Loving being more involved in the digital scrapping community (or I guess the scrapbooking community in general). I forget how much I enjoyed commenting in the galleries and encouraging others and how great it feels to get encouragement back. I have to say again I am still LOVING the community feel at SisTV. I've posted in a few other galleries recently and in the past and have never found a place nearly as supportive (in my experience) or as inspiring as this gallery. I can't say enough about it. It's funny though how posting a LO that gets no comments makes me question whether it needs something more or it just really isn't that good. Most of my LOs at SisTv with no comments only had a handful of people look at them so I guess I could say that only a handful of people didn't like it. Right? OR a bunch of people didn't like it enough to even click on it. Hmmmm. It's most discouraging when like 45 people have viewed a LO and couldn't find one good thing to say about it. Yikes! I know I shouldn't let that be discouraging but I guess that's one of the down sides to being involved in the galleries. I know I'm not alone in this feeling. I'm gonna challenge myself to comment on at least 10 or more LOs in the galleries each day and I'm going to try and remember that I scrapbook to preserve memories and if I was happy enough with a LO to post it in a gallery then I should feel great about it whether 20 people comment on it or 1 (or even zero).
See all those zeros? Oy. LOL And I know I mentioned this in my earlier post and I swear this link wasn't there when I looked before. I searched and searched for a link like this in other's bio pages but suddenly the other day I noticed it so now you can click on that link and see all of the albums listed separately and most importantly you can view people's favorites album. Mine is jam packed with some great stuff and I love that now I can see what inspires some of the scrapper's that are so inspiring to me. Another great feature I noticed that I hadn't before is that if you click on a LO in the gallery you can actually click on it again to view it even larger and if that's not detailed enough you can click AGAIN and zoom in even more. How cool is THAT?! That place just keeps getting better and better.
I also have to mention that one of the sweet 'sisters' I've 'met' through SisTv is Cenee and you have to check out her bio page and see how MUCH she looks like my sister Amanda. I honestly could've sworn it was Amanda when I first saw her avatar in my private mail box. Love her name too and her gallery is amazing so go leave her some love. :)
And speaking of galleries you've GOTTA check out the new garden at 2peas. Jennifer has some amazing new LOs in there and she's right, some of my all time faves are in this batch too. I filled up my book of scraps as I went through the LOs. Totally inspired to scrap but have a busy weekend schedule ahead and too gorgeous of weather to spend it indoors so we'll see if I get any scrapping done in the next few days. I'm hoping to at least do some.
One thing on the agenda is to paint my new tv stand and end table. I haven't decided for sure what color to paint them. I'm thinking probably a distressed black but in the past I've found that an actual black ends up not being at all what you want to start with. Anyone have any pointers on what paint color I really want to get that old distressed black furniture look? Shabby Miss Jenn you MUST have the perfect shade. ;) The other option I'm considering is red but that can be very tricky to get the right shade too. Hopefully by tomorrow morning I can settle on a color and spend some time out in the garage painting away. :)
I'm determined to take more photos this weekend too. I've been meaning to all week and it just hasn't happened. Pixel is growing so fast and I'm missing all those cute stages and the funny stuff she does and I need more pics of the new haircut because that last one really doesn't do it justice at all.
Kay, off to work. Happy Friday everyone!
I gave you input on advice for paint. You paint it red, but immediately wipe the paint with a cloth so the wood is tainted. Then you cut the bristles on the paint brush in zig zags and brush black over it. Wipe the black right away too. Do that twice (with black) and you will have a rusty looking table. Make sure you glaze it afterwards of course.
Genius :)
Why do you point out the 0 comments? Are we craving attention?
Posted by: Guppie | June 15, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Guppie is funny:) I say go with the black and distress the edges:) Fun chattin' with ya last night!! Have a fun weekend:)
Posted by: SHABBYJULS | June 15, 2007 at 03:45 PM
I feel the same way when I don't get comments. I like the validation. Is that bad? I find the community at DST very supportive but I tend to post in chunks. I go crazy for a couple weeks then nothing (like now for instance). I did in fact sign up for a SisTV account, I just need to upload my layouts.
Happy painting! :)
Posted by: Maegan | June 15, 2007 at 05:30 PM
Don't feel your layouts are not good Shawn, they are, most people are probably like me & are on limited time to browse the galleries & don't take the time to comment, doesn't mean we don't love them though and enjoy looking at them.
Posted by: Leonie | June 15, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Ummm, I click on your layouts lots of times looking for inspiration, and I only add a comment once...so you can chalk some of those views up to me. Sorry about that! I love your gallery and I'm so glad you're scrapping again!
Posted by: joelsgirl_Kellie | June 15, 2007 at 07:09 PM
I just joined the SiSTV website on your recommendation, and I love it! Thanks for being my first commenter on there :)
Posted by: christie | June 17, 2007 at 11:38 PM