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4,600 words due Monday? Why yes, I'm ignoring that right now.

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And because the gallery finally got posted at Mousescrappers, here's my page for the last telephone challenge:

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Legal Now

So this is my first post as a fully legal adult! And I mean legal in the now I can go to bars and figure out loop holes of blue laws and such (answer: nearest Walmart in a different state is 15 minutes away). I've also been scrapping - so much scrapping! Fall tv started back up, and this is what I do during commercials. Realistically, I should be translating hieroglyphs, but that's neither here nor there.

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Weekly Layouts

It's a delightful Friday night here in the Bend - it's an cold 55 degrees (I've had to bust out the leather jacket) and I'm stuck inside with a cold. But there is football tomorrow, and we're due for a win. Right? Sigh. In addition to a paper analyzing a letter of Pliny's, here is what I have been up to this week. Mousescrappers Speed Scrap:

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Part Two of the Ara Pacis page, which we talk about practically every day in one of my classes:

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One of the coolest pages I have made, color-wise:

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Today I Feel Like...

A Grown Up. For real. I took the GRE this morning, and conquered it. I conquered it like I was a Roman and it was Carthage. Or Greece. Or something that is conquered beneath my mighty empire of awesome. And I did it on four hours of sleep and a caffeine hangover (which is a new discovery for me - turns out my body has decided it no longer wants caffeine after dinner). Also, this week, I was honored with not one, not two, but THREE GSO's on ScrapMatters! I love that site. Love it to pieces. Bragging rights are mine. Especially while I was scrapping every single one of those pages, I should have been learning geometry for the last standardized test of my life.

I also had my first proper shift at work today, as Monday didn't really count - nothing like running across campus, arriving five minutes late and sweaty, and doing homework for an hour and a half hoping no one needs Greek tutoring without warning, because that language is so one year ago. That didn't count. Today was a proper shift, one where I earned my keep by tutoring a very nice girl (who may or may not be a grad student). I have a feeling that I'll be getting a lot of kids from her section - one has already transferred out into my Latin class.

So here are my "I should be learning math but screw it, football starts this Saturday and there are still double stuf oreos left" pages. I have also embraced my whimsical side, and as such have adapted my journaling style to match. Having said that, here is page with no journaling. Ah, speed scraps. They are my curse and blessing.

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My layout for Britt's September kit challenge at Mousescrappers. Honestly, my favorite thing about this page (out of many enjoyable pieces) is the Pirates of the Caribbean reference. As a reference, it certainly worked better than my "I'm on a Boat" page.

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A page from the necropolis - this was the day where Scott Smith told us "When I die, I just want to be shot into the sun. Is that too much to ask?" I think this page needs a new title.

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Double pager for Andrea's 100th Weekly Challenge at Mousescrappers. It's a choose your own! With the most awesome Britt prize. The double pager was not necessary, but, as the saying goes, "Go big or go home."

Here's the journaling:

Journaling: Rapunzel is my favorite princess, so meeting her was my one absolute must do. The skirts were even timed for meeting her! We tried to wait in the morning, but our entry was going to interfere with our Crystal Palace reservations. We came back for the secret 6pm show. The stage was gorgeous, and in the background they played music from the soundtrack. Diana and Laura decided they wanted to color with the little kids. The photopass lady askd us which little ones were our and their names, so we got to tell her we had the big girls! It was so cute - she took candids, then called their names so they could smile and pose.

Rapunzel and Flynn were so nice! After signing my book, Rapunzel complimented our skirts. I told her that she needed to get on the gift shops so we could match her, and she joked that she didn’t think that that’s a good idea because she might have to make them all herself. Then she set up our photo using her artist’s eye - complete with finger framing. After the photo, Karen, having seen him show off the crown to the girls in front of us, asked him if he had something special in his satchel. He showed us the crown, but said he had to be careful with it, as the last time the two of them had been riding, it had flown off Rapunzel’s head! We were sworn to secrecy about this, our course - it wouldn’t do for her parents to find out.

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There are a few more layouts, but those are all new releases and shall be posted after dinner.

A Discussion of Hardcore-ness Related to the Classics and Scrapbooking

I have spent the afternoon being a bit pleased with myself because of this fact: one of my homework assignments was to read the first half of the Aeneid, and I did so while drinking Virgil's Cream Soda (purchased at the local Meijer). Classics major hardcore. As a result, I will be examining all of the last week's layouts on a scale of how hardcore they are.

First up: Diana's Dante Cupcakes. 10/10, because they contain pictures of red velvet (i.e., hellfire) cupcakes with little fondant sinners, some of whom are encased in Twizzlers flames. And references to Roman art, Fantasia, Lion King, Rome, and Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Spaceship Earth. 3/10 - Sticking to one mini kit is not particularly hard, nor is this a particularly original photo location.

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Fantasyland Expansion. 4/10. Shots taken from Dumbo and I worked in princesses, which up the scrapping coolness but take away from my personal street cred (at least in most of my current social circles).

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Naples 6/10. Naples as a city is kind of lame (at least the 45 minute version with an unhappy tour guide is). But it is also kind of sketch, upping the danger level. This was also a speed scrap page, so I am quite pleased with the results.

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Roman Forum. 9/10. Monochrome is pretty bad-ass. As is the Aeneid, and including Latin quotes for a picture of the Forum makes it totally awesome. This is one of my favorite layouts, ever. It also perfectly evokes my style, I think. Done for a Word Up: Font Edition Challenge.

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Harry Potter Album End Cover Page. 10/10. Speaking of totally awesome, A Very Potter Musical reference is always appropriate. This page is a little bit older than a week, but I finally got around to posting it. It also uses my current favorite kit.

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Happy 2,763rd Birthday Rome. Another 10/10. A page detailing the eleven and a half hours we spent in Pompeii on the day of the founding of Rome. Made with a Britt kit I got on sale this weekend. And entered in a contest with a pretty sweet prize of a two-month spot on Britt's creative team (we'll see how that went tomorrow - my fingers are crossed an odd number of times). Abbey Road reference. I think this is the coolest page I have ever made, and I'm seriously contemplating getting like five copies printed, including one for my wall and one for my door. That's not too creepy, right?

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Whatevs. Coming up in the next week: starting a new part time tutoring gig, taking the GRE, the start of my last football season as an undergrad, and making Perry the Platypus cupcakes. I know which one I'm most looking forward to, and it's not the football.

One Love Templates and Journaling Paints

With moving my baby sister in (*sob* - I'm old now), I missed posting about Crossbone Cuts' newest releases. There were two new releases yesterday - Journaling Paints and Splats and One Love Templates V.1. The journaling splats are quite useful. And, although I don't have a lot of single-picture layouts to do anymore, the templates are quite handy for the few I do have (and more pictures could probably be easily added.

Here are a couple of layouts I did with the templates and journaling splats.

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One with just the templates:

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T-Minus One Day Until Road Trip

Tomorrow we head north for school! We'll be on the road somewhere between 16 and 22 hours, so we have to space it out over 2 days.  I'm so excited - I've been away from school close to nine months, and I've really missed it.  Some more layouts, although I've had a tricky time concentrating this week on getting things done.

Augustus is absolutely my favorite, and the Prima Porta is one of the coolest statues in existence.  I basically just typed up my notes for journaling on this page.

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There are a few more spring break type pages that are basically business as usual, and not really worth posting and dealing with right now.

Last Week's Layouts

So I made myself hold off posting until all the speed scraps from ScrapMatters's birthday celebration were done. It's been a busy last week - I only have one more week before we drive up to school, which will severely cut down on my amount of free time.

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I went through another one of those phases where I thought I could finish an album before a coupon expired - rather silly, considering how long I was holding on to it before I realized that I haven't finished my 2010 album (the one in which I decided I could do Project 365 and the LYM Weekly Challenges? Yeah, right - I barely made it through March, although I do theoretically have over 50 pages documenting the rest of the year).

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There is a "mate" to this next page, but as it's a VBS layout, I can't share pictures of other people's kids like. It is adorable, though.

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For journaling, this page uses the blog entry I made documenting my hell-ish trip home.

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Now, for some speed scrap pages. Journaling on this next one: When we got back from Campania, Pina had a surprise waiting for us on the table. A giant Easter egg! Dora had already told us about the Italian tradition of huge eggs (Fabio had gotten her one several feet high when they were dating), so Margaret Kristin and I decided to buy own own little Easter eggs at Despar. I found a Disney princess one, Margaret had Tom and Jerry, and Kristin had Barbie. My prize was an inflatable princess crown, which was pretty sweet. Later that afternoon the whole Centro gathered for the cracking of the egg. Alison tore into it, and pretty soon we were all divying up huge chunks of rather thick chocolate to take back to our rooms for lunch. 

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Journaling on the steak page: Journaling: For lunch, we found went down a little side street near the Duomo and found a cute little restaurant called Dante and Beatrice’s. Since Diana had just read the Inferno, we had to go in. She had liked the Roman beef salad I’d had a few days earlier, so she tried to order it here. Unfortunately, her Italian was not up to par so the waiter thought she wanted steak and a salad. Oops! They brought her a steak the size of her head and still on the bone! Once she got over the disappointment, she did enjoy the steak, although she could hardly put a dent in all that meat.

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A Roadmap to Scrap page (I needed a "break" from speed scrapping).

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And back to the speed scrapping: 

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That's it for now. I'm sure I'll have many more pages done in the next week. Right now I have 54 Disney pages left and around 60 Italy pages left. We'll see how much gets done before school starts.