Online Classes: Take 2

This week’s prompt for Picture Inspiration was to Find Some Rhythm. Tracy shared part of a definition for rhythm with us:  “a harmonious sequence or pattern of masses alternating with voids, of light alternating with shade, of alternating colors, etc.” The words “haromonious” and “pattern” made me think of the staircase in the George Eastman House. My brother-in-law gave me a year’s membership for Christmas so I can go as often as I like this year without any admission fees. It’s quite the lovely gift. I’ve been three times since mid-February. As it turns out I found two shots, one inside and one outside, that seemed to fit the prompt.

I love the patterns of the columns, arbor, and all the shadows. I took a few other photos there I’ll save for another time. One of the things I’m enjoying a lot with this class is working my way through the gallery of photographs posted by members of the class. Talk about inspiration!

Participating in Finding Your Way has proven to be pretty motivating for scrapbooking. I finished three more layouts for the house album. It’s already getting frustrating, however, because I can’t find photos I thought I had! For instance, I have photos of how our first house looked when we moved in, but almost none of how it looked by the time we sold it seven years later. We had a beautiful kitchen put in that house, and I can’t find any photos of it. I’m sure there are negatives of the photos, but I have several boxes of those and no easy way to examine them. Oh well, I’m trying to embrace imperfection, and just get on with it.

I’m definitely not a fan of my handwriting, but Karen G. is right, it does speed up the process considerably. Now that I’ve started it in this album, I’ll maintain it. The journaling is hard to read so here’s what it says: It was cheap and in a nice part of the city. Those facts combined with the fact that I had just been laid off due to decreasing enrollments meant we took on a huge renovation porject when we bought the house on Werner Park. These photos give a flavor of what we inherited. The previous owners wanted to turn the house into a double but couldn’t get a zoning variance. They went ahead anyway and cut doors through walls, cut off the plumbing to the upstairs bathroom as well as other poor decisions. I took us years to get through the whole house with needed repairs and remodeling.

I’m continuing to enjoy the Silhouette 101 class. It’s nearly over, and I’ve learned everything I hoped to. This week I learned out to use the print and cut feature. I printed some cute tickets on my printer and then ran them through the Silhouette which cut them perfectly. You’ll see them in a project soon, I’m sure.

I’ll be away from the computer for the next few days, but will catch up with your blogs early next week. Have a great weekend.