Weekendness

[same_sky]

It's been a good weekend, although I'm wishing that it wasn't so short. I fell asleep on the couch last night before I got around to posting. I seem to do that a lot. Magnus makes me sleepy and gives me hiccups. It's so weird.

We went to the bluegrass festival thingie in town yesterday and then on to Lexington to shop. We didn't buy all that much, though. We stopped first to see an instrument display at the Folk Art Center. Ken (of Silver Angel fame) was there, along with three other luthiers. Magnus got to pick at the ones on display, which he was intensely happy about, and then Ken showed up and we talked to him for quite some time. It was the first time M got to really talk mandolin building to someone, which was good. I think it's so funny how into mandolins and bluegrass the boy's gotten since he moved here. It's certainly nothing he was into before!

Anyway. Lexington. I bought five pieces of photo paper (trial pack, $2, couldn't resist it even if I don't really need it) and a scrapbook album. I mentioned last week that I'd been sorting fonts and I had a project simmering that I wasn't ready to ramble about yet. I'm going to start on scrapbooking. I'm not doing the traditional sort, though.. I'm doing computer scrapbooking. I've resisted the temptation to get into scrapbooking before for a wide variety of reasons, including: A) Expensive crap. B) No storage space. C) Too fiddly for my tastes. It occured to me last week when checking out a web design mailing list member's personal site about computer scrapbooking to get started on it myself. I can't imagine why I haven't done so before, actually. I love playing with Photoshop and have often wished I had something to accomplish using it. I started playing with it yesterday and have done two layouts.. neither of which are hugely special, but it's going well so far. Wish that it didn't cost so much to buy ink cartridges, though! Anyway, that's the new project and I'm rather excited about it. I have lots of thoughts and ideas going on, but I won't ramble about them here. At least not yet. It's kind of premature to tell if it'll stick (though I think it will.)

We were a little grumpy this afternoon, so I made us take a nap. *giggle* Well, not really, but that's what ended up happening. After we got up, we did our grocery shopping. While in the store, we cooked up a great plan to make the chicken-bacon thing for the parents for dinner. Alas, that was the only cooking that got done tonight--when we got home, our power was out. I don't know how long it'd been out, but the house was a little on the warm side, so it had to have been at least a few minutes. We knew there was a storm on the way (windy, cloudy, dark) but we certainly didn't expect the power to go off BEFORE it got here. Must have been the wind or something. Anyway, we were without electricity for over three hours. We ended up having sandwiches for dinner. There was some reading, tatting and mandolin-playing by various members of the household. I finished the tatted motif I was working on just after the power came back on. That rather made it worth it, since I'd been procrastinating over it for ages. :)

Iowa is such a funny name for a place.

Comments

[paradisecowgirl.livejournal.com]

Egads, that's the last thing I need hear about -- digital/computer scrapbooking! ;-) It's bad enough that I get hooked on making some of my own postcards for postcard_fun! :-)

Have you learned all about using acid free paper and other archival quality materials? I don't know but I'm wondering, are there special inks for that? I know that when I do ordinary scrapbooking (is that an oxymoron, btw? ;-) that it's important to use materials that won't fade/yellow or disintegrate...

I think Ohio sounds even funnier. But then, don't get my started on ORYGUN ;-)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

*grin* So sorry! It's funny that it never really occured to me before.. it's kind of my thing, ya know? I've done similar things on a much smaller scale.. looks like I would have made the connection somewhere and had half my pictures done already!

That's one of the nice things about fully computer-generated scrapbooks.. you don't really have to worry about acid-free paper and all that since it never comes into contact with processed photos, etc. It's just like printing a large digital picture and sticking it into a photo album plastic page protector thing (or however you wanna bind it, I guess.) But computer inks are apparently acid-free these days as well.. I'm not sure about the photo paper. I didn't bother checking it out too thoroughly other than making sure it wouldn't be a problem for me. I rather prefer the finished/published look, which is another reason I resisted the scrapbooking frenzy before.

Ohio also sounds weird, yes. :) In general, Ohio is weird. M and I have discussed the possibility of replacing Ohio with Sweden, as that would make everyone happy in a geographical sense. Except, perhaps, for Ohioians, but they don't count.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Great website, thanks for sharing! You've intruiged me. When I finally get my home computer set up again I will have to suss this whole field out. Hrm, more time wasting.... ;)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I already have this feeling that this is going to be one of those hobbies that will cheerfully swallow up large blocks of time. Have fun! :)

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

Just catching up on my replies. :) I like the computer scrapbooking idea, and had thought to sometime look it up when I got the spare time to do so. I've had tons of offers to join scrapbooking things here, seems to be a big hobby among the other wives, but I have the same issues with it that you have. I'll save that link and check it out later.