Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Blast from the past, product edition....

One of the topics that seems to regularly comes up on two peas is that of old stash, using it, purging it, what you consider old, how to incorporate old and new....the list goes on.

I have been scrapbooking for ten years now and I guess that you could say that I have slowly been accumulating a small stash.   I do not care if a product is old, or discontinued, the manufacturer is no longer around or heaven forbid not trendy anymore, if I like it and still have a use for it I will use it.

Some things however just do not have a place in my scrappy life anymore like eyelets, paper piecings, fibers and stencil letters from those orange fiskars templates, urgh just not for me so if it has gone past its use by date I will donate I am not one of these people holding onto the dinkiest of supplies.

So all of this leads me to these two layouts, proudly made using new and OLD product.

 
 How I love this photo.  My son has always been the most difficult in terms of tantrums out of my two children and  "the Zachy meltdown" as my daughter refers to his outbursts is a really common sight in our household.
 
Okay so onto the old stuff, I finally used the very last piece (no I should say scrap) of this blue and white damask print from Jenni Bowlin, I want to say that it is from her first release but I can't remember but what I do know is that I bought it in 2007 or 2008, boy I loved that paper and I am sad that its now officially all gone.
 
 
See lovely, isn't it. 
Most of the paper under/behind the photo is old, like 2003 old maybe even older.  It is all from a KI memories stack and as much as I do love some of these simple graphic patterns the paper is horrible, its is cheap and thin but I can't for the life of me throw it out because I love the retro prints, like I really love these prints and there is just nothing like them out there anymore.

 
I love the way that this layout turned out.
All of the paper on this layout is old which only makes me love it even more.  The S.E.I pattern paper is fairly ancient and the coloured paper is just that, paper not cardstock.  These are relics from the early days of scrapbooking when big box stores used to sell 100 packs of thin and crappy paper with terrible colour quality and fastness but it matched perfectly and I refuse to throw out paper that is a nice colour.
 
Again I love this layout.  The colours are me, I was able to use old products from my stash that I love as much today as the day that I bought them and I got to record a really special memory to me.
 

Monday, January 14, 2013

Comings and goings....

I can't believe that we are already halfway through the month, where does all the time go?

 New Years, spent at my best friends place enjoying drinking games, Connect Four, BBQ's, swims in the pool and just a lot of sitting around doing nothing with a drink in hand. 
 A day trip back to my beautiful Coolum Beach with a swim at Stumers, seriously could not have picked a more perfect day, bliss.


Followed by a quick trip to the Ginger Factory for a ride on the train and an ice cream.  We used to live in Yandina and although I had been to the Ginger Factory grounds a few times I had never been on that train, was nice to cross that off my things to do list.  

 Guzman Y Gomez with our friend, only our favourite place to eat in the Valley with a frozen Margarita no less and followed with a peanut butter ice cream.......woah there awesome.

A trip into the Brisbane Museum to see the dinosaurs. 

 And then a trip to Sushi Train for lunch, only my kids ultimate place to eat with the ultimate food you could ask for even more so than McDonalds....something is wrong with those awesome kidlets of mine

A trip to Spotlight.  It has been a while since I have treated myself to some crafty supplies, actually I was at Trade Secret looking for clothes but somehow I ended up in Spotlight with no clothes but a bag of craft goodies.  I am feeling 100% guilt free with this lot as the Franchville washi tapes and glitter dots were 50% off, the Christmas ribbon was 30c a roll and although full price for the Thickers I used the $10 off voucher from the Spotlight magazine so I actually got them for FREE, man I love that deal.