Daily Archives: May 7, 2008

Trying something new

I am trying out a new Photoblog template. It changes the background colours based on the colours in your photos. I thought I might just post my P365 photos over there so I have a record of each day. The archive feature just shows the pics which is very cool.

I imported all my P365 posts to see what they look like and some of them look great like this one and this one and this one and this one. Apparently black and white photos get a grey or black background which is a little blah!

Not sure if I’ll keep it up since I often think the story is just as important as the photo but it might be a good way to collate all of my P365 posts in one place. Or maybe Flickr is more than enough and I am just making more work for myself…

Nicole

Keeping it simple

I did scrap a little over the weekend, although let’s face it, NSD is more about shopping than scrapping.

I think I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I have fallen in love with Paislee Press. I just love the clean simplicity of her designs and the fact that I can get a page done in less than 30 minutes and still LOVE the result.

Paislee Press was in the spotlight at Oscraps last week and hosting a few challenges so I took the opportunity to scrap a few very quick pages. The best part is that I had pretty much already done the journaling thanks to my photo a day posts so they were SUPER quick. One of the challenges was to crop a photo in an unusual way (I did two of those) and one was using a very simple template.

This first one was also posted on the Gallery Standouts blog. 🙂 Click on images for credits.

And to close, a few things I am enjoying this week:

  • Ali Edwards Words+Photos week
  • That Holly McCaig from my My Digital Muse days “found” me (and we are both Taureans). MDM was my very first CT and I still miss that store.
  • This artwork – I would love to get three different prints and hang them somewhere in my house. Just need to work out where. They are very girly for a house full of boys and I really don’t have a room to myself.
  • New glass baby bottles that just arrived from Amazon – safe from plastic leeching. (Fingers crossed that this child will nurse well and we can actually start using bottles early – Thomas didn’t have one until he was three months old!)
  • Also this and this (I am nesting)
  • The fact that I am arranging for someone to come and clean my home before my mother arrives next week. (couldn’t face it this weekend – too much to do)
  • $30 in Gift Certificates to Barnes and Noble that I won for some scrapping challenges a little while ago – Need suggestions for a couple of good reads while I am in the hospital please. 
  • That I am in full “clean up” mode at work and starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Have a great Wednesday. (I thought it was Tuesday so I just moved one day closer – whoo hoo!)

Nicole