Challenge 21 (Naked)

These are some older photos of Seth at the beach on Hornby Island (Tribune Bay) in 2006. We had joined Shannon and her gaggle of kidlets on their annual March Break visit to Auntie Manda's place. Noah and Seth had never been to Hornby before and it was a place that I spent many summers as a kid. It was pretty special for me to share that with them. Oh, I might point out, the title for this page was not cut by hand, but rather with my Cricut. I love this thing. It maximizes the multi tasking factor like no other tool out there.

Let's see what you guys did with this one...

eye candy

I just stumbled upon this poster for North Island College's Pro Photo students gallery showing. I have had the privilege of posing for a few of them so far and have had a truckload of fun. The most exciting session was by far the one where I got into a pool fully dressed and assumed my "America's Next Top Model" persona and posed (with eyes open) underwater!! Now, that might not sound like much, but considering the fact that I NEVER open my eyes underwater and am strictly a non-dunker and a bit of a chicken in the deep end, this is a serious accomplishment! My oldest son, Noah was posing as well except he got to wear goggles and some very cool Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hand paddles with webbing between the fingers. I can't even tell you how cool some of these pics are gonna be. I don't know if any of the images of me are going to be in the exhibit (although, secretly I'm hoping they are) but you will definitely enjoy some serious eye candy at this show.

The show runs from June 1-16 at the Muir Gallery, 440 Anderton Ave. FMI call 250-334-2983

Opening night is definitely going to be a night to remember. You gotta check these artists out!!

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Design Team

Good morning and happy Saturday!

Today, I'm off to demonstrate at an all day crop in Comox, BC and in all my hustle and bustle of getting ready, I thought I'd just take a minute to extend an invitation to anybody who might be interested in participating on my design team. The idea is that you would be emailed each months' sketches at the beginning of the month, you scrap them & photograph them, email them to me and I post them with each sketch on Fridays. If you are interested in being a part of this very creative and fun group of scrappers, please post here or email me directly with a link to your artwork. The design team will consist of about six or seven artists and two spots have been filled already. This is a great opportunity to both get some personal scrapping done and to get published while you're at it!

The design team will be introduced in the fall and those of you invited to be a part of the group will be notified in early June.

C'mon and get scrappin...send me your stuff guys!

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Nutritional Information

Your Nutritional Information: Servings Per Container: 1
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% Daily Value
Sweetness:	41 g	82%
Bitterness:	283 mg	26%
Power:	12 g	34%
Healthful:	70 mg	28%
Excitement:	222 mg	20%
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Deliciousness:	80%

According to a silly online quiz, the above is my nutritional information. I think it says in a very indirect way that I'm sweet but boring! HAHAHAHA I can't begin to explain how this could possibly have any kind of value to anyone other than the "ha ha" factor. Try one for yourself if you want...go HERE and see what your nutritional information says!

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Challenge 21

Amazing...I'm actually on top of things enough to post today's sketch and not feel that overwhelming sense of impending doom. You know the feeling, it's the one you get just before you decide to procrastinate on something combined with the feeling you get once you've procrastinated!

Now I realize that this sketch is very heavy on the journaling so I urge you to try and do your journaling on the computer to make it all fit. If you are unsure of how to get the columns (which are easier to read that much journaling than straight across the page) set up a table in Word or whatever program you use and just take a second to mark the borders as 'none'. Make sure your columns are either left aligned or fully justified to create that even flow of text. You can even set it up to accommodate the photo in the middle (if you're really skilled with mucking around in your word programs!)

So all that being said, I will post hopefully later today with a page that bears as much journaling as that and show you one way to translate this week's sketch!

If you have problems and need some tech support in the word processing program department, feel free to email!! (after I've posted, so that I have recent experience to draw from!)

Good luck and have fun!
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