Brother Update

This morning …as part of my morning ritual I stumbled out to the bar …with coffee in hand to wake myself up while surfing the net. I made my usual stop at my brother’s blog. As I was reading his blog I was thinking to myself “It is going to have to liven this blog up a bit …cause its getting boring” That thought no sooner left my brain when I about feel off my chair and spilled my coffee. My brother’s blog at this moment could no longer be called boring.

It appears he has a new special someone in his life that he is ecstatic over. I think I can could all the girls he has been ecstatic over on just a few fingers of my hand. I waited till Robert woke up ….so I wouldn’t wake him and then called my brother to get the news right from the horses (brothers) mouth.

I wish him all the happiness in the world ….he knows that. He and I have been through a lot together …and I want him to be happy. It so weird …but I have this strange feeling ….this is it for him.

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Close To My Heart

I have started as a consultant with a WONDERFUL scrapbooking company. I am so looking forward to working with them!

Roki In The Backyard

I couldn't wake up this morning

When I got up this morning I decided to hop on second life for a few minutes. I think it goes without saying that I didn’t make it very far and I had to lay back down in Second Life. I decided to go shopping at the local mall nearest my home to shop for scripts. I couldn’t help myself ....I had to lay down right in middle of the showroom.

Is it Sunday Already?

Talk about the weekend flying by ....GEESH! It was a rainy and cold weekend here ....great for power lounges and naps. The three of us just took it wast this weekend ...I still have plenty of things to do today.

I had many auctions that ended last night on ebay. I always make it a point to get the products shipped within two days. I have found that having my auctions run seven days on ending on a Saturday has both time management and financial benefits. I dropped the drop shipper I had contracted with ....it wasn't working for me. Everything that I thought that could sell after pulling market research reports the company was out of. I am not going to pay for a membership to sell products that are not in stock. I have also made two business decisions that I can't talk about yet until the details are in order ....but it is sooooo exciting. I have already taken steps to move forward ..it just a matter of a little bit more technical eduction on my part.

I had podcasted this past week ..and it is still in post production. I hope to get this published this week. I would also like to record a new podcast and send it to post production so I get it up next week. The one that I publish this week on Pink Camo will be number 1o. That doesn't count the ones I had recorded for "Teach Me to Scrap". I really enjoy podcasting and I am addicted to the whole concept of New Media.

We have two USBC tournaments coming up. One on Weriton and one in Reno. We are looking forward to just getting away.

Work has been okay .....and very busy. This past week was hard on me physically ....I worked a day and a half remote. Sometimes the quietness of my own home is all I need to get over a hurdle. The most diffuculy people I have to work with are the ones that have the passive aggresive thing going on and don't even know it.

I am sitting here watching "Cars" with Brittany and Robert .....is it over yet??? Not my kind of a movie.

Robert found this on You Tube ....UNREAL

I should have done more today

.....but I just didn't feel like going out today. The weather was crappy and I was too comfortable just hanging with hubby. I did spend some time sending more of my ebay store items to auction. I am really suprised how busy it keeps me.

Robert and I are sitting here watching an old movie called War Games.

The baby is resting at my feet. HE is such a baby.

Brittany is with her dad this weekend ...but will be home tomorrow.

Officially on Monday Ron and Dreama will be divorced. Four months from the time shewalked out on Ron ....and I am still having a tough time over losing a friend.

This week a schoolmate of Brittany's was killed in a terrible accident. This is the first time she has had to deal with losing someone her own age.

I had a huge ordeal with the maid service this week ...what a freakin nightmare! Its on the list to talk about it on my podcast this week.

I'm tired tonight .....I shouldn't be ......

My Blog

I love to blog ..and have been blogging for years. Long before there was such a thing called blogging ...I was keeping an online web journal for all my friends and family to see. I have always enjoyed doing it ...I never had any bad experiences as a result of something I wrote.

..then it happened. My co-workers !

Over the past couple months my co-workers have made more visits to my blog than I have. I have known all along from my stat reporter who stops by to visit ..but never really looked at it in detail. Several weeks ago we had two instances where a few comments were left. It was upsetting to both Robert and I ..and it was the last thing we needed at the time.

I have had workers that have no genuine interest wanting to know what was going on ..I have had people I don't really care for ....looking at every picture we have taken. My husbands ex girlfriend whom he doesn't give the time of day to ....made two visits to my blog ..and get this ..her boyfriend also stopped by to see how things were going. I have had managers, friends, bitches, foes,busy bodies and no bodies stop by to see what was up in the SanJulian household. So ..if your reading this ..and you are one of those people that I am referring to I just wanted you to know that I know you have been here nib nosing around. This place is for my family and my friends ...and to the people I invite. I keep my URL's open so that our family can friends can get in here without remembering yet another password.

Robert and I have had to take this a step further because of the comments that were left ..and take it to our Human Resources Department. We also had to make an official request to have all my websites blocked from that domain.

I was probably more shocked than anything to see the number of times these people were looking through our pages. Wow ..I can't imagine how someone could have so much extra time on their hands.

Anyhow ...I thought it was about time I said something now that the cat is out of the bag.

Happy blogging!

Scrapbook - Design Basics

Since ending my TEACH ME TO SCRAP podcast to focus on my Pink Camo podcast ..I didn't want this information to be lost. I had spend a good bit of time pulling this information together for one of my first podcasts. So here you go.

Basic Design Concepts

There are plenty of sites to get layout sketches and floor plans for scrapbooking.

You need to arrange items on your page in a phasing manner

Elements of a Page

1. Pictures
2. Journaling
3. Title or Focal Point
4. Paper
5. Embellishments - The Jewelry of your layout

Dimension
1D - Looking just at flat photographs
2D - Photo plum limited amount of reporter style writing
3D - Memories, photos with journeying ....tells a deeper story.


Everything Starts With A Line

A line connects two pints in space

• Find two elements on one of your favorite pages that repeat, For example, 2 photos, 2 embellishments, 2 areas of journaling.
• Find the imaginary line between them and THAT is your line.

• The reason for lines is to connect areas your page

• Items need to be in 3D / In a triangle
• Everything should be in 3's, in a triangle, 3 lines forming a triangle.

Shapes

• Don't cut your photo's like lucky charms
• Don't mix anything more than 3 any one thing. (fonts, shapes, etc)

Scale

• If you mix large items with small items together on your page ...it could and up unbalance if not placed strategically.
• If you add a very tiny flower next to a photo in a large space ..your photo will look lost.
• You can add the tiny flower on the photo and mat and give the matted photo more visual weight.

Balance (Building a triangle, Design Balance)

• Colors can build balance you can use different hues, shades and tints
• Stuck with balancing colors
• You colors should be balanced with your title and topic

Contrast

• When choosing two shades of the same color select different shades from the opposite ends of the color spectrum.
• Contrast makes things look 3D
• Balance things that are close up with things that are far away (the yin and the yang)

Texture

• Texture is the other balance.
• Use different textures such as: crinkling, textured card stock, marbled paper
• You can also use visually textured embellishments

*** ALWAYS REMEMBER THE RULE OF THREE. YOU WANT TO REPEAT YOUR DESIGN ELEMENT 3 TIMES ON YOUR PAGE IN A TRIANGLE.

White Space

• You need to leave white space for your page to breathe.
• Empty/White space gives a clean feeling and also adds balance
• Think about the page needing needing air and that things could be crowded for the page to breathe.

Mixing Fonts

• Stick to three fonts, for example 1 handwritten and 2 printed.

Textures

• Stamps. buttons, ribbons, flowers, fibers and metals (metals with the same finish)

• By adding an three of these textures the eye can perceive the texture without touching it.
  

• You can also layer papers to create dimension.

***** SCRAPBOOKING = 80% INSTRUCTION AND 20% PERSONAL INTUITION *****