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Jul 8

Design Challenges

My third class assignment for today comes from Elizabeth Dillow’s “Design Challenges”. It gives us 12 different design challenges to tackle, and today’s was to take a familiar sight or media form and incorporate it into a layout. A play on form, so to speak. Some of the ideas suggested are a periodic table, eye chart, road sign, calendar grid, menu, program, social media status update, etc. I chose an eye chart for my layout (you would be amazed what you can find on Google!) that I personalized and added a photo taken from today:

My husband was being experimental, shall we say, in opening an old (and I mean old) can of tobacco to put into his old pipe to smoke. Just this once (I hope). Made for a great photo op!

This was a fun assignment in order to step outside the box of putting photos into a traditional-looking page. Sometimes it’s fun to do something different! Happy scrapping!

 

May 13

Our grande accompli!

Mr. UPS man came day before yesterday, and we now have everything needed to make our book. Yesterday was official Bookmaking Day in our home! My husband and I made a great team; working together, helping one another, making decisions, etc., without any difficulties whatsoever. It was definitely a two-person task, too. I could not have done this alone! It did not take as long as we thought, either. I was thinking this would be a two-day process, but it really only took roughly 3-4 hours from start to completion. A special thanks goes out to Jim at Bookmakers, Inc.; this very nice gentleman in Maryland is so kind and friendly and helpful with advice. Now, the cover needs a title, and then we’ll shop it around to see the likelihood of future interest for additional copies (all made by hand).

Here is how we did it.

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Feb 24

Fun with photos

My husband is a photographer, and he’s currently preparing for an exhibit of his work to be shown at our local art museum in August. I get to reap the rewards of his “mistakes”; as he fine-tunes his images and prints them out; some he doesn’t like but instead of tossing the photos, I take them off his hands. I have made book covers with them to fold around books I have, as well as scrapbook extras and homemade notebooks out of them. He only works in black and white, and prints on matte paper, so they’re fun and easy to work with. This evening, I decided to make a scrapbook page out of a reject, just for fun. We always joke that while no one may pay attention to his work right now (save for some friends and the museum) , I say he’ll be like a Van Gogh and reap the rewards posthumously. One day, I tell him, his little “rejects” alone may be worth thousands, like the notes of Picasso discovered in an attic! Anyway, I appreciate my husband’s photographic work for more than one reason (notice my banner?), and the most important may be that I love him so darn much! Thanks for tossing your mistakes to me, honey!

Feb 20

“The King’s Speech” is my winner

I watched 60 Minutes this evening, and I was enthralled with the piece about “The King’s Speech”. I saw this movie in the theater a short while back, and my husband and I loved it. I don’t often get to see movies in the theater much, but I wanted to treat us to a date, and I thought this would be a just the ticket (no pun intended). This seemed like a movie for us, my other half and I being avid lovers of PBS, history, and all things British. We did love it. My husband actually had tears running down his cheek at the end of the movie. I loved everything, from the actors to the photography, the music, the costumes, everything. I liked Geoffrey Rush before; I absolutely adore him even more, now. The music, especially at the end, during the speech, really touched a chord with me. My husband has a recording of it on vinyl, and he played it once we got home. So, this movie and these actors are my votes to win whatever they can during the Academy Awards one week from tonight. I plan to be watching, my Diet Pepsi and popcorn in hand, ready to watch and cheer, hoping that “my” movie will win. Silly? Of course, but that’s okay; I have no worries about winning an award for best blog! What movies and/or actors do you find worthy of an Oscar this year? I’d love to know! Cheers!

Jan 9

Who are you calling old, Sunshine?

My husband goes to the gym every day, except for the days he wants to go for a 70, 80, or even 100-mile ride around the mountains on his Mazzi bicycle. He recently went digital in his photography after years of doing things the old-fashioned way: film, chemicals and a dark room. Now, he’s learning his way around his computer and mastering digital photography editing, and getting used to email and the web. Ok, very nice, but what’s so special about that? He’s 78 years old. I see people on a daily basis at work who are anywhere from 20 to 30 years younger who look and act much older than him. I don’t think these people take very good care of themselves at all, while my husband is the epitome of healthy living: exercise everyday, eating good foods in appropriate portions, never smoked, drinks one glass of red wine every evening, plays music, reads, nurtures his friendships, creates art, and stays involved with what’s going on in the world. One of the cycling instructors at his gym calls him “Sunshine”, and it makes sense to me because of the way he can bounce into a room ready to greet anyone with a smile and a joke. So when coworkers sit around the water cooler during the day lamenting the fact that their teens call them old, and then they say they must be because they feel like it, I just laugh. They may be 38, 48, or 58, but they may as well be 98 the way they talk. It’s a state of mind, and a subjective one at that. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover, and no one can ever say we’re crazy for falling in love with 34 years distance between us. My “Sunshine” is as young as they get…with a lot more maturity between the ears.