I just wanted to stop in and say a BIG, HUGE thank you to Kristina over at Two Happy Mamas for creating my beautiful new Blog!! Kristina did an awesome job and it was all complete in about a day! You ROCK Kristina!!
Just wanted to share and send anyone who is interested over to their website! These ladies ROCK!
Thanks for stopping by!!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
2 Layouts
I have been working on part of my New Year's resolution by setting aside some time every day to scrapbook. It may not be a lot of time but it is time! I have found that laying my things out and starting on it and then going back to it whenever I have a few minutes is working AWESOME! I have completed 2 pages in the last week and have started another! I am loving it!
Since Kayla's new competition season is right around the corner (3 weeks away), I decided that I better get last season's pictures scrapbooked before I have a ton more to do! Here are my creations for two of her dances. The pictures are not that great but I am hoping with my new camera coming soon, my pictures will soon ROCK!!
Well, this is all for now! Thanks for stopping by!!
Since Kayla's new competition season is right around the corner (3 weeks away), I decided that I better get last season's pictures scrapbooked before I have a ton more to do! Here are my creations for two of her dances. The pictures are not that great but I am hoping with my new camera coming soon, my pictures will soon ROCK!!
Well, this is all for now! Thanks for stopping by!!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Happy New Year
Hi!
I have been really wanting to get back into the blogging seeing as I have seriously fallen behind. Unfortunately I can honestly say that I have not done too much crafting lately and that is what my blog originated as, a place to share my craft. I know people say that if you REALLY love scrapping or crafting, you will find a way to fit it into your life but really I feel like I am exhausted by the end of the day! It is my goal to get out of my rut and get back into the swing of things!
Over the summer I was able to create a new scrapping room all of my own, well actually I did create a space in my room for Kayla to sit and create with or without me. I am very fortunate to have this cozy space in my home to do what I love to do. I took a lot of time planning and decorating it and I honestly need to spend some time enjoying it now! Since it is a new year and time to make changes for the positive in our lives, that is what I am going to do. I have this AWESOME table to create at and I am going to plan to set aside a small bit of time each day to creating. It might be a card, a layout, or an actual craft. I can leave it lay and come back to it every day. Who knows, maybe I will get so involved that I will spend hours completing the entire project or layout!!
I haven't spent a lot of time scrapping or crafting but I have been spending a lot of time doing what I call "Blog Stalking"! I have been reading different Blogs and getting ideas for cards, layouts, and photography tips as I "stalk". One thing that really jumped out at me as I have been doing this is Ali Edwards's idea of "One Little Word" I have been thinking a lot of this concept and absolutely LOVE it! For those of you that are not familiar with it, the idea is that you choose a word that you want to spend an entire year working on, it is a word that is only about YOU. For more information, here is the link to Ali Edwards post explaining it way better than I can. I think that the word that I am going to focus on for the year is PEACE. I feel like I keep coming back to this word over and over again as I have been thinking of this concept. I feel like I need to find PEACE within my life and everything around me. Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded in chaos in my day to day life ~ from rushing out in the morning for work, to the craziness at work, rushing to pick up children, and getting Kayla to dance. Home life seems to be as chaotic ~ rushing through dinner, homework, bath, and bed just to get up in the morning and start all over again! So with all of that said, I strongly believe that I can benefit from PEACE in my life. One goal with this concept is that I want to create PEACE through spending time doing things that I LOVE, one of those being scrapbooking/crafting and then also writing. This is also where my Blog comes into play. I want to be better about getting on here and putting things down on "paper", I tend to feel so much better and feel like I can deal with things better when it is out in the open. I am hoping that through many things I can achieve that PEACE in my life that I am looking for. I know this is a process and I am sooo looking forward to this process! I am even hoping to pick up one of those beautiful necklaces featured in Ali Edwards post with my word on it. I think this will help me keep my focus daily even when I am feeling caught up in the chaos, something to ground myself, you know?
Well, since I have rambled on and on here, I am going to step away for the night and head off to my scrap room. I am hoping that I can interest Audrey in a Dora DVD so I can get something started!
Thanks for stopping by!
I have been really wanting to get back into the blogging seeing as I have seriously fallen behind. Unfortunately I can honestly say that I have not done too much crafting lately and that is what my blog originated as, a place to share my craft. I know people say that if you REALLY love scrapping or crafting, you will find a way to fit it into your life but really I feel like I am exhausted by the end of the day! It is my goal to get out of my rut and get back into the swing of things!
Over the summer I was able to create a new scrapping room all of my own, well actually I did create a space in my room for Kayla to sit and create with or without me. I am very fortunate to have this cozy space in my home to do what I love to do. I took a lot of time planning and decorating it and I honestly need to spend some time enjoying it now! Since it is a new year and time to make changes for the positive in our lives, that is what I am going to do. I have this AWESOME table to create at and I am going to plan to set aside a small bit of time each day to creating. It might be a card, a layout, or an actual craft. I can leave it lay and come back to it every day. Who knows, maybe I will get so involved that I will spend hours completing the entire project or layout!!
I haven't spent a lot of time scrapping or crafting but I have been spending a lot of time doing what I call "Blog Stalking"! I have been reading different Blogs and getting ideas for cards, layouts, and photography tips as I "stalk". One thing that really jumped out at me as I have been doing this is Ali Edwards's idea of "One Little Word" I have been thinking a lot of this concept and absolutely LOVE it! For those of you that are not familiar with it, the idea is that you choose a word that you want to spend an entire year working on, it is a word that is only about YOU. For more information, here is the link to Ali Edwards post explaining it way better than I can. I think that the word that I am going to focus on for the year is PEACE. I feel like I keep coming back to this word over and over again as I have been thinking of this concept. I feel like I need to find PEACE within my life and everything around me. Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded in chaos in my day to day life ~ from rushing out in the morning for work, to the craziness at work, rushing to pick up children, and getting Kayla to dance. Home life seems to be as chaotic ~ rushing through dinner, homework, bath, and bed just to get up in the morning and start all over again! So with all of that said, I strongly believe that I can benefit from PEACE in my life. One goal with this concept is that I want to create PEACE through spending time doing things that I LOVE, one of those being scrapbooking/crafting and then also writing. This is also where my Blog comes into play. I want to be better about getting on here and putting things down on "paper", I tend to feel so much better and feel like I can deal with things better when it is out in the open. I am hoping that through many things I can achieve that PEACE in my life that I am looking for. I know this is a process and I am sooo looking forward to this process! I am even hoping to pick up one of those beautiful necklaces featured in Ali Edwards post with my word on it. I think this will help me keep my focus daily even when I am feeling caught up in the chaos, something to ground myself, you know?
Well, since I have rambled on and on here, I am going to step away for the night and head off to my scrap room. I am hoping that I can interest Audrey in a Dora DVD so I can get something started!
Thanks for stopping by!
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