A little Filmage

EEerk...break in the regular scrap-posting...My fave short films from the World Animation Day Weekend:

(Thought I'd link em up for you, in case you wanna check out the filmmakers or whatnot, also posted pics, cuz they are so visually awesome and inspiring...and also, wanted to find links before i forgot which films I liked altogether...lol)

"Square Roots" from the NFB's Hot House 3, by Patrick Doyon..it was just darn cute

"Sleeping Betty" by Claude Cloutier, also an NFB film...totally drawn in India ink, it was super-funny...funny story, funny animation...insanely awesome poses and character style...=)

"The White Wolf" by Perre-Luc Granjon from Sacrebleu Productions..this one looked like pencil crayon drawings, and it was animated stop-motion with paper cut-outs...gorgeous! Cool story, too...

"The Squirrel Next Door" by Carla Coma, NFB's HotHouse 4 ....this girl used an actual (dead) taxidermied (is that a word?) squirrel and tarantula..so it was a little creepy, but funny...

...and my most favoritest film of all time, ever...soooo so happy I got to see it twice...=).....(like seriously, it's right up there with "Nightmare Before Christmas" in my fave animation category)

"Madame Tutli-Putli" by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski....and the NFB

I can't even begin to explain how visually stunning this one is....they made puppets, you can see all the texture of them, which I love...and the shot live action and puppet versions of the scenes, and then composited the live action eyes into the puppet...wow...just, wow...I'ma go watch whatever making of stuff is on the site, cuz I just love it..and have mucho crazy respect and admiration for these filmmakers!! (sigh) You should definatley check out the trailer for some inspo if you're stuck for it today!

I'm also dying to see Persepolis.....a new 2D feature..heard it's awesome and captivating...

Hope you were inspired a little by the eye candy, at least..he he...=) I (heart) animation...

As for my film, alas, I didn't win anything in the festival...but I'm so happy and still surprised that it got into a festival and was nominated...=) yay! And some of the winners came from the school I went to, so that's cool!

Have no work to do at work today yet...and the coffee machine is busted so I have a headache from coffee neglect...also have lots to do when I get home cuz some deadlines are looming and I want to stop-motion animate some paper cut-outs right now...he he...have to send off a package to Papercrafts (yay!)...make three pages...hang with my Z....we started watching "Planet Earth" documentaries last night and they just rock...totally so surprised at all the little animal facts I'm learning...he he...And the Hills...oh my word...I hate Spencer..and also Lisa Love..don't like her at all...and totally thought Whitney bombeed the presentation, but was relieved when they thought she did okay...=) yay! Happy day, all!! thanks for the sweet comments..you girls rock!

A Weird Girl in a Normal Costume...

...is what I'm being for Halloween...he he. Last night, on Halloween party night, on the way home from the 3rd World Animation Day/weekend film screening (albeit, not the best film screening)...we were like.."Oh, it's Halloween.."...We have no costumes. No plans. Eeek...So who knows what we'll do...eat candy? I'm cool with that...But I decided I would be a weird girl in normal costume, since I have nothing else to wear. Which i guess I am everyday...he he....=)

...work was super-super busy on Friday, and I haven't had a chance to check out anybody's blogs for days, so thanks for the cute comments and I'll be by soon to say hi and leave you happy words...=) Seriously, and when I say busy, I mean like.."these scenes were due last wednesday, here's 20 of them..you have 10 minutes."...When you pile the fact that I'm quite new to the characters and the show and the set-up of the show..it's tough to pull off...and also, frustrating that the schedule is so tight....(sigh)...I was more pissed that I didn't get to eat lunch til like 2, than anything else...lol..Sooo...I saw some awesome films this weekend, I'll try to remember them and find links and such...so much inspiring work is out there!! Also, had the best..I mean, the best martini on Saturday at a hotel on Granville Island...Vanilla vodka, Godiva liquer...and some other such liquid-chocolate goodness....Yum! booked flights to Calgary this morning for the holidays so I can hang out with my family..=) Did some scrapping yesterday morning..today has been the yucky, rainy, get-groceries-and-clean-house Sunday, but now we're done and Z is animating beside me with some clay and I should be scrapping, but instead I put a new pic on the blog header (the other one was making me laugh..lol...thanks to my bestest girl
Mandy for taking it) and added some new tunes...The first song is from "A Lot Like Love"..one of my fave movies ever, and has been stuck in my head all week...he he.....and without further Ado, some pages that I've had to post all week, but didn't:

(I posted these on SIS a few days ago, so sorry if they're old news...)

My entry for Last Scrapper Standing, Round 3 - crazy ribbon usage...I used mod podge, wrapped it around chipboard, gathered it into a circle, pleated it..made it into a monster...it was a pretty testing challenge!! Awesome, though...=) That's me when I was 2, I used to be sooo scared of monsters!! This one was for the One Little Word challenge, the word was "Believe"...just wrote down some things I believe in..like Pirates, and mermaids..and reincarnation...and following gut instincts..=)

This one was for a challenge at Create My Keepsake...there was a pillow to draw inspiration from, and I was inspired by the tree, the color scheme...everything...it rocked! And this pic of Z fake-being-mad just cracks me up..=) had to scrap it...he he

Anyways, just watched "Premonition" (pretty good....but kind of despressing)...snuggled on the couch...about to get some scrappy stuff outta the way, but barely..it's nice to chill and relax on sunday night...so that's what I'm gonna do! Hope everyone had a happy weekend! =)

Ohmigosh....

...today rocks! Feelin super-lucky at the moment...

..My page was picked for Ali Edwards' "Life Art" challenge at SisTV...! Eeeek!!

Super cool, cuz I was sooo dying for her new book! She's so inspiring!!

..Also, my mum called me all the way from Calgary this morning to let me know that she noticed my film had been selected for the Enroute Film Festival!! Eeek! There's 7 of us from 19 still in the running! My fingers are crossed!

...Also...It's World Animation Day....err, weekend! There's a few screenings over the next few nights that I'm super-excited about! nothing like watching some great, short, Canadian films on a big screen...The National Film Board of Canada seriously rocks....=)

...annnd..I have a ton of work to do today, and some pages to post here, but alas..they're at home...so I leave you with this: Me, and my silly Z:

Note: We have to coordinate skull-shirt wearing, looks like I got it that night...We both have a multitude of skull shirts, but totally don't want to be one of those matchy-matchy couples..lol...Also: plans are in the making for our skull christmas decor...yeaah! Happy day! More eye candy laters....

..Life Art....

Sooo...I read an excerpt from Ali Edwards' new book, "Life Artist", on the Sis Tv site the other day, and was so inspired that I had to make a page...seriously, I (heart) this page...and I think it's because I took some time and just journalled and journalled and journalled and splashed ink happily around and was happy making it...just for me...just so me thoughts got out and onto the page...just reflected on how I grew and evolved into accepting myself and how it's made me open up to all sorts of new experiences and everyday things...Aaah...seriously, fun stuff...you can read the journalling here....but a warning: it's a small novel...he he...

I used some vintage trim, and left the cute hand-written price tag on...some Hambly (yes, I'm addicted)...there's a vintage picture of a few random houses, which I love because it's so imperfect, on the page, too...I aged the MM Noteworthy letters with watercolor paint and ink...splashed some walnut ink...there's vntage german boat cards from France, a tag from Elle's Studio, and the journalling is nestled behind the picture on the right...

And without further ado, my antique store finds from Friday:

And I was also tagged by Tammy...yay! =) Thanks girl!

7 Random things:
1. I usually shove my hair back into the same ponytail everyday...partly because I don't like doing my hair, partly because I never really learned how to do my hair well, and partly because it only takes 5 minutes....=)

2. My dream job when I was little was to be a ballerina...and then a poet. And then a writer. And then a fashion designer. And I almost went to school in toronto for fashion design/illustration...until, one day, I decided on film school. Z says I'm so stubborn that, even though I didn't draw or know much about animation before I went to film school, I did good cuz I wanted to.....he he

3. I just got a skull project picked up for publication in a scrapbook magazine.....yeah! Skulls unite! lol

4. I seem to be the odd-job girl at work right now...multitasking...doing my old job and revisions at the same time, expecially now that people know I was doing the old job directly before this job....which is cool, ya know...I think I picked an industry that's perfect for me: unstable enough that I have drive to hang on, fast-paced enough that I'm always happily busy, and short contracts make for variety....yeah!

5. I had a Bavarian Meatloaf sandwich today. Duuuude. Bavarian Meatloaf rocks.

6. The grandma purse I bought on the weekend is so my fave purse ever! I swear, I could hide a boulder in it, and it's the softest leather, and I feel like I love it enough to sleep with my arms wrapped around it...lol

7. I love when jeans fit. I mean fit. Everywhere. I don't like when jeans are made for girls who have no muscles in their legs.

he he...I was trying to think of randoms I haven't already said...annnnnd...I tag anybody who wants to do the 7 randoms! =) lol...Anyways, back to my odd-job kinda day. Scrappin tonight...almost done my LSS entry...some other deadlines to attend to, and some Z to hang out with...=) Laters! Happy day!

..A Scrapbooking Machine

...has inhabited my body. I went a little crazy this weekend - well, Saturday....got a whole lotta stuff done, and I think it's cuz my new stuff was so..well, new...and fun...he he...=)

This one was for a challenge over at SIS tv last week: (was feeling very fortunate in wake of the job...)

This one is the Scrapjack of Dina Wakley...her style totally rocks, I couldn't resist! This page is feelin pretty simple for me...but I wanted to pics to speak for themselves....=)

I also got that Scrapmojo page done, started my LSS #3 challenge (ribbon, ribbon, ribbon! Thank god I hoard!! lol) and did a page for Ali Edwards' challenge at SIS, which I'll post tommorrow....I sense a new love of green and brown, anyone else? lol..shopping pics to come..antique find pics to come, too..I can't bombard you with too mcuh to see at once, can I?? he he....Have to say, I can't stop thinking about buying boots, now...but I have the worst luck cuz my calves are so gigantic....lol..they never zip up..and it was sweeet to have a coat to walk to work in...aaaah...Watched "the English Patient" last night...pretty good, but sad, tragic love story....and, of course, lotsa Fosters..yay! Oh! And thanks for all the cool comments, guys! I try to check out everyone who leaves a comments' blog, too, cuz it's so fun to find new art and new artsy people...=) he he...so thanks! Happy day everybody!

Yup, So 1980...

Duuude...the second Scrapmojo challenge is up! It is sooo cool! You know those "You know you're an 80's child if..." lists?? It's to scrap with one of those! I mean, 70's child, 80's child..whatever you may be...=) It was so funny to read through them, and especially to go through my old pictures...lol...I was born in 85, so I think my 80's kinda ended up dragging into most of my early 90's..lol...Anyways, Z and I both thought this was the most 80's outfit: neon pant set (matching pants and shirt, my sis had the same one in a different color...which she was wearing the same day) with a pink sweater and gumboots...ha ha...and it's hard to see, but the bangs I was rockin that day were reallllly big....lol...Some of my funny 80's facts: I saw MC Hammer in concert, it's one of my first memories, sitting on top of a van outside of Lions Gate park in Penticton...I can remember him dancing in white pants...lol...I used to love New Kids when I was teeny....I wore the spandex under skirts...always with something neon...side ponytails...(sigh) soooo funny to look back on! Anyways, the sponsor this time is Coordinates Collections...pretty cool stuff!! =)

What else did I do over the fly-by-super-fast weekend? Oh! There's a few more pages I got finished...feelin like a scrapbooking machine yesterday, cuz I was trying to get stuff done, knowing there's a busy week ahead and a bunch of deadlines looming...eek! will post tomorrow...We just watched the Foster's episode with scary Berry and her scrapbook....

...he he...so funny.....so evil and cute and obsessive...ha ha! I ventured over to the mall today to hunt for a coat that will keep me dry and a purse that's not made of cloth (I walked home in terrential downpour on Friday and realized..wow! I don't own any rain-friendly clothes!)....also am on the hunt for runners (still sporting the ones with holes, or the ones that made my feet bleed..argh) And finally sunk and tried on pairs of flat boots to no avail...so now I'm thinking I'll have to hunt for boots this week...We got the stop-motion group together yesterday for some chat and brainstorming and some beer...good times...can't wait for that weekend! Start the "new" job tommorrow, but I have a feeling I'll be helping with my old job for a few days due to deadlines....annnnd...I'll post pics of my antique finds and such when I have a chance...=) Hope everyone's weekends were awesome! Happy night!

Wowza!

Duuude....finally got some yummy Hambly goodness in the mail yesterday! I love it, but it's hard to find a place that will ship to Canada for less than a small fortune...it costs like $20 from the Hambly sight for like 7 transpaarencies.....geesh! Anyways, thanks 2Peas...(sigh) I totally forgot it was coming, too..yay! Happy surprises! Also: MM Noteworthy stuff totally rocks, too!
So big announcement: Whew! I have a job on Monday....super-crazy, last minute, unexpected job! I'm gonna stay where I am in the studio and instead of doing AfterEffects, I'll be movin on to Junior Revisionist on Pucca (Season 2)...yay! And thank god! Huuuge load off my shoulders!! No job search, enough money to fly down to see family for Christmas, maybe, my god - go out for dinner with Z, which, believe it or not, we've never done since we started dating (we've gone for drinks, sure...) So, again, whew! So thankful to the animation gods...Feeling very lucky, very very lucky and thankful that this year has gone by without a hitch!

I think shoes are conspiring against me: yesterday, I found runners in my closet that I thought were worn in and I ended up with bleeding feet when I got home...Argh! Double argh! I watched Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" last week and was totally stunned...for the 80's, it was a freakin awesome movie! The effects were cool...the design of the puppets was astounding - seriously, their costumes..(sigh)....really cool...! Surprised I haven't seen it before! Stop motion festival is a go! We're getting a team together and about to sign up, then we have to think of possible stories an stuff and practice/learn stop motion. he he...I'm totally dying to enter every contest..Oh! Speaking of, made it to the 3rd round of Last Scrapper Standing! This challenge is gonna be super-tough: use ribbon...tons of ribbon...in a new way.....eeek! So excited, though...Dying to go shopping..so thankful I can actually afford shoes without holes, and a coat that is not a rain-absorbing hoodie...yay! Dying to shop, just dying! Annnnd...I a total dork and went antique shopping on my lunch break...he he....I'm like an old lady...lol...So I'll show you my finds tommorrow! Also, new Scrapmojo challenge goes up tommorrow, so stay tuned!

Without further Ado, My October Scrapmuse stuffs:

Thanks for peeking! =) I would explain what's what, but you get the gist: some pics from France, lots of walnut ink and splashed paint..embroidery thread...etc. =) lol..It's such a monster post! Sorry guys! Happy day to everyone!

Yeahh!

Hmm...not much to say today, cept my film is in this cool festival this month! I think I mentioned it when I first heard it was going to be in it, but it's on the website now (see, the only bright yellow cow once you enter the site?? lol..) It's playing on Air Canada flights in October, running against some pretty awesome student films (was watching them at work this am)...cool stuff! Wish me luck!! he he...cow just sticks out like a sore thumb on there....lol....

Z's flash film was featured on Channel Frederator's Episode 102, which is pretty sweet...And it looks like a small group of us will have a sponsor to participate in the stop-motion festival I was talking about the other day....yippee!! which is good, cuz we're all starving animators attempting to find jobs..ha ha....anywways, film stuff comin out of my ears!! he he...

Scrapmuse goodies to post, soon....Watched Ali Edwards' episode on Scrap in Style and she seems like such a cool, down-to-earth artsy lady..loved it! I think I love her more, now..and also, she has a cool challenge that I might try to fit it....duuuude...that's another thing...why are there so many sweet challenges?? One little word...Scrapjacked...all the cool Sis challenges and tons of cool contests....argh...can time just stop so I can do them all??? lol...(sigh) maybe I can stay in and play next week when work is done...also, got Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' last night, and watched it with Z...such a cute cartoon! love it!! Happy day, everyone! =)

just Tuesday...

Thanks for all the cute comments yesterday, girls...=) Felt better when I went home and laughed with Z and watched the Hills. Ahhh...

hmm...no pictures today, so I should do Marie's tag for some giggles...

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) - brandy feet
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) - Chocolate chip cookie dough chocolate chip...ha ha
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) - M Cle.
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) - Yellow puppy
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) - Alynn Penticton
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) -Cle mi
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) - The blue martini
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) - Rocco Rolland
9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) - Vanilla tootsie roll
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) - Anne James
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) - uhh.I sure can't remember that teacher....
12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) - Summer Daffodil
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) - Apple-pear hoodie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) - Granola Willow
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) - The Everything Sun Tour

heh. I especially love my "Nascar" name....thanks Marie! Kept me busy while burning dvds at lunch..yeah! =) I tage anyone who reads this and wants to do it, though I'm sure everyone's been tagged...What else? should be some scrapping I can post up here, soon...Looking for jobs: Animation, Administrative stuff....retail if I must..not really too worried as I managed to save enough to make it a few months without work...so I'd love a week off, at least, but I like working....like to be busy and out of the house, too...=) Plus, who knows if I have to move, which costs money...and have to pay for a flight home at Christmas...work is good!! ha ha...anyways, happy day everyone!

Oh, Mondays...

...eeek! Today the universe is against me, man...lol...I walked here, wearing new shoes (runners that shouldn't give me blisters) and got super crazy blosters a block from home, so I flipped the back down and walked on them for the other 40 minutes to work that way, and then once I got here, realized I had blisters on the bottoms of my heels...argh...and then I get here, take the shoes off, and run into a lady who's carrying a fresh cup of coffee...coffee all over me and her...argh..and then I finally sit down to work, and my AfterEffects won't load...spend half an hour restarting and wrestling with it and finally, the IT guy comes and helps me...and it's 11:30 by the time I finally get to work and I've never been so happy to work ever...lol...argh. Stupid Monday....lol...I'm pretty sure some other "argh" stuff happened in between those events...and maybe the whole universe isn't against me..but dude, it's Monday, universe...gimme a break! lol...Anyways, other than that wonderful start to my week, it's all good...lol...Shopping was fab yesterday..so fun...! Got some new jeans, and amazingly got 2 pairs that fit on the first go...yahoo! Found some skull shirts....but had to dig for them...ended up geetting a cute lil boy's hoodie that's covered in skulls..he he...and a new watch, cuz mine was totalled. Will share some pics later....for now, have to write a pile of impending e-mails, have to finish up burning dvds at work, cuz it's my last week here...off to print portfolios, get groceries, and finish up deadlines tonight....hopefully I'll catch "the Hills" later, for my drama fix...I have a new teeny short film idea, featuring none other than a cow..lol...So I'm looking forward to some time off after this week so I can chill finally and catch up...whew! Wishing everyone a happy day...wishing my own day to get better...lol.....and this is what my scrap desk looked like after all those pages I posted the other day: feels a little chaotic (like my life?) at the moment...It's always kinda messy over there...(note to mom & Wayne...Z's desk is right beside mine, see?? The grey thing...he he..) Happy day!

Hakuna Matata...

Yahoo! Totally fun day yesterday....after work (thank you, computer problems for making my afternoon an internet-surfing extravaganza) I met Z down in Gastown, where I work, and we were on our way to find cheap clothes when we ran across an amazing Antique store! Omigosh, we're talking a whole floor full of drawers, antique stamps, homemade journals, old scrapbooks full of Elvis newspaper clippings, a super-old photo album from back when pictures were mounted on a really thick cardboard material...wow...wow. I can't stop talking about it, and we only had 5 minutes in there before they closed, so I'm dying to go back and dig around for a few hours. (sigh) Had McDonald's in the movie theatre while finally seeing "Transformers"...I have no nailpolish left because I was totally biting my nails the whole time...and holy schmokes, that movie was pretty well done...I can't imagine animating those guys!! Anyways, glad we finally saw it on the big screen!

Sooo...today, I made breakfast (Z always makes breakfast, thought I owed him one) lol..drank a ton of yummy coffee, Z is on the beach making a little film with Ian, and I'm watching the Lion King and scrapping. Yeahh...such a cool day when my only worry is "which movie should I watch next?"..lol...And I shouldn't have said in my last post that I wasn't scrapping for myself...I always scrap for myself...it's just frustrating when you have to use certain stuff sometimes, ya know? Anyways, here's some goodies that I made just for me, poured them out of my little heart...made me happy and free:

(this one's my fave...did it for a challenge at Sistv...you can check the poem out here)

Some pink sugar pop cuteness (a little card):

I'm in love with this page, too...(and I can't stop scrappin the cute pic of me and Z) It's for a challenge at Sis, also..."What you do in a day"...it's a silly page: "got up. went to work. thought of Z. drank coffee. Worked on a few scenes. Thought of Z"...lol...but it's cute....

...anyways, we're also super-excited about This Trick 17 Stop-motion festival Z found yesterday...you get a team, make a film with a topic they give you in 3 days! Pretty sweet...we, of course, both haven't done stop motion, but I've been dying to learn and we're crazy animators, so we're always up for not sleeping for a weekend and making a film..lol...yay!! So excited! Shopping tommorrow...happy happy! Have a cool weekend, everyone!

... a happy little morning picture =) Z has this habit of picking flowers for me when we're outside....it's totally cute! Anyways, scrapped a little last night...(boys night = house to myself = girly music + scrap time) but I was struggling because I was trying to rush stuff I had to get done, which ended up not being fun and looking yucky...so I played around with one of the Fashionista challenges over at Sistv and it turned out pretty cute and 'free'...will finish tonight and post tommorrow...working on the Label tulip "pink" contest, also, cuz those kits rock! What else? There's so many cool challenges this month that I can't help myself and am taking on way more than I can manage right now...must breathe, prioritize...look for a job...look for job-looking motivation...lol...A cool weekend of scrapping, shopping, and chillin with Z ahead...one more week of work left...Thinking I have to seriously make some changes with the scrap situation cuz that was not fun last night not scrapping for me...I miss scrapping for me...hmm. Anyways, everybody....wishing you happy friday! Can't wait to go shopping tonight!! yippee!!

Also, cuz I'm bored at work:
I stole the 4's off of Michelle's blog...

4 Jobs I've had:
1. Flyer girl...yup, I delivered phone books and flyers and the whole deal. Sucked horribly!
2. Temporary Christmas staff at Northern Getaway (Canadian kid's clothing store)...they had super-cute skater boy shirts, but I wasn't allowed to wear them to work...
3. Sales Associate at Purdy's chocolates....I started working there in grade 11, and then worked for a few years full-time, and then moved here to Van and kept working through school...love that place!
4. Animator!! Yippee!! =) Well, it's a blessing and a curse to wanna do what I do, I guess: super long hours, yo-yo paycheques, short contracts...but I love it..=)

4 Movies I could watch over and over:
1. A lot like Love
2. The Science of Sleep
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Stranger than Fiction

4 TV Shows I watch:
1. The Hills
2. Sex and the City (dvd's, baby!)
3. Freaks and Geeks (boxed sets rock, don't they?)
4. Two and Half men (we've dubbed it "the man show")

4 Houses I've lived in:
1. Just 4?? he he...umm...a bunch in Penticton, BC
2. a few in Calgary
3. My old one bedroom in Van, while I was in school
4. My newish studio apartment in Van

4 Favorite Foods:
1. Chocolate
2. Homemade Mac and Cheese
3. Lasagna/any Italian-like thing
4. Popcorn

4 Favorite Colors:
1. Yellow
2. Black
3. Blue
4. Orange

4 Places I'd love to be right now:
1. At home, sleeping
2. In Italy
3. In France, actually seeing it this time
4. Shopping.

4 Names I love but could/would not use for my children:
1. I kind of like Gweneth's "Apple", just cuz it's odd...
2. Betty (Archie comics, ugh!)
3. Veronica/Chantel...these sound very..bitchy..to me
4. Princess Conzuela Banana-Hammock (Phoebe, anyone? lol..just kidding about this, I was just stumped for the last name)

I tag anyone to do the 4's if they read this and want to, and are bored and want something to do...=) Laters!

Gangly and other Randoms....

(Was too impatient to wait for my slow internet to upload these last night....so here they be!)
My entry for Last Scrapper Standing Vol. 2 - Round 2.....whew! Made a lil mini album, wanted to take a break from pages, I guess...he he....anyways, the topic was "7 random things"...I think there are 88 people left standing right now....eeek!! Such a fun challenge...My randoms:

1) I wish I was one of those trendy punky sleeve-tattooed, faux hawk girls (cuz I am inside..he he)
2) My thoughts (against?) marriage...the whole page is randomly written
3) I have the heart of a traveller, want to live near a french antique market
4)Karma happy (i live be it)
5) It's hard for me to share (spelt it wrong, it says: Hard sharing is, like yoda would say it...lol) meh
6) My arms are gangly and my hands are giant
7)by this time, there were randoms I wanted to use, so many I couldn't pick...so I just wrote "The purple elephant likes skull gumboots on friday morning tea breaks"...ha ha

...the book is a 7 Gypsies tag/swatch (?) book...I dyed the pages in walnut ink and splashed it around and painted and inked and had fun!
I am so random, I could've gone on and on making pages forever! (sigh) but, alas...I have more scrappin to do! Got some pink.sugar.pop done and am working away on my Scrapmuse kit for October...yeaah! More soon...=) Thanks for peeking! Happy day, everyone!

......cows!

.....sooo...it seems tuesday/wednesday night is the magical get-drunk-and-then-work-the-next-day night....ha ha....we went out again last night (still having goodbye parties for the same guy we had a goodbye party for last week, he keeps changing the day he's going..lol)....but thank god I ate gigantic foods before I drank and guzzled water when I got home, cuz I'm pretty okay today, just sleepy...Whew! Spent the morning at work, listening to everything from Dropkick Murphy's to Aimee Mann...putzing along...

Thiiis, is my new art blog link!! So if you wanna see what I do everyday/what I did in school, you can go check it out! I was super-happy with myself for making this cow title page in photoshop, cuz I am seriously photoshop inept. It's painful for Z to watch me use it...lol...plus I have an...uhh...unprofessional version...that has a lot of kinks in it, anyways...lol...doesn't help me any....and I'm all about the drop shadows and glows now that I've been using AfterEffects for a while, now...so funny....So if you have my old art blog linked, it's deleted now...this is the new baby. Currently trying to get my demo reel posted there, just exporting files and such...

...what else? Today is LSS #2 posting day!! Whooot! So excited, gotta race home and edit mine and get em up there...working on some lil contest stuff to get other deadlines out of the way...dying to shop, but it looks like Friday is the lucky day....realizing there are no jobs in town right now, and might go back to retail before the Christmas hiring closes...at least I'll have something to do while I job-search, and temporary work would be perfect right now....Have to get more copies of my portfolio done and ready to go...so much stuffs! The next Scrapmojo challenge rocks and is coming up in a little more than a week...just wait til you see it!! Annnd...that's all for me, now...! Laters, there will be scrappiness posted here....=) Happy day!

Give Thanks!

...it's Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada....yippee! Means no work..means I did a million things yesterday (boring things like laundry, printing portfolio stuff, etc.) so that today I had to do nothing at all! Slept in...I made muffins for breakfast (cuz I'm always saying.."I should bake this..I should bake that"...so I actually did) and we just got back from a 2 hour walk in and around Stanley park...pretty cool stuff, it's super nice and sunny today ad it was awesome to get some fresh air and good coffee...=) We literally watched the whole season of this all Sat. and Sun....

...Freaks and geeks is the best show ever, man! =) I still remember how happy I was when I saw it at HMV a few years back...sooooo excited! Bill is my favorite...and Nick, cuz he's a crazy obsessive, kind of odd drummer boy...So anyways, we have the last episode to go, and Z rented some cool movies to watch...and I'm totally missing ym mom's turkey right about now, but Z insisted on making some stuffed peppers (Chuskie or something in bulgarian, I keep forgetting how to say it) for supper, so this is what the scene will look like soon!

....he he...he's such a goof...=) And my day will entail some more couch lounging, movie-watching, and cookie-making....yeaaah...! I'm almost done my Last Scrapper Standing #2....have a ton of scrappy stuffs to do this week, and job-searching...but am also super-happy cuz I finally get to go shopping this week and buy some clothes, and have an order of scrappy goodies coming my way...yay, extra money! =) Whew...treated myself to some skully shoes this morning...ahh..anyways, Happy day everyone! Thanks for all the cute comments, again, and hope everyone had a cool weekend!

....Le' Challenge

Woop! Dere it is...The first Scrapmojo challenge is up! I wasn't sure if I liked this one so much while I was doin it, but it's alright...he he....there's my Z with his super big moustache (everyone said he looks like Borat with it..ha ha) anyways, le moustache is not so funny and curly now, anyways....The challenge is to use the quote from Dirty Dancing, and make your own felt embellie...sooo..I made a skull (who woulda guessed? lol..) and doodled the stripes on Z's shirt....Oh! And the first sponsor for the challenge is Red Velvet Kits (seriously, one of my fave kits ever!!) Oh! And I made the cut for round 2 of Last Scrapper standing.....my brain is a-churning with the new topic: 7 random facts...SO, for some practice some mini randoms:


1. I never eat that wrinkly end piece on a block of cheese. Never. I throw it out.
2. Once when I was 5, I swung on a swing on my belly pretending I was the eagle from "The Rescuer's Down Under" and *splat* into a mud puddle on my face...
3. I think Dave Mathews' "Crash" is the sexiest song there is...or Incubus' "I Miss You".
4. I want to do/be a billion "things": a bookbinder, a poetry writer, etc...Kowing me, I will probably change careers in 10 years. So excited! lol..change is good!
5. I lived in like at least 11 different houses growing up, but I am so thankful because it made me not scared to try new things and go to new places. (thanks mum..he he) =)
6. When I was 16, a palm reader read my hand and said I would have 3 kids and sleep with a lot of foreign men..ha ha...but seriously, I don't even hold babies. So I think she was wrong.
7. Right now, I'm eating an apple-pear, redering my demo reel, message-board posting, uploading scrappy pages, and listening to tunes. And this is my relaxing lunchbreak..ha ha...


Otay..enough random for one day...=) And, yay! Long weekend for us Canadians! And I have some drive to create (I did nothing last night - passed out on the couch for an 8:30 nap last night and watched a movie with Z) and a meeting on Tuesday that I need my reel for...nothin like that to get my stuff finished...happy day!

Aww, man...

...whoever said it was a good idea to drink on a Wednesday night??

I never ever used to get hungover..ever! But dude, I have the worst headache and am crazy dizzy and even my throat is scratchy....but I'm surprisingly getting a lot of work done, considering...maybe so that I keep myself from falling asleep in my chair...=) ha ha...was a fun night, though!

So what's new? Today the rest of us Scrapmojo girls were announced on the blog.....We all have glitter moustaches a la' "Got Milk?"..only we Got Mojo....thus the glitter. Here's my silly pic:

....makes me giggle....lol...Annnd...tommorrow the first challenge goes up! My page will be there or be square....=) So there's a couple contests I wanna enter this month, in lieu of applying to DT's (ha ha...but seriously, it's addicting) cuz I am now officially stretched to my limit...just cuz I need more stuffs to do...my poor Z thinks I'm nuts with all this scrapping...So excited bout the thanksgiving long weekend coming up!! Yahoo! I didn't sleep in a single day last weekend cuz of portfolio putting-together, so there must be sleeping in this time...and turkey (soup) making...I refuse to put my hands on a raw turkey...blech! Speaking of portfolio putting-together...I just have to do like 2 things and get it printed and it's done....but I really wanna scrap tonight and do nothing...and seriously, the mojo for the job-search is gone cuz there are noooo jobs here right now...I'm probably looking at retail until productions start up again in 2008....yikes! ah well, what can ya do? Not much else to say on this front...Other than I'm dying to get this...

..little October Scrapmuse baby in my hot little hands....such a cute kit! Also, thanks for all the sweet comments lately, girls! Love em, thank ya...also love visiting all of your blogs when I get the comments...happy fun! Wishing everyone a great day!

...a little moi...

...Okay, soo...I scrapped so much last night that my lil back hurts (okay, it hurt at work before I even got home) but I had a deadline...lol..So here's muh 3 pages for Fancy Pants Designs! The lines from CHA Summer are sooo cute! Such great colors! Also, check out the idea gallery; at the end of the month it's just brimming with awesome stuff!

This one's picture was taken by Paola in France, lookin all dreamy...so amazed that I went to France still - at everything that happened this year!! Had to reflect...

This one's a little wall hanging made with a clear Pageframe to hang near my scrap space (mostly to make Z giggle...it makes me giggle, too....lol)

The journalling on this one is from that Ingrid Michaelson song (old navy!) I was talking about the other day...I listened to it all day at work, and then when I had to make a page and found this pic Z took of me being me, i realized why I love it - It's how I feel right now...=) he he

....Some more scrappy goodness to come soon! And the first Scrapmojo challenge...and I should seriously get in touch with Hero Arts cuz I'm selling their Alphabet stamps like a madman...lol...I'm so obsessed with them (see above)...watched Beauty and the Geek tonight..such a funny show...!! Z and I watch it together....I'm trying to update this blog still and get my Art blog in order (if I didn't have to wrastle with wordpress constantly, It would be done..but it's really a pain in the ass for the word side of things...and making a resume on there is hell!) and my portfolio is still not quite finished...by the end of the week is the new goal, cuz we're goin to a party tommorrow..yeaaah! Anyways, happy night! Hope everyone had a cool day!