I’ve always loved clotheslines. Since leaving home I haven’t been able to have one and I just want one so badly, especially since living in the south! The weather gets so hot, clothes would dry in minutes!

Simple Sparrow started a flickr group for clotheslines this past week. Her post about clotheslines is here.

We have a smaller yard here then we did in WA State, but the difference is we don’t have a fence. And we live in an HOA where I’m fairly sure we aren’t even allowed to have a clothesline. It’s disappointing because I think it would be so fun for the kids to have a line of their own like I did when I was little. We had these round metal u-shaped pipes that were upside down and then there were holes in them for the actual line, and between one ‘u’ there was a string at kid height that was put up when I was little. I would hang doll clothes up or small items that would fit there. And in South Dakota heat, everything would dry so fast. Then we would throw them in the dryer for just a few minutes to soften them up. I admit to not paying attention to the cost of electricity growing up, and I wonder how much money that saved my Mom? My Grandma still hangs her clothes out, or my Uncle does for her.

For now, I have to browse the clothesline flickr groupto see any. I wonder if we put up a fence, if we could get away with a small clothesline?

A friend (and craft business colleague!) just launched a great new e-book – Everything About Paper. Vera Raposo also owns and operates Scrappers Talk Radio – an internet radio show just for scrappers!

I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I am just not a scrapper. I tried and have completed seven or eight pages. My problem (other then the ‘fact’ that pictures belong in an album in order that they were taken 😉 ) is I don’t leave enough room for journaling. And that is what scrapping is all about right? Leaving words and pictures for future generations.

I am interested in a time capsule scrapbook – I’ll have to find the video to share on here, but my friend Marie made a video showing her time capsule book and wow what a great idea! Marie is going to be one of the first guests on my new craft podcast and we’ll be talking about her scrapbooking ideas.

Check out the Everything About Paper ebook, learn everything you can about paper and share your scrapbook pictures so we can all see what you have accomplished.