Friday Five

1. I was hoping to do a whole Olympics Friday Five again this week but unfortunately, not a great deal of fantastic news has been coming out of Sochi.  However, there's always some good.  Like the women winning the Silver Medal in hockey!  Woohoo! It would have been awesome to see them win a gold but a silver is pretty amazing too.  Ted Ligety winning gold was also something we could be proud of.  There have been rumours too of a tribute to a ski cross skier that passed away last year bringing all the ski cross athletes together.  I haven't seen it yet, but it sounds pretty touching.  (I'm also keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to say - Hooray for the US Men making it to the gold medal round in Hockey - that remains to be seen...)

2.  Ali Edwards: I may have blogged about her before but my love for her blog knows no bounds.  She has made herself into a scrapbooking expert and has somehow created a whole business around something she loves.  She's also super creative and I get loads of ideas from her blog each week.  After coveting Photoshop for months and months, I finally received it for Christmas.  Now all that's left is to figure how to use it so I can start buying up some of Ali's Designer Digitals.  (Apparently, it takes a while to learn these things and it doesn't help that I'm often computer stupid...)  I'm not sure I could leave my beloved paper and stickers behind totally, but I can't wait to dabble in Digital Scrapbooking like she does.  She's pretty much amazing and anyone who's into scrapbooking should know she is!

3. "Hector and the Search for Happiness"  by Francois Lelord: A few weeks ago I was browsing Anglophenia and they had an article about and the trailer for Simon Pegg's new movie adaptation of "Hector and the Search for Happiness".  I had never heard of the book but I'm a Simon Pegg fan so of course the movie looked great.  I made a mental note of the name and went about my business.  Then a few days later I was in Barnes and Noble just browsing and this little book was hanging out randomly on the shelf. The book looked and sounded even more fabulous than the movie (don't they always?) so of course I had to get it.  I was definitely right.  It is the perfect quick fairy-tale for grownups involving travel and love and questions we're all asking.  Of course, now I'm even more excited because there are at least 2 more in the series.

4. Once again, I find myself getting lost in the land of Project Life.  I've said before that I don't really have a life that warrants daily photos and observations.  It's not really that exciting, and I'm the one that's living it.  I can't imagine having to read about it from the outside.  However, since most scrapbookers have evolved into this, it's pretty much all over Pinterest all the time.  All the albums, and cards and kits are so appealing I find myself craving for the opportunity to use them.  Seeing as I'm an OCD scrapper, I must have a theme; a starting point for any album I create.  So I'm giving myself until July when I hit the open road to the Northeast into Boston, Mystic, Salem, and Nantucket.  (Though, I've already bought a few card kits - what can I say, I have no self control...)

5. Organization!  It's taken a bit to get here (assembly of wooden objects - totally not my thing!) and I'm far from being done but I'm hopeful this new found craft room re-do will help in the creativity department.