Ummm… did I already mention that I HATE Vista? We were without internet for 2 days because a McAfee update screwed up all the settings on my computer as it’s not really compatable with Vista. Of course this was only discovered after an hour an a half on the phone with Microsoft, an hour and a half on the phone with Comcast and 50 minutes on the phone with McAfee. Happily though I am back online!
Over the past week I’ve actually found a few stolen moments here and there to scrapbook. I am loving the May kit for heritage photos! I think the muted colors work perfect with the sepia tones in older photos. I’ve been using photos of Scott’s grandparents. Now I need to track down some photos of my own grandparents!
Here’s one I created using the April kit:
I really loved working with this paper from the Geisha add-on (I just painted chipboard behind the flower pink) and the Crate Paper diecuts from the Cherry Blossom add-on are just amazing!
And then I did this one of Scott’s grandfather, his twin and older brother with the May kit as well. All the little diecuts are from Making Memories and I believe those are in the Teahouse add-on.
Off to pick the kids up from school, and to hit the grocery store and maybe to get Jack signed up for kindergarten.
Oh, and this was interesting this morning — OPB, the NPR station in Portland, has a locally produced call-in show. This morning’s show was devoted to our little town of Philomath! There is a foundation in town that has been giving scholarships to all of the town’s high school graduates. From what I understand (we’re not from Philomath and we did not purchase in town because of the scholoarship), the scholarship was orignally meant to send kids to Oregon State, about 10 minutes away. Now, to get a scholarship, you can not go to Oregon State (the foundation had a falling out with the University), you have to be a second generation town resident and you have to attend a small number of schools hand picked by the foundation. Of course, as a private foundation they have a right to do whatever they want. However, in my humble opinion, I seems that the Clemens who started the foundation wanted to help the children of the town, not set a political agenda. In the end, what they seem to have achieved is division and putting kids who had rightly or wrongly counted on that money in hardship. If you want to find out more about this controversy that received nationwide attention, there was a documentary called “Clear Cut” that was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
