The bone folder has been replaced and my scrapping soul is at rest.  It is identical to the one I threw away.  It has a great "feel and weight."  It is assuming battle scars of ink and glue.  Today's miscue is just as bad.  I keep a bottle of unopened glue in my stash so long it dried up.  A $7.00 error, another lesson learned the hard way.  I am sure I have learned these lessons before, but at 73 I can't remember.  LOL  So, it is like I am starting over. 
     It is a beautiful day in NoCentral Texas.  I am finishing up two mini-albums.  Want to be finished before Super Bowl tomorrow afternoon.  

A simple bone folder, yes, a simple bone folder has had me upset for the last week.  It was one of my first tools when I began scrapbooking.  It was ten years old and now it is the garbage dump.  I was using it to cover boxes and carelessly scooped it up with newspaper when I cleaned up.  I loved the feel and weight of that large folder.  I have two small bone folders but neither feels the same or gives me the feeling of really producing a great fold.  My brother would say, "Get a life."    I will have fun shopping for a new one.  So, becareful when you wad up papers after crafting or you too, will loose a something you value.  Happy New Year.   Play everyday...but only after you do your chores. 

     I am thrilled with the gorgeous "preview peeks" from the paper crafting industry.  Especially looking forward to Graphic 45 French Country.  Mostly, my scrapbooking is of very old Heritage photograps..like over 125 years old.  I am now working on my husband's "Granny,"  not so old but she was born in a log house.  So, G 45's new papers will work great for her and my husband's mother as well.  I have been scrapbooking for 10 years.  It is amazing how the designs have changed and improved.  Beautiful, just beautiful.     Will try to be more consistant about posting.
   

Not Yet!!  

     For most of the day, I have been sorting through stacks of paper on my desk.  Scrapbooking is fun, filing miscellaneous data is not.  In our home, we have NOT YET reached the "paperless" era.  I want to post a photo of two walls of my studio.  Of course, the new shelves drove me into a organizing frenzy. You must do that occasionally or you smoother in embellishments and paper.  I do recommend  Elfa shelves and drawers from The Container Store.  Sturdy comes to mind.  In my younger days, I do believe I could have assembled them myself.  Stay cool.
    

Front row view! 

     Looking out my office window, I have a front row view of a pair of Scissortail Flycathers and their nest with two babies.  No feathers on the babies, just fuzz.  It would be nice to add a photo of the family but my 250mm lenses just isn't long enough.  We have a bumper crop of grasshoppers so the parents are not having to fly great distance for food.  The grasshoppers have been dining on our basil and parsley. 
     When I am not watching the little family, I am, once again, organizing my craft space.  Finally found someone that needed a large computer desk.  After it is gone, I will have a wall to add more Container Store shelves and a desk surface for the sewing machine and TV.  I have been scrapping for 9 years and still "finding my style."   My thought process now, tells me to dispense with card making.  It takes me too much time to make card and I send mostly e-cards from Birthday Alarm. You must constantly elvaluate and dispurse or the supplies will comsum your space. 
     I must take photos of some of the Webb Family pages I have made.  So far, I haven't found good light.  Best soloution would be to scan the pages but scanner bed will only do 8.5 x 11 which makes for lot of time to do 12 x12.  Lots of scanning and photomerging.
    It would be better to be more consistant in my blog posting........

Before you talk, listen
Before you react, think
Before you spend, earn
Before you quit, try
    Earnest Hemingway

Getting the hang of it!!

Finally,!!  I made my first 'Cut' using Cricut Craft Room.  In fact, after kicking and crying, I think it will prove to be better than Design Studio.  The kicking and crying came over having to learn something new.  I have so many photos to put in albums that I hated to take the time to learn yet another program.  Isn't Photoshop Elements hard enough!!  That will be an on going learning experience as I think Craft Room to be.  Hoping to ward off Alzheimers with all this learning.

All is not wonderful with Craft Room and my Cricut Personal Cutter.  My machine is so old that it will not do all that the newer ones can.  The notice said they were trying to 'fix' the problem.  I have decided that I do not need a 12 X 12 cutting area.  Mostly, I am dealing with small die cuts that works with 6 x 12.  So, lets hope they correct the problem.  I want to leave my cartridges in Jukeboxes and not have to insert the cart into the machine.  That is part not working on older machines.