digitizing away

So my internet at home has been out for like…well since about Saturday evening. And it really stinks. I pretty much failed at my new calling because I wasn’t able to send Sunday’s program to the Exec. Secretary before their meeting (they were fine though). I haven’t been able to watch last week’s Lost episode. I have to go well out of my way to get and send the documents I’ve been completing freelance. And…I haven’t been able to post on my blog.

While we are looking into getting this problem fixed, I’m thinking I may devise a plan similar to the one I use for posting on the News and Events page on lds.org every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We simply have a list of documents that we have yet to post and go through and think OK this may be good for Monday, maybe this one for Friday.

So…maybe since currently don’t have internet at home, I can write posts as they come to me and just keep a virtual stack of the pages and pages of my endless thoughts and ideas. Never again will an anonymous comment chastise me for my lacking of updates….. hmm, an idea to consider.

I’ve semi-officially started a search for a new job after my internship. Some of the places I’ve been interested in applying to for a while are scrapbook magazines in various locations. For these positions you have to send in (in addition to writing samples, etc.) samples of scrapbook pages, paper crafted projects, or digital scrapbook pages…depending on the specific magazine. With this in mind, I have stepped into the world of digital scrapbooking.

I’ve wanted to do this since I got back from London. I simply had too many pictures to try to print and there are always pictures that you might want but don’t want to print full size. Digital scrapbooking solves these problems…although I don’t yet know if I am sold. I’m exploring more and more what it offers but don’t know much about how you print them and how that actually works. I just don’t really like the idea of full page color copies of a flat page. If that makes sense.

But I have found a lot of online resources, such as free downloadable scrapbook supplies. There’s lots of paper, embellishments, and letters, etc. It’s kinda interesting. Anyways here are some of my first attempts of the digital scrapbooking world. There aren’t very good, I know, but I had halfway created them before I found out about the online supplies. The red is a little weird…before I was just using a computerized red-filled box but when I export to a jpeg it looks really really really flat. So, I am still in search of a good, red “paper.”