Yearly Archives:: 2010

DIY: Covering a photo/scrapbook album

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Got an old photo or scrapbook album that could do with some updating? Found a cheap album somewhere that isn’t very pretty? Well, here is a DIY project for you! You will need: – 1 ugly photo or scrapbook album. – 2 sheets of pretty paper. Each should be big enough to cover one side… Read more »

Crafts = Sanity

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As many of you know, one of my favourite things in the whole entire world is crafting. I always feel a bit lost and unproductive if I don’t have a project on the go! Recently I found myself in a head-space that was incredibly bogged down with school work and I was forgetting to allow… Read more »

Stuff and Shopping

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Eeek, it’s been a while! Life is pretty good at the moment, though very busy. It’s major assignment time for uni so that’s my main focus, though it’s hard because I have all these craft project ideas running through my head almost constantly. I haven’t made anything in probably about a month or so and… Read more »

Create a Sibset

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For the last several weeks Elisabeth over at You Can’t Call It “It” has been running a game of sorts. Basically she posted 100 of the 1000 most popular U.S. baby names for boys and 100 for girls then readers had to name quadruplets out of just those names. The quads are two boys and two… Read more »

A couple of names

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In the spirit of Taking a Breather From the Hellish Land of Statistics Assignment and Study, here are two names I am loving at the moment. Atticus This name is gaining some popularity; birth announcements occasionally surprise me. However, the most frequent comments made by people who wouldn’t use the name is “It sounds too… Read more »

Gimme!

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Source Currently bombarding Josh with links to Holga camera auctions. Dropping hints for our anniversary next month. Source But seriously, Holga’s are just such beautiful cameras and the possibilities for each shot are so fantastic. I think it’s so easy to get used to the instant hit of digital and I haven’t played much with… Read more »

30 letters: #3, to my parents

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Dear Mum and Dad, I hardly know what to say to you, other than ‘thank you’. There are so many things you both have done for our family, and for me specifically, that deserve gratitude. Many, many things you don’t always receive a thank-you for. The things we take for granted. To Mum, thank you… Read more »

First day of spring!

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I’m so excited! It’s the first day of spring today and the sun is out, the birds are chirping and I am feeling fantastic. I’m excited about life in general really, which is so wonderful because I have been feeling a bit down lately. More often than not, too, which has been incredibly draining. BUT,… Read more »