Zyzygy in my life-Words, Love and Razor Blades

Flashback: In high school I made an alphabet book with pictures cut and glued from magazines, I still do this, it's now my profession-who new?

So the word I chose for "Z" was zyzygy-when 3 or more heavenly bodies align.

I love this word and I love when things coincide especially in irony.

So what has aligned you ask? Words, love and razor blades.

Click on image to read about it and where you can get it!

I got this fabulous silver razor blade with a heart cut out in the center necklace (which I LOVE for Christmas. Incidentally designed by a fellow Pratt grad!

Simultaneously I was reading "Sharp Objects" (with a razor blade on the cover) by Gillian Flynn. Stephanie Klose wrote about how she couldn't put it down on her blog- so when someone says that I generally take that as a good book, and I LOVED it!


So my love of the words of the book and (the words she cuts into her body) combined with razor blades and my new jewelry all just aligned!

There you have it.

Maze Book -work in progress

I learned to make a maze book recently. If you don't know what that is check out The Scrapbook Lounge Episode: The Maze Book
Now you may be think OK, that's cute but, this is what I learned. If you are on a Mac (and maybe this works on a PC but I don't know) if you go into iPhoto and go to the print window, if you select 16 photos per page, they come out just the right size to fit nicely in a maze book made from a standard 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper!

Holiday Scrapping by non-scrappers

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, all the non scrappers were scrapping with a beer in their hand and a twinkle in their eye!

Let me start the tale with a prologue.

A few weeks ago a co-worker decided that everyone needed a "Spice Girl" name. She dubbed herself "Snarky-spice". I of course chose "Plaid-spice"

Now back to the narrative of the evenings goings on.

Here you see "Fluffy-Spice" (left) and "Full-throttle-spice" (right) deep into making their daughter a card bequeathing unto her dance lessons.

What a team effort! After complete success it was "down the hatch!"
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Now irony ensued, arguably biggest man in the room, "Two-Spice" chose the smallest punch/tool to experiment with.

I think he had total success with his new found love of paper punches. His wife, "Too-Spicy" was the bearer of tiny treasures from a big heart!
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And finally necessity is the mother of invention and a scalloped punch, a large circle punch and a few pictures from a Maxim magazine were combined to make these sexy coasters. Recyclers out there know no bounds!!

Now what do I do?

I made these cool double sided "slides" with images from a stock photo catalog I found in a thrift store and a punch from McGill and I love them. But my question is what do I do with them?

Anyone , anyone? Bueller, Bueller?

The First rule of Scrapbooking is -Make a mess

The crafters of me (AKA my parents) went to Paris recently and my mom decided I should be the one to assemble the scrapbook of said trip. She did a good job of sending the photos and their coordinating memorabilia in individual Ziploc baggies. I of course didn't know what went with what, especially since everything was in French.

The biggest challenge was the album she sent had pre-cut widows but the catch- no horizontal openings and the majority of their photos were landscape format. So I matted a lot of the photos and had to get a bit creative with flaps and layering.

I hope they like it!