Scrapability Weekly Roundup - To Feb 19th

Lots of articles coming, planned, written but not quite published. Plus this week - I actually got a layout done - slightly accidentally - but all that time creating meant the blog suffered. Happily.

Note: Any entries which belong within the Scrapability Quarter - Altered Fantasies Theme will be denoted with text in purple in the list below. Why purple? No reason.

Scrap Rants

Discussions Points, Opinions and News & Views

• Altered - a Definition Discussion - part of the Altered Fantasies theme, a very long diatribe on the definitions for altered, collage and embellished.
  

• The next big thing? - scrapbooking applications to video stamps?
• Review : 52 Projects - a review of a project and creativity little book by Jeffrey Yamaguchi - thoroughly recommended.
  
• Announcing the Scrapability Quarter Theme - My noticing of a general theme of late, and the progression of this for three months. This quarter’s theme is Altered Fantasies. Hence the new banner, and a change of fairy costume this week also.
  

Scrap Musings

Articles Originally Written For, and Published at UKScrappers as Scrap Musings. Now published at Scrapability.

• What is it About the Hands? - handcrafting musings.
• Happy Valentines - published on Valentines day at UKScrappers, a big list of any freebies for valentines lovers I could find over the internet, including some for paper scrappers, and others from the digital world.
  

Scrapblog of the Week

• Scrapblog of the Week (8)

Other Scraps

• Layout Share - Thanks to SBB - a layout created Saturday afternoon, almost un-intentionally, to demonstrate some elements I was about to talk about in a UKScrappers musing. Kit, scheme and elements all from SBB.
• Mentioned in Indiana - the wonders of the interweb, and having my blog found listed in some technology conference.
  
• Changed my header banner to announce the theme for the quarter, and changed the fairy costume on my avatar - joy fairy costume by Maya.
  
• Added five or so new digi websites to the lists, and a few new scrapbloggers - including a fav digital designer of mine - who has just setup a blog recently - Kathryn Balint.
  

Fun Scraps

• Fantastical Scrapbook - Lewis Carroll
• Have a Blingin’ Valentines - good wishes expressed with a glittermaker tool available over the web.
  

In Bed With Scrapability

What I do Away from the blog (yeah, I knew you’d look)

• Doing - Women Under Construction focus group - exercises to think about
  
• Reading - around 8 different scrapbooking magazines now that I’ve finally located a new retailer to get these from
• Doing - UR 2 Cre8tive musings, and still getting the Week’s classes on You to the Power of 10 - both Big Picture Scrapbooking Classes
• Written two new articles for this upcoming week for UKScrappers - published ready to go.
• Bought five new elements packs from Scrapbook Bytes - flowers, flowers, flowers - a hint for the above.
• Involved in a beta test coming up for what sounds like an exciting piece of scrapbooking software.
  
• Went shopping finally on Sunday, and came back with £150 of books from Borders (yeah, always) - including a nice notebook / ideas-capturer to throw into the handbag, and an altered diary concept. Oh, and lots of books for my daughter - we love children’s books around here.
  
• Spent the day at home on Friday - all of us - my daughter and I have the flu (yes, again), and the hubbie was supporting his father through his first operation. Washed the cars on Saturday. 5 loads of washing. Saturday night - a delayed valentine’s celebration for my hubbie (even if I was a bit cold-ridden). Sunday - got woken up at 7:30am by a call from New Zealand - she got the time difference wrong! Still, it got us into town shopping to beat the crowds.
  
• Installed all the latest fonts from Scrapbook Answers CD.
  
• Created two new digital collages of me as a fairy (weird, I know) to post up here.
  
• Uploaded some things to Mo Land, using Mo Jackson stuff - this time altered. Downloaded a few freebie kits from generous designers - ScrapFX has a great freebie elements selection, and KB sent me something from ACOT.
  
• Started work on another bag - Clippitykit bags to accessorise my Z Becky Brown one.