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A Brief Visit

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Sarah drove 14 hours (round trip) for a 20 minute meeting with her Committe on the Preparation for Ministry. Since she and Adam have but one car now, she was here less than 24 hours. Nonetheless, we had a great meal at The Park Ave. Pub with her grandparents and some time for conversation. I took Thursday off and Sarah and I visited the Ansel Adam’s exhibition at The George Eastman House. It’s a wonderful exhibit with many photographs of the Rochester area which I don’t ever remember seeing plus many of Adam’s classics. Afterwards we wandered around the beautiful gardens and Sarah let me take a lot of photographs of her–generally she’s not so cooperative, but I certainly appreciated it. Here are a few of them:

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Afterwards we did a little jewelry shopping and had a lovely lunch. Such a nice way to spend a day!

Furry

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No furry creatures in our house, and no stuffed animals left either, but I found this furry plant in the gardens at the George Eastman House today.

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Toe (Belated)

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Several weeks ago the photo for the day on Her Space:  My Space was toe. I didn’t participate, but decided this photo was worth posting. Yesterday I tripped on the last step, fell onto the concrete basement floor, and took most of the impact on my big toe. The top of my foot is scraped, my knee took a bit of damage, but it’s the toe that got the brunt of it.  Not a very pretty sight.

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The Tree Story

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For the past several years, our dogwood in front of our house has been slowly dying. Finally, we purchased a new redbud to replace it. Thanks to Matt’s employer, a landscaper, and a couple of friends, we managed to get the tree home, remove the dogwood, and plant the new 15’+ redbud. Here’s the story in pictures:

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CKC-Buffalo

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My friend and I spent two hours yesterday with Stacy Julian in her Finish Line Scrapbook class at CKC-Buffalo. It was fast-paced, inspirational, and meant to challenge our perfectionist tendencies when scrapbooking. Both of us are type -A, perfectionist scrappers so it was perfect. We were challenged to finish a scrapbook with 20-30 photos during the class. I almost made it. A little time this afternoon and I should have a 6 X 6 scrapbook of Matt’s high school graduation finished. Here are the rules:

  • sort photos
  • crop to the core
  • limit product
  • skip the journaling
  • assemble without over thinking
  • embellish last–lay out embellishments and limit yourself to the pile in front of you

Stacy doesn’t advocate this approach for all your photos, but it is a great way to finish one set of photos in a short amount of time. "Crop to the core" was hardest for me. I always think about the final size I want a photo, and cropping photos without thinking about the final size made me a tad uneasy. What I found at the end was I ended up cropping some of them even more in order to get more than one photo on a page. For some photos I think an 8 X 8 album would be easier.

We had a great time. Spent two hours at the vendor fair which was much larger this year. I bought a lot of  beautiful paper, but not much in the way of embellishments. In the afternoon we took a Making Memories class and used their tag maker. I was very impressed with it, and I’m sure I’ll own one soon. I need to finish all four of those 12 X 12 layouts. This class, too, pushed me to try some things I might not otherwise try. All in all, a fun day.