20 posts tagged “scrapbooking”

I've been tagged by Sean.

Hmmm.  Going to post 8 random facts about myself.  I will try:

1)  I was the last one in my kindergarten class to learn how to tie my shoes.  My Mom still has the gold cardboard shoe with my name on it that I finally received when I mastered the difficult task!  LOL

2)  Zippers and Escalators make me nervous.  Zippers because I could never zip properly when I was young and always had button up coats because of it.  Escalators because one time my rubber boot got caught in one at Sears.  No damage to my foot but the boot was mangled.

3)  I've worked for the same company for 23 years.  (Whoa!!)

4)  My Dad wanted to name me Deidre Ann when I was born, but my Mom named me Kathleen Elsa (her middle name too).  She saved me from being a Dee Dee!!!  Plus I have to very cool initials of KEG!!!  : )

5)  I met Anthony Edwards at the Williams Inn in Williamstown, MA when one of my friends was going to school there.  He was in a play called 'Speed the Plow' at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.  It was after his 'Top Gun' days...so of course the only thing I could come out with was "I cried when Goose died!"   LOL

6)  I have identical twin brothers.  Growing up there were FIVE sets of twins on our street; including on either side of our house.

7)  I am a scrapbooker and started in 2001.  I love to take photos so it was easy to start!

8)  I'm a huge U2 fan.  I've been lucky to see them up and down the East Coast as well as in Hawaii, Ireland and England.  Where will I see them next???!!!

My buddy What-ever is on the West Coast at a huge scrapbooking industry event!!  This is the time of year when companies showcase their new releases and Scrapbooking stores from all over the country arrive in one place to order product for their stores!

Luckily some people are updating their blogs and websites as to what goodies they have seen at the show!

I think my favorite thing I have seen online is the new Heidi Swapp!  Looks like she has come out with some RATHER cool travel items!  I WANT THEM ALL!!!!

New Heidi Swapp goodies

New Heidi!

Heidi goodness!

Show us your favorite arts & crafts project.

Journey

This was one of my favorite classes EVER!  It was with Emily Falconbridge!  She is a wonderful teacher and so VERY creative!  I've got Hawaii photos in this cool project.  It makes me smile every time I look at it!

I can't believe the Creating Keepsakes Scrapbooking Hall of Fame Magazine scandal is still in the news!!!

The Los Angeles Times to be exact.  (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scrapper12jan12,0,2021590.story?coll=la-home-center)

I didn't buy the issue this year.  Just wasn't excited about it like in years past.  Plus the drama kind've turned me off too!!  

So, vacation is over.  I totally enjoyed my time off!  Christmas and New Years were both awesome!

The one thing I did though that made me happiest was to CREATE!

I organized my supplies a little bit more.  I put pages in albums.  I ran out of albums to put pages into even!

I have 59 pages of my December 2006 Hawaii trip that need to go into an album!!

This is what 59 pages look like!

Hawaii Dec 2006

Ok, and here is a peek of two of my pages.

keg in kaui

Honolulu seaside

Show us a magazine to which you subscribe.

I subscribe to TWO scrapbooking magazines......

Creating Keepsakes

BHG Scrapbooks ETC

Ok, So I just finished watching this weeks episode of 'The Office' online; which I missed Thursday night. 

I decided to check out some of my fave sites while sitting here and came across some EXCELLENT Creating Keepsakes Magazine news!

They have a new Dream Team!  One of the members is the one and only and VERY TALENTED Emily Falconbridge!!!  SO HAPPY FOR HER!!!  Wooo hoooooo!!!

Here is the info:

We have a new creative team! We’re excited to announce our first-ever CK Dream Team. They’ve been hard at work for months to bring you inspiring looks you’re going to love:

Allison Davis 

Amanda Probst 

C.D. Muckosky 

Emily Falconbridge 

Emily Magleby 

Ingunn Markiewicz 

Jill Hornby 

Kelly Purkey 

Maggie Holmes 

Tiffany Tillman

Oh WOW.  The Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame debacle has been mentioned in Newsweek magazine.  Now, I'm not sure if it's just the online edition or not...but STILL!!!!  WOW!!

I can remember when scrapping used to be fun!  REALLY!

Here is the article:

If scrapbooking conjures up images of kindly suburban women passing pictures around the kitchen table, then you don't know the modern hobby. Outraged scrapbookers recently forced the industry's top magazine, Creating Keepsakes, to strip a New York woman of its coveted Hall of Fame title after readers noticed a photo credit on one of her layouts. The rules require all entries to be the "sole work" of contestants. But while Kristina Contes admits that she made a mistake, she blames "petty, jealous women" for bullying contest officials into disqualifying her work. "I mean, it's not like I stole someone's boyfriend," says the 28-year-old restaurateur. "This isn't high school."

But it is a cutthroat business. Scrappers spent $2.6 billion on supplies last year, according to the Craft & Hobby Association, and one in four households contains a scrapbooker, making it more popular than golf. The Hall of Fame award can bring celebrity status, TV appearances and teaching jobs. After Contes declined to return her title voluntarily, irate hobbyists smeared her on blogs and threatened to flood her restaurant with fake reservations. "The b–––h doesn't have a moral bone in her body," wrote a commenter on the Scrap Smack blog. Over on the Creating Keepsakes Web site, angry readers cried cover-up and threatened boycotts when editors deleted unkind comments about the company from the site's discussion boards. "I wanted an explanation," says Noell Hyman, who was among the first to question Contes's work. She got more than that: Contes and another woman whose work was questioned have been replaced in the 25-member Hall of Fame class for 2007. "Women prove time and again that they are ridiculous, vile creatures," says Contes. She plans to retreat from the scissors-and-glue game—but she'll always have the memories.