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, the Blog

Discussions Points, Opinions and News & Views

• Designers Out There - Digital Designers on Forums or Not?
  
• TV Boy and the SIB - a mysterious appearance of some digital designers on a Scrapbooking Investigation website.
• HOF Winners - the announcement and list from Monday. Yay, Kim.
  
• Image Hosting and Sharing - Terms of Service - always keep abreast of these. A tale of Photobucket, and others.
• New Canadian Scrapbooking Magazine - it’s free, and downloadable too.
• Best of British Winners - UK equivalent of HOF, but not announced properly as yet. Yay, JoolsG.
• Productivity in Scrapbooking - Am I Productive?
• Digital Mystery Season - more on the SIB and a new one for five chicks called the Digi Bunch.
  

Updated

• Another 20 or so blogs added to the scrapblog lists.
• Created a new fairy character for the sidebar - do you like? Most probably the last for the Altered Fantasies Theme, which completes at the end of this month / week.
  

Scrapblog of the Week

• Scrapblog of the Week - 13

Other Scraps

• Reality Scrap Yourself (Layout share) - reasonably raw layout created for the Scrap Yourself challenge.
• Boxed Family (Layout)
• Art for Art’s Sake - An Altered avatar challenge.
  

Media and Press Releases

• Scrapblog Launches World’s First Online Scrapbooking Service
• Photoshop Elements for Digital Scrapbooking DVD
  

In Bed With Scrapability

General everyday life (if you can call any-body’s general, that is)

• Mothering Sunday celebrated today.
• Clocked over to British Summer Time last night - lost an hour’s sleep - not good when it’s Mother’s Day
• Worries and restructuring at work.

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, the Blog

Discussions Points, Opinions and News & Views

• HOF Luck - in which I briefly felt nice, and wished everyone their success.
• More on Crafty Podcasts - a new one is out there.
• Scrap Yourself Competition - For International Peeps Also - sponsored by UK retailers, and the idea of a local scrapper.
  
• The Digital Resolution Issue - perhaps a seemingly controversial diatribe from myself, but credits to a large document written on digital resolution issues by Lisa Carter - the document is available as a download from this blog entry. Most read post of the week.
  
• Places to Avoid this Week - in which I lose my good thoughts for HOF, due to the numerous posts. Most commented post of the week.
  
• Having a Paddy - thoughts on St Patricks day, in which I might have insulted a few Americans. Sorry!
• Review : Digital Scrapbooking 4 - better late than…I reviewed this four months ago, but just got around to posting on Scrapability.
• Good Gosh, I’m Reviewed - Top Digi Blog site reviews and blobs - since changed. Thankee Carrie!
• Creativity Meme - three questions to answer.
• Quickee Digital News

Updated

• Another 20 or so blogs added to the scrapblog lists.  

Scrap Musings

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

• Seasonal Digi Scrapping 
  
• Thinking About Mothering Sunday - my very last UKScrappers Musing.
  

Scrapblog of the Week

• Scrapblog of the Week - 11 

Other Scraps

• Pacific Promises (Layout share) - using a kiwi kit by Lauren Bavin.
  
• Giddy Happy (Layout share) - using a new kit by Maya at Scrapbook Graphics.
  
• Reality Scrap Yourself (Layout share) - reasonably raw layout created for the Scrap Yourself challenge.
  

Mass Advertising

•  New Site lets you preserve your scrapbook forever - media announcement about a site that does multi media scrapbook albums online for you.
  

Fun Scraps

• Fairy Fantasy at Duirwaigh Gallery  - a link to a fairytale video with a story to tell. Altered Fantasies Theme
  

In Bed With Scrapability

General everyday life (if you can call any-body’s general, that is) 

• Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired (sing along with me). Lost count of how many nights I was asleep early, and dragging myself to work the next day.
• 120 personal scrapability emails in the inbox to deal with. Yes, I counted them - and I belong to too many yahoo groups. Answered quite a few questions about blogging this week. I don’t know why - perhaps people want a blog for spring.
  
• Shhh, quirky things coming faster now.
  
• Looking forward to - something I’m doing with my virtual friend Swamplovely. Actually, I know she’s not made up - I’ve got mail art from her before.
  
• Reading - managed to read the latest CK out here in the UK - Aprils I think. Now I’m out of order, as March and Feb sit under my bed awaiting my attention.
  
• Installed - Blade Pro - got this on sale from a local retailer for £10. Can’t make head or tail of it, to be honest. Not exactly a great learning curve.
  
• My big weekend exists of creating two layouts, finding hundreds of links for something I’m very committed to, and going to feed the duckies with my daughter. Hardly thrilling - but…
• Started on - Digital PSP classes through SBB. Finally got to log on, and did a rush job through the first week’s exercises. Hope I don’t get booted out for not doing the homework.
  
• Not done - but should have been - a challenge I issued - yes I issued for quirk-misters to create something. And I haven’t yet done my own. At least I had the good sense to issue no deadline on it. And secondly, I promised to create a Scrap Yourself layout, and still haven’t. I had some portrait photos taken - they’re really krap. I have the idea, not the time. And thirdly - I involved myself in a work-based photography competition, and haven’t got around to taking any photos - the theme is reflections. I want to take a mirror photo but am not sure how. Can anybody say the words - too many committments - to me!  Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
  
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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, the Blog

Discussions Points, Opinions and News & Views

• Some News about myself - with much sadness, I have resigned from providing UKScrappers with two weekly scrap musings. New  things to come.
• Today is a V.Good Day - SBB and Pattie Knox published me.
  
• V.G. Week Part II - this week is definately my 15 secs of fame - published some quotes on blogging in Scrapbook Answers.
• A Glutton for E-Class Punishment (A Sidenote on Kits) - registered for another Big Picture class, and two SBB classes also. Oh, and discovered a real nice Aussie kit.
  
• Don’t Digital Scrappers Journal or Something? - musings over a new type of kit out - to help digital scrappers journal. And admittances that I don’t much anymore.
• TWIG Scrapbooking Classes - a virtual class with interactive participation with class mates.
  

Updated

• Another 20 or so blogs added to the scrapblog lists.  

Scrap Musings

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

• Doodling Too - article on the trend of doodling, with quite a few links to doodling scrappers, including some in the UK. And then there’s National Doodle Day here in the UK
  
• Musings on a Crop Cast - podcasting from a scrapbook crop anyone? Or National Scrapbooking Day events?
  

Scrapblog of the Week

• Scrapblog of the Week - 11 

Other Scraps

• Check out these Blogs - Making Memories has a blog now, plus another interesting attitude for a personal scrapblog.
  
• Layout Share - I scrapped this weekend, and journalled - because I’d challenged myself.
  

Mass Advertising

•  New Site lets you preserve your scrapbook forever - media announcement about a site that does multi media scrapbook albums online for you.
  

Fun Scraps

• Costumed Fairies - a bit of fun with digital fairy costumes, and the avatar of the season. Part of the Altered Fantasies theme.
• Real Life Captured Fairy Costumes - about a book, and an idea that became an Altered Fantasy type circle journal two years ago.
  

In Bed With Scrapability

General everyday life (if you can call any-body’s general, that is) 

• Another long working week, circumvented by an afternoon spent sitting around at the hospital. Cold, wet, the UK does the end of Winter with style.  

•  Shhhh, something’s coming out there, and it’s a bit quirky.

   

I missed out on last week’s roundup, so this is a full fortnight’s work on the blog.

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, the Blog

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.
• Review - DSP’s Club Digital
  
• Digital News and Views - new sites, spring-cleaned sites, courses, re-openings.
  
• In Praise of Digital Tearing - great service from a digital website, and a great product.
  
• Fairy Fantasies - all the digital links I could find on the web for fairies and fairy tales. Part of the Altered Fantasies theme. Updated twice also.
• When Forums Aren’t Alike - ponderings on one digital forum
  
• Some Hugs for Scrapbook Graphics - SG was lost, but later (after much hard work) it was found again.
  
• Some Sad Scrapping News - goodbye to my favourite retailer, and another UK Scrapping magazine
• Some Mo Love - brief comment on a nice thread for Mo Jackson on 2Peas.
• On Search Engines and Jeeves - Ask Jeeves.com retires the butler.
  
• Two Websites - Quills and Art Thrills - introducing an email zine on writing, and a mixed media artist who sells art journal pages.
• Feeling Guilty - A Designer to Watch Over - my discovery of a new designer who is giving away freebie kits at SBB.
  

Updated

• Fairy Fantasies - added with more fairy tale kits linked to.
  
• Altered Digital - followups galore as I have added several new products by designers which fit the Altered theme.
  
• In Praise of Digital Paper Tearing - another designer has updated me on her own products for pre-made paper tears.
  

Scrap Musings

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

• Digital Prima-Like Flowers - my web search for digital flowers resulted in a new layout also. Also updated on this blog with more flower links.
  
• Blogging Madnesses - an article on why I blog.
  
• A Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial Site
  
• Occupational Health Hazards - just a bit of fun.
  

Scrapblog of the Week

• Scrapblog of the Week (9)
• Scrapblog of the Week (10)
  

Other Scraps

• Freebie for you - Digital ATC Set - under the theme of Altered Fantasies, I created a collage DATC set, and it’s available as a free download.
  
• Your Name in Elvish - carrying on with my Altered Fantasies theme, I found a link to learn how to write our names in Elf.
  
• Women in Construction - Life Is…A Big Happy Dog on the Beach. Part of my personal class, I finally got around to creating my life collage of hopes and dreams - in digital, of course.
  
• ATC Forums - a link to a community for ATCs - this was interesting seeing this link go around a series of blogs like some kind of neural network.
  
• Digital Doodles - All You Need is a Scanner - added to the Tips section, in preparation for an upcoming article for UKScrappers.
  
• A new fairy avatar added for March this last weekend.
  
• More scrapbloggers added as requested. More links added also.
  

Mass Advertising

•  Maps of US Scrapbooking Stores
  

Fun Scraps

•  Nice Tool - Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

In Bed With Scrapability

General everyday life (if you can call any-body’s general, that is) 

• Doing - Women Under Construction focus group - exercises to think about - still
  
• Requested  - some interview answers from myself. I’m going to be featured as a Square Peg. Yay, my cornered me!
  
• Finalised  - both Big Picture Scrapbooking Classes
• Written four new articles for this upcoming week for UKScrappers - published ready to go.It takes a full weekend day to do these things.
  
• Bought - nothing these last two weeks, but several new digital kits on my wishlist.
• Still involved in a secret beta test - still to come.
• Shopping for presents for our favourite neighbours this weekend - they became grandparents for the first time late this week.
  
• Reading - Scrapbook Inspirations magazine found on the shelves today, and For Keeps (Australia) magazine came in the mail this morning. I have to renew that subscription - it’s very expensive for overseas mags.
  
• Spent a few more days home with the flu, and shouldn’t have gone back to work like I did. Still have it two weeks later. My hubbie was home virtually all this last week with it also.
  
• My hubbie has started his own blog now - on sports. I spent all Saturday afternoon creating his blogger header, then had a nightmare trying to find out how to get it showing in Blogger’s template. How more difficult could they make it?
• Misc - went to hairdressors, went shopping and bought 7 garden gnomes (yes - the 7 dwarfs, and no - it’s not me in this family who likes them); tired tired tired - late work hours again, combined with the flu makes for little motivation to do anything in the evenings but fall asleep, a walk to the lake to feed the ducks and swan - and they weren’t hungry.
  

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.