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A Little Bit of Fun

Happy Tuesday! It's my favorite time of year and I finally have a few stolen moments to myself. So I made a layout! So happy!! I feel like it's been ages. And it took my awhile to find my footing. I started with a sketch I made from a layout I liked, and then it became nothing like it. Not in color, design, or feel. But it did let me get started. And that was helpful!

Here is the result. Hope you like it and I hope it helps you start a layout, too!

My Ladies

This photo just made me so happy that I wanted it to rise all the way to the top. And so it did! Leaving a trail of loveliness behind it. Happiness on a page. In every way.

Thank you for stopping by! So glad to share with you!!!

Back in the saddle

I can't quite find the right words today, so instead I'll just leave you with a layout. It took me hours to get it not quite right. But hopefully it will grow on me.

It's Been Too Long

Hello! It has been many months. I spent several months racing through life to avoid having to grieve. And then sat down and let it all out. And now I am finding my way back into the life that I love. Which includes the hobby that I love. Tonight I got brave enough to put together a page. Just one. Not fancy. Or showy. Or even very inspiring. But it is completed. And puts a piece of my puzzle back in place. 

Celebrate with me?

It's Been Too Long

Hello! It has been many months. I spent several months racing through life to avoid having to grieve. And then sat down and let it all out. And now I am finding my way back into the life that I love. Which includes the hobby that I love. Tonight I got brave enough to put together a page. Just one. Not fancy. Or showy. Or even very inspiring. But it is completed. And puts a piece of my puzzle back in place. 

Celebrate with me?

grateful for sisters

This week is all about gratitude. Taking a moment away from holiday madness to note a few things that make us happy. Today I documented my girls. They have a special bond. I often get asked if they are twins because they are so tightly knit. Love them. So much. My prayer is that they will always remain close. 

How about you? Might you take a moment to put a page together? I hope you will find a few stolen moments!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

grateful for electricity

Thank you for your kind words yesterday. ♥

This month I have been focusing on gratitude as a matter of staying positive and engaged. I thought perhaps for the rest of the month I could create pages around those things for which I am grateful. Today's project was electricity. And how best to recognize it than to document a day without it.

September. Hot. Humid. And on this day, without electricity. So no lights. And no air conditioning. Yikes! The older I get, the more I wonder how we lived without air forever. And let's not even discuss not having my computer without electricity... EGAD! The horror! ☺

Happy grateful day!

Moments

I lost my father to cancer two weeks ago. Last week I traveled home for the funeral. While I stood in the receiving line both at the viewing and prior to the funeral, I wanted so much to be behind the camera. (Hiding and) capturing. There were so many moments of things both tender and raw that I wanted to shoot so that I might replay them later when I am more still. Small movements, sadness that showed and ran away, the kindness of old friends and family. I wanted to capture the sun at the cemetary. The brisk southern Alberta wind through the petals on the coffin spray. The beautiful shoes sliding into the dirt at the gravesite, much to no one's care. The grandkids holding hands. The soft sympathy in faces of my youth lined with years that have passed without my noticing. Words cannot capture the sadness I saw. Of men grasping to understand. Of sisters tearful and brave. I wanted to preserve hugs that clung to one another. And still faces with falling tears. There were so many things that will fade with time and memory.

I did take one photo. We were leaving the family room, proceeding into the chapel. My brother, always the stoic, reached out and put his arm around my tiny mom. I couldn't help but take a photo. It will be the one picture that will have to sum up the day. And hopefully when I look at it, I can always remember all the other pictures that live just in my memory.

Phone it in Friday!

It's Friday! But that doesn't mean we stop scrapbooking! No, but it does mean that after a long week we might be a little tired. So we are going to take some of the guess work out of where to start. Open your phone, go to the first photo on it, email it to yourself, and get started! 

We interrupt this programming for a public service announcement
If you have not downloaded or backed up the photos on your phones lately, please do so now. You won't regret it!
And now, back to our show...

My first photo is one from June. (Guess it's time for me to back up my pictures, too!) I took it from the tent first thing in the morning on a camping weekend. I really love the angle and all the ambiance. So I decided to keep it big so you could see the details. It's a bit old school in design, but I really just wanted the memories recorded. And I sort of like how it turned out.

 

How about you? Will you join me in making a layout from a random photo off your phone? I would love to see them if you do!

Have a great weekend!

Oh, the Leaves

Do you have times when you notice your surroundings more than others? For me, it's autumn. Here the skies are bluer than any other time of the year. And the trees. The colors are magnificent. And last. When I lived in Utah, the colors seemed to change in a weekend, and then the leaves would fall before the next weekend came. But here, the colors change slowly, and the leaves can stay for a month. It is remarkable.

If there is something magical going on around you, might you share it with me? I would love to see it!

Thank you for stopping by!