I love the whole figuring out the weather process. I think it started in the early days of owning the building business when much of the days work depended on the weather. If we needed to pour a concrete floor, for example, I'd be glued to the rain radar trying to figure out the rain patterns. My fascination has just grown from there. The past three days of hail, thunder, lightening, torrential rain, wind and forecast tornadoes have been a curse as I try and taxi the kids around Kindy and other after school activities but it sure made for exciting watching. Does anyone else have Ken Ring's Predict the Weather for the whole year Almanac? It was meant to be really good. He predicted calm weather for yesterday. It couldn't have been further from the truth. It's entertainment I guess.
Anyway – scrapbooking. I created this layout for the Tarisota Sketch last month. I struggled with it and hated it when I completed it. I guess I wanted more for the topic of the layout. It was something that was fairly personal and I wanted some sort of masterpiece to reflect it's importance. I got over that fairly quickly and I like the layout now. In fact it's probably becoming one of my favourites, probably more for the fact that I got over myself and got the story down rather than dwelling on the masterpiece I thought it deserved. Did that make sense at all? Now I just need to get to work on all those other 'really important' photos that I have put to one side.
I have used these pics before. I wanted to use them again because they are my favourite pics of Jacob.
Here's a texture shot.
Patterned paper by BasicGrey & MME. Transparency by Collections. White letters are the backing from the new foam Heidi Swapp Alphas. Alpha Stamps by Hero Arts. Ink is Taken With Teal by Stampin' Up. Border is the threading water punch. Black alphas by delish – they came in brown but I inked them up. Layout created using the June Tarisota kit.
Another busy weekend for me, the house is being painted inside right now so I'm working around painters. We'll be looking at more cars, I'll be starting and finishing the Kindy album, I'll share pics of that, I have BasicGrey CHA booth stuff to do AND a brand spanking new Tarisota kit to play with.
But right now I'm just a little disappointed at the lack of thunder & lightening. I love the cosiness of falling asleep to the rain.
Laters
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