Checking in and a RAK!
Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:51PM Oy. I haven't blogged in a bit. I've been, um, busy. Swamped really. I've been scrapping up a storm, finishing up layouts for my book...deadline's in less than a week for the layouts portion. I'm definitely in the home stretch now and am mostly happy with how the layouts are turning out. Incidentally, I also think I should win a prize for deliberately *not* buying the Harry Potter book that released yesterday. I know myself well enough to know that I'd have to stop and read it from cover to cover...and I just can't afford that time right now. You can bet, though, that as soon as I get these layout scans sent off, I'll be heading straight for the bookstore and reading through the weekend. :)
Things? The boys are fascinated with rockets. Seriously. Nathan took all three on Friday night and they camped out at the site where the next day a local rocketry club had a launch event. They came home sweaty but happy. I haven't had a chance to go through the pictures yet. I, obviously, stayed home. I managed to get 12 layouts done in the 20 hours or so they were gone. My head hurt. Today, they all headed to our neighborhood park to launch rockets of their own using the water rocket system Nathan built a bit ago. Again, they came home sweaty but happy. I've only finished 5 layouts so far today...but will be up for another few hours.
Oh, and Micah discovered the harmonica. He's so freakin' adorable. I'll take pictures tomorrow. He's actually pretty good at it...enough that Nathan's trying to figure out a way to record some of Micah's "tunes" so we can link you up here.
Okay, I should get back to work. My office is a disaster area. At this point I don't think it's worth the time it'll take me to straighten up so I'll leave it for another four days. :) When I do clean my office, I'll be doing some significant purging. I figure if it's stuff I didn't even consider touching while making these 68 layouts I probably don't need to hang onto it. So...RAK time!
In the past 2-3 weeks, I've made roughly 50 layouts. Today, I used a color for the first time (not the first time EVER, but the first time in the past 2-3 weeks, you know what I mean). It rather surprised me to realize that I hadn't used it yet. Guess what color cardstock I'm talking about! (No, I'm not looking for an exact shade or anything that specific...I'm talking like red, orange, yellow...etc.) I'll give out two RAKs...one for the first person to post the right answer and one drawn randomly from all the guesses. Since I won't even be able to think about actually putting the RAKs together and all till next Friday, I'll leave this open until then...let's say Friday, July 27 at noon MST. Go ahead and guess all you want...I won't reveal the answer until I close guessing. What are you waiting for? Get guessing!
***ETA: Forgot to mention that though I don't know precisely what will be in the RAK, you can count on some awesome stuff...most, if not all, new in package! When I say "purging" know that I actually have purged lately, so the stuff I'm talking about now is mostly recent! Good stuff!***
Reader Comments (60)
Is it craft brown?
green?
My guess is green
Yellow
I'm guessing RED
black
I am guessing purple.
I'll guess beige/tan. :)
I'm guessing purple, too. LOL!
oh you did so much better than me re: harry p.
someone at work offered me their spare copy for a snip of a price and i couldnt resist, i had intended to leave buying it till my holiday because i knew i would read it....and guess what...yup..chapter 7 already...lol
im gonna guess white :)
I'm guessing purple.
My guess is purple. Wow 50 layouts! You're my hero.
Wow -- lots of work, can't wait to see the book!
My guess is....yellow
Kim
I'll guess chartreuse?
I'm guessing purple.
(I was actually wondering if you were going to be able to resist not reading Harry Potter right away. If it makes you feel any better it's beeen crazy here (imagine that, huh?) so I'm only on page 50 or somehting like that.
lol, well I think the folks who got to your blog before me today guessed all the colors in the rainbow and beyond..so I won't make a guess. Your post about rockets made think about a 'mythbusters' episode I got sucked into a few weeks ago --- they built a major water rocket that lifted the girl on the show. CRAZY!
Orange?
green?
purple?
blue