Sneak Peek
February 14, 2013 in Contests
This sneak Peak is just so adorable all it can make me think of is pictures of my little ones with their Elmo doll. 
Just maybe I’ll get lucky and win it.
2012 GDS try
January 28, 2013 in Layout, Musings
I realized tonight as I was cleaning things up on my blog and staring my process of uploading all of my layouts to DST that I completely missed uploading a few layouts here to my blog. So here it goes. All of these layouts were for the GoDigital Scrapbooking Supreme Team challenge in the spring of 2012. Most of the designers do not still appear to be at GDS so I have not linked to kits. As I complete the cleaning things up around my blog I will be trying to find out if the designers have moved onto another store that I can link to.
Week 1 I had the pleasure of working with “Wishville” by Outside the Box Design Studio.
I had a little trouble with this layout’s story but I think it came out well at the end. 
I actually really, really liked my signpost that I created with the tree and the key.
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Week 2 I had the pleasure of working with the kit “Black Balloon” Debra Anderson.
This one I had at lot of fun with. I wanted to incorporate some many of the elements on the page but it just didn’t work. I think I restarted this page twice before I was really happy with the result I came up with. I’m not sure I incorporated as much of the kit as they would have liked, which is perhaps why I did not make it past this week.
My daughter had a butterfly land on her while she was outside playing and to this day she still asks to see her picture!
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Now that I believe my trip down memory lane is complete, it is late and tomorrow is our first day back for the spring semester so hubby is on his way to work way too early tomorrow morning. So now it is time for bed.
Blessings and good night!
2010 GDS Try
January 28, 2013 in Contests, Layout, Personal Reflections
I realized tonight as I was cleaning things up on my blog and staring my process of uploading all of my layouts to DST that I completely missed uploading a few layouts here to my blog. So here it goes. All of these layouts were for the GoDigital Scrapbooking Supreme Team challenge in the fall of 2010. Most of the designers do not still appear to be at GDS so I have not linked to kits. As I complete the cleaning things up around my blog I will be trying to find out if the designers have moved onto another store that I can link to.
Week 1 we had the pleasure of using “What A Hoot” by Tricia Curtis Designs. I LOVED the owls then and I still do. Not sure what it is with me and owls.
This is the layout I created. My girls love running around a tree we have in our yard 
and I wanted to give my layout movement and I think I achieved that well with the circular framing and having the pictures actually show the different angles.
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Week 2 we had the pleasure of working with “Winter Dreaming” by Studio4 Designworks.
This is the layout I created using my favorite inspirations, my girls! 
My three girls have had long enough hair to have the pig tails like Cindy Lou Who. My first daughter was actually nicknamed that by her physical therapist whenever I put her hair in pig tails which was quite a bit. It helped keep her hair out of her face as we worked her hard on her physical therapy.
So I took part of the paper giving it the angle of the tree, and then used pictures of my girls as ornaments on the tree. The great part is I was even able to coordinate the ornament frames to match their favorite colors.
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The third week is one when I didn’t make it past. But I still had the pleasure of creating with the kit “Dainty” by HK Designs.
This one I had a much harder time coming up with my muse. 
I finally came up with this layout but as I uploaded I told my husband it wasn’t going to be good enough. I just couldn’t feel it as much. That is the hard part when you are applying to be a CT person and scrap the way I do with stories first.
This picture though is precious to me as it is a picture of a friend of ours daughter holding our first daughter. Z knew there was something different about Miss Angela and she wanted to be near her the entire time she was at the house. Our friends live in Germany which made it very hard for Miss Z when Angela passed.
Hope you enjoyed my blast from the past.
Updating…
January 27, 2013 in Personal Reflections
I’m updating the site, trying to fix the links that broke to pictures when the site had problems. I’m also taking the opportunity to clean things up a bit, for example fix my categories for some posts. Since anyone that I have CT’d for has retired it hadn’t felt like a big push. There has been so much to focus on besides scrapbooking.
But I know that I need to. I need to focus on my scrapbooking for my sanity. I need that time, that therapy.
There are also a few people that I would love to work with having the CT calls right now.
- Simply Tiffany
- Leaving a Legacy Designs
- and there are others that the deadline has passed because I simply wasn’t ready to try.
I do not think I stand a chance this time either. But I have to try.
First step was updating. So I’ve at least gotten all the posts updated. I wanted to get this crossed off my list. This way even if I do not get a new CT gig, at least I’m up to date when the Lord decides its time.
Finding Joy in the Pain
December 18, 2012 in Personal Reflections
This time of year is a hard time of year for me for many reasons.
This past weeks events cannot be ignored (photo from iStockphoto), and should not be, but out of defense of my own sometimes fragile state of mind at this time of year I’m trying to watch what I click on, what I allow on TV on the radio. I’m not ready to handle the facts yet. It is time to mourn.
Yet Christmas is almost here. The third candle of advent has been lit, the candle of joy. We did not make it to church. We are still trying to find where to attend and honestly we still have so little time as a family that we treasure any time that we are together even if it is just cuddling in on a Sunday morning. Perhaps I shouldn’t be advertising that. But for us this is our life right now.
An old friend of mine from camp has become a pastor and he reflected on the past week’s events in the light of the tradition of advent. http://theosnob.blogspot.com/2012/12/finding-joy.html
A new friend shared his sermon as well. http://streetpastor.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/the-dark-side-of-joy/
I’m still trying to process. I’m holding my children extra tight. I mourn at this time of year anyways since losing Miss Angela. But I mourn for the parents who have now joined our “club” and are now mourning their little ones.
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