Scrapbook Pictures-Promotion and Gold Belt

I had to add some pages to the small dollar store scrapbook so I have elastic holding it together, for now. I also added a band of elastic to help keep it closed as it is....ballooning. I like how the binding elastic looks like a white belt!! Eventually I think I will have to cut the binding apart completely and just have an open bound book. It was a buck...I can't complain. I've made journals in the past so that knowledge is coming in pretty darned handy right now.

Thankfully we all performed as a group which was a HUGE relief! The BF took the photos but claims to not have been able to get a view to take video...huh...alrighty then.

Until next time...

Redo!

We went to the Scrapbook superstore this afternoon and I found the black mulberry paper I was looking for. It has gold inclusions but that is fine I guess. I found some more inspirational stickers and made an addition to page two. Then the BF spoted a Karate rub on!! So I removed the print out of the work karate and placed this one on the same kind of paper, then added pop-dots to the back. WOW! What a difference!

While we were there at the super store, the BF dragged me to the checkout because I was taking too long. The place is HUGE!!! The lady in front of us...before a 15% discount had wracked up $246 in scrapbooking supplies!! HOLY SHIT! The stuff they sell is no where near cheap and you pay premium prices for it all. I found a bunch of half off papers and do-dads so I only wracked up just over $10. Thier frequent shopper program has changed too. When we I was into scrapbooking many-many moons ago (like 5 or so years ago), the program was buy $250 in murchandise and get 15% off. NOW, however...it is $600 get 5% off, up to $2000 get 10% off, over $3000 get 15%. HOLY WTF! I would never spend that much on scrapbooking supplies IN A YEARS TIME!! They have a great selection and all...but that "rewards" program is a ripoff!! And that is my humble opinion on that! HUMPH!

Yesterday I was watching Chris Angels Mind Freak disc 2, and the on the last episode the man wants to know what it feels like to get struck by lightening (WHAT?!) and then he apparently came to Baraboo Wisconsin to the US's largest tesla coil which puts out a max of 3 million volts. When he got to the point where he asked them to turn it all the way up, the noise was so unnerving that I had a full blown panic attack! I have never experienced anything like it before. I was hyperventalating while my throat felt like it was closing up on me! I laughed at myself because it was just TV...but here I am having a panic attack like my own life was in danger! LMAO! I get tense when a storm approaches anymore sense being shocked by the bolt that hit our apartment building last summer during on of the freakiest lightening storms I had ever experienced. I used to be in awe of lightening and thought it beautiful, while I am scared shitless of it now...I still think it is beautiful.

Until next time...

Completed first section of scrapbook...

And all of a sudden I have scrapbook madness...it's the bug...it's inside me!!! Inside the cover there is a sticker that reads "Dare to dream then watch what happens!" and this so describes how I got to do karate. I dared to dream...and the opportunity showed itself. Quite amazing actually. "Believe in Yourself" was a rub on that looks like it was printed on the page. I have that picture on the first page for a reason. So that if I ever become discouraged, I can always pick up this book and SEE how happy I was and how I feel about learning karate.

I have a lot of scrapbooking and stamping supplies from when I used to do both, so I dug out those and set to work. The little red thing is a piece of friendly plastic melted, then stamped with an asian themed stamp. You can't really see the detail here but it kinda looks like an equal armed cross in the plastic. Which is OK.
This will serve as some documentation for WTI. I think it will serve for several subjects in WTI actually as I plan to do this everytime I go up a belt color. I did email karate America and did confirm that indeed the cost to get promoted is an extra$30 in addition to the $99 a month for the tuition.

DAMN!

SUCK-SUCK-SUCK! OWE...gotta hole being burned in my pocket!!
I'm told it pays for the new belt, the promotion cermony, certificate, and card (not sure what kind of card I will be getting...).

Until next time...

Karate Scrapbook!

I made a scrapbook from a cheapie Dollar Store "Scrapbook". I decorated the cover with a printed out clipart and wording. The white thing is a sticker. Martial art stickers are hard to come by! If I need to add more pages the binding will be simple to take apart and put back together. It only has ten pages, but I only plan to fill it up with promotion pictures. I need MORE copies of my white belt pictures. I had some printed for the collage, some printed to show my friends at the WTI meeting and those went into my BOS and now I need more!! LMAO!

Until next time...