Another Disney Page

I am enjoying posting to my blog every day, even though I'm the only one who reads it. Maybe some day someone will go back and read these posts. In the meantime, it's like my online journal, only with more moderating whining.

This is one of the pages I made for the Disney album.. I like the way it came out. I had forgotten I was doing an 12 X 12 album and did some 8X10 layouts. Oh, well. I can print them as 12X12. For some reason I think the 8X10 is more aesthetically pleasing.

Digi scrapping = fun

Disney Black and White Page

These are the pages I've recently created for our Disneyland scrapbook. My parents took us to Disneyland, so I thought it would be nice to give them an album, too. Digital pages seemed the best possibility, as I can scrap once and print twice - once for me and once for them. I have a number of pages done for this album, but got these finished tonight and wanted to post them.

I am trying to keep the Disney album pretty simple - black, white and red for the most part with just a couple embellishments per page.

Digital Scrapbooking

This was one of my first digital pages. I started a scrapbook about me so that my children will know something about me. All of our scrapbook pages are about the kids, and my husband has one for his plays. This way, my kids can one day read a little about their mother. I love digital scrapbooking, but still love the paper and scissors scapbooking (which is good, considering the amount of money I've invested in traditional scrapbooking supplies).



This particular page was inspired by a twopeas challenge to scrap your wish list. It was intended to be about Christmas wish lists, but that's the great thing about challenges: anything can come of them. TFL!

Sizing . . . Grrr

Why, I ask, do pattern company measurements not work? I sewed the front gores of the Butterick skirt together and the back gores. All seemed fine until I put the invisible zipper in and realized the skirt was going to fall right off my hips if I didn't take it in.

I have gained weight and no longer fit into the size 14 that I had made for years. Because of this, I have been procrastinating making anything vaguely fitted. So I took the plunge and cut a size 20, per the envelope sizing guide. Now I get to go back and sew the side seams at a very large seam. Hopefully the skirt will look properly proportioned, as I don't want to go back and rip the seams on all the other seams and restitch.

I'm frustrated and wish that I could rely on the pattern sizing measurements of accurate sizing. Soon, I'll hopefully either lose weight or have my new size down pat. We'll see.

Pinstriped skirt

Well, my USB port is down, so I can't upload pics at the moment. I have a new project. The fabric is a maroon rayon pants-weight with gray and black pinstripes that my mother picked up in San Diego last year. It was supposed to be pants (I was going to use the Sandra Betzina pattern that was fitted to me at her workshop), but the rayon fabric shrank too much.

So I decided to make a skirt using the Butterick 4620 pattern. I think it will work nicely.

Today I spent time threading the machine, marking fabric and testing stitches. All that not-so-fun-but-necessary stuff. I decided to serge all the edges now so that I can press the seams open. The seams look much better that way. Hopefully, I get this project done soon. My mom bought the fabric a year ago. I'd like to show her that it's actually being made. Plus, research papers come in in a couple weeks, at which point life as I know it comes to a halt.