New Orleans Gator Boat Page 2

One week to Alaska, and a few more weeks until my New Orleans album is finished. I'm working as fast as I can. I know that if I leave it to finish after Alaska, then it will just go unfinished..or Alaska will go unstarted.  


Anyway, enough talking. I'm too tired for talking. It's only Monday. 


Here is today's page. 

New Orleans Scrapbook: Gator Boat

I am EXHAUSTED today. I'm surprised I even had brain power to do a scrapbook page. I think the only reason I did motivate is that I printed the pictures this morning while eating breakfast (I made a delish Mexican scramble). 

I was inspired to make a grid page after looking through several "day in the life" layouts on blogs.  I someday want to do a day in the life page but for now I'm just going to steal the layout. I loved the little captions on each of the pictures. I'm not big on journaling - surprising to most who know me considering I'm religious about keeping an actual journal.  I just feel odd writing a corny paragraph about the pictures that I know other people will read. At least no one is reading my personal journal (or I hope they aren't....). I find it difficult even to write these few paragraphs in my blog describing the page.  The little captions were perfect, just detailed enough to tell a story.

Smashing and Scrapping

I did a smashbook page yesterday and a scrapbook page tonight and decided to combine them into one entry.  Probably not such a smart idea considering I will probably have nothing else to blog about the rest of the week but...oh well. 

First up the smash page. I realized that I completely neglected my smashbook in the month of May....exhibit A: the party I'm smashing about happened in April.  It was a Titanic party to celebrate (or mourn I guess?) 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic. Nothing like a party commemorate the sinking of a ship where hundreds of people perished...The movie was on loop and the costumes were..well sort of plenty.  Most everyone dressed like Jack, so if you glanced through the pictures quickly, you might think you were viewing a Newsies party.  Anyway, here it is:

Speaking of Newsies, the other day I met a person that never saw the movie Goonies. Not only did he never see it, he never even HEARD of it.  He wasn't young either.  WTF.  Deprived childhook.  Back to the smashbook...I couldn't scan a double page layout so I photographed it instead. You can still see most of it. 

Tonight I worked on a scrapbook page.  I think I'm close to finishing the New Orleans album.  It wasn't a long trip so it's not a big album.  This page is really really simple. It's almost a little boring but that's OK. I'm tired and not everything can be awesome.

Scrapbooking Quick Page

I'm very tired tonight but I forced myself to scrapbook a little bit - if for nothing else to erase the bad workday from my brain.  Of course I didn't want to do any planning but this time my winging it didn't turn out too bad.  I basically just printed out the last four pictures from St. Patrick's Day New Orleans, squashed them in the middle and decorated with the remaining St. Patrick's Day stickers.  Nothing too complicated...my brain can't handle complciated tonight! I wish I had some alcohol lying around, can't wait until the long weekend! I'm really using that exclamation point tonight huh?

Smashup Sunday

Even though I say it almost every entry (probably the reason no one reads this), I really need to start motivating myself to be creative more.  Granted this week I do have excuses. I was out most of the week trying to erase a guy from my memory using an unreasonable amount of alcohol (didn't work in case you were wondering).  Tonight I decided to jumpstart a bit by doing a Smash book page.  I really need to finish my New Orleans scrapbook as well...Alaska is like 3 weeks away (wooooo).  I can't be doubled up on the scrapping, then it really will never get done.  Focusing on this may also be a way to make myself feel better. I've been a bit down this week for reasons mentioned earlier.

Anyway, here is my page..just a bunch of things ripped out of magazines that I really liked.

New Orleans Scrapping

Sad news today. My favorite scrapbook magazine Scrapbooks, Etc is folding. The last issue will be on newstands in June.  There aren't many magazines for scrapbookers out there and I love to glance through to them to get layout ideas. I guess I'l have to find some more new scrapbooking blogs to read. 

Speaking of blogging and scrapbooking, I've been working on my New Orleans scrapbook this week.  Last week it was nearly impossible to get me out from under the blanket on the couch, this week I can't stop doing. I don't know what gives me the extra boost of motivation but I wish I had it all the time.

I made two scrapbook pages. The first one I don't really like so much (what else is new).  It's a little sparse for me. I added the ribbon border a few days later. It helped a bit but still not satisfied.  The second one I actually really like for once. It's probably because I actually planned it out for once.  I don't know why its so hard for me to plan the scrapbook pages in advance. I plan everything else in my life. I'm really good at it and it obviously helps.  Maybe this is a first step...

Stuffed

That title is not referring to how I feel right now but rather what the theme of this week is turning out to be.  Tonight I made stuffed chicken and tomorrow I plan on making stuffed peppers. I didn't even realize when I was food shopping that I had planned two stuffed items into my weekly meal plan..but I like it. Both are experiments...today's is actually successful!  I made chicken stuffed with baby spinach, pine nuts, roasted peppers and mozarella cheese. Anytime I've attempted stuffed chicken in the past the cheese has exploded out from the chicken and ruined everything.  I don't know what I did differently this time, but it was completely successful (and really easy).  All you have to do is saute the baby spinach, pine nuts and roasted peppers in olive oil for a minute or two, until the spinach is wilted.  Then you take thin chicken cutletes, place the spinach mix towards the top, top with the cheese and roll really tight.  Dip the cutlets in egg and breadcrumbs, and then cook in olive oil until the chicken is cooked through (flipping once - carefully). 

I also took 600 pictures of this meal until I found one that wasn't too blurry and out of focus. I busted out my tripod for this so appreciate it!