I took a little time this weekend to just relax and get some rest. I had really wanted to do more with my scrapbooking classes, but it's all good. Sleep is important and I really needed it!
I did finally see the Hunger Games this weekend and I loved it. Now I need to read the other books. I just have to figure out a day when I can sit down one evening and read all of the next book. Because I know myself too well to think that I can read it over multiple days. Won't happen. lol.
I also... FINALLY... started organizing all of the stuff that's been sitting in my guest room after my scrap attic purge. I'm putting together boxes of goodies to get ready to sell. I think I'm going to do it by brand - not what I was planning, but I think it will work out better in the end. So I'm making progress.
Today, I had a lovely surprise when I left the house to go to church. A sweet little bouquet of flowers hanging on my front door. There was no note, but I'm pretty sure it was my visiting teacher - she tends to be thoughtful like that. Me? Not so much. Sad but true.
They look just lovely on my coffee table... nice and springy!
This year I made myself a little Easter basket, just for fun. I probably won't eat most of it, but it looks nice!
And I even did a full Easter dinner, with lots of tasty leftovers for later this week. I did a Boar's Head ham (not a whole one... WAY too much for me!) with a honey, brown sugar, and mustard glaze that was delicious. I also made a spring vegetable risotto. I busted out Anne Burrell's Cook Like a Rock Star cookbook for her instructions on making a no-recipe risotto. They were the clearest directions I've read (I especially loved the part where she tells you to add the butter and parmesan and then prepare yourself to beat the hell out of the rice. Ha!) and it was probably my most successful risotto to date.
I did two parts arborio rice and one part bulgur wheat to get some whole grains in there. For the veggies, I used fresh chick peas which I shelled just before cooking (they had some at the store - I rarely see them, but I love them!) and some asparagus and brussels sprouts that I roasted and just added at the end. It was delish.
Although I mostly stayed out of my scrap attic this weekend, I did finally finish a layout that I started on Friday morning after another bout with insomnia (argh) - this is from the 3rd sketch in Kelly Purkey's Sketchbook 4 class over at Studio Calico.
I used some papers from the Amy Tangerine Sketchbook line as well as some scraps that I had just sitting around and some much older stuff from my stash like those old Making Memories metal borders and the flower stickers.
I actually found myself pulling out some sentiment stamps using a technique I learned in the scrapbook stamping workshop. I love it when stuff like that starts to show up in my scrapping - really makes it worth having taken the class (still working on that one.)
Speaking of stamping... you can see how the background paper isn't laying flat... that's because I stamped and heat embossed the entire sheet. I did tone-on-tone stamping using the Hero Arts doily background stamp in white ink with white embossing powder. It's hard to see in the photo, but if you look closely above you can see it by the title. It's pretty obvious in person, though. It adds a nice sense of texture and a little extra detail.
This was a fun one - nice and bright and fun to scrap some Easter pictures!
I hope everyone had a lovely Easter :)
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