The bright days kept on being bright last week!
But with the sun shining through our blinds I noticed something…
… how dirty my windows and blinds were!
You can’t see it on this photo but believe me – two smokers in the house
leave you with a thick layer of nicotine on the windows and blinds…
… and since the bicycle racers in the Tour de France had their day off –
no telecasting on Wednesday – I spend that day cleaning the windows
and the blinds.
Why do I post this, you ask?
Well, for starters – I’m not the “housekeeping kind of woman”.
And second: It took me all day and left me with muscle pain in my arms so yes,
I want the world to know I CLEANED THE BLINDS!! YEAY!
My beloved got infected by this cleaning virus and he decided to go polish
our dining room table on Wednesday evening… I gotta say: he asked first
’cause – as you know – that’s the place where I create.
I had no deadlines waiting and the table really needed a polish so I said
go ahead but ooohhh, it always takes over a day (polish – oil – wait for the
wood to absorb the oil – rub – oil – you get the picture) before we can sit
at the table again so I found myself at a loose end yesterday…
I just didn’t know what to do with myself! I have no problem with having
diner on the couch in front of the TV but did you notice that the BEST
scrapping ideas come when you’re not able to scrap??!!!
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But of course I wouldn’t leave you on a Friday without showing a layout…
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here’s the layout I made as a guest designer for Scrapping the Music.
The song for this week is “Soak Up The Sun” by Sheryl Crowe!
It’s a great summery song with uplifting lyrics and a bright, singable melody.
There’s a beautiful prize package to win this week so check it out!
I made this page in my art journal and there’s paint involved, permanent
markers, copics, scraps from a music sheet, images cut out of magazines…
I think it ended up as a bright and happy page!
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More brightness and happiness, it doesn’t seem to end this week!
Look what the mailman brought just now… happy mail!!!
I did a swap with my friend Danielle.
We agreed to “send
each other a nice
envelope of some
sort.” She filled hers
with pages from the
Saturday Evening
Post from 1948 –
WOWZAH!!!!
I LOVE the adds
and old drawings,
quotes and
cartoons! She also
added some “fake
money”, play cards
(monopoly?) and
bingo cards…
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THANKS SO MUCH SWEETIE!!!
(and it seems I can use the table again to work on this weekend.
I definitely will go and play with all this beauty!!!)
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You might recognize this logo?!
Last February, a bunch of ladies had
a lot of fun during my workshop “Let
it Loose” and many beautiful pages
were created (check the public gallery
on my website.) I planned to repeat
the workshop in May, but with the
Summer coming up, the sun shining
and the flowers blooming all around,
there was not much interest in it.
I postponed it to September then,
thinking that would probably be a
better time – after the Summer
holidays and with the kids going
back to school… I hope I’m right?
Let it Loose starts on September 6
Registration is now open!!!
Check here for more info!
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And here starts my weekend (still 5 more weeks to go before my son returns
from the USA.) I plan on art journaling, watching the Tour de France and
taking it slow. What are your plans? Anyone going to CHA???
Whatever you do, enjoy your weekend!
Je t’embrasse.