Laura Vegas

so, first we have the scrapping good:

• got my august/september issue of scrapbooks etc today. i have a layout in the "readers rock" section … which is where editors pick a few of their favorite layouts of the month. and what’s even cooler is who picked mine … my scrapping idol, erin! so fun to see what she wrote about my layout design. it’s a layout of ady … but you can’t actually see her face in any of the pictures. i loved that layout … it was one of my first 9×9 layouts and it was the first photo collage i had ever made.
• i got a layout picked up yesterday for the december issue of scrapbook trends. it was a recent layout i did … one of my favorites (if you’re a regular reader of my blog … you can probably figure out which one is missing. lol!). i was so happy to get the request … hadn’t had one in a while. i was beginning to wonder if it was the new layout size … thought maybe the magazines weren’t going for the 9×9 size as much. other than the "busy" one of ady that just came out … i’ve only had 12×12 layouts picked up recently. but i guess it’s not the case after all.
• i placed a huge photo order a few days ago. most of them are for the girls. but so good to get all those done with … and 4 big folders of pictures off my computer. lol! and i mentioned i was going to order new pictures for the wall in the playroom … but i procrastinated on actually placing the order. sometimes it’s good to put things off … all 8×10’s are half price at winkflash right now. so that means they’re only 99 cents. great deal since i need 15 prints.
• i have 3 big project started right now … and they’re piled all over the place. lol! i had some creative "mojo" going and got a good start on all of them.

and now the scrapping bad . . .

• whatever creative "mojo" i had … has escaped me. lol! i swear i havn’t touched hardly anything in about 3 days. i keep looking at it. i keep walking by it. i keep thinking about it. but nothing comes to me. i can’t get my head wrapped around any ideas. so this weekend i need to bust my butt to get going. i want to get everything done by sunday … since it is due monday. and lord knows it takes me longer to photograph and prepare them than it actually takes me to scrap them. lol!
• my trimmer still stinks. i think i mentioned this months ago … and asked about any suggestions. i just want something that will cut straight and clean. i keep putting new blades in there and it’s just shredding my papers. in fact … i actually resorted to distressing all the edges of my papers on one of the projects … just so it would match the edge that the trimmer so kindly "distressed" itself. lol!
• i need adhesive. lots of adhesive. i hate buying it … there are funner and cuter things that i’d rather spent my money on … and adhesive is not one of them. and it’s so expensive. i miss dina having her store and giving me my "teacher discount" … such a better deal. but at the same time … it is important. it is after all the stuff that holds all the yummy papers and embellishments together. lol!

that’s all i’ve really got for you at the moment. i feel like i lost my "blogging mojo" too. lol! am i boring you lately? i feel boring … and i feel like all i do is gripe … even if it is about adhesive and trimmers. what all do you want me to blog about … do you have any questions for me? give me some ideas. lol!