Our Gal Friday: Meet Anja, Alanna, and Carmel!
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DESiGNER SPOTLiGHT
On a Whimsical Adventure (Anja)
Being creative and making beautiful things was always part of my life. When I finished school and found my first job at the age of 21, I went to a school of fine art where I learned to work with watercolors and pastels, make etchings and linocuts and so much more. But when I finally enrolled in a graphic design education, at the age of 37, a whole new world opened up for me. Going digital allowed me to create my own world, bringing new life to the forgotten bits and pieces of antique ephemera, adding my own hand made textures, combining it all into unique digital kits and printables with a little spark of magic and mystery, sometimes sweet and romantic, dark and gothic at other times. I live with my husband, daughter and cat in Belgium, in a small village called Wanzele, on a peaceful and quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by meadows and a forest.
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DESiGNER Q & A
Do you work outside the home?
I used to, before I had a burnout last year in September. After staying home for months, I had to decide if I would go back to the parttime job I had or go for my designing fulltime. I chose to go fulltime.
Are you a morning person or a night owl?
When I was young I was a night owl, but that changed over the years. I would say that I’m a morning person now!
Do you have any pets?
Yes, a cat, he’s been with us for a year now, we adopted him from a rescue organization. We’ve adopted a second cat, she will be joining us by the end of October.
What do you think of garden gnomes?
Not really my thing!
Are you right or left handed?
Right handed
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alannabanana (Alanna)
My name is Alanna, I live in the beautiful Adelaide Hills in South Australia. I am married to my awesome hubby Geoff and our delightful, sweet teenage girl Jess. We love animals and did have 17 pets at one stage but now only have a few including budgies, a cockatiel, guinea pigs, a bearded dragon called crispy and our amstaff Chilli. There are many reserves and parks surrounding our home and a creek beside us so we are visited by all sorts of aussie animals such as Koalas, kangaroos, kookaburras and echidnas.
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CREATiVE TEAM MEMBER Q & A
Would you rather fight one elephant-sized pigeon or 50 pigeon-sized elephants?
50 pigeon-sized elephants – grab a bat and start swinging!
Do you work outside the home?
I work in IT so have worked both at home and in the office….at the moment, it’s in the office, unfortunately!
If you could have three wishes, what would they be?
For my family to be healthy and to be happy and then I would give my third wish away…haha not really, but it would have to be something to help other people like a super power…maybe to heal people or heal the earth.
If you could learn any skill in the world without trying, what would you choose?
I would like to be a biologist or environmentalist to help save our animals and trees
If you could know the absolute and total truth to one question, what question would you ask?
I actually wouldn’t ask that question, would you really want to know…that’s like opening pandora’s box!
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CAAPMUN (Carmel)
I’m Carmel, aka caapmun. I live in Australia, in a small rural area in South Australia about 200kms from Adelaide and 20 km from the nearest town. I have been married to my husband, Andrew for nearly 30 years. I’m 58 years old and work full-time as a finance officer for the state health department. Since COVID arrived I have been working from home which makes a nice change. I love any type of needlecraft, watching drama movies or TV series, reading and of course digital scrapping!.
I was never a paper scrapper but discovered digital scrapbooking many years ago. Originally I used an on-line digital scrapping program but started using Photoshop Elements in 2008, with most of my skills coming from following tutorials from different forums. Earlier this year, I decided to try Adobe Photoshop CC, and am slowly transitioning with the help of lots of tutorials available online. I have been on creative teams with a few designers over the years!
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FORUM MEMBER Q & A
What would you do if you found a penguin in your freezer?
Immediately google recipes for penguin – oh!! that is presuming it was a dead penguin?
If you have free, unlimited service for 5 years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, or masseuse, which service would you choose?
Hands down the extremely good cook would win – I am good at cooking I just do not like doing it! It takes away too much time from my hobbies.
Describe your life using film titles.
A Mission Impossible resulting in A Series of Unfortunate Events comprising The good, the bad, and the ugly.
If you could compare yourself with any animal, which would it be and why?
A swan swimming – looks very serene to anyone watching but the legs are paddling frantically below the surface trying to stay afloat!
How do you fit a giraffe in a refrigerator?
With great difficulty – although it would depend on the size/age of the giraffe and the refrigerator?
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