Supplies:
Yo Ho! Yo Ho! - Emily Merritt
Checkerboard frame - mine
I know it's no great spectacular, but I'm back on the scrapping wagon and I'm pleased with it. And that's all that matters, isn't it?
Monday, 29 March 2010
A Layout!
Finally. Finally completed a layout. Finally getting back to what I love doing.
Friday, 19 March 2010
RIP HD
My iMac hard drive is no more...
And just when I was going to start to get back in to my blogging. Ty-pi-cal! Anyway, this is not going to stop me because I've still got my Macbook which, although frustrating sometimes because it's smallish (I did want the big Macbook but budget couldn't stretch unfortunately), is good enough to let me get done what I need to get done.
OK, I've broken the blog silence, phew! Will post a catch up post later today to bring you all up to speed with what's been going on in our abode.
PS iMac is in for repair and will hopefully be back in my loving arms shortly :D
And just when I was going to start to get back in to my blogging. Ty-pi-cal! Anyway, this is not going to stop me because I've still got my Macbook which, although frustrating sometimes because it's smallish (I did want the big Macbook but budget couldn't stretch unfortunately), is good enough to let me get done what I need to get done.
OK, I've broken the blog silence, phew! Will post a catch up post later today to bring you all up to speed with what's been going on in our abode.
PS iMac is in for repair and will hopefully be back in my loving arms shortly :D
Friday, 29 January 2010
Teenager Talk
Having a teenager in the home is a little like visiting a foreign country sometimes. An english speaking country that is but one that does have it's own unique words and phrases for some things that leaves you not a little confused sometimes.
We experienced this a little whilst living in Canada. Life would be running along smoothly and then you'd need to get something or have something particular done. You'd ask someone and they would just look at you as if you've just popped down to earth from the planet Zog!
"Minced beef? Minced beef? No, sorry have no idea what you're talking about."
"You know, it's sort of beef but minced up in to tiny little pieces?"
"Errmmmm...?"
"You can make beef burgers with it?"
"Beef burgers?"
"You know, those round things in a bun, like you buy at McDonalds?"
Oh, you mean hamburgers?"
"Yes! Minced beef."
"You mean ground beef!"
"Yes! Where do you keep the ground beef?"
"Sorry, we're out of stock..." (OK, the bit about being out of stock is a complete fabrication but the rest was true).
So, all this is basically just to say that teenagers have a whole other language sometimes. In fact sometimes I have no idea what number 1 daughter is talking about! And words have changed - yes I know it's been a long time since I was a teenager and so I can't expect to know the current 'lingo' but honestly... apparently you are no longer billy-no-mates but you're a larry (larry the loner).
Anyway, the other night Harriet came downstairs highly amused at the sight that she had seen upon entering our bedroom... (no, don't go there, it's not what you think!)... and found Richard reading one of Kat's magazines du jour - Sugar if my memory serves me correctly. It was research, apparently, to find out whether the content of the magazine was suitable for a young teenage girl (I love this about him, that he takes his role as a father seriously enough to subject himself to the vacuous writings of a teen girl magazine just to make sure his daughter is safe and protected). The conclusion he reached was that he supposed it was 'ok' which then led on to a general chat about the magazine contents, one regular feature of which is the 'Blurd of the Month' - 'cause using two words is so last season.
Basically this consists of blurring/mixing two words together to create a new one. The first magazine we picked up to look at had a word, or should I say blurd, that so accurately describes the state of Kat's room that last year instead of putting the plain cream carpet we were laying in all the bedrooms we considered buying her a carpet with a discarded clothing pattern! And the word?
Floordrobe
Derivative: floor + wardrobe.
Definition: to turn one's floor into a wardrobe by dumping clothes on it.
So a new word has entered our home. "Kat can you take your clean laundry upstairs and put it away properly - not in the floordrobe!"
We experienced this a little whilst living in Canada. Life would be running along smoothly and then you'd need to get something or have something particular done. You'd ask someone and they would just look at you as if you've just popped down to earth from the planet Zog!
"Minced beef? Minced beef? No, sorry have no idea what you're talking about."
"You know, it's sort of beef but minced up in to tiny little pieces?"
"Errmmmm...?"
"You can make beef burgers with it?"
"Beef burgers?"
"You know, those round things in a bun, like you buy at McDonalds?"
Oh, you mean hamburgers?"
"Yes! Minced beef."
"You mean ground beef!"
"Yes! Where do you keep the ground beef?"
"Sorry, we're out of stock..." (OK, the bit about being out of stock is a complete fabrication but the rest was true).
So, all this is basically just to say that teenagers have a whole other language sometimes. In fact sometimes I have no idea what number 1 daughter is talking about! And words have changed - yes I know it's been a long time since I was a teenager and so I can't expect to know the current 'lingo' but honestly... apparently you are no longer billy-no-mates but you're a larry (larry the loner).
Anyway, the other night Harriet came downstairs highly amused at the sight that she had seen upon entering our bedroom... (no, don't go there, it's not what you think!)... and found Richard reading one of Kat's magazines du jour - Sugar if my memory serves me correctly. It was research, apparently, to find out whether the content of the magazine was suitable for a young teenage girl (I love this about him, that he takes his role as a father seriously enough to subject himself to the vacuous writings of a teen girl magazine just to make sure his daughter is safe and protected). The conclusion he reached was that he supposed it was 'ok' which then led on to a general chat about the magazine contents, one regular feature of which is the 'Blurd of the Month' - 'cause using two words is so last season.
Basically this consists of blurring/mixing two words together to create a new one. The first magazine we picked up to look at had a word, or should I say blurd, that so accurately describes the state of Kat's room that last year instead of putting the plain cream carpet we were laying in all the bedrooms we considered buying her a carpet with a discarded clothing pattern! And the word?
Floordrobe
Derivative: floor + wardrobe.
Definition: to turn one's floor into a wardrobe by dumping clothes on it.
So a new word has entered our home. "Kat can you take your clean laundry upstairs and put it away properly - not in the floordrobe!"
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Plugging This
My nearest and dearest know that I am a gadget girl. I love gadgets. I love new and improved technology. I love the allure of something that looks like it will make your life easier, usually it doesn't, but I am drawn to it like a magnet hoping that it might.
And I think about gadgets a lot of the time. Wouldn't it be easier if such and such could work or look that way, or this way, instead of how it currently works or looks?
Well the British plug is one of those things that has annoyed me over the years, especially after living in Canada. Our plugs are so bulky. Horrible, chunky, 'take up so much room' bulky! I have a lovely set of hair straighteners, slim, thinline, small, but the plug? How much bigger could it be? North American plugs on the other hand are reasonably small. Kitchen appliances can be tidied away so much easier, so too can hair tools!
Browsing the internet today I came across the following on the James Dyson Award pages, an international design award to celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. Check out the video below.
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How cool is that? Pity that it doesn't look like it could be retro fitted on to appliances but it's certainly something that I think could change the face of the British plug - for the better!
And I think about gadgets a lot of the time. Wouldn't it be easier if such and such could work or look that way, or this way, instead of how it currently works or looks?
Well the British plug is one of those things that has annoyed me over the years, especially after living in Canada. Our plugs are so bulky. Horrible, chunky, 'take up so much room' bulky! I have a lovely set of hair straighteners, slim, thinline, small, but the plug? How much bigger could it be? North American plugs on the other hand are reasonably small. Kitchen appliances can be tidied away so much easier, so too can hair tools!
Browsing the internet today I came across the following on the James Dyson Award pages, an international design award to celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. Check out the video below.
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How cool is that? Pity that it doesn't look like it could be retro fitted on to appliances but it's certainly something that I think could change the face of the British plug - for the better!
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Simples
OK, so turns out it wasn't too long a job to sort out my blog as I did have a copy of my files on my home computer. Yay. Simples.
Apologies for the blogging tardiness but I'm blaming the snow days, impending major life changes and all that that has entailed. Normal service will be resuming shortly and I have some blog posts already written, well, I say written, they're in my head waiting to be written so watch this space.
Among the many posts to come in the next week or so I will be bringing you some Freebie Friday digital freebies, shoes in fridges, happiness and an update on my 17 Again post, along with telling you my big life changing decision!
Apologies for the blogging tardiness but I'm blaming the snow days, impending major life changes and all that that has entailed. Normal service will be resuming shortly and I have some blog posts already written, well, I say written, they're in my head waiting to be written so watch this space.
Among the many posts to come in the next week or so I will be bringing you some Freebie Friday digital freebies, shoes in fridges, happiness and an update on my 17 Again post, along with telling you my big life changing decision!
Friday, 22 January 2010
Arrrrgggghhhh!
No idea what has happened to my blog. The only thing I can think of is I updated to the new version of Wordpress and it overwrote everything with the default styles... so annoying... and I don't have time to fix it at the moment as I have too many other things to do (more on some of this later).
First off I have to complete my tax return... I may be a while...
First off I have to complete my tax return... I may be a while...
Saturday, 9 January 2010
A-Ma-Zing
This amazing image was taken by Nasa's Terra satellite on Thursday (7th January 2010). Really brings home how cold the UK is at the moment. Truly awesome.
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