Hockey Cards on my Epson 810


My boys play football. But they collect hockey cards. And better than that....they've recently drawn their own hockey cards, complete with a back full of stats and self-portraits with their favourite team jerseys on. Cale brought his home from school and he was so proud of all the work he'd put into it - I was too...it was extremely detailed. As soon as Egan saw Cale's...he wanted to make one of his own and he wanted an extra of Cale's so he could "trade" and add it to his Hockey Card binder.

Enter my new printer.
I haven't don't a lot of colour printing with it but everytime I do, I'm so impressed by the quality! These hockey cards were no exception.

Check these out:

The center card is the original that Cale coloured with marker at school and the 2 on the sides are printed on my Epson Artisan 810. I was so impressed with the colour and the quality and the boys were beside themselves with pride as they "traded" their hockey cards with each other.

I need help with my scraproom....


I found this cupboard at my thrift store a week or so ago. It apparently was someone's old homemade entertainment unit - perfect for a flat record player and an extensive collection of LPs. It had some nasty peeling laminate on the outside and some very gaudy doorknobs. Both were easily removed :)
Now, I've seen units like this before but usually they are built for 10"-12" LPs and therefore, the compartments are just slightly too short for 12" paper. This one has 13" compartments (both back to front, and top to bottom). SCORE!


OK...so here's my dilemma.
I want it in my scraproom. How do I set it up??
I've already taken the doors off and sanded it down (*beautiful oak plywood underneath)
Here's what it looks like so far:

This is still my favourite way to have it - it stands about 5' tall this way and I have room for the footprint. Downside? My paper has to stand vertical. Do I want that? It's what I have now by the way, but should I rather flip it like this:

#1
It will stand flat - I have one piece in the garage and one out b/c it was raining just then...but you get the idea. A bigger footprint (not sure I have the space) and I certainly don't have so much paper that I'd need all these shelves horizontal. I would love the countertop space though :)
Here's another configuration:

#2
I could put one horizontal and the other vertical. The very top of this now stands at 7' but I'm 6' tall so this isn't really a hardship for me. Plus, my printer could sit on the excess shelf.

Here's the other way around:

#3
This way I'd have more flat-paper space but still have some vertical storage for magazines and stuff like that. Not sure what to do with those long spaces on the bottom left...? and the top does hang over a little this way - is it too weird?


OK...enter: an old cupboard I had in my scraproom already - it's a knock-together TV stand I think and crappy laminate that I will have a brutal time painting over....but interestingly, it's almost the same height as the smaller 1/2 cabinet on it's end. If I shim it a little and use them both on the floor, and the big one on top it looks like this:

#4


Or, I could flip that and use the big one on the bottom and both smaller ones on top. Again....this may look funny b/c the small one on the top left isn't a match and I may not even be able to paint it out as nicely as the other two.

#5



Any opinions from scrapbookers/crafters? What am I going to love?
I'm in the process of painting the whole thing out white and I'm going to paint ALL of it in case by flipping it around, some side is showing that wasn't originally intended to show. Now if the rain would stop I could get some paint dry around here!

I need some help figuring this out


I found this cupboard at my thrift store a week or so ago. It apparently was someone's old homemade entertainment unit - perfect for a flat record player and an extensive collection of LPs. It had some nasty peeling laminate on the outside and some very gaudy doorknobs. Both were easily removed :)
Now, I've seen units like this before but usually they are built for 10"-12" LPs and therefore, the compartments are just slightly too short for 12" paper. This one has 13" compartments (both back to front, and top to bottom). SCORE!


OK...so here's my dilemma.
I want it in my scraproom. How do I set it up??
I've already taken the doors off and sanded it down (*beautiful oak plywood underneath)
Here's what it looks like so far:

This is still my favourite way to have it - it stands about 5' tall this way and I have room for the footprint. Downside? My paper has to stand vertical. Do I want that? It's what I have now by the way, but should I rather flip it like this:

#1
It will stand flat - I have one piece in the garage and one out b/c it was raining just then...but you get the idea. A bigger footprint (not sure I have the space) and I certainly don't have so much paper that I'd need all these shelves horizontal. I would love the countertop space though :)
Here's another configuration:

#2
I could put one horizontal and the other vertical. The very top of this now stands at 7' but I'm 6' tall so this isn't really a hardship for me. Plus, my printer could sit on the excess shelf.

Here's the other way around:

#3
This way I'd have more flat-paper space but still have some vertical storage for magazines and stuff like that. Not sure what to do with those long spaces on the bottom left...? and the top does hang over a little this way - is it too weird?


OK...enter: an old cupboard I had in my scraproom already - it's a knock-together TV stand I think and crappy laminate that I will have a brutal time painting over....but interestingly, it's almost the same height as the smaller 1/2 cabinet on it's end. If I shim it a little and use them both on the floor, and the big one on top it looks like this:

#4


Or, I could flip that and use the big one on the bottom and both smaller ones on top. Again....this may look funny b/c the small one on the top left isn't a match and I may not even be able to paint it out as nicely as the other two.

#5



Any opinions from scrapbookers/crafters? What am I going to love?
I'm in the process of painting the whole thing out white and I'm going to paint ALL of it in case by flipping it around, some side is showing that wasn't originally intended to show. Now if the rain would stop I could get some paint dry around here!


Fossil Dig

This weekend we had a very unique opportunity to dig for fossils. The Canadian Fossil Discovery Center is a museum in Morden, Manitoba that specializes in Marine Reptile fossils that depict the sea life that lived here when central Canada was part of the Western Interior Seaway. This past Saturday they were offering free passes to the museum and free dig-site tours, including instruction and experience. I think I may have been more excited about this than my kids since this is truly one of my "have to do before I die" things but we all had such a great time. We're planning to go again if they offer it next year and hopefully spend more time there. But, even though we were only at the dig site for an hour or so, the boys found a significant fossil fragment (the curator thought maybe a piece of a Mosasaur rib) and Mica & her friend Sarah found a fish vertebrae.




Cale & Egan with the Curator, Jackie - shoveling into a sifter and then carefully brushing through to look for the pinkish-white hue of fossil that stands out against the yellowish Bentonite and black Shale.




Egan brushing with the paintbrushes they provided.




The fossil fragment they uncovered while brushing the shale away.

Some perspective on how big the piece was.




Mica & Sarah's fish vertebrae find. Small, but exciting nonetheless.





Back at the Museum, they let the kids stand under the replica of Bruce the Mosasaur, a 43-foot long Mosasaur. The museum recovered almost 70% of his fossilized remains on a dig site close to Morden. Read more about Bruce here.

We spent some time on a guided tour of the collection room actually getting to handle some of the fossils they've collected, including (below) a jaw bone from Bruce.



And of course, the day had to end with some goofy antics and the staging of a giant Water Reptile attack.

Perfect Peace

I've shared this song here before but since I haven't blogged for so long....it bears a repeat post. The video is just pictures of her so that's alright I guess but the lyrics are what do it for me, every single time.










"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."
Isaiah 26:3

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I make a ton of Mother's Day cards every year - to give to my 2 moms and also to sell b/c it's one of the biggest holidays of the year for cards and gift. This one that I'm posting today is made from a 12x12 sheet of Clear Scraps acrylic. I cut the piece to a regular card size on my Fiskars cutter (the blade slices in just enough to score it and it snaps like drywall). Then I scored it on my Scor-Pal so it bends like a card. I made this one pretty simple but in essence, you have 4 acrylic surfaces to work with now - card front (front & back) and card inside (front & back). I used patterned paper, adhesive felt, paint, stickers and Thickers to make this simple card for Mom.













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