The AEzine...

can't wait - love the AEzine!!

Ali, I love the picture in your last post. We have a long hallway in our house and we use it to play "bucket ball." Take one galvanized bucket, a couple small balls and try to get the ball in the bucket. The girls love that game and could play for hours. I never thought to take a picture of it, so thanks for the idea!

Have a great trip! I'll be waiting for the newsletter.
Anilu.

me too...can't wait to see what you have for us. safe travels!

Travel safe!!

Have a safe trip! I'll see you tomorrow in one of the classes at Split Rock... and I'm very excited! :-)

Ali, have a safe trip!! I just had to post to tell you how much I am enjoying your newsletter (am now thinking about my essential items). I finally had a chance to create my word artwork. It is posted on my blog... http://alteredambitions.blogspot.com/
smiles, Christi

Ali - got it! can't wait to work on this... These little challanges are helping a whole lot with getting started to scrapbook regularly again!
Thanks!!!

love your latest ezine... love it.. I am blogging about my essentials today! hugs and btw, my word for 2007 is TRUE. True to myself, true to the person I am all around.

Thanks for the update and it seems you're going with the flow quite well with the technical difficulties. Now to my essentials... hmmmm...

1. chipboard/sticker alphabets . . .
2. american crafts pattern paper
3. my camera/computer/printer - various technology a total given, right?
4. other funkified finds
5. ink pad
6. three or four generic graphic stamps - such as a big block of lines. a huge block of circles, etc
7. Sharpie Ultra-Fine Point Markers, Assorted Colors, Pack of 24
Seriously I could scrap for a really long time with these 7 perfect products
did a layout here - that is a prime example . . .
http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/pg.asp?gallery=1&cmd=display&layout_id=1063846
actually sat down to load this layout in my gallery and your newsletter was in my box.
perfection cause that is what this layout is about. essentially being ME.
THanks for the inspired newsletter.
Courtney

good timing on this one, ali. we're packing up the house to move and i've been going through my stuff trying to decide what i "need". i think i'm going to rid myself of all this extra cardstock that doesn't get used. thanks for making your list - it's helping me purge all the extras.

no I see I am a goof and just like my 8 year old son. I don't read directions fully. sorry for the early post. I guess I was a little excited :)
Court

My essentials--
1) Cardstock-white,kraft,crimson red,dark blues
2) Black journaling pens-
3) Alphabet/letters-stickers,chipboard,rubon (love heidi swap)
4) Camera-Kodak c875
5) Journal-since i don't have a blog-i have several blank books to record our stories and quotes I find
6) Inspiration books/mags-Ali Edwards and Jamie Waters are my favorites!
7) Love Wild Asparagus line of patterned paper and Chatterbox-reach for these all the time

safe travels...
thanks for the aezine today. Always fun to get that in my mailbox!

Ali, you are so funny putting life #8! It was my first thought when I read your intro! Of course perhaps your essentials are not in numerical order! :) This is a good "assignment/challenge" for me, my word being balance!
Ican't wait until Monday either (partly because on Monday I couldn't figure out how to post my comment to the word -- I also Googled mine for images and the first images were all scales! (Twilight Zone theme song here -- scales of justice -- I'm a lawyer).
1. Family/Home/Safe Place
2. Fine point black pen
3. Notebook for thoughts/sketches/ideas
4. SU! Cardstock -- I love the Bazzill texture, but not if I have to write on it with my fine point black pen! :)
5. Camera for photos
6. Favorite adhesive
7. Paper trimmer (with ruler on it)
8. Pencil
9. Alphabet stamps -- good catch Ali!
10. Black ink pad
11. Patterned paper -- can't choose right now.
Odd number for balance.

My essentials are
1. My family, so I have something to scrapbook
2. My scrapbook room, I love this space because it is filled with all of my favorite things and it is my fav. colour orange
3. My Crop-a-dile, I love this because it is multifunctional
4.Really good fine point black pen.
5.My Cutterpede

travel safe! if you have some downtime on a layover, be sure to check out: http://www.vivaterra.com/pls/enetrixp/!stmenu_template.main?complex_id_in=482007.826941.907971.1816849.page
they have some organic letters that spell "peace" on sale. i immediately thought of you.

My word is "transparent" -- for a couple of reasons. One... I am now the mother of a just-past-one year old and am continually "trans"forming into a "parent" of meaning each day. More importantly though, I believe that we live to be in relationship with each other; that was God's purpose for our creation -- to be in relationship with Him and others -- and in doing so, we are called to authenticity and integrity. My motto lately has been "transparency breeds trust" -- that is, if I am who I am, and people can count on me being consistently me, then when I am transparent, people can develop a trust in me, which strengthens a relationship.
Ultimately, I desire to be completely transparent with God -- yes, He sees it all anyway, but when I, in an act of incarnational speech, name the truth about myself, I come that much closer to knowing and experiencing the love of God in all His fulness.

Ali,
You mentioned a square punch just over 2X2.
Is that the acutally size. I bought a square punch and its said up to 2inch when
acutally its was on 1 3/8. I was disappointed. Do you know what brand of punch that I can find that would give me largest square?
Sincerely,
Monica