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I created the frame for this photo of Gwen years ago. It was shortly after I discovered Scrapperlicious's Blog and she had showcased how to make your own frames. The paper started out as a light minty green and this was what I came up with. I created it specifically for this photo and then took a really long time to get it into a layout. Gwen used to love dressing up as a Fairy Princess and this is just one of the days she was holding court. She was always so cute when she played fairies. She would call me the Queen since I was her mom and mom's of Princesses are Queens! Gwen helped me with the stickles on this layout and picking the flower to make her top from.


I used Pencil Lines sketch #122 and will enter it into Method Playgrounds Challenge #39. The 5+ paper companies I used are Bo Bunny for the background, Basic Grey for the pink lacy paper, My Minds Eye for the green/cream flowery paper, Fancy Pants for the greenish blue paper behind the photo, Cosmo Cricket for the large flower at the top and Die Cuts With a View for the circles along the left side.

What a Meh Day

I started this blog as a place to keep my thoughts but since starting it, my thoughts don't want to come out. Maybe it's a coincidence that life seems so busy lately that I hardly have time to think. Work is busy and bleh. I get home and am so exhausted I just want to veg out. My grandmother is ill and has been hospitalized. My car is dead and I'm having a hard time finding a new one. These are some of the things that seem to be consuming my life lately. I haven't felt very creative lately, either. Maybe I need to get offline for awhile and just breathe. Or maybe I need to visit someone who can help me reset my inner peace... cuz it's not so peaceful these days.

How do you recharge when you haven't the energy to do anything at all?

I'm a Maniac!!

Of the scrapping sort that is. While I've been slacking in my blogging I've been catching up on scrapbooking. Here are some of latest. I have 3 more I finished at a crop yesterday but I don't have photos of those yet. I'll try to get those up later this week :o)

First is a layout of my son when he was 18 mo. old. This is one of my favorite pictures of him and it's not even a very good photo. I just love how the sun caught his face and he's smiling so sweetly :o)


This is a layout of my daughter last summer. She was having a water-gun fight with my son and some neighborhood kids. When she saw me with the camera, she stopped to pose for me :o)


This is a layout of my love :o) I started this as a just because I don't scrap him enough sort of layout. I have used this photo before but it's my favorite recent photo of him so I just can't help myself!


This is a layout of some London architecture. I was playing around with B&W and color photos and this is what I came up with. Because all the photos were very vertically tall, I wanted to keep the pics tall and thin. I'm not sure I'm done with this one so if you have any suggestions, please let me know!


I made Hats of Character to show off the variety of hats my son loves. He has collected them for years and the more unique the better. This is just a sampling :o)


The Desires layout was made for a Cosmo Cricket challenge to post goals for the coming year. So, I captured a few of my desires here :o)


I love love love this photo of Gwendolyn. We had been playing in the yard and she flopped to the ground just in time for this photo.


That's it for now :o) Thanks for looking!