Boss Calls A Time Out

Yes, that is right.  Boss has called a time out.  And she says she calls a time out on herself and that she has to go off and sit and think and play with no plan or deadline. 

Suddenly this sounds rather much like Boss making fun stuffses happen instead of the "punishment" word that is normally a time out.  I know what a time out is supposed to be.  Boss tries to threaten the time out at Talker and Player but they are much too oldness for this and then the threat generally turns into giggling and general goofishness.  Which is actually clever on the part of Boss because Talker and Player are still in the easily distracted phase and lose track of whatever it was that was making them need a time out to begin with.  Boss says that she is lucky that the easily distracted phase lasts for about 80 more years because they are the man kind of peoples.  I think this may be a rude comment, but I am not exactly sure.  Because I think it might actually be true words.

But back to Boss.  Boss is taking a time out from doing pretty-paper-picture-story pages for other peoples.  She was done with Evalicious goodies in June which was exactly according to the rules, and now she is done with The ScrapRoom.  The ScrapRoom was hard to say good-bye to but Boss looked at the calendar thing and realized there was no way she could do the pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom for most of the rest of the year and then had to go away more often then ever before... and well.  You know.  Peoples are busyness.  Which I think is foolish.  More time should be spent contemplating the joys of hamburger wrappers and the taste of grasshoppers, but then there is no explaining the peoples. 

So these are the last pretty-paper-picture-story pages Boss will make for The ScrapRoom.  But do not be sad.  Boss will still get some papers in a kit from The ScrapRoom because Boss just loves the paper.  She will use it whenever she wants and might just let loose and mix things up a bit.  (We all know this is crazy talk, but whatever.  If Boss wants to be silly, then let Boss be silly.)  Boss will take more classes and focus on the fun stuffses instead of the timeline things.  Boss may even contemplate the flavor of grasshoppers.  Or not.  I think not.  She just gave me a look that makes me think that probably the grasshopper thing is not going to happen after all.

Echo Park Paper Here & Now:  Now, Boss did leave one word of the title off.  She left off the "damn" word.  And it really is part of the title, because Boss had a very long conversation with Player and Talker about the title of this page when it happened in her head and then they talked about what perfect days really are and how they are important.  But Boss left off the "damn" word for politeness for The ScrapRoom.  But she put it on for her own book.  Talker agrees that this is the right thing to do.  He is suddenly somehow an expert on pretty-paper-picture-story pages?

Echo Park Paper Here & Now:  So you have seen this 12x12 page before on the other blog post.  It was a sneaky sneak peek from myself to you.  Are you loving it?  I think so.  But now it is small.  And in the book of Boss.  Which makes Boss happy.

Echo Park Paper Here & Now:  So Boss loves the scary cutter thing.  A lot.  A LOT.  She messed with it and messed with it and came up with a card that looks like a file folder but is the size to fit in a regular envelope.  Boss says if you want this cut file for your Silhouette thingie, you can leave me a comment and I will take care of emailing it to you right away.  Wait.  I will?  I am suddenly somehow an email expert?

Jillibean Soup Happy Camper:  Oh, my peoples are happy campers all right, so this paper and the extra thingies that come with it in the kit are perfectness.  Boss made a teeny pretty-paper-picture-story page with this paper because that is how Boss rolls with the teeny pretty-paper-picture-story pages this year.

Jillibean Soup Happy Camper:  But do not be worriness about the camping paper if you do not like to be a happy camper in real life stuff.  Because the paper is apparently marvelous for making cards with.  This is what Boss said, and here are the cards to be proving it, so I am guessing she is right.  These are supposed to fit in a business size envelope, but I am also guessing that Boss will be paying the "extra postage" words because the ribbon is so fluffly.  I can help with that, actually.  I do happen to be an expert on eating ribbons.

September Project Life Kit:  Boss and the vegetables and flowers.  Again.  And this flower is merely a weed.  And a bad weed, too.  Boss is a little over-exuberant about learning new things.  This is my opinion.  Boss does not share this opinion.  She says to move on already.

September Project Life Kit:  Another teeny pretty-paper-picture-story page, but this one has good stuff on it!  It has tasty geeses, tasty yarn things, and Player!  He is sometimes tasty but only after he has been eating in a messy way.  Which is often.  If he does not learn to get the food into his mouth properly, Boss will put him on a time out.  *wagging tail*

 

Boss Makes Pretty-Paper-Picture-Story Pages Big and Then Boss Makes Pretty-Paper-Picture-Story Pages Smaller

I am rolling my eyes at this.  And Boss is too.  But Boss says this is what happens when you are the "flexible" words and the "willing to be challenged" words.  I say this is what happens when you are the "totally deluded by your own talent" words and the "thinking things are easier than they actually are words".  Boss concedes that I may be having a point with these words.

Boss has been making pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom for over a year now.  This is like... a little over a year in dog years.  Do not get me started on this topic again.  I will not go there with you.  Seriously, people, dogs are living on the same timeline as peoples.  I promise.  Soon after Boss started this designing pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom, Boss was asked to make some of them 12x12 size.  This is ginormous huge when you are used to 8.5x11 size pages.  I guess.  I would actually have no idea as I would not make a pretty-paper-picture-story page if I could help it.  No, I would not.  "Look," I would say, "I do not have opposable thumbs, I can not make pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom or anyone else."  And then I would be safe from that nonsense.  But Boss fell for this line.  She is gullibleness sometimes.  Or maybe just nice.  But I do not know for sure, as this is the woman that made Player and Talker eat beets.

So Boss made 12x12 pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom and then had to make them small to fit in her books.  Boss is not going 12x12, no, she is not.  Do not even suggest it.  If you do this, even though I warn you to not do this, she goes a little crazy with the emphatic arm gestures and words and frowny forehead.  But she does admit that if she starts with 12x12 pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom and makes it smaller, then every time she really likes the 12x12 pretty-paper-picture-story pages for The ScrapRoom better.  But that is too bad, they get small anyway.  And I will share them with you now, along with some really entertaining commentary that Boss probably will not approve of.

So actually Boss made the small one first and then got asked to make it bigger.  So Boss put the small pretty-paper-picture-story pages on top of big paper with some scraps and called it done.  Pretty much cheatness, I think.  Although pretty cleverness, too.

Boss quickly realized that making pretty-paper-picture-story pages big was going to be a problem for getting them into her smaller books.  And Boss is not the sort of person to make a pretty-paper-picture-story page for show and then not use it.  Boss is the "not going to waste my time" words.  So Boss ended up wasting a lot of time anyway on this one.  Boss had the not-so-brilliant idea to make the pretty-paper-picture-story page small, then use the "Photoshop" word to make it big.  This involved lots of swearing, a threatened divorce (no, they did not even discuss who would get to keep me), and the "I am never doing it this way again!" words.  Which turned out to be true, and there is no divorce happening here after all.

 

Boss planned this one a lot.  A LOT.  She did not want to do a lot of taping and pop-dotting (yes, this is a real thing, I do not joke about these things) and then trying to peel off all that nonsense.  So Boss made the big pretty-paper-picture-story pages without tape or pop-dots or anything stickiness.  Just all loose and "do not let the cats in here again!" words.  Then Boss took the picture and then made the pretty-paper-picture-story page for reals with tape and pop-dots but smaller.

This turned out to be the favorite way of making big pretty-paper-picture-story pages into small pretty-paper-picture-story pages.  Boss just puts all the good stuff in the center of the pretty-paper-picture-story page and plans to cut off the rest.  Unfortunately, this also is the most disappointingness way to make small pretty-paper-picture-story pages out of big pretty-paper-picture-story pages.  Because then the white space disappears and it is very much a happy thing, this white space.  Even if it is brown.  Whatever.

 

So Boss goes with the "cut it and live with it" words here, but you see that some of the flower things had to be moved over and that the very fancy border was cut off and taped back on afterwards.  Boss gave the frowny forehead face to this small pretty-paper-picture-story page when she was done and was very much unhappiness with it but she says she is done and that done is good.

 

Boss did the cutting thing again here, but there a few thingies that had to move.  "Thingies" are what Boss calls the "elements" words, but I am not a pretentious dog and will not use words of fanciness when simple words will do just fine.

 

Boss planned this one very carefully also.  She did a lot of sewing and did not want to ruin that stuffses.  So she made the big pretty-paper-picture-story pages with the idea that the "swim" word could be cut off, and the picture of Talker could be made smaller.  And it worked out just fine, although Boss does miss the white space that she got used to seeing.  Even if it was grey.  Or gray?  Oh, whatever.

There is very much sneakiness going on here!  Boss left lots of space to cut off in the very beginning, but then there was too much space so boss added the ticket things to the big pretty-paper-picture-story pages and it was awesomeness.  But then the cutting thing happened and suddenly there was no room for the ticket things or the word things!  And this was horrible to Boss, because the word things are a very important part of all of the pretty-paper-picture-story pages she makes.  So she got clever and used smaller tickets (with the writing of Talker and Player on them) and made hidden journaling with the words.  See the tab at the top of the small pretty-paper-picture-story page?  That is where the journaling is hidden.  It is not actually that sneaky.  But Boss thinks so.

 

Boss is not particularly proud of this one, but she says the "it is done" words and shrugs and changes the subject.  I think Boss feels a little embarrassed at the big pretty-paper-picture-story pages because they are actually quite small but made to just look big.  And then Boss put them on bigger paper to make small pretty-paper-picture-story pages.

Boss made this big pretty-paper-picture-story page to be able to be cut with no extra work on her part.  Which, of course, involved lots and lots of extra work on her part in the beginning but you should have been here for the big excitementness that Boss had when she cut the big pretty-paper-picture-story pages into small pretty-paper-picture-story pages in like 15 seconds.  "Now *that* is what I'm talkin' about, Willis!" are the words of Boss.  I do not understand.  My name is Grey.

 

Boss did the same 15 second cutting thing here but really regrets the loss of white space.  Again.  Even though it is yellow.

 

Oh, very much cleverness on this one!  Boss had to cut the sewn banner off and restick it, and also had to peel off the title and restick that, too.  Oh, and the picture of Player had to be made smaller and cuter, like he is in this photo.  He got bigger this year, a lot bigger, but this picture was taken before that.  Awwwww, he is adorableness!

This is the one I had to leave the room for.  There was a lot of swearing.  A LOT.  And a lot of the Un-Du chemical stuff that makes me sneeze.  Boss says it is lucky we do not live in the state of California, because the Un-Du chemical stuff apparently causes cancer in the state of California but somehow not here.  We are very much luckiness to not live in the state of California, then.  I am now very worried for brother-of-Boss and the wife-of-brother-of-Boss, because they live in the state of California and are in EXTREME DANGER.  Be carefulness out there!!!!

Augustness At The ScrapRoom!

Happy August to you!  Boss was doing many happy noises this month with The ScrapRoom kit and I heard her say the "happy August to me" words.  To herself.  Not me.  Boss was talking to herself and not me and was happiness about August paper and stuffses that comes with paper.  Which would be a kit.  Or I guess multiple kits?  Anyway, Boss loves the Augustness that came in the mail to her a couple of weeks ago and made some really great things to show you.  I am particularly fond of these pretty-paper-picture-story pages and cards.  It could be because I look great with the Augustness from The ScrapRoom.  But you can decide for yourself.  Remember to click on the pictures to see me bigger and cuter!  I mean, click on the pictures to see the pretty-paper-picture-story pages and cards of Boss bigger and cuter.  Especially if you see me.

Pebbles Mayberry:  This pretty-paper-picture-story page was all done and then Player had to notice it and ask a question.  And then Boss had to make the background all over again.  Because apparently Player is adorableness.  This I agree with.  I do not agree that flowers are appropriate photography subjects however.

Pebbles Mayberry:  Oh, this card made Boss swear.  She had the brilliant idea to make confetti with the scraps of Mayberry and the Cinch machine thing she has... but when she was getting ready to make confetti with the scraps of Mayberry she dropped the tray of confetti that was already in the Cinch thing and it went everywhere.  EVERYWHERE.  Every time I lay down on the floor, I have little paper dots stuck to me and my nose usually has one or two dots on it too.  I am eating them accidentally because of this.  I have a party inside me, apparently.

Fancy Pants Wonderful Day:  I am going to tell you a secret.  And do not tell Boss because she will be irritatedness if she finds out I have told the secret.  The secret is that this pretty-paper-picture-story page looks like a 12x12 double but it is actually a 8.5x8.5 double.  Yes, that is right!  Boss did a tricky thing so it will be easier to turn this into a 8.5x11 double when she is done taking a picture of the 12x12 double.  I mean, the 8.5x8.5 double.  To me I think it would be easier to just do 8.5x11 size pretty-paper-picture-story pages to start with and just be done with all the size changes.  Boss says she agrees.  Aha!  I am brilliant.  But you knew that.  Boss rolls her eyes at me and says there is more to the story but this caption is already ridiculousness long already. 

Fancy Pants Wonderful Day & The ScrapRoom Sketch:  Now here is a topic worthy of photography.  Hamburger wrappers!  You know I am a fan of the wrapper.  Oh yes.

Fancy Pants Wonderful Day:  Gift tags made with the scary loud cutter thing.  I had to leave the room during this part of the creativeness happening with the scraps of this kit.  So I cannot comment on anything about it.  Except there is twine.  And it is not tasty.

Project Life Kit:  Boring plants.  Again.  Next!

Project Life Kit:  Well.  Not plants.  But dirt and wine.  Nearly as boring.  Next!

Project Life Kit:  YES!!!!!  There I am, in all my adorableness!  I told you I looked delightful in the Augustness of The ScrapRoom.  Wait.  Hold on.  Is that... ?  Was I... ?  Oh no.  That picture did not happen.  I was framed!  I would never never NEVER snuggle up to this new cat!!!  I did not know he was there, I swear!!!!!  Although he is wonderfully fluffy and soft to lay on.

Happy July at The ScrapRoom!

Yes, it is July at The ScrapRoom.  And actually here too.  Funny how the calendar is a universal thing, yes?  (That was sarcasticness from me.  I am full of piss and vinegar says Boss.  But I think I am only full of one of those things actually.)

As usual, there is much goodness to show you when new stuffses come to The ScrapRoom.  You can go to the gallery and see it all, but I will show you my favorite pretty-paper-picture-story pages and cards.  Funny how my favorite ones are all the ones made by Boss, yes?  (That was cuteness from me.  Boss says I am adorbs and she would like to give me some pepperoni now!  Oh, yeah, I am amazingness!)

Remember, you can click the picture things to make them bigger.  It is very much easierness to read that way.

Bella Blvd All American:  So Boss has two problems.  One problem is that she does not have any pictures that match this paper.  I know, right?  But if you lived here, you would know that all of the peoples in the house wear orange, safety green, pink, and brown.  Not very attractiveness with this paper.  The other problem is that Boss saves the oddest stuffses for her pretty-paper-picture-story pages.  Boss once wrote down 10 things that defined her life.  On 10/10/10, actually.  Which is kind of neat in a nerdy sort of way.  And then saved it.  And when you add the two problems together, you get this pretty-paper-picture-story page! 

Bella Blvd All American:  So you can see that Boss is really sneaky lazy, right?  She says thrifty creative, but I am onto her.  This is a card for our awesome God-kid Alex.  Happy Birthday, awesome God-kid Alex!

Teresa Collins Summer Stories + The ScrapRoom Sketch:  Boss loved this kit a lot.  A LOT.  She says you need to buy it.  Right now.  RIGHT NOW.  She especially loved the colors, patterns, die cuts, and... okay, all of it.  But especially the die cuts because the same stuffses was printed on the back side of everything except the word parts.  So Boss could use one side or the other side and she squealed the very girly girl that she is when she saw that!

Teresa Collins Summer Stories:  Oh, yes.  This one.  Big One is not happy about this pretty-paper-picture-story page at all.  AT ALL.  He was unhappy when it happened and I think he is still somewhat tender and emotional about it.

Teresa Collins Summer Stories:  A beautiful card by Boss for a beautiful friend-of-Boss.  It had to have pinkness on it for it to be good, and it does so it is.

July ScrapRoom Project Life Kit:  In case you did not know that Boss is a very nerdy girly girl, this teeny pretty-paper-picture-story page will prove it two times.  One proof is that Boss took a picture of a chemical refinery and said the "cool" word.  I was in the van when we drove by.  It was seriously not that cool.  The other proof is that Boss made this pocket page thing herself with a regular page protector thing and a soldering iron.  I know, right????  Boss is amazingness.  Nerdy, but amazingness.

Playing Catch Up Is Not A Fun Game

So one of the things I am supposed to do around here besides killing and eating intruders is to share the pretty-paper-picture-story pages of Boss when she gets them done.  But if I am sleeping or chewing on my favorite bone, I am not so good at remembering the killing, eating, or sharing thing very well.  I have tried giving Boss the puppy dog eyes and whining a little (but only a little, and only in a cute little delicate way and not annoying at all) when she looks at me in all exasperatedness when my blog posts are devoted to squirrels and hamburger wrappers instead of her very nice pretty-paper-picture-story pages but that only works for so long and then I have to focus on doing whatever it was I promised in the first place.

I think I promised to eat lots of cupcakes.  Yes, that seems reasonable. 

October 2000:  This picture is so old that it was almost taken in the 1900s.  They almost did not have cameras back then.  They certainly did not have any fashion sense, that is for sure.   And now Boss is giving me the squinty eyeball and frowny forehead look.  She says she was hot.  I guess I would be hot too if I had to wear a plastic-y looking jacket.  Except I am sure plastic was not invented back then.  Oh, and Boss would like me to tell you where the papers came from.  This is from The ScrapRoom.

June 2009:  Again with Boss and more hotness.  Because this is Florida in the summer!!!  That is crazy hotness.  Boss is a big fan of this kit from The ScrapRoom.  It is Maggie Holmes which is just the style of Boss.  Which is a nice way of saying too many patterns mixed together, but you did not hear that from me.

October 2009:  Boss insists that you can take any impossible photo to match colors to and there will be BasicGrey paper that is perfectness.  And awesomeness.  And BasicGreyness!  So you will not be surprised that Boss got this paper from BasicGrey in a Page of the Month Kit.  She is a fan.  A really big fan.  They are named after me, I think.

November 2009:  Okay, so Boss is really excited about sequins.  She got this kit from Cocoa Daisy and it came with sequins.  Which she did not like at first.  But it was because she was very much not understanding how to use them without using the swearing words.  But then Boss did the google thing and found out that glossy accents is a good glue.  Which made her say the "duh" word.  Oh, about the Cocoa Daisy kit?  Boss can not help it.  She loves paper.  All paper.  And she loves kits.  She can not help it.  She tried to feel bad about loving more than one paper kit company but she can not do that either.  She says she is good at loving more than one thing at one time because she has me and the boybarians.  And the cats I suppose.

July 2010:  So this is Boss fishing and being amazing at it.  I know, right?  She is almost a better boybarian than the boybarian horde themselves.  But do not tell them I said so.  Oh, and this paper came from The ScrapRoom.  It is October Afternoon and Boss adores it also. 

August 2010:  Did you know we have very many most wonderful and awesomeness God-kids?  Well, it is true.  This is the Alex one.  Boss used a kit from the Paper Bakery and their sketch thing.  Yes, that is right.  Boss is now getting lots and lots of paper and refuses to be ashamed by that nonsense.  She says it is very much creative sparkness and opens her eyes to new ways of doing things.  I think she is just using the excuse words but whatever.

August 2010:  More of the most excellent ScrapRoom paper and the most excellent camping stuff that Boss and Big One and Talker and Player enjoy.  I have gone camping two times already and agree that it is pretty much better than anything.  Well.  It is not quite better than a squirrel carrying a hamburger wrapper right in front of me with my lead being not securely fastened.  The "camping" words are almost that awesome.  Almost.

February 2013:  LOOK!!!!  IT IS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  THIS IS AWESOMENESS!!!!!!  Oh, and it is Cocoa Daisy paper.  And no sequins thank goodness.

April 2013:  It is a frame thingy.  With a picture of Boss and Big One being adorableness.  I just want to push them into the ocean and then pee on their heads.  Because I did not get to go to the "belize" place and it looks like it was funtastic.  Boss agrees that it was awesomeness.  Like this Pink Paislee paper from The ScrapRoom.  She is pretending to not notice the statement about peeing on their heads.  She is tired from being the "mom" word today so I am getting away with extra snotiness.  Yes, my tail is wagging.  A lot.  A LOT.

May 2013:  These are the friends-of-Boss and she says she loves them very muchness.  You can not see friend-the-tallandstately in this picture but she was everywhere that weekend.  In the refrigerator too, apparently.  I am confused by this but Boss promises a totally amazingness and hilarious pretty-paper-picture-story page that shows this.  And this paper is from the Paper Bakery, which Boss met when she was with her friends.  And bought.  The paper, not the friends.  They are apparently priceless.  ???

May 2013:  Okay, I am not longer a big fan of mom-of-Boss.  I did not know she was documenting this and ratting me out to Boss.  And to make it worse, Boss used all those stupid sequins from Cocoa Daisy again.  This is probably very bad for me.  Boss will not share her popcorn with me if I am hogging her chair and her blanket and her prayer shawl.  I think I need to use the puppy dog eyes again.  Oh, and maybe the "prayer" words would help.