Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Going Solo album title page - Maria


I've started a new album! This is the title page. This whole album will be about the road trip I took in the summer of 1997 from Utah through Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Canada - by myself!! I'm so glad that I took the opportunity to go.

More to come . . .

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Layout about udders - Maria



This is a layout I've been wanting to do for a long time, but my memorabilia storage was so messed up that I didn't know where things were. (Side note: organization REALLY is key to being able to create!) When I ran across these papers last week, I knew this was the first layout I wanted to do.

You can click on the picture to see a bigger image, but here's what the journaling says:

"I don’t remember exactly how it started, but sometime in 2005 Colin developed a strong and passionate interest in cows with udders (if they didn’t have udders, he wasn’t interested). He wanted to see cows in real life and drawings of cows; he started to collect his own cows; and one of his greatest ambitions was to milk a cow (happily fulfilled at Wheeler Farm while on vacation to Utah). He always asked me to draw pictures of cows for him, and then he’d draw his own. He was often content just drawing udders. He’d draw them over and over again.

One of the funniest moments brought about by this fixation was when he came home from his Primary class with a sheet of paper that was supposed to be about how he could show love for others. He thought the teacher had said “udders,” and happily drew udders all over the page! His teacher and I both got a pretty good laugh out of that. How I love my silly boy!"

Scrap Support - revisited!!

Okay, life got busy and we all slowed down on our scrapbooking. Recently, I talked with my sister about wanting to create at least once a week, and was thinking about how much accountability helps - and remembered this blog. Rather than posting a challenge, though, it will now be a place just to show what you have created.

If you want to participate, just post your goal of how often you want to scrapbook (one layout a week, a day, a month . . .) and then post pictures of your finished layouts/pages here! If anyone happens across this that isn't already listed as an author, just contact me and I can add you as one if you want to join in.

Here's to creating! (: