oldies.

a few days ago i was moving some things in my studio and i realized that there are some older layouts that i meant to post, but forgot. i only had time to photograph two of them before the sunlight was too poor... so i'll try to remember to post some more soon.

i posted a peek of this one quite a while ago. i made it at a crop back in november. it's a simple layout, and it came together rather easily thanks to that journaling spot that mandee gave me. :]

it still ranks up there with my favorite layouts.

aside from the journaling spot, i used the yearbook kit from studio calico. i'm really not a fan of gold, so i didn't anticipate using those gold sequin things from prima... turns out i kind of sort of fell in love with them. haha. go figure.
i did some stitching around the perimeter of the patterned paper when i got home, which doesn't show too well in the photo, but i like it in person.

this one was made back in january with the marketplace kit and bazaar add-on. i guess that means it counts towards my layout goal for this year. :]

the photo is from our family trip to disneyland. my sister said she didn't have very many photos of her and victoria together, so i was trying to take some for her.
i really just had fun layering and stitching papers. and also messing with which of those fabric brads should go where. haha.
i remember that i had a certain title in mind, but for some reason i couldn't make it work. it was probably too long. i know i was running out of certain letters at this point, which is kind of a good feeling. i'm beginning to like using up entire packages of scrappy items. :]

in other news, i mentioned that james got hurt during his football game over the weekend. he couldn't walk on sunday and could barely even sit up. he said it was the worst pain he's ever felt. yesterday he was doing slightly better. he was able to get up and walk for brief periods of time, and sit at the table to eat. today he somehow managed to go to work, and he is walking around a bit more... but he looks like an 80 year old man. i try not to laugh at him too much.

it was his team's first softball game tonight, so we went to watch and cheer them on from the sidelines. they won, so it was much more fun to watch. i know he was sad that he wasn't able to play, but i asked him if his football injury was worth missing softball, and he said it was. so i learned something new, which is rare by this point in our relationship. i seriously thought he liked softball better. haha.

i also had an anatomy exam today. i got a 90%, which is ok. could have been a little better, but the exam was hard. i prepared for it as well as i could, but there were still a few tricky questions. i hate tricky questions. and i really dislike professors who include such questions on their exams. hopefully the next [and last!] exam will be a little nicer to me so i can maintain an A.

i guess that's all for now. hopefully i'll have some new layouts to share soon, but it's semi-doubtful since i have a huge pile of lab reports to grade again. sigh.