Patience is a virtue...

...that I just don't have...I REALLY want to make a TON of paper pieced cards...but cutting out all those itty bitties??? argh!!! But I certainly am LOVING the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge for my Cricut machine...you can even make costumes!!!!!

I would like to get my hands on the "Once Upon a Time" dp and accessories and make an album for my daughter...these little add ons I could put in it would be SO much fun!! It can cut castles....even a dragon!!! Need to stock up on Michael's coupons!!! :-)

Out on a limb

I feel SO close to making it...I'm on the cusp, I think...or a really, REALLY long branch ;-) I'm reading through design books, learning colour theory...placement theory...you name it. I will be published SOME day!!!! It's a goal of mine that ticks in my brain daily...I'm always looking for ways to up the game, so to speak....

Just wishing...dreaming, really...

Contents under pressure!!!

I am SO sick :( ugh. And to know I could theoretically be able to at least function if it hadn't been that I was up until 4 a.m. coughing!! ACK! But I manage, like I always do...and got in a bit 'o scrappin' this morning...which ordinarily might NOT have happened except that I have class tomorrow night...and had NO layout!! The heck happened there??? ;-) oops. The one I thought we were doing is not until the very last class....minor detail. LOL!!!

Oh well...off to find more java...I wonder if I could start an I.V. drip?????

The eyes are the windows to the soul...

I never realized just how much my oldest son looks like me!! :-O It wasn't until I took this candid of the two of us, which actually turned out pretty well!!!, taken on Mother's Day, that I realized he has, without a doubt, my eyes. Out of five children, ONE of them has my eyes!!

He is going to be 13 years old this year...and I think I need to make more of an effort to find him amongst his video games to take more pictures of him...before he turns into a teenager and runs off with his friends!!! But I still get my hugs...and the best part? HE initiates them ;-) I love my son...it's a daily struggle sometimes, with all those tween hormones starting..but worth every second!!

Feet and "Me"...bizarre combo, eh?

Ordinarily I don't like feet, unless they're in socks. Or, unless you're under 2 years of age...then I'm some kind of freak...taking off baby socks and stuffing stinky little baby toes up my nose...gotta love it!!!! I took this pic of Logan's dirty little feet a couple of months ago...I take a lot of "feet" pictures...not sure why, really, but "just in case"...no idea, don't ask...but what if one becomes Prime Minister, or an Olympic athlete??? Gotta have that "where will these feet take you" pics ;-)

And then there's me....The one thing I hate worse than taking a self-pic, is actually having to scrap it!! Nope. Not on my fave list at ALL. But I can step up to the plate, so to speak, down a package of pre-selected chocolate and, voila!!! ART!!! LOL

I wish all of you mothers out there a very Happy Mother's Day!!! You deserve the standing ovation I'm giving all of you....um....I'm also standing to avoid booger-feeling oatmeal spilled by Thing 1 on the computer chair, but that's a story for another day ;-)

I didn't cave!!!!!!!

Seriously...down to some REAL birthday card making "genius-ness"...with a TON O HELP from the new Cosmo Cricket line!!! I'll buy them out, with all this boy-friendly paper line!!! *gush!!!*

So I finished the card and thought "what the heck do I put the gift card in??"...and then it struck me...those little "goodie" holders Michelle S. taught me at the crop in Winchester!!!! DUH!!! ;-) Like lightening, I tell you....

Finished!!!

Not MY layout...HER layout...by far my biggest honour in scrapbooking...doing my closest friend Angelique's wedding picture :-) I layered, I embossed, I put the bling on.....I hope she likes it!! ;-) You need to understand...her and I suffer "hallucination" problems together...we've bonded. LOL!!! Back atcha, babe!!!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!! :-)

Okay, so it's almost time for bed, but better late than never!! ;-) What better than to have a day, let alone a MONTH to celebrate scrapbooking!!!

So what does scrapbooking mean to me? Well, how to begin? I thought I'd start to make some pages for my daughter after she was born......now, however, it's meaning has become a complex web of emotions in my life. I feel passion for what I do. I feel settled knowing my children will have keepsakes of their lives, my life and of the lives around us. I feel peace because as I scrapbook, I let go of the angst in my life...I have no resentments, no "baggage", no fear and no regret. I feel pride creating projects for the people in my life. I feel relief upon completion of a page.

And that's just to name but a few.

I was only able to make one page today....so I chose this picture of my grandparents. My grandmother never got to see that I had a daughter, my grandfather never had the chance to meet my twin baby boys...he died two weeks before we were to travel down to see him. It will be one year since his passing this coming Monday.

Scrapbooking has allowed me to revisit memories of moments in time in my life....and that helps my heart heal.