and leash, at the end of our street where people dump garbage and actually had put garbage on the cage so that no one would find her.  We all were very upset and so angry because they just left her there to die. 

Who does that??  I mean you take a dog into your home, she looked well fed and well cared for.  I mean we find dogs in our area who are on the verge of dying because they haven't eaten in a long time.  But this one looked like it had been taken care of, and loved.  She was so scared and was looking for her people.  So you know she had been cared for. 

I can understand if you couldn't have your dog because of living expenses or circumstances, but you don't leave them in a crate at a dead end street covered in garbage.  Again, WHO DOES THAT???

So glad that we found her before she got hungry or dehydrated or was attacked by something else or found by one of the random druggie homeless people.