Thoughtful Friday

One Little Word # 43 : Living

Effer Dare #9

Effer Dare #9 is Sad - you can check out the inspiration here . Here's the page I created.

Wordless Wednesday

Color Combos Galore #110

The color combos galore #10 was posted the other day. Here are this weeks colors:

And here is the layout I came up with:

Some layouts ...

The cutest little conversation...

I just overheard the cutest little conversation while the girls were in their room being made to clean it. It went like this:

Emily - Amber, can you get me that laundry hamper over there I don't want to walk over this pig die to get to it.
Amber - Pig die? you mean pig sty mom says pig sty.
Emily - what's a sty?
Amber - I don't know.

It was the cutest I couldn't help but giggle listening outside their door. I guess they are listening to me when I freak out about the condition of their room. HeHe. Maybe one day instead of just listening it'll one day sink in for them.

Friday Fill-Ins

1. Give me coffe and I'll be happy.

2. Whenever I get hugs from the girls my heart aches with how much I love them.

3. I wish I was good with money.

4. Weinerschnitzel was the last thing I ate that was utterly delicious.

5. To live in this world you have to be strong.

6. Other than this one, A Life Unrehearsed Volume Two by my friend BonnieRose is the last blog I commented on.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I am looking forward to watching a movie, tomorrow my plans include scrapbooking, and Sunday I want to clean and do laundry!

Thoughtful Friday

Wordless Wednesday

Creative Therapy Catalyst #49

Catalyst #49 over on the Creative Therapy Blog is to Pick a photo that brings up some emotions and create your art around it. Here's my page:

One Little Word : FUN

Word #45 over on the One Little Word blog is Fun. Here's my page.

Effer Dare #8

I completed Dare 8 over on the Dares blog. The challenge was to scrap everyday. Here's what I came up with:

Our Family Day Weekend

We had the most wonderful three day weekend. We not only celebrated family day on Monday, but the whole weekend long. It was so much fun to just hang out with the girls and have fun. We started Friday night with Amber's 1st annual valentines pyjama party. She planned the whole thing and wouldn't let Emily and I in the living room while she set it up. We played games and read a book together. It was so cute. She even wrote a little speech welcoming us to the event. Saturday was spent hanging out with Nana and Poppa, skating and going out for dinner for Valentines Day. Then Emily planned her idea of an evening. We drew pictures, read a story and played a game. Sunday we went skating, went out for brunch and then went into the city to see a movie with Grandpa Wayne. And then Monday we went out for lunch and swimming with Nana. It was so much fun watching the girls in the water again. They are getting more and more confident in the water. I really enjoyed the whole weekend. You know, it seems I am getting better and better at trying to just relax and have fun with the girls instead of always worrying.

Beautiful Sunday 16/02/08

Thoughtful Friday

2 Peas Friday Blogger Challenge

Today's challenge question: What is one thing you feel you do best in this hobby?

When I think about scrapbooking there are so many different things I think of.
I think of the feelings I have inside when I create.
I think of my excitement at being able to document my girls lives.
I think of my abilities to really share myself on the pages I create all about me.
I think of the inspiration I get from color.
I think of the excitement the girls get looking at pages about themselves.
I think of my love for journaling.
I think of the fun I've had learning how to digital scrapbook.
I think of my love of Photoshop.
I think of my love of taking pictures.
I think of the fun I have completing scrapbooking challenges from my favorite blogs.

The think I think I do best in this hobby is that I really share myself on my pages.
I love to journal.
I journal straight from the heart.
I journal what's really on my mind.
I journal about the good and the bad.
I journal so that my girls will remember the stories behind the photographs.
I journal so people who see my pages can know the real me.

Color Combos Galore

I have been having lots of fun playing with the color combos from the Color Combos Galore Blog.

Creative Therapy Catalyst #48

This week's Catalyst from the Creative Therapy blog is: Create art around a secret you've been keeping (hidden journaling is fine.) So here's my piece:

All About You in 52

I came accross these challenges over at Deby's Dare. It is called All About You in 52 - each prompt is a new question to help you create pages about yourself. Here's my first 5 pages:
Question #1: Who Influenced your life the most?





















Question #2: What did you want to be when you grew up?





















Question #3: If you could have changed one thing about yourslef, what would it have been?




















Question #4: What 7 decisions change dthe course of your life?




















Question #5: Whose life have you influenced outside your immediate family?

Friday Fill-Ins

Questions courtesy of YellowRose this week; thanks, friend! And...here we go!

1. Please don't tell me what to do.

2. Can you please let me sleep in in the morning?

3. The color red makes me want to hug someone!

4. I have a craving for weinerschnitzel from My Place Restaurant.

5. If my life had a pause button, I'd pause it before my panic attacks started.

6. Eyes are the windows to a person's true being.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxing, tomorrow my plans include sleeping in and Sunday, I want to go to church!

Some more layouts...

What's in my head this morning...

I am feeling very stressed today. Like I can't do anything right and like I'm trying to keep my head above the water stuck in a current in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. I keep thinking that as I get older things will get easier, that I'll be able to manage things so much better. Feels like the older I get the more out of control everything around me gets. I have so much I need to gain control of, so much I need to figure out and sort out. Don't know where to start or how to follow through with anything. Feels like I am so weak. Why can't I be the woman I want and achieve the things I want? Why can't I be stronger? I have turned into someone I never wanted to be - someone I am not proud of, but how do I change? Where do I begin? My girls deserve so much more. I need to get it together. For them. I need to give them so much more. They deserve so much more.

Some Digital Layouts

Update

Wow, does it ever feel nice to be sitting here with my cup of coffee this morning checking email, going on facebook and updating my blog. I sure have missed having the internet. Well actually I've mostly missed the form of communication that the internet provides. My last few posts left a lot of you wondering what was going on in my life and if we are all ok. I can tell you now that we are all going to be fine. I don't really want to discuss on my public blog what happened with our family - all I can say is that it really shook all of us up. Things are improving though and are slowly getting back to normal. I am seeing my kids happier and happier each day. It really has been a tough couple of months but I am sure we are all stronger because of it or at least we will be someday. The kids are having lots of fun lately, we've been spending some great family times together, skating, going to the movies, playing games - just having fun. They are getting so big and maturing so much each day. Seems like my time with them is just flying by. I have been doing lots and lots of digital scrapbook pages and will be posting some for you all to see (I think I did 68 pages in January - an all time record for me.)

I'm Back!!!!

Hi all - I am back to the world on internet and blissful mornings with my cup of coffee. Just thought I'd send out a little hello. I will update more a little later on how we're all doing here.