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We’re Off To See the Wizard

August 14, 2013 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

I'm glad I have a forced rest right now. (See the post about the whole stupid foot-in-an-inflatable-cast thing.) I'm happy to be able to catch up on some photo organization and scrapbooking. In going over my stuff I realized I had never printed the photos from the Spring Musical that my son, Jonathan was in. (Working on the scrapbook ...

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Project Life (or How I Scrapbook My Real Life)

March 18, 2012 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

I have been an avid scrapbooker for years. In fact, I still have my original high school photo albums. You know which ones I mean. The magnetic kind with the fading 70's Kodak Instamatic photos with the captions typed out on a real typewriter. The ones we later found out are the very worst thing you can do to photographs because of the high ...

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Why I’ll Never Have My Own Cooking Show *sigh*- A Giveaway

September 2, 2010 By Marta Darby 19 Comments

I still have so much more to tell you about my trip to General Mills and the Betty Crocker Kitchens. I have some very cool recipes I want to share and also some fun stuff to giveaway. There was so much to take in that I can't possibly write about it all in one post, so I will be writing about this for the next week or so (I'll also do ...

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A Week in My Life or Why I Love Mondays

April 29, 2010 By Marta Darby 2 Comments

I often wonder how my Cuban grandmother spent her days. I wonder what she cared about and how she decided what to have for dinner.  I have stories, of course, from my mom, about how she would make desserts every night. Homemade desserts EVERY NIGHT, people! Doesn't that just sound glorious? I know some things just by word of mouth. She ...

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Picture perfect

April 19, 2009 By Marta Darby 4 Comments

Okay. So I know this photo is completely out of focus. And I know my hair looks witchy-weird (it actually was performing really well, but you can't tell from this picture. *sigh*) But in spite of all that, I love it. I love that we were caught by our neighbor practicing our salsa dancing on the front lawn. ("Those Darbys are at it ...

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Now and then

March 30, 2009 By Marta Darby 3 Comments

I love making connections with my photos.  This is why I don't scrapbook chronologically. I just like to tell my stories.I like it even more when my photos tell a story on their own. I don't even care if the photos are blurry. I figure it's the story that is more important. Such is the case here. Here are Jonathan and Eric ...

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Making Christmas

December 29, 2008 By Marta Darby 2 Comments

"Making Christmas" is usually the mom's job.  At least it's always that way at my house (I'm guessing it's that way in most homes).  I do a lot of stuff anyway, but in December I kick it up to Warp Nine.  =D This year I was especially busy because I took the time to make some special homemade gifts: 1) ...

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Celebrating Summer

October 20, 2008 By Marta Darby 3 Comments

We So Cal people don't really "do" weather. We just don't know how. When the weather cools a bit, (which it really hasn't considering we are about a month into Fall, but that's not important right now) we pull out socks to wear with our flip-flops and exclaim "Fall is here!" (you think I'm kidding, ...

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dan•ger•ous (adj) – able to inflict injury or harm.

June 27, 2008 By Marta Darby 3 Comments

Okay, so now I know just enough to be dangerous. I've been taking some online classes. Specifically, I'm learning how to scrapbook digitally using Photoshop Elements 6. I'm still just doing the assignments from class, but I'm all proud of myself and I wanted to share.... The journaling is from a blog post I did about a year ago. (journaling my ...

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What about my needs??

May 26, 2008 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

Today....Mountains (not kidding here!) of post-vacation laundry are done, folded, and put away.The kids are at the movies with friends, which means that the house is blissfully quiet.My to-do list has all tasks neatly and very satisfyingly crossed off. (Ahhh!)I do have two more weeks of final school stuff coming up plus plans for a recipe I'll ...

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I scrap, therefore I am

May 2, 2008 By Marta Darby 2 Comments

On  the heels of that Super Blogger post I have to laugh because I'm sooo resisting blogging today.  I don't feel like I have one original thought to share.  In fact, I decided to shut off the Mac and scrapbook a page that I had originally blogged on the 18th of April. But since I am, of course, a blogger, the page I made becomes ...

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Places to go. Things to do. Kids to embarrass. =D

January 12, 2008 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

I've been keeping up pretty nicely with that whole taking one picture every day project. Actually, I love having my camera with me 24/7. In fact, I have it with me so much it's almost like a family member now.  We're all seated at the dinner table, and one of the kids asks:"Where's your camera?" And it's weird when you blog (like I ...

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“Cui bono?”*

January 8, 2008 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

Remember my cool (and at this point) pristine advent calendar?  Here's what it looked like at the end of December: How this will translate to my Christmas 2007 scrapbook . . . I took photos of the things we did each day, printed one photo and just pinned them up on the board.  Or sometimes there were just ticket stubs, or an invitation ...

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Because I live in a Parallel Universe (in which ninety is the new fifty)

October 19, 2007 By Marta Darby 5 Comments

I often get asked these two questions: "Do you still have family in Cuba?" and "Have you ever been back?"The answers are yes and no. In August of 2002 we hosted a family reunion here in Mission Viejo.   Three of my mom's four siblings were able to come - two of them traveling from Cuba and one from Miami.  There ...

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What’s wrong with this picture?

August 27, 2007 By Marta Darby 4 Comments

It's my same Lucy-girl in both pictures. In one she's starting Kindergarten. In the other she's starting High School. I can't tell which is which. She looks exactly the same to me. Deep breath. Heavy sigh. Welcome to our first day of  high school. (I'll have this whole Kindergarten/High School thing cleared up by recess, I'm sure.  My ...

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