This is a weird way to come back to this blog. Yesterday I made a post to get some more entries in to a drawing for something I really want to win. Today I identify myself as bisexual because I can no longer keep quiet in the face of what is a hate crime and terrorism. (Complete transparency: I believe all mass shootings are acts of terrorism whether or not they're also considered hate crimes.)
So, I am attracted to men and women and am married to a man. That has been to my benefit in that it means I can exist invisibly. Nobody would know who I think is attractive because nobody questions a seemingly heterosexual relationship. But too many of my friends can't hide their sexuality and so I have decided that I can't hide it anymore either. I can't keep my head down any longer and so I lift my head and tell everyone that if you hate people who are LGBTQ, you hate me too.
Monday, June 13, 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
I Have Become a Crafting Nightmare
Let me tell you about my current crafting obsession and what it means.
So I started out as an extremely casual/inconsistent scrapbooker. I would do a layout, put it away for a couple of years, do another layout. For YEARS. I have a Creative Memories photo album that I have had for about 13 years that's still not complete.
Then I decided to take it a bit more seriously and turned to mini albums. I found my art form. I have stacks of paper, accessories, die cuts (purchased), odds and ends, bit and pieces. I bought a Silhouette and use it a lot. I bought the Sizzix Texture Boutique and loved it. I bought embossing folders and a folder to put my folders in. I love to make and decorate the mini albums and I'm running out of friends and family I can give them to.
I do love the Silhouette Cameo. You can do anything with it. My sister is an artist and she can design things for me that I can put in to the Silhouette and then cut out and use. Amazing!
But always, always I have been interested in the Sizzix Big Shot. All the die options, all the embossing, all the different things you can do. Every tutorial I watched on YouTube would include an adorable die I wanted. I could get something like it for the Silhouette, but not that exact shape. I starte stalking the Big Shot. Visiting it in my local craft shop, watching how-tos on YouTube. So when Scrapbook.com announced the giveaway, I immediately did all the requirements I could to get as many entries as I could. And this is the final one I have any control over. I want one of those things and I want to up my odds. The Big Shot is SO cool and all the pieces included in the giveaway are amazing. I'm already fantasizing about everything I would do with it. The cards, the layouts, the felt shapes. Can I decorate a dress with some applique pieces? Let's find out!
So that's it. This is the first blog post I've done in about 8 years and I did it all for the crafting.
So I started out as an extremely casual/inconsistent scrapbooker. I would do a layout, put it away for a couple of years, do another layout. For YEARS. I have a Creative Memories photo album that I have had for about 13 years that's still not complete.
Then I decided to take it a bit more seriously and turned to mini albums. I found my art form. I have stacks of paper, accessories, die cuts (purchased), odds and ends, bit and pieces. I bought a Silhouette and use it a lot. I bought the Sizzix Texture Boutique and loved it. I bought embossing folders and a folder to put my folders in. I love to make and decorate the mini albums and I'm running out of friends and family I can give them to.
I do love the Silhouette Cameo. You can do anything with it. My sister is an artist and she can design things for me that I can put in to the Silhouette and then cut out and use. Amazing!
But always, always I have been interested in the Sizzix Big Shot. All the die options, all the embossing, all the different things you can do. Every tutorial I watched on YouTube would include an adorable die I wanted. I could get something like it for the Silhouette, but not that exact shape. I starte stalking the Big Shot. Visiting it in my local craft shop, watching how-tos on YouTube. So when Scrapbook.com announced the giveaway, I immediately did all the requirements I could to get as many entries as I could. And this is the final one I have any control over. I want one of those things and I want to up my odds. The Big Shot is SO cool and all the pieces included in the giveaway are amazing. I'm already fantasizing about everything I would do with it. The cards, the layouts, the felt shapes. Can I decorate a dress with some applique pieces? Let's find out!
So that's it. This is the first blog post I've done in about 8 years and I did it all for the crafting.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Barbuckle: The Next Generation
Belinda has been struggling in her career. While things have improved exponentially at home, her job has faltered. Brenda has now entered childhood and started school, Amin is still not working but he has a dream and Belinda understands that. But she has been unable to get a promotion at work. She is still slogging away on the yearbook club, making sure copy is sent to the printer, that photos are not switched out with things that shouldn't be in there (she learned her lesson on that one), making sure the kids show up and that the cameras are returned to the equipment locker. She's just not happy with the way things are going.
Belinda left home and decided to skip university because she was certain she could succeed without putting her life on hold for four years, but she's beginning to think she may have been wrong. Then she worries about what to do if she does get a promotion. How does she emphasize education for Brenda if she, Belinda, is able to make it without one. Belinda often wonders if she's insane when thoughts like these chase each other around her head.
Belinda finally consented to marrying Amin. He hasn't said anything about having any more children, but Belinda wonders if he wants them. Perhaps after he starts working. Right now Belinda has to focus on moving up the ranks in journalism.
Belinda left home and decided to skip university because she was certain she could succeed without putting her life on hold for four years, but she's beginning to think she may have been wrong. Then she worries about what to do if she does get a promotion. How does she emphasize education for Brenda if she, Belinda, is able to make it without one. Belinda often wonders if she's insane when thoughts like these chase each other around her head.
Belinda finally consented to marrying Amin. He hasn't said anything about having any more children, but Belinda wonders if he wants them. Perhaps after he starts working. Right now Belinda has to focus on moving up the ranks in journalism.
The Barbuckle Beginning
The family founder is Belinda Barbuckle. Belinda wants to be the best journalist she can be and she wants to leave a lasting and impressive legacy for her daughter, Brenda. It took her awhile before she found a job that she felt would move her forward as a journalist, but she finally landed a gig as a yearbook club supervisor. She hit a rough spot when the yearbooks were printed incorrectly, but she got over that and luckily it didn't lead to her being fired. She's ready for a promotion, though, and with her outgoing nature and need to make friends, it shouldn't be long until it happens.Belinda has been unlucky in love.
Belinda met and was engaged to Toby Bruenig, but when she started hinting around that she was ready to set a wedding date, Toby freaked out and bailed. She should have seen that coming. He kept screwing up at work and losing his job. She's still not over her anger towards him. Belinda had met another man she had got along with well and thought she'd ask him to move in. Turns out he was previously attached. Belinda wanted nothing more than to have a baby and establish her legacy, so after finding out she was pregnant, she asked him to leave. They parted company on much better terms than her and Toby and she felt good about moving on in her plans for her career and her new family.
Belinda has recently met a new man named Amin and while he's working as a bartender, not ideal, he seems a good man and he's interested in her, despite her baby baggage. Things are looking up for Belinda, despite still being unable to afford a shower. Thank goodness for the gym down the street or she'd be spongebathing all the time and that's no way to bring romance into your life. She's down to less than one hundred simoleans in the bank, but she needed that new fridge to feed the baby. No regrets there. Here's to a story worth telling.
Belinda met and was engaged to Toby Bruenig, but when she started hinting around that she was ready to set a wedding date, Toby freaked out and bailed. She should have seen that coming. He kept screwing up at work and losing his job. She's still not over her anger towards him. Belinda had met another man she had got along with well and thought she'd ask him to move in. Turns out he was previously attached. Belinda wanted nothing more than to have a baby and establish her legacy, so after finding out she was pregnant, she asked him to leave. They parted company on much better terms than her and Toby and she felt good about moving on in her plans for her career and her new family.
Belinda has recently met a new man named Amin and while he's working as a bartender, not ideal, he seems a good man and he's interested in her, despite her baby baggage. Things are looking up for Belinda, despite still being unable to afford a shower. Thank goodness for the gym down the street or she'd be spongebathing all the time and that's no way to bring romance into your life. She's down to less than one hundred simoleans in the bank, but she needed that new fridge to feed the baby. No regrets there. Here's to a story worth telling.
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