The Blog of Bert Jones

19″ LCD HiDef TV

Today’s photo is for my wife (and a bit for me).

I bought a LCD TV for the bed­room craft area. This way we can scrap­book and watch a movie at the same time (My Apple TV is lit­er­ally on the oth­er­side of the wall, so we drilled a small hole for the cable to go through. We can then con­trol it with our iPhones.).

We’re sit­ting in here now, before bed, watching Burn Notice Season 3.

The Mis­sion Rock

Today I was at an all-day (9am-midnight) scrap­booking fundraiser at the Cre­ative Mem­o­ries home office for a Vol­ley­ball team to raise money to go to and com­pete for entrance into the Olympics.

Amy, Margie, Mona and myself all went. We had a great time. I had over 500+ photos to sort, then start putting them into pages. I got 16 pages done!

Amy got like 47 pages done I think. Margie got 20(?) and Mona got 4(!)

All in all it was great and we all won prizes. We may attend the one on the 24^th of April, depends on our schedule.

My fav 2 pages

The photos pic­tured are the Mis­sion Stone at the Home office, and my work­space and two of my favorite pages from that day!

Sorry, I haven’t posted in awhile. Lots been going on.

• I resigned from my posi­tion on the Communications/Marketing Com­mittee. Too much drama to deal with.
• I became a reg­is­tered Girl Scout (Don’t Ask). Mainly so I could be a Co-Service Unit Cookie Man­ager with Amy. We manage around 60 troops and their cookie orders.
• I got a second part-time job back at the Print shop I used to work at, AlphaGraphics.
• Still going to school.
• Working on more training at work, to have more responsibilities.
• Amy and I became Cre­ative Mem­o­ries Con­sul­tants. Mainly because they came out with so many new oppor­tu­ni­ties for folks and their photos! Con­tact us for more info!

Just lots of stuff. So I have been really busy. I get about 4 hours of sleep a day, sort of. It’s been hectic.

Talk later when I ain’t so tired!

Okay, so I have my 15 min­utes of fame coming up this weekend.

As most of you know, I am vol­un­teering my time on the Board of Direc­tors and as the Communications/Marketing Chair­person for the Com­mu­nity that I live in.

Our lender is hosting a radio pro­gram this Sunday from 3–4 pm on KFAI raido wave project and they have chosen to inter­view me for a 10 minute seg­ment about Man­u­fac­tured Housing Coop­er­a­tives and how it has change dour neigh­bor­hood and my per­sonal experience.

I am VERY ner­vous about being on the radio LIVE! So keep me in your thoughts.

Also, I will be fea­tured in an article (in the ARTS sec­tion) of the Wall Street Journal regarding Male Scrap­bookers in such a female-dominated arena.

My consultant’s hus­band was con­tacted by the reporter and she was looking for an un-vested per­spec­tive, so they con­tacted me. I had two-phone calls and numerous emails back and forth with the reporter and I even shipped off two of my albums to them to do a photo-shoot of! (Yes, I know, I am ner­vous that they are not in my hands…)

So I am excited about all this and just wanted to share it with you all.

Also, Riley is on the verge of CRAWLING!!!! He walks pretty good if you hold his hands and he LOVES to jump in his jumper! He really, really wants to crawl, but he doesn’t realize he has to move his hands for­ward too! So he ends up doing a sort of ‘belly-flop’ instead of moving anywhere.

I will post photos soon!

A dig­ital scrap­book page I made.

I have really wanted to scrap book. I have so many photos it is insane. But the thought of buying all those sup­plies and then trying to find room for it and crap. Just was not appealing.

But, I have a new laptop and I am a graphic designer and have some really nice design pro­grams. So why can’t I make scrap­book pages on the PC?

So I have scanned all my stamps that I have col­lected and cer­tain stickers I found and stuff and I have been making some scrap­book pages on the computer.

Which, is really nice, con­sid­ering the majority of my photos are dig­ital. And I found a web­site that has down­load­able scrap­book pages.

So I am all set!