30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - September 8th

She is ... Me Mini Album

Wordless Wednesday

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - September 7th

Currents

The original idea for this weekly post came from life love paper .


Thought I'd try it out as well. So here goes:

listening: All I Want by The Violent Femmes

eating: nothing yet

drinking: a wonderful cup of hot black coffee

wearing: track pants & t-shirt

feeling: sleepy

weather: beautiful sunshine

wanting: the girls to have an awesome first day at school

needing: to have a nap

thinking: about my dad I miss him so much

enjoying: some quiet time on the computer to blog & scrapbook

wondering: what kind of day the girls are going to have
 

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - September 6th

Mental Health Monday

This past month I have really blown off therapy and DBT classses due to vacations and just being too tired. Now that fall is here and school is starting tomorrow I am hoping to set up a normal schedule. A normal daily routine that will have me attending therapy and classes routinely. I guess I am hiding from it a bit - it's getting personal now and is really making look deep inside as to why I do the things I do. Sometimes taking a real honest look inside like that really hurts. I've learned quite a lot from DBT already, I just need to keep remindindg myself that the more I go the more I will understand the principals behind it and learn the skills that I can then use when I need to regulate my emotions. My anxiety levels have been at an all-time high this past week and I am back to not sleeping. I am so frustrated. I recieved a response to my ODSP application  (Ontario Disability Support Program) and I was turned down. I have until October 2nd, 2011 to submit further documentation of my mental illness and appeal the decision.

You can join along with the Monday Maddness Blog Hop by visiting the WordsInSync blog.

{weekly intention}

According to Andrea from ABC Creativity :

'Hello Monday Morning! A fresh week. A fresh start. Everything is wide open. Everything is possible.

Before you jump right into your week, take a few minutes to choose where you want to focus your energy this week, to think about what direction you want to be moving in.

Setting a weekly intention is taking some time to pave the way for success, joy and dreams come true to find you throughout the week.

This is not about setting goals or creating to-do lists and working your tail off to achieve them. This is about taking some time to be quiet and still and ask “What do I need this week?” and setting an intention from there to align yourself with that.

Then the real work is to remember your intention and align with it throughout the week.'

My intention this week is to start the school year off for the kids with a nice clean house and a solid daily routine. Something we can follow throughout the year and make the busy times a little easier. I want to develop a good routine, a pattern for our days that brings some normalcy to them.

My Best Shot Monday

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - September 5th

Thankful Mini Album

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - Sept 4th

Beautiful Sunday

Color Combos Galore #207

You can play along with Color Combos Galore on their blog.  The colors for Challenge #207 are: Brown Nosed Professor, I Lilac Reading, Words on White & I Red A Lot. 

Here is the layout I came up with for this color combination.

Straight Out Of The Camera Saturday (SOOC)

My Favorite Things Saturday

One of my favorite things is seeing this view when I walk into Canada's Wonderland. 

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - September 3rd

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - September 2nd

30 Days Of Lists September 2011 - Sept 1st

Thursday Thirteen : Projects

You can participate with the Thursday Thirteen Meme on their blog. Here's my Thursday Thirteen for this week:

13 Projects I Am Working On

1. Amber's scrapbook
2. Emily's scrapbook
3. my scrapbook
4. In Loving Memory scrapbook in honour of my dad
5. She is ... Me mini album
6. Snapshots mini album
7. Thankful mini album
8. 30 Days of Lists (September 2011)
9. butterfly cross-stitch
10. Color Combos Galore (Aug & Sept challenges)
11. Creative Therapy album
12. It's All About Me mini class
13. Creativity 101

Before & After Thursday

You can join along with Before & After at the Pixel Perfect Blog . For this challenge you take a straight out of the camera shot (SOOC) and then you show the same photo only edited. I like to use the SOOC shot I posted for SOOC Saturday. For this week's edit I cropped the photo and then used an action called Lord Of The Rings Return Of The King from the Artistic Actions V2 set.

Team Up Thursday : Circles

You can play along with Team Up Thursday on the Mental Inventory blog and you can see the Flickr album here.


I am teamed up with the oh so talented Kyla from The Kreative Life. The theme we chose for this week's assignment was circles. Kyla's photo is on the left and mine on the right. I know my shot is not a "typical" circle shot, but as soon as I saw this swing go around and around and around, I just couldn't get the image of it doing circles out of my head. I couldn't get excited about any other type of shot after that lol.

I really enjoy doing this project with Kyla. It helps me to get out there practicing and taking pictures that I maybe normally wouldn't.