Once upon a time

Aww it's my boy's birthday today!!

I can still remember the first time I had to try to FORGET that it was his birthday! It was hard as Tegan was due at this point in time and I was crossing all my fingers and toes that she would NOT be born on the 10 September - and she wasn't - she was born on the 5! - Yes I know bad auntie Peta made no mention of her little niece turning the big three on her blog on Tuesday - SLACKER!

Hey guess what - Tegan's now 3!!! LOL

I must say this has been a little bit 'awkward' for me... It's kind of odd to be a part of his life again and celebrating birthdays once more. I didn't get him anything for his birthday - because a/ I couldn't afford to and b/ because I couldn't work out anything to GIVE him - I don't know what he 'likes' anymore?!?! - that part of him has 'changed'. He didn't want anything anyways. But I did feel sad not to go to any 'effort' for his birthday. I was to sick on Friday to do anything for him when he was here - I wanted to cook him a great dinner but got to tired just going shopping for the stuff to make it. We ended up having Pizza!! ROFL.

I thought about scrapping a page for him about why I love him. But then felt that it was a little too soon for stuff like that - IYKWIM. Not quite ready for the cutie pie sweetheart lovey dovey layouts - YET ... LOL

I then thought about coming over here and writing a quick post just for him, but you guys don't want to read that do you :P well if you don't then look away now.....

Stacy - LOVE YOU - Happy birthday!!!


So in other news - Scrapwise - I had nothing really dyeing to be played with this weekend so I didn't scrap a thing!!!

Was starting to really seriously think about closing down wana be a digi star till I got some nice emails from past stars talking about their successes and a nice message from one of the designers who said how much she loved her star that she nabbed from the blog! - So that again makes me more sure that I'm doing the right thing - even if the support hasn't exactly been 'there' - still miffed that not one designer bothered to comment on my post at P4D ... but ahh BLAH BLAH BLAH WHINGE WHINGE WHINGE - shut up Peta! :)

Ohh and just cause I know I said I would have a vent about this awhile ago - Scrap Templates - Nope I'm not a fan, but then I don't scraplift either - not that I'm saying templates are scraplifts... but that scraplifting and templates are about following someone else 'design' - while you may change 'bits' and 'make it your own' - you're still following someone else's design style... I can't do it!! I have to say I find seeing the same design over and over again in the galleries drives me bonkers!!! With the first glance you generally take in the 'arrangement' of a layout - not so much 'details' like colors of papers etc - just the over all composition and ya know when I'm sweeping over with that first glance in a gallery and see more then once the same composition it does my head in and makes me have to leave the gallery I CAN'T TAKE IT!! ROFL. The other trouble I have is that when I do find one that wow's me and I go to comment on it ... what do you say? I am one to always be very careful when commenting on a layout that has been scraplifted to not go "Ohh I love your design" - or anything else that really relates to the composition of the layout because that isn't the 'posters' work [that sounds harsh] - but I do feel that by saying that you're not really giving the poster a compliment on their work but the person who they have scraplifted. Does that make sense? [yes I know it's not a hard and fast rule there are exceptions to the rules but I'm talking in generalistic terms here :P]

I think some of those templates are very creative and very funky - some I wish hell why didn't I come up with that idea myself... but yes ... Not a template fan.

Still have my cough! Hope it is gone by Wednesday!