Photos and pro flickr

I had to go pro at flickr, because I had way too many photos LOL, I am having such a hard time selecting photos, I can’t just go, ok, THIS ONE is my favourite of the bunch... my kiddos are too cute ;)

However, I managed to pick a favourite for this afternoon (last weekend of March), one of Lucas:

But then there were many others I loved:

The tree:

Mateus:

More Lucas:


My boys just have so much fun, ALL the time:


Love them to bits:

Oops, it is so late, past midnight, I am heading to bed and will post the rest of the photos tomorrow. I have been losing the battle against the bad routine and the kids kept me awake last night, It was so bad I barely worked today, fingers crossed I get some sleep and get to work early tomorrow :)

Hope you are all having a great week.

four

Tagged by Jackie Eckles

It is not every day you are tagged by someone you admire so much ;) So I thought I better do it LOL

Four Jobs I’ve held:
Tourist Information officer
Sales Manager at MTV
Tourism Researcher
Publishing officer

Four movies I could watch over and over:
*soooo many, maybe the top of the list include:
Lord of the Rings
Neverending Story (the first one)
Indiana Jones
Star Wars

Four places I have lived:
Born in Cuiabá - Brazil
São Paulo - Brazil
Bournemouth - England
Live in Canberra - Australia

Four TV shows I like:
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
House
BattleStar Galactica

Four people who email me regularly:
Sônia Filó *mom in law*
Aninha Reis (she’s a doll!)
Suzana *my sister* (not half as much as I would like)
Lanne (poor thing *answers* me regularly LOL)

Four favorite foods:
*that changes all the time, right now it is:
Ham+ salad roll from Subway
Sushi&Sashimi
Caesar Salad
Filet Mignon with mustard sauce by hubby

Four places I’d rather be:
Right here at home, there is no place like home
Right here in front of this computer, to be more specific.
Maybe in bed (no, that’s where I should be!)
Japan, I would love to visit Japan :)

Four people to tag:
Katrina
Kellie
Jenn
Lanne

I tried to get 4 people that LIKE to blog :) but I have no clue if you girls like these things, LOL

Hope everyone is having a great weekend, mine is all fnished *cries* I wanted more LOL

Blog muito bom sim senhora

*tagged in portuguese, sowy!*

A Aninha Reis disse que o meu blog é “blog muito bom sim senhora” rsrs. Obrigada Ana, que honra, fiquei toda toda quando vi a indicação no seu blog.

Bom, agora é a minha vez né? Deixa eu passar as regras:
1- Esse prêmio devemos atribuir aos blogs que gostamos e os quais visitamos regularmente e postamos comentários!
2- Ao receber o selo “é um blog bom sim senhora!!” devemos escrever um post incluindo: o nome de quem nos deu o prêmio com o respectivo link de acesso + a tag do prêmio + a indicação de outros 7 blogs.
3- A tag do prêmio deve ser exibida no blog!

Então, escolher só sete é que foi difícil, 80% das vezes que visito um blog eu não deixo comentário por falta de tempo rsrs. Também parece que todo mundo já recebeu o selo, então tem gente que vai ganhar de novo:

Cantinho da Bagunça

Colorida Vida(Feliz Aniversário Ana)

Gabi Butcher

Designs by Lili

Cravo e Canela (Feliz Aniversário Daniel!)

Blog do Yuri e a galera (melhoras aí Dúnia)

E agora vou trapacear rsrsrs em sétimo vou colocar três blogs que eu acabei de adicionar na minhas lista de blogs, não visito faz muito tempo, mas são ótimos:

Scraps by Léa

Casa da Daniela

Carina Schirrmann

Ainda tinham mais alguns blogs como da Aninha Amorim, Carla Reis, mas elas estão dando um tempo. Também leio o blog da Dani Alencar, mas ela tá escrevendo em inglês (..... e daí né? rsrsrs)

(Caraca, esse post tava pra sair faz teeeempo!!!Aqui em casa tá uma confusão com os meninos tendo piripaque, mas nada sério, tá tudo bem!)

Espero que o final de semana esteja sendo ótimo :)

Last LOs of March

so good to be doing my "double" pages again :)

Amanda Heimann's design-versary

Just a quick note to let you know that Amanda is celebrating 1 year of digidesign this week. I feel so blessed to be on her team, she is so supportive and talented (and understanding ++++) and a great scrapper to boot ;) We met at Traci Reed's Creative Team and I jumped on the opportunity of being on her team when she had a call. When I went back to work this year and was toning my scrapbooking down I thought about quitting (like I did quit most of my CTs) but she is always so flexible and supportive it would be too sad to leave :)

Amanda is having a challenge on her blog, don't miss out a chance to win ALL her designs as the first prize, wow! And there is this beautiful freebie too:

which is the one you have to use for the challenge.

So, as you can see, to top it all, she is super generous ;)

Happy Anniversary Amanda!!!

ramblings

I feel like I am always playing catch up with life, specially my "online" life. Sometimes during the day, in the shower, when I am driving, on the lift, when you just have to wait for things to move along, I think, I reflect. Especially in the shower, it is the most relaxing time of my day, and driving the car. Driving is one thing I really love about going to work (not so much when I leave work, because then I am in a hurry to get home). I think a lot about new craft projects, it bugs me a little bit that I know I forget most of the ideas I really like, but it sure is a great creative exercise. When I am reflecting, sometimes I think I could blog about it, but about 90% of these "posts" never happen.

Anyway, but there was this post I was going to write last week, about my day, but I forgot half of it.. LOL See the need to write it down before it goes away? So, last Thursday I woke early, 6:30 AM, which for me is completely crazy (after all, I tend to go to bed at 3AM). I managed to get out the door by 7AM and started driving to work. Just after I leave home there is this lake and you go through a kind of bridge next to it. I look over the lake and there is this beautiful sunrise happening, and just as the wonder of it hit me "it is a beautiful day" from U2 started playing on the radio. I didn't have my camera with me, but I wish I had, a photo would be great to illustrate this post, but I hope you can picture the whole thing in your head :) Right then I decided I would love to wake up early every day just to experience that, even though I am totally not a morning person, I see how it is worth it. I kept going and there was fog on certain places, like the clouds were touching the ground, the colors of autumn were highlighted by the sun that was coming up. I just love those colors. The song just got stuck in my head, what a beautiful day.

I had this headache, the one I still have and am trying to ignore for a while. I know it is sinusitis and the weather is changing so I just need to get over this phase and I will feel better soon. Sometimes it gets worse, especially when I don't get much sleep. So, on that beautiful day, it got so bad that about lunch time I decided I needed to go home and rest up my eyes. I got home, the house was pristine, all organized and pretty, the cleaner had come (she comes once a fortnight now). I decided I needed to get my laundry done so I could rest up at night. So I started doing laundry, did two loads while having lunch and watching a little TV. It was time to pick up Mateus at school (3PM), so off I went. We went to the bank and to then to get him some donuts :) We went to pick up Lucas and then we headed back home.

Mateus then decided he didn't want to go to the toilet. I knew he needed too, and I took him to the toilet, but he would "do it" After losing my temper with him, I left him there in the toilet for a bit to talk to Alex on the phone. When I came back, he had "done his business" in his pants. The boy is in front of the toilet bowl, half naked, and decides to wee on his pants... I know he is only four but he did it solely to piss me off. There are some things you can control, right? A beautiful day like that just went downhill. The house was clean, the laundry was done, we were happy and now what? Dirty floor, clothes soaked in pee and a very unhappy mother and child.

But, hey, it could have been different, it could have stayed beautiful and relaxing and all good things and my post could have been about my great day, but who has control over these things?

Alex did come home to save the day, he talked to Mateus, gave him and Lucas a bath and went to the supermarket for me, and I can't remember what we ate but I am sure I didn't have to cook.

Either way, I want to focus on the stuff I DO have control over. I can't tell when Mateus is going to throw a fit like that, but I can try and wake up early and have a good attitude about my day. I have been failing at going to bed early and waking up early, but I will keep trying. I will keep trying to eat better and wake up early and be more patient and simplify and procrastinate less and all these things that are so easy to give up when you fail. But I will not give up. I will not give up. I will not give up *chant mantra to try to convince myself*

So, it is a little over midnight and I am going to bed and hope that tomorrow morning (... I mean, today!) I have the perfect morning followed by a perfect afternoon and then a perfect evening! Wish you a perfect day too!

Playing with transparencies

I have wanted to play with transparencies for a while now. I bought this pack when I was paper scrapping 3 years ago and had so many ideas then. Going into digi and now hybrid the ideas just doubled :)

I am going to share with you a little quote book project I created over the weekend. I have flooded my Flickr gallery with photos. It is a little more advanced than the other stuff I have shared so far, but it is totally worth it :)

Here is it:

(credits here)

First, the digital stuff. I have created a document in photoshop with all my 4X4 pages (10 in total) I wanted to see how they looked like together. I turned layers on and off to have just the stuff I wanted in the paper and just what I wanted in the transparencies. I saved the JPGs of each version. So I ended up with three JPGs. One to guide me for the look of my project, one to print in photographic paper and one to print in s transparency, like so:

So, I printed everything at home, and cut to size:

You can see I added acrylic paint to the back of the transparencies. I did this for two reasons. One, because I had done it before and I quite like the look of paint over transparencies. Two, because my printer is not half as good as I thought and the colours in the transparencies really needed a boost.

I layered the pages together, transparency over base page on the back of transparency over base page (4 layers).

At first I was going to staple them, but I decided I wanted to I stitched them together. I stitched just ONE side because if you stitch all 4 sides the transparencies lose their value.

Stitching was the scary part, but remember, it is all digital, so if anything goes wrong, you can always just print it and try again :)

I painted some cheap chipboard letters for my cover and let it dry. I also rounded the corners of my pages and I punched the hole through all of them with my crop a dile.

Now, to the fun part, got all my buttons and floss and started adding embellishments UNDER the transparencies to make the translucent effect stand out even more.

Because there is all the distraction of the frames and the quote in the transparency, you can just lift the transparency to peek at the photo:

I hope you have liked it :) and just for the heck of it, here are a couple more photos:
(you can click on them for a larger view)

Mission Accomplished

or not... I was determined I was going to post some photos today and not go to bed at 3AM. When I sat at the computer at midnight I felt a little discouraged, but still went ahead. Answered some e-mails, posted a couple of things to the galleries, and started uploading to Flickr... 2AM, not many photos up, but, at least it is a start ;)
Next post hopefully I will share a little hybrid I have created, so for now, here are a couple of photos of the boys’ chocolate raid the other day.

See how hard it is to choose the photos? these are a couple of about 50... but how can I stop shooting when they are all natural and cute stuffing their face with chocolate???

And today is April's fool day... I could not come up with anything funny and witty to celebrate.... bummer... also... April, it is April. I find that hard to believe, what is going on? LOL

Hope you have a great week!