.Books I read in January.

Firstly I reduced my target from 300 books to 250. January is over and I realised I may have been a little ambitious, but if it is going well later in the year I can always raise my target.

 

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

 

 

The Becoming by Jeanne C  Stein

 

The Veil by Cory Putman Oates

 

Existence by Abbi Glines

 

Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken

 

Bloodspell by Amalie Howard

 

Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

 

Mercedes Thompson series by Patricia Briggs

 

Affairs of Steak by Julie Hyzy

 

Jessica Rules The Darkside by Beth Fantasky

 

Boys That Bite by Mari Mancusi

 

Anew by Chelsea Fine

 

Warriors of Poseidon by Alyssa Day

 

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

 

Falling For Hamlet by Michelle Ray

 

The Season by Sarah MacLean

 

The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal

 

23 books

 

shanna

Layouts

So I used two Just One Sketch prompts, to flip the sketch and use a monochrome colour palette. I scooted my flipped imaged together and made this layout.

 

 

I also was going through some of my old Jessica Sprague classes and made these two layouts. The first is a great layout for my One Little World.

 

 

 

Shanna

Week 4

Week four of Project Life. Still going well.

4 weeks down – 48 to go.

 

Shanna

Dream Job

I don’t know why but I was thinking earlier about what my dream job would be.  I like my job most of the time but I never really figured out what I wanted to do with my life. I know I had some random suggestions when I was a kid.

 

A math teacher

 

Work for NASA

 

Be Librarian

 

 

I’m none of those things.  I went to university and studied Accountancy and Computer Programming. (It’s been six years since I graduated and I couldn’t program a thing anymore). I work as a Management Information Analyst (amongst other things).  But if I could do anything else I think I would like to…

 

be a novelist.

 

a photographer

 

A TV show writer

 

But for now I’ll just stick to my day job.

 

Shanna.

Just One Sketch

A few weeks ago I  signed up for the Just One Sketch class from Miss Smith.  The idea is you take one sketch and just by  making a few changes you get a completely different layout.  To start with you could make your own sketch or use a sketch. Since I am lousy at making a page without a sketch anyway I decided to pick a sketch from Shimelle Laine. I always love her style but I her one page layouts even if it isn’t always my style and I need to try making one page layouts as most of my layouts tend to be two page recently.  So I choose this sketch

 

Here is the first layout I made using the sketch.

 

Echo Park Time and Seasons

 

The next prompt was to rotate the sketch. I rotated the sketch and combined the two pictures and used one picture.

 

The next prompt is to use a monochrome colour scheme. I guess that’s one I’ll have to try this weekend.

 

Shanna.

Sister Act

So last Saturday my mum and I went to Bristol to see Sister Act the musical.  We had decided to take the train as it was easiest only to find part of the journey was a replacement bus.  We got there in plenty of time and went to the Aquarium and had lunch.

 

 

The show was amazing, it was so funny and there was a really good energy from the audience.  My favourite character was Eddie the cop.  I loved how everyone ended up in sparkling costumes. It was a long day but we had a great time.

 

Shanna.

Week 3

It seems to be the week of food pictures.

3 Weeks down 49 to go.

 

Shanna

Instagram.

I know practically most scrappers who have an iPhone love Instagram, I used it once when I got my phone a month ago and never really bothered with it until this weekend when I started to play. I love it. So under the guise of my one little word to Be… Creative I played. Here are some of my favourite Instagrams from the weekend.

 

Shanna.

Project Life - Week 2

2 down 50 to go.

 

Shanna

Only someone attempting Project Life….

would take ten pictures of their grandparents new bed which they ordered a few weeks ago on their iPhone as they needed one for their photo for the day.  My grandparents think I’m crazy, but I have my picture.

 

And for putting up with that pointless story here is a layout I made using this weeks 2page sketch from Sketch Support and the Echo Park Winter Park kit.

 

Shanna