A big thank you to everyone who voted for me, but unfortunately I didn't win the Scrapbook Layout Contest. But I am a winner just for participating...blah, blah, blah... :) The winning layout can be found by clicking here, and the winner profiled a cat too, so I think it's a good choice. I'm also really impressed with the time it must have taken her to cut out the snowmen from the patterned paper we were given. Congratulations to the winner!
I picked up my layout yesterday and it is now happily in my 2010/2011 scrapbook. I'm still very happy with it, even if it didn't win me first place. The contest led me to purchase and work with brads, which are my new favourite embellishment, so I'm a winner in my own way (...but in a more accurate way, brad manufacturers and the contest winner are the real winners). :P
Posted by Jen B On Tuesday, February 08, 20112 comments
Pet Shop Boys montage/mash up of Pet Shop Boys songs, preformed by...Pet Shop Boys. With support from Lady Gaga. This pleases me on every level. From the 2009 BRIT Awards, this is ten minutes of pure awesome.
Posted by Jen B On Monday, February 07, 2011No comments
I'm at my Mom's this week, and the awesome thing about Mom and Dad's apartment is that it is directly upstairs from my Grandparents apartment. Lots of family fun in this building, that is for sure!
Grandma is knitting herself a sweater right now with a pattern she has from the '80s. There is an amazing photo in the pattern booklet that is just too amazing not to share.
Taken from PatonsAll in the Family pattern booklet (#609) from 1988, this photo has it all. The sweater design and colours, the leather skirt, the giant belt(!!), and especially the wicked walkman with those rocking headphones! (Note: this is definitely not the sweater Grandma is working on).
Being around Grandma when she's knitting is great because I'm always able to pick up something new from her. Spending time with her yesterday, Grandma showed me how to test a pattern's gauge. Ensuring a proper gauge isn't something I've ever done before; partly because I knit simple patterns, and partly because I never learned how! I didn't realize that testing gauge was something you did before you started your project, I thought you incorporated into your project somehow. And because I haven't knit something where gauge really mattered, I never bothered to learn more about it. But thanks to Grandma, now I know all about knitting a swatch before starting a project. Thanks, Grandma! I also found an instructional video from Red Heart Yarn (featured below) in case you want to learn more about testing gauge too (I actually have the tool featured in the video, I've just never used it!)
Posted by Jen B On Wednesday, February 02, 2011No comments
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