Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

Full Bleed! Taking your photos to the Edge of the Scrapbooking Page

Taking photos to the edge of the page - what a cool little design trick that I've never really explored before - until last night!  This concept was one of the challenges in Elizabeth Dillow's Twelve Design Challenges in the Big Picture Classes I'm taking AND it was coincidentally the topic of an article I read at Get It Scrapped by Debbie Hodge (click here for the "Bleed Edge" article there).   

I was super inspired and made seven of my "half baked" pages using this technique and I gathered almost 200 examples on my Pinterest "Full Bleed" Board.   I still have about 4-5 more that I'd like to get started.  AND! I even finished one of these layouts last night!

I had that 5x7 photo from a long time ago, I had played with the colors on the computer and printed it with a focal color on her face with black and white in the rest of the photo.  The colors came out really intense and while her eyes are really very blue, they look a bit unnatural and I could never figure out how to use that particular print on a page.  While I was looking for photos to use for the full bleed approach, I figured I'd use it since I was just "practicing" this new to me concept with these pages.   

SCRAPBOOK TIP!  Having the mindset that you are just "practicing" with your pages gives you more creating freedom!  Chances are when you "practice" you'll come up with pages that you never would have otherwise and some of them you will end up adoring, like I do with this one.

 

Journaling: "Vision:  Its not about how you look, its about how you see. (adapted from a Henry David Thoreau quote).  / You have your own unique vision and you are so sure of yourself.  You come up with the most creative ways to do things and you make observations that let us know that you are a deep thinker."

And yes, those paper strips are from my new 6x6 Amy Tangerine paper pack - the neon-ish colors worked perfectly with the overly bright focal colors on this photo.

I have been scrapbooking for a long time so it is so fun to have a new perspective, to learn something new, which has really been there all along. 

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I'll have more of the completed pages coming up soon!

$76 Scrapbook Yard Sale Haul Video

Whoo Hoo !  It was the Scrapbooking Yard Sale at Whim So Doodle Today and I made a HAUL VIDEO!  Here it is:

 

$20 for an art class next Saturday for me and my daughter to take together!

$28 for 5 paper packs (6x6):Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic; Heidi Swapp No Limits; Crate Paper Story Teller; Studio Calico Take Note Collection; & Amy Tangerine Sketchbook.

$26 for 4 organizing bins; 4 mini books; 4 packs of embellishments; 4 packs of Theresa Collins journaling cards;  one pack of metal clock faces; one acrylic stamping block; one Creative Memories paper trimmer; and one piece of 12x12 Studio Calico patterned paper;  PLUS an assortment of Barbie garden pots, presents, shutters and hats for my girl. 

And lots of fun conversations with scrapbookers and art journalers.

What a lovely Saturday Morning.

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Now we are off for another adventure - more on that soon.

 

 

One Scrapbook Layout => 8 National Scrapbooking Day Challenges Completed!

TA DA!!!!

I scrapbooked all day yesterday and I think I did something like 10 layouts.

I'm in Florida and don't want to spend another beautiful day inside especially since my 30 Day Bikram Yoga Challenge is officially over and I'm giving myself a few days off from Hot Yoga.

 

Today, I'd like to finish the challenges but dont' want to spend all day doing it so I'm now working on a layout that will satisfy the BCP Creative Crop Challenges:

Challenge #3 Reflection Mirrors (photos are taken in mirrors with iphone)

Challenge # 5 Use iphone photos - yep all three photos even show the actual iphone

Challenge #6: I'll be using the sketch provided.

Challenge #7: I stuck with the warm colors on the wheel: pink & red, orange and yellow

 

PLUS I'm going to satisfy some of the Two Peas Challenges too:

Challenge #5 Bright Colors: check.

Challenge #6 Confetti: I used a circle punch and a border bunch for the smaller circles

Challenge #7 Polaroids: I cut my iphone photos to look like old school Polaroids which is really how I used to take pictures about 30 years ago.

Challenge #9 Chevrons: I used a black text patterened paper to create the chevron stripe and I think it adds to the notion of a phone line / connection.

OK, that should get me almost finished!

 

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Two Peas In A Bucket National Scrapbooking Day 2012: Color Challenge

 

Happy National Scrapbooking Day - here's my layout #4 or 5.

I'm planning to make a whole bunch today and there are lots of challenges to check out online.  Fun Stuff for a scrapbooker like me - and chances are you too if you are reading this blog.

I'll post the links as I go and a few posts down there is a link roundup for all the NSD online festivities.

What a fun challenge over at Two Peas in A Bucket - Click on this to check it out.

I used my Sizzix and Quickutz dies to make all those fun circles and stars to mimic the nine yellow flowers on the pillow.

 

PS. I'm pretty sure my family owned that suitcase back in the 70s.

One Basic Sketch -> Five Scrapbook Layouts

One basic scrapbook sketch -> Five Scrapbook Pages In Progress:

Hello Scrapbookers!  I'm back from my scrapbooking hiatus!

I've been busy living life and making memories.  Last weekend I walked over six hours on Treasure Island Beach in the sand in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life; my team raised over $3,000.00!  Go Team & A Big Thank You to all of our sponsors!

 

It is fine with me when life gets busy and scrapbooking gets put on the back-burner; but there comes a point when I feel the need to put scrapbooking back into my daily routine.  It  has been challenging since along with working, being a mom, and the cancer walk; I'm halfway through a Bikram Yoga 30 day challenge.  Bikram Yoga class is 90 minutes, but getting there, doing the class and recovering from the class takes more like 2.5 hours.  So my scrapbooking and blogging time has been limited lately, I needed a jumpstart.  This is what inspired me:

 

Layouts by Celine Navarro of The Green Frog Studio:  In order to make the most of my scrapbooking time, last night I took a basic page concept from Celine Navarro and used it to start 5 pages of my own.  Celine's pages have a common feature in that she uses one large horizontally oriented photo so I went with that concept.  I went through my digital images and picked five and printed them out so that they were 8.5 wide.  Then I picked the top and bottom patterened paper.  I adhered everything together with a glue stick and machine stitching.  I also added the titles.  Later I will add the embellishments and journaling.  Here is what they look like so far:

Having these pages "half-baked" will make it easy to finish them.   Having one concept to apply to several pages makes it easy to get several layouts started at one time.  Getting pages done satisifies my desire to do some daily scrapbooking.  I'll post the finished pages when they are done.

P.S. Yes, all of these pages use papers from the Die Cuts With a View "The Snapshot Stack" so these will be part of my series where I make 24 pages from one DCWV stack!

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DCWV "The Snapshot Stack" Layout #3 "The Book of Awesome"

This page made with the Polaroid Frames from the DCWV (Die Cuts With a View) "The Snapshot Stack" is part of my "Book of Awesome"; a 6x10 scrapbook album from American Crafts. 

I have a few of these three ring binder mini albums and have used my Brother P-Touch labeler to designate their categories: "Autobiography in Years"; "Book of Awesome"; and "Quotes I Love."  I keep these close by my scrapbooking desk so I can add pages whenever I get some inspiration for these mini books; I also keep some home made mini books, photo albums, and 9x9 albums handy for when I want to scrap in different sizes or in particular themes like travel.

 Here is my 6x10 inch page titled "3 Ski Trips 2012" with the DCWV Polaroid Frames:

I created the die cut letters with my Quickutz die cutter and a ski catalog that I picked up on one of the trips; and I glue sticked and stitched the die cut letters on the page.

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DCWV The Snapshot Stack: Page #2

I bought a Die Cuts With a View Stack recently and challenged myself to make 24 layouts from the stack since there are 24 patterns in the stack.  I am going through the stack from the top to the bottom, so this is paper and layout #2:

The paper is blue with polaroid images, it includes some glitter.  It seemed too busy for the background so I decided to cut a strip of the images as a horizontal anchoring line on the page.  The glittery cameras reminded me of our last trip to the beach, I'm always very careful to keep the sand out of my camera and the glitter on the page reminded me of sand.  I took also took a bunch of photos but none of them were totally awesome so I decided to cut some of them down and got the idea to create a grid and use some of my extra Project Life journaling spots so the photos and the cards are about 3x4 each so I could fit 8 on the page.  I then went for an alphabet for a title at the bottom and was missing some letters so decided to use the negative spaces of the letters.  I did some journaling on the cards and I'm calling it done. 

I'm trying to convince the kids to go to the beach right now; its hard to pull my son away from the computer games and my daughter away from her Barbies.  But when they are at the beach, they have a blast, getting them there is the trick.

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DCWV The Snapshot Stack Layout #1: Snapping in the Girl's Room

Hello and Welcome to Paper #1 / Layout #1 of "The Snapshot Stack" / 24 Layouts.  I'm challenging myself to use each sheet of this 48 page stack from DCWV from the craft store to make 24 layouts. 

I used the three Polaroids on the left side of the patterened paper as embellishments for my page, they also served as the theme inspiration which I interpreted literally as taking photos:

This layout is all about how I took photos of myself in the girl's room mirror during my recent trip to Colorado.  The Journaling reads: "Confessions of a Scrapbooker:  While in Colorado I did my fair share of snapping pictures of myself while in the bathroom.  I was having so much fun and felt weird asking people to take pictures of me, so every time I went to the girl’s room, I’d snap a photo of myself in the mirror after washing my hands and before heading back out onto the slopes.  Just a little secret and not nearly as bad as that old Motley Crue song that was popular when I was in high school "Smoking in the Boy’s Room"  - just a little innocent picture taking, that’s all.  Katie March 2012"

 I also added some "hidden journaling" on the back of the layout about the song "Smoking in the Boy's Room" By Motley Crue which was the inspiration for the title of this page and about my thoughts on smoking and words of advice to my kids should they ever happen upon the back of this layout, its ok if they never do, but if they are the super curious sort, then its there for them to read sometime in the future:

  Here are some more details on how I used two 12x12 sheets, cut them in half and then stitched them together to make this double page layout  and about how the page went together:
I really like using old scraps to create letters with my quickutz Studio alphabet dies, they seem trendy even though the papers I'm using are well over ten years old.

A Trip To Michaels & The Snapshot Stack DCVW Stack & a Self-Imposed Challenge

This is a kit I made a while back based on a Counterfeit Kit Club Challenge - I made the kit, I think I made some pages, but its been a while since I've done this; so I wanted to revisit the idea of a home made kit club.  This time, I wanted to take a short cut to the kit-making process.  So I came up with an idea to make an easy kit, its not earth-shattering or anything, but I haven't tried this process before. (read on)

I haven't been to Michael's Craft Store in a long time, but I got a chance to go after work tonight and The Snapsot Stack by Die Cuts with a View caught my eye.  The colors include black, white, aqua, red, lime green and yellow with some text and beige mixed in; it also includes journaling spots, triangles for banners, borders, and polaroid frames as well as some other elements that can be used as embellishments.  There are 48 papers on patterned cardstock, there is two of each pattern.  I'm going to challenge myself to make 24 layouts with this stack.  I'll add in stuff from my stash, especially my Quickutz and Sizzix die cuts, odds and ends from the Smash line, and journaling spots from Project Life  I'll post pictures as I complete them.

Tell me, do you subscribe to kit clubs, make your own kits or do you "not" do the kit thing?

 

The Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge Series Day 6: District #8 TEXTILES

 Welcome to the Hunger Games Scrapbooking Challenge from District 8: Textiles!

According to the official Hunger Games movie website (thecapitol.pn), the following jobs are offered in District 8:

• Teacher
• Factory worker
• Weaver
• Dress maker
• Designer
• Warehouse manager

So lets use these occupations and the concept of wearing uniforms be the inspiration for the scrapbooking layouts we make for this part of the challenge.

The two layouts at the very bottom relate to textiles in that the school pictures layout shows my kids wearing school uniforms and the other layout is inpsired by the recent trend in scrapbooking to use lots of patterned paper on a scrapbook layout to mimic a quilting pattern (that layout was a scraplift of a Bella Blvd. layout from CHA 2012).

Here are some more examples of my past layouts which could be categorized under the District 8 Theme:

Quick recap of how these layouts are related to the theme of textiles starting from the top left: 

1. Chevron Pattern which is very trendy in the fashion world right now.

2. My holiday outfits for Christmas 2011.

3. Scrapbook Layout using the multi-patterned papers on one page mimicing a quilt which is trendy in the scrapbooking world this season.

4. My son at school in his uniform.

5. My fashionista daughter and her love of retro clothing.

6. My daugher dressing her favorite doll who happens to be named Baby Buttons.

7.  Our Halloween 2011 costumes (or uniforms).

8. The Connection between my Daughter Allison Grace and my Grandma Grace, my grandma was a high school home ec - sewing and cooking teacher.

9. Another school uniform layout including pictures of my daughter with the same uniform but taken during different school years.

Please create a layout using the theme of textiles, uniforms, or even make a page about Project Runway; if you choose to make a page, please leave a comment with a link.

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Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Triology's District 8 specializes in textiles and has at least one factory where Peacekeeper uniforms are made. Two people from District 8, Bonnie and Twill, escaped during one of the uprisings and informed Katniss of the theory that District 13 still existed. It is implied that security is strict in 8, and the citizens are desperate for hope. District 8 was also one of the first districts to rebel, as Katniss saw on Mayor Undersee's television. In the third book, Katniss visits a hospital in District 8, which is later bombed by the Capitol. The leader of District 8, Paylor, becomes President of Panem after President Snow has died and Katniss has assassinated President Coin. Even before she became president, Paylor's soldiers were apparently loyal to her, ignoring Coin's orders when she commanded. None of District 8's Tributes are mentioned much in the 74th and 75th Hunger Games other than Peeta finished off the female tribute in the 74th Hunger Games." (source Wikipedia) 

These Days (Self Timer Family Photos) & Echo Park Patterned Paper

This layout is about how we used to go to the portrait studios at the mall to get our family photos and now we just set the self timer and get real life family photos:

A while back I got a pack of Echo Park's basics patterned paper, it has stripes and dots and basic designs in several colors and I love it.  This kind of patterned paper is the best since it is timeless.

All Caught Up with Project Life!

Here are my Project Life pages for weeks 1 through 7.5 of this year 2012.

 

I've been sort of keeping up with Project Life but there were gaps in each week.  Tonight I ordered a bunch of prints and picked them up in an hour and filled in the gaps and did a bit of journaling and I'm done.

 

I will mention that I did not include a lot of journaling in this Project Life album since I was playing catch up.  I think it is better to do the journaling everyday, however, if you didn't I think that should not be a deal breaker and I think its ok to have sparse journaling and have it be photo heavy.  Going forward, I will try to do a bit of journaling everyday or at least every couple of days so that I will have more journaling included.  But I'm glad that its done and I am doing forward with this project.

I think it is important to remember that you can start Project Life at any time and even if you've missed a bunch of weeks, you don't have to have it be continuous - it would be totally ok to have a gap.  Really, it would.  I think the important part is to not give up just because you haven't been fully committed to doing it everyday because there are going to be days - even weeks - where you fall off the Project Life wagon - its, Ok, its easy to get back in to the groove of this awesome album. 

Are you doing Project Life?  Are you keeping up?  Do you have any tips for staying caught up?  I'd love to hear all about your Project Life process.

DIY Circle Garland Scrapbook Embellishments in 5 Minutes

Scrapbook embellishments on a string were a trend at CHA 2012, I'll show you how to DIY these trendy scrapbook embellishments in five minutes. 

 

I noticed lots of circle, butterfly and other types of garlands on a string at the most recent Winter CHA 2012 from Studio Calico, Dear Lizzy, and others, take a look: 

 

These images are on my Pinterest Winter CHA 2012 Board with the hyperlinks to the sites; photo credits are #1. Studio Calico from Scrappy Jedi's blog; #2. Studio Calico hearts on a string, #3 Jennifer Larson (I think she might have made these herself); #4.Flutterbys from the Neapolitan Collection from Dear Lizzy by American Crafts; #5 & #6 Etsy shops.  Cute embellishments with lots possibilities, but I feel like these are something I can make myself and take a look at the video and these pictures - it is easy - seriously so (sew) easy.

I also have heard and seen online scrapbookers say that they love these embellishments but that they don't know how to or wouldn't want to take the time to make them.   Angie Lucas mentioned these pre-strung banners on the Paperclipping Roundtable Episode #100 CHA, Baby! at about 34:30 minutes into the show; the Paperclipping Roundtable panel talked about how the triangles, circles, or banners were pre-strung and either wrapped around the card like the ones from Studio Calico or attached to a 12x12 paper like the ones from Dear Lizzy.  Its true that these embellishments are cute and already made; but I'm here to tell you that you can make your own circle garland embellishments from your patterned paper scraps in less than five minutes.  You can!  These tools will help:

 

I am not a technique driven scrapbooker but these are so easy and fun to make, I couldn't resist. Give these embellishments on a string a try and leave a comment with a link to your project, I'd love to see what you make!  Or if you do opt to buy the new pre-made embellishments, leave a comment to let me know why.

 

 

5 Minute Video for DIY Circle Garland Embellishments for Scrapbooking, Gifting, and Birthday Parties:    

Winter CHA 2012 Scraplifting Series Wrap Up Slide Show

Scraplifting the Winter CHA 2012 Layouts helped me make a bunch of layouts over the past couple weeks:

I've been scraplifting the Winter CHA 2012 layouts for the past couple of weeks and I think I'm done now, here's a slide show of some of those layouts:

 

P.S. Its flash from Flickr, so if you need the link:  FLICKR CHA WINTER 2012 GROUP "THE KNOCK-OFFS".  If you are a scrapbooker going through a creative rut and want to do some scraplifting to recharge your creativity batteries: scraplift some of the CHA layouts and then go join the Flickr group and add your layouts - I'd love to see them.

Cheers.

CHA WINTER 2012: The Knock-Offs - #7 of the Bella Blvd. Scraplifts & Thoughts on the Creative Process & Middle Aged Mommy Sappiness & Scrapbooking as Therapy

Bella Blvd. Layout by Janna Wilson from Pinterest & The Scraplift:

 

Thoughts on the CREATIVE PROCESS:  Sometimes I like to switch up my creative process by using scraplifting, it provides boundaries and gives me a place to go so I can get layouts accomplished quickly and it provides a means of getting a little something done everyday.  Without this technique, I think that when I'm going through a creativity rut, I'd just stop scrapbooking, and the creativity muscle is like any other - it needs daily exercise.  So scraplifting gives me a way to "call it in" while I'm experiencing a creative low.  Sometimes, however, I do take a total break from scrapbooking when I'm feeling uninspired; but the scraplifting method seems more productive and gives me something to do and think about in the meantime.  My Grandfather was a painter and he'd so his own original art, but sometimes he'd copy the masters just to switch it up.  Scraplifting gives me that same sort of creative stretching.  Seeing all the new products and layouts from CHA 2012 provided some really great eye candy for this purpose.  I've been taking inspiration from CHA 2012 - specifically 7 Gypsies, Dear Lizzy and this week Bella Blvd.  I think I'm about done with my scraplifting series.  I'm ready to start fresh on something else, I'm not sure what yet, but I'll start something new starting tomorrow. 

In the meantime, here is #7 and the final layout in the "Scraplifting Bella Blvd." series:

The Scraplift:  I made the base part of the page a week or so ago and did the photos, embellishments and journaling this morning.  The original layout caught my eye since the girl in the photo looks like one of my best friends from elementary school (Katie Yerrid) and I liked the colors and it looked easy enough to scraplift.  This is a nice layout for highlighting one photo and having some creative time with your patterned papers.

The Story: It is Saturday Morning and I'm feeling a bit lonely.  My son is playing wii and wanting to go to Toys R Us (I so don't want to go there).  My husband is engrossed in the paper and HGTV.  And my daughter is off with her BFF.  I have the urge to go downtown to the Saturday Morning Market but no one wants to come.  I don't really want to go alone today.  So I find myself in my scrapbook room trying to occupy myself, knowing I could be working out or cleaning out closets or doing something more productive, but I think my daily creative time is important.  So I started out not feeling very creative but I took the base page and started anyway.  I came across this three year old photo of my daughter which was taken on a Saturday Morning on our way to to a craft fair on Corey Avenue, St. Pete Beach; back then she was only too happy to come hang out with me; now she's got her own plans many Saturday Mornings.  I know that's the natural process of things.  But still, I wish my kids thought I was more fun to hang out with - now they've always got their own ideas about what they want to do.  Gone are the days when I could just say "get in the car - lets go on wild adventure" and leave the house without a plan but end up having a day full of fun with my kids at the park or craft fair or beach or whereever.  So I'm feeling a bit middle aged - like my kids are half way through and I miss their little selves  and  all the snuggling that used to be part of my daily routine, now I have to practically beg them for a hug and never mind on the kisses, so not happening.  I guess all mothers go through this sort of feeling at one time or another but I'm feeling particularly sappy today, I'm going to indulge this feeling a bit but just for a day, tomorrow I WILL embrace a more hopeful, forward moving, productive attitude, but today, I'll lament the fact that my kids are growing up and needing me less and that I'm getting older.

SAPPINESS:  One summer while I was in college, I took summer classes at Eckerd and my roommate that summer was Yoko Yokohama, she was from Japan; Eckerd prides itself on being a very small liberal arts school and having students from all 50 states and many countries so the student body was very diverse which was really cool since there were only about 1500 students there when I was there (its my 20th year reunion coming up this spring - ahhh just one more reason to feel really like I'm getting older and time is passing more quickly than I'd like).  Anyway, Yoko was the most delightful person, she was like a puppy - all playful and fun and full of energy one minute and sleeping like a baby the next.  She was always so happy to see me (and anyone else) and she was sweet and nice and welcoming and had a excitement that was contagious.  I could really use a visit from Yoko today, I'm sure she's get me out of think funk I'm in today.  Whereever you are now Yoko, I miss you.  Ok, back to my original point.  One day, Yoko was in a funk, which was very unusual for her, and the conversation went like this:

"Ohhhh, Katie,  I'm so SAPPY today."  Yoko declared letting out a long sigh.

"Sappy?"  I asked, thinking maybe she needed to look up that word again for the correct usage, I'd never heard anyone describing themselves as feeling sappy before. 

"Yes, SAPPY.  You know, I'm feeling sad and happy all at the same time."  She answered.  

That made perfect sense, I thought.  I remember thinking that I was pretty sure that wasn't the dictionary definition of that word, but that was the best definition of it that I had ever heard.  That moment somehow burned itself into my brain and I can remember it quite perfectly, where she was sitting, our dorm room, the entire place in time, even though I have no photos of that summer or of Yoko or our rooom, I remember the whole thing perfectly.  Some moments are like that, twenty years later, that seemingly regular moment is still burned into my brain and it is a conversation I go back to when I'm feeling SAPPY, and the memory of Yoko and how happy she made me feel and how profound her words were to me that day, often times the memory helps to get me feeling more on the happy than the sad side of things.  Thank you Yoko, you definately left a forever imprint on me.

P.S. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defintion of SAPPINESS is 1. the state of being full of or smelling of sap, 2. the quality or state of being sappy: foolishness.  I like that foolish word because of Steve Jobs's speech, so I'm cool with being a bit sappy from time to time - and my Dad used to tap our maple trees for sap and used to make maple syrup and sugar candy, so I'm pretty sure we were in the state of sappiness back then; plus I miss him and all of his sappiness.

Journaling: Main journaling block:  "Saturday Morning.  2009 /2012.  These photos are from when you used to happily agree to going to the art fair with me.  Fast forward 3 years and you've got play dates with your BFF.  Missing you today.  Love Mommy."   Side tab: "Can we rewind a little?"

Supplies: Patterened Paper from American Crafts and DCWV; Fiskars Border Punch; K&Company Tag (at top and side) and other random bits of ribbon, buttons and brads.

 

Blogging:  The act of making this page helped me work out the feelings that I was feeling this morning, but the page doesn't really tell the whole story does it?  Thats ok, sometimes my feelings come out better in blog form.  When that happens and I really tell the story better in the blog entry than on the page, I just print out my blog entry and either slip it into a 8x11 page proector opposite the 12x12 layout in my 3 ringed album; or I just slip it in behind the layout; either way - the whole story is there for anyone who is interested (or not) in the future.  And I feel like I've gotten then feelings out and can clear my emotional slate and move forward.  Scrapbooking as self therapy is a good thing because it feels like play and because the process gets recorded so that when I look back at the page I can remember the process and when I write down the process on the blog and print it out, then maybe sometime in the future, it will help my daughter or hers when she's going through a SAPPY time.  Or maybe it will help a blog reader who's going through the same type of thing.  Any which way, it makes me feel better.  And I do.  Ahhh.  Maybe I'll go to that Saturday Morning Market thing on my own and enjoy a Gyro and being amongst people on this fine day.

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P.S. Thinking I'll incorporate some of my One Little Word Class (Ali Edwards / Big Picture Classes) into my weekend and take a photo safari for my word "HOPE" and probably my last year's word "AWESOME" too - I could use a little more of both of those words in my head and heart today.