Katie the Scrapbook Lady

what’s on your… a borrowed prompt

I found this prompt on Ali Edwards’ blog and thought it was a good one to capture a slice of my everyday life right now.

 

Here’s what’s on my…

VANITY | I guess my bathroom counter is my vanity and it’s almost empty right now. When you have your house up for sale (even if it’s under contract) you really can’t keep your personal belongings out in the open. Just a nice chrome lotion dispenser and my favorite automatic soap dispenser.

PERENNIAL TO DO LIST | Plan garden boxes (this time for a new yard). Sort through everyone’s clothing – donate old items, decide what new items need to be purchased, mend pieces that need repairs. Work on new releases for National Scrapbook Day sale (starts on May 1st). Prepare list of summer activities to do with kids.

REFRIGERATOR SHELVES | Chobani Greek yogurt, Sambozan superfood smoothies and juices, leftover veggie farfalle, a lot of condiments and not much else.

ITINERARY | Planning to travel to New Mexico in the summer. We will be spending a week at Bear Lake with my husband’s family. We will also make our yearly visit to the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

FANTASY ITINERARY | a warm beach somewhere – all of our beach vacations in the last decade have been to colder Oregon beaches (still beautiful) or to San Diego during a rare cold spell. I would really like to just sit on a warm and sunny beach for awhile.   

PLAYLIST | Mumford & Sons – I will wait, The Lumineers – Ho Hey, Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten, One Direction – You’re Beautiful (don’t judge), lots of 80’s music.

NIGHTSTAND | only a lamp (staged house right now)

WORKOUT PLAN | I think about working out. I wish that burned calories.

IPHONE | Instagram, facebook, Daily Digi, and probably close to 100 other apps sorted into folders (I will blog about these)

TOP 5 LIST | Hanging out with my hubby & kids, sunny days, making memories, taking photos, and digital scrapbooking

BUCKET LIST | a train trip all the way up the west coast, foreign travel with my kids, getting both of my kids through college, lose the extra weight I’ve been carrying around, get “caught up” on my kids scrapbooks, find time to relax and enjoy life.

MIND | Lots of scrapbooking and design projects. I have way more ideas than time! New house planning, old house selling. Garden and landscape dreams.

BLOGROLL | my parents blogs, The Daily Digi, The Digi Show (comments), Capturing Magic, One Little Bird, Listgirl, Capture Your 365, Ali Edwards, Becky Higgins, How About Orange, and a few hundred more. I follow a lot of designers and digi store blogs.

WALLS OF YOUR FAVORITE ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE | Since I’m busy dreaming of my new house, I’m going to list my favorite paint choices there. We painted the dining room with Sherwin Williams Rocky River and I absolutely love it!

LIQUOR SHELF | I don’t drink

LAST CREDIT CARD STATEMENT | We have no credit card debt and we don’t use them. Very happy about this!

SCREENSAVER | This one I found via Free People. It’s happy and cheerful.

TV EVERY NIGHT | We don’t watch tv every night, we mostly catch up on our shows over the weekend (Survivor, Top Gear, Mythbusters, Once Upon a Time, some Big Bang Theory). I usually watch an animated movie on my iPad as I go to sleep. I’m a kid at heart and I love Disney and Pixar classics.

 

Thanks to Ali (and her sister) for the inspiration!

 

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Fast Fifteen

 

Here are 15 quick questions to ask and/or answer. Such a great way to get journaling material! I’ve included my own responses in case you ever wanted to know any of this stuff.

1. Favorite Color – currently a light teal like grayed jade
2. Favorite Movie or TV Character – Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates movies
3. Favorite Candy –  almond m&ms
4. Favorite Drink – I love plain water with ice
5. Favorite Flower – daffodils
6. Favorite Collection – Lego minifigures
7. Favorite Food – cookies
8. Favorite Animal – our golden retriever Ginger who passed away in 2011
9. Favorite Movie – Finding Nemo
10. Favorite TV Show – Friends
11. Favorite Season – Fall
12. Hobbies & Talents – Digi Scrapping, blogging, photography, reading, collecting Disney pins, sewing, playing board games, & being with my family
13. Anywhere in the world I would like to be or go – the beach
14. What I love to wear – my Yellowstone sweatshirt
15. A way I like to relax – taking a nap!

 

Feel free to copy and paste this for your own blog, journal, or scrapbook page. Of course, you will want to change the answers…unless you are just like me! lol!

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Same time last year

The cool thing about blogging for 7 years is that I have 7 years of archives to look back through. Every once in awhile, I like to look and see what I was doing on the same day a year ago.

November 14, 2011

I found this one quite ironic since my son is in the exact same position right now as I’m typing this. He must get really tired each year on November 14th! Last year I posted about “mini memories” and I guess that’s kind of what I’m posting about today.

 

November 14, 2010

I was starting off my gift giving guide week on my blog. Hmmmm, I guess I should get working on that for this year! lol!

 

November 14, 2009

I wrote about meeting digi friends in real life and my experience of attending a local digi crop.

 

November 14, 2008

I didn’t actually blog on November 14, 2008. I took a few days off around that time. I wrote a post about 10 of my favorite things a few days after that. That’s always a good writing prompt!

 

November 14, 2007

I took down most of my November 2007 posts because they were all about my digital designs that have been retired. It was easier to do that instead of answering emails about where to get the products that are no longer available. I’ll link back to my November roundup instead. It’s always interesting to go back and read an old roundup!

 

November 14, 2006

The same issue as November of 2007, a lot of those posts have been deactivated. I do have a funny post from that November about how different things would be if women ruled the world!

 

November 14, 2005

I had only started blogging at the end of October 2005. The first few posts were all about linking to digital products that have long since disappeared from digi land so I deleted them. I’m going to link up to one of my first posts instead titled “Remember Why I Scrap”. I need to make myself re-read this one every few months to stay on track!

 

What were you doing on this same day last year? How about the year before that? If you don’t have a blog, do you have a calendar you can look at? I’ve been using Google Calendar since 2010, so I can actually go back and look up what I was doing on specific dates since that time. I wish I had discovered that sooner!

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50 States and 50 Iconic Foods

 

I’m always fascinated by topics like this one – what are the iconic foods of each state? Some of them were obvious to me, either because I had been there or because the reputation is just so strong. I would have been shocked if Green Chiles were not listed for New Mexico. That’s a no brainer!

 

I really thought that Fry Sauce would be the iconic food for Utah, but I should have known that our reputation for Jell-O consumption would prevail.

And for the record, not everyone from Utah eats Jello. We never eat it in my house. It’s more like something that shows up at funeral dinners. I don’t like a lot of Jello dishes, but I do like the pretzel salad. Here’s a good recipe if you want to try it for yourself.

 

It’s interesting to go through the list and see what you have tried. There are a few that I don’t plan on ever eating (Rocky Mountain Oysters!) I also ran into a few that I had never heard of before (Apizza, Spam Musubi, Chislic). I can think of a lot of ideas for using this list. Wouldn’t it be fun to eat each food in conjunction with a study of each state? Even better, what about traveling to each state and eating the iconic food while you were there? I think this would also be a great list to scrap about. You could document which foods you’ve eaten and what you thought of them. I love to include lists like this one in our scrapbooks!

 

P.S. You could also add these 50 foods on to the 100 Things to Eat Before You Die list and keep yourself busy for quite some time!

Color games and quizzes

Sometimes I just enjoy a fun little diversion like a color personality quiz. I always say that I’m doing it for the “scrapbooking material” but I’ll admit that some of what I’m doing is just procrastinating all the other things I really SHOULD be doing. If you want to do some “research” for your own scrapbook, here are a few little color quizzes to take.

• What color are you?
• What color do you feel?
• Colorstrology

 

Here are my results:

you are palegreen #98FB98

Your dominant hue is green. You're logical and steadfast, focused on figuring life out and doing what makes sense. You value being trusted because you know you're taking the time to figure things out and everyone should just follow you. Your saturation level is lower than average - You don't stress out over things and don't understand people who do. Finishing projects may sometimes be a challenge, but you schedule time as you see fit and the important things all happen in the end, even if not everyone sees your grand master plan. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

 

 

 

 

It would seem that the cool greens and blues paired with earthy tones are representative of my personality. I’m ok with that because I love all of those colors. What color are you?

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