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Scrapbook Widower: The Church of the One True Scrapper

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Wednesday, 5 March 2008. The Church of the One True Scrapper. And while on the subjest of religious affiliation. . . I note that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (more conveniently called 'Mormons') are very, very fond of Genealogy. They certainly have extensive databases dedicated to collecting and recording family details. Thus it should be no surprise at all that they also feature heavily in the scrapping world. How do they do it? Does it influence the scrapping style? Ahahaha...

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Scrapbook Widower: I'm Sorry

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Wednesday, 13 February 2008. And I'm glad we've finally heard that from our PM. No, saying sorry doesn't solve the problems but it is a damn fine starting point. We might not have caused the problems but we do have to fix them. The tears pouring down the faces of some of the elderly Aboriginal people in crowds around Australia give the lie to the previous government's claim that saying "sorry" didn't mean anything. It did to those people. Now there is work to get on with. Life of a Scrapbooker's Husband.

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Scrapbook Widower: Equilibrium

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Saturday, 11 October 2008. Morti made a a comment on my last post a few hours back that made me feel guilty - I haven't posted here for nearly six months. I could blame it on being busy, but then even at my busiest I have managed a post each day over at Cafe Grendel. I think what has really happened is that rather than the wild ride that being married to a scrapbooker was a year ago, things have now settled into a balance. I have visions of him stepping through the television and looking around in horror:.

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Scrapbook Widower: The walls

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Monday, 10 March 2008. It is spreading like a contagious disease. Off you go merrily to work in the morning and return home in the afternoon to find that the scrapbooking has leapt off the pages and on to the walls. I wondered if she'd run out of paper, but no, there on the shelf is the usual rainbow of cardstock - this was graffiti, pure and simple. Let me make myself clear. Not at all, never. Can I just state for the record that I am not acid-free and that I intend to commence lignin eating immediately.

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Scrapbook Widower: Predictions

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Saturday, 16 February 2008. I'm going into the clairvoyant business. After last weeks blogging effort I almost have to - I suggested that a scrapbooking novel might be an idea, and lo, there are several. I predicted that scrapbooking paper would make a good spacecraft, and the Japanese are rolling out (or is that unfolding? Their plans for origami space flight. Lurid 1960's prints will continue to annoy Mrs Grendel who has only boy children to scrapbook. Digital scrapbooking will not become dominant over...

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Scrapbook Widower: Sticky Science

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Friday, 22 February 2008. Something commenter 'Snafu' said sparked a thought. Until recently, much of Mrs Grendel's scrapping was done in the family room - on the big farmhouse table or the bench in the kitchen. It was always collecting lumps of glue and flecks of paint and the scrapping gear seemed to cover every horizontal surface. The scrapbooking studio recently acquired a large bench in the middle of the room, but even this cannot seem to contain all the items required for a single layout. In fact I...

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Scrapbook Widower: Ode to a High Pressure System

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Monday, 25 February 2008. Ode to a High Pressure System. A strong high pressure ridge dominates,. It lies south of the state and punishes us. Its so-called ‘moderate to fresh E/NE winds’. Are in reality, a form of climatic torture. The central and southern parts of the state,. Can expect flies and heat with little relief in the evenings. Whoever said the desert gets cold at night was wrong. For it never gets cold in February here. Expect fine conditions for this region,. Which bring us the rain? We'll be...

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Scrapbook Widower: Scrapping the memories you no longer have photos of

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Saturday, 26 April 2008. Scrapping the memories you no longer have photos of. OK, here's a tricky quandary. Yesterday was ANZAC day in Australia - one of the days on which we remember the sacrifices made by Australian troops on battlefields around the world. The date commemorates the 1915 landing on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Dardanelles with the objective to knock Turkey out of the war. Remembering becomes much more complex without the tangibles like photographs and diaries. Remarkably, the fact tha...

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Scrapbook Widower: When the cat's away

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Saturday, 29 March 2008. When the cat's away. Yes, it is the weekend that many scrapbook widower's either love or dread, the weekend of the scrapbook convention/seminar/trade show/retreat etc. Mrs Grendel has headed out to the Wheatbelt to teach scrapbooking classes to the women of the west, errrr east, but only the eastern part of the west really. Currently Junior Grendel Number One is sound asleep in the parental bed, having dropped off about 3 minutes after I pressed play on a DVD of Star Trek. Subscr...

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Scrapbook Widower: Eight

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Wednesday, 15 October 2008. Mrs Grendel and I have our 8th wedding anniversary coming up shortly and I have been wondering what to buy her as a wedding present. I visited one of those websites that tells you what presents you are supposed to buy and for which anniversary. Unfortunately the 8th anniversary seems a bit of an odd one. In the ‘Traditional’ side of thing we have two items – the first is Bronze. The second traditional item is Rubber – A rubber gift would go down well. I know the information wa...