I freakin' LOVE Modcloth.

Check out the sweet autumn duds at Modcloth (http://www.modcloth.com/) !

I lust after this jacket....

oooo... and this one:

And I am hot for these dresses. (particularly the teal one)....

and these shoes....

And I wish I knew a closet drinker so I could buy her this pretty little flask to keep in her purse (but I guess if I knew all about her habit then she wouldn't be a closet drinker now, would she? Hmmmmmm....

And although I look at these and can hear them screaming WEDGIE, this girl knows that sometimes you need to suffer for fashion. Aren't they pretty?

Now go check out their stuff. I will admit that some of the merchadise is entirely unwearable by women of a certain age (read over 30), but they certainly are fun!

Some New layouts

Alright lady (because I am pretty sure that there's only one person who reads this =P )... here are a few new layouts. I fixed up the earlier posted "dental hygiene" post, but the pics were very poor in quality, so i will retake them tomorrow.

So here goes....

The family layout was made with a flyer for a local nightclub advertising a Sunday night party on Family Day weekend. I loved the flyer. It begged to be screapped.

More tomorrow (or soon after) =)

I am a deliquent

Seriously.... February is the last time I wrote anything on this bolg? Wow!
Well, summer has been BUSY! In a good way.
I took a couple of scrap classes and we're doing the countdown to a scrapping getaway in October... plus a Christmas card day like last year. That was fun!
Anyway, no pics of my creations right now becuase they're saved on a different computer, but I do have some new things to share.
In the meantime, I will post these beauties.... plates featuring the artwork of early Twentieth-Century designer, Pietro Fornasetti (yes, more Italy love!)

Books I wanna get my crafty paws on.

Alrighty... I've broken my resolution to blog at least once a week. Bummer~~I am not all that bent out of shape about it really. I rarely make resolutions, so I was kidding myself that I could follow through.

One of the reasons I haven't blogged much is that I haven't been scrapping much. Last weekend my creative endeavor was to shorten a dress I got at the clothing show into a tunic shirt. The dress had an odd yoke in the stomach that I evened out, but then the dress was so short it barely covered my butt. I am pretty happy with the results and wore it to work on Monday (its in the laundry or else I'd take a pic and post it now. I'll be sure to do that next week).

The sewing project has me interested in sewing again. I love the idea of taking my old clothes and making something new and fun out of them. There are a few books I would love to have a peek at.

I think they're all available at the Toronto Public Library, and if they're as great as I hope they are, I will probably swing by the Indigo to grab my own copies. I'll let you know how things pan out.

I'll keep you posted ... oh! That was punny! I'm such a geek.

=P

Scrapmojo Challenge #8

You know how they say the camera adds 10 lbs? Well, in the case of the scrapbook page I completed for the latest Scrapmojo challenge, the camera seems to have made my layout look a little on the skimpy side.

Whan I was add the last little bits this afternoon, I was quite pleased with the final outcome. I didn't want o go overboard and overembellish (unseemly! LOL), but now after posting it in my Two Peas gallery, it just looks so bare and boring to me.

Any suggestions?

Scrap your garbage (and recycle the scraps)

Today we had a snowday, and the evening plans to go see Enter the Haggis were cancelled =(

Happily we'll all be able to get together tomorrow night.

I took the time off today to do a bit of cleaning, and ended up with tidying my sCRAP desk and catch up on my craft blog-stalking.

I read last week about Ali Edwards' challenge to incorperate junk mail in youir layouts. She did a cool layout that I can't find now! Grrr. I should really learn how to bookmark all the cool pages I come actross.

Anyway, here's mine. I used a flyer we recieved in the mail for a new townhouse complex going up in the neighboorhood.










I backed the clear buttons with images of windows from the ad. Sadly the whole layout doesn't photograph very well because of the sheen on the paper. Oh well, what can I say? At least it was free. =)

Two Layouts; one old-ish, one brand-spankin' new

I am officially the slowest scrapbooker in the known world. It took me all day to finish one page... and by finish, I mean I started parts of it a few days ago, but only completed it today. =)

Here is the masterpiece:

I am not usually a "hidden journaling" kind of girl, but this one kind of demanded that approach.

The photo is of the itinerant produce market that would role into the street, right outside our window (you can see it just past the hotel sign). This is just one of the many, many benefits of staying in a residential area, where Venetians live. Throughout the tourist-y parts of Venice, the sidewalks roll up at 9:30, but in Canareggio, we would see many people out and about walking and chatting, little children running and riding their bikes in the piazza well into the night. it was lovely.

So that's my new page... here's the "not-so-new" one. I was over at a friend's this past weekend and we were talking about scrappin'. I told her about a page I did and pointed here to this blog to check it out. Funny thing.... I never posted it! Heeheehee, oops!

So, with no further delay...........

I am so in love with these little felt flowers I scored AT THE DOLLER STORE! Gotta love it!