Elf Paper: September 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Grim Grinning Ghosts

I saw these products and knew that I needed them. I teasingly asked my friend and CTMH rep if she knew why I needed them? "Ummm Halloween???" she guessed.

NO.

These products were MEANT for the Haunted Mansion!!!

The products in question are Close To My Heart's Mischief "Workshop on the Go" (which includes papers, stamps, and felt shapes) (page 49 of the 2011 Fall Catalog)

There's another Haunted Mansion story that I mean to scrapbook someday - when I was a kid my parents had a record (that's a big piece of plastic from which you coax sounds with a needle, for you kids too young to remember records) with the Song and Story of the Haunted Mansion, on one side, and Donald Duck's Trick or Treat on the other. On Halloween night, every year, they'd prop the speakers from our front room stereo system into the front windows and play the record all night long for the delight of Trick or Treaters. Except that I was TERRIFIED of the Haunted Mansion story (and yes Mike IS Ron Howard!).... when I say terrified I mean, I would not go NEAR my house while it was playing but would wait until the record was flipped to Donald Duck before returning home. At some point, my brother caught on that I would not go near the house while HM was playing... and started to play it over and over. I sat down in a neighbor's yard and bawled my eyes out, because I could NOT go home. He thought this was HILARIOUS. Brothers are evil.

It's nearly October, are you thinking Spooky?

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Last Summer we took a camping vacation on the Western Slope of Colorado. We camped near the North Rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. I had been to the Black Canyon as a teenager but did not remember how enormous and awe inspiring it really was! (Plus how freaking terrifying!!! In these photos we are standing 1800 feet over the bottom of the Canyon. I cannot deal well with this kind of heights!)

"No other canyon in North America combines the narrow opening, sheer walls, and startling depths offered by the Black Canyon of the Gunnison."

Aside from the Kraft Background, most of the product here is October Afternoon's: Campfire Line. Once again, I'm working with a mini pad (8x8) and stretching to make 12x12 LOs with it. The buttons are CTMH, the alphas are American Crafts, OA, and Crate Paper. The stitching stamps are CTMH. And I started out with a sketch from Sketch Savvy - my photos had different orientations than hers and I had a lot more TITLE but it was a great jumping off point!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Wordless Wednesday

Don't worry, this probably won't be a regular feature as I'm not good at Wordless :) See... I had to SAY Something. Autumn is coming!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

15,330

15,330 - That's the number of pages Good Reads says I have read so far this year (I don't enter the number of pages, it's just going from its records of how many pages are in the books I've marked as read).

I reached my goal of 40 books (though that does include some of the books that I've read with/to my kids, it doesn't include all of them; nor the cookbooks, or the curriculum planning, and the samples I've read on my nook but not purchase yet, or the ten bazillion re-readings of America the Beautiful, it does include some that I re-read - like the Hobbit, but not others, like Anne of Green Gables, just whatever it occurred to me to log). So, anyway I upped my goal for the year to 45. I'd like to think I'll read more than 5 more books this year but I am trying to keep it manageable!