Utterly Splendid: Carina Gardner

Monday, September 26, 2011

Carina Gardner

My aunt lives and works on an alpaca farm. We visited her a few weeks ago and I had a blast taking photos of those funny animals. I did a fun layout of the alpaca visit this month using Carina Gardner's new {products} from {JessicaSprague.com}. I love the {Essentials Plus Mega Collection} that just came out--the papers are wonderful and versatile and there are plenty of little extras in the collection featuring days, weeks, months...even a family tree!

Carina's stuff is just so great--I am excited to work with it more and share what I've done during the month of October!

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Why the name?

As I was trying to think of a name for this blog where I would share things I am proud of, I thought of phrases that were special or unique to me. When I was only three or four, my mom made a lot of my clothes. One day she brought me into the sewing room to share the latest outfit and I clapped my hands together and said "Oh, splendid!" Of course, no three or four-year-olds use words like "splendid" without learning them from some old movie or something. I happened to watch old movies and learned the line from "The Slipper and the Rose", a Cinderella story. When the stepmother is looking at herself in the mirror, she is happy with what she sees, and says, "Utterly splendid." After I am finished with a photo edit or scrapbook layout, that's how I feel. I look at my work and feel like my three-year-old self again--giddy and smiling and oh so happy with what I see (at least, most of the time).