Cycling

I was trying to think of a way to use up some cycle-themed 12x12 paper I got in a kit. I have very few cycling pics and they're entirely the wrong colour for this kit which is green and purple (with some plain red which I have used!).

As I have a couple of male family birthdays coming up I thought maybe I could use them to make cards, with some appropriate saying on them. Couldn't think of a saying then when I was watching TV last night it came to me...

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Have a "wheelie" happy birthday!

Bring me my mojo!

OK I can take the pics
I can do the journalling
I can even choose the paper
So why oh why can't I produce a LO?

I have sat at the table and I just don't know how to start.

Dentists....

I guess we're back to "things that make you shudder". In a few more posts I'll have enough to create a LO from!

Dentists don't really do it for me: I just steel myself. Though I have had bad experiences - twice in my life the dentist has managed to inject the anaesthetic into a blood vessel and caused faintness and palpitations. The first time, he had to thump my chest to get my heart started properly again. Now that's as close to death as I have ever come! This last time the dentist said he would write me up in the professional journals because the anaesthetic is categorically not supposed to ever be able to have that effect! (But he does use a different anaesthetic on me now.)

But hairdressers - now the thought of sitting under a hairdresser DOES make me shudder. I just hate the whole thing - the atmosphere, being talked to, having someone else touch my scalp and wash my hair which I hate, the fact that my hair always looks horrible even just afterwards when I've paid good money!

Colouring-in your life: 2. Exploring colour

Colouring-in your life

This is the second in the series of journalling inspiration based on colour (see Thinking in Colour, Sunday 14 January, for the first one.)

2. Exploring colour

Jot down the answers to the following questions:

a. What colour(s) did you have at your wedding? (Bridesmaids dresses, bouquet & flowers, accessories, etc.; your outfit, if it wasn’t white)

b. If you had a party with a colour theme and a white church hall as a background, what colours would you use to decorate it – banners, tablecloths, flowers, crockery?

c. What is your favourite flower colour?

d. What colour car would you ideally like (or maybe you have it…)

Now:

e. Look up dictionary definitions of colour – eg

“a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"”

f. Colour mixing is different depending on whether you are mixing light or paint…..

Naming colours is important in naming paint, lipstick and eyeshadow, lingerie, wool, cardstock… Look at the names of the colours in the Bazzill range, for example, and jot down your favourites (names of colours rather than the colours themselves).

g. Get out your colour wheel – or print out this one - http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~psyc351/Images/ColorWheel2.jpg

Explore some interesting colour illusions
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_lilacChaser/index.html

Colour is important in clothing/fashion, interiors, make-up and grooming. It’s even thought to have healing properties
http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour_fun/

Colour is not an property of what we are looking at – it is something created in the brain as a result of the way your eyes interpret wavelengths of light. Colour is an invention of the human brain. Without our eyes, there is no such thing as colour – so everything must be in the equivalent of greyscale. Were there aliens, colour might not be one of their senses and they might have an additional sense or completely different senses from our five…

Things that make you shudder....

A post about ironing on UKScrappers got me thinking about things that make me shudder - the thought of ironing does that - most housework actually, except washing the kitchen floor, I quite like that!

What makes you shudder? Take a picture (for the final LO...), write about why you hate it - then start a new page:

I like XXXX because...

and see how you can finish the sentence!

I like spiders because they are God's creatures; they make beautiful webs that glitter when covered in dew in the mornings; they get rid of flies; they do no actual harm to me or mine; they have fabulous long furry legs; I just dread them falling on my face in the bath or in bed.....

Write it on Wednesday - Feeling groovy!

When did you last feel really GOOD about yourself?

And how do you celebrate your little successes (or your big ones)?

Make sure you do celebrate - in fact go give yourself a treat - tomorrow if not today!

You know you're worth it!

Today I'm over the moon about a successful project. I was so excited last night I couldn't get to sleep, but it's fantastic when you find out something that means you were particularly successful at something you aimed to do, and that happened to me once last week (a touch of schadenfreude there!) and also this week. If only I could bottle that feeling for the days when I'm feeling a bit low.

Scrap Challenge
Layout title: Celebrate
Number of photos: 3 or 4
Style: At least three patterned papers and embellishments in at least three colours

Colouring-in your life. 1: Thinking in colour...

Colouring-in your life

Here's a journalling exercise on colour that was part of our Team Cybercrop in 2006.

Part 1: What do colours mean to you?

There’s a condition called synaesthaesia in which people have their senses mixed up – they can “see” sounds and “hear” smells, “taste” colours…

Here, for example, is my take on colour:

blue - the moment just before waking, but also the pain of pulling my hair
red - the sharpness of cooking tomatoes, and heels stumbling on cobbles
yellow - Yorkshire cheese, the sound of a ship's horn in the muggy fog
brown - mother-love, buttered mushrooms and Guinness
white - the sound of silence, nothing but the ringing pulse in my ears
black - proud and strong, the tautness of chain, a clear bell chime
midnight blue - velvet to touch and deep knowledge of a lover
green - breezes gusting, and squirrels jumping from tree to tree

Take a colour – think about what it represents – jot down a few ideas…
Write down each of the following on a separate line and complete it as I did...
Post it here as a comment if you like. (Note that comments are moderated to avoid thiose horrible people who leave comment spam so it might take a little time for your comment to appear.)

blue
red
yellow
brown
pink
white
black
green

So what does this have to do with scrapping? Aah - more soon!