3 Days Snowbound

Hooray! 3 days snowbound. I'm not complaining. Our office was closed Monday and Tuesday. That gave me one day to clean the house and one day to scrap. Here's a couple of layouts I worked on. I started the Monster pages last year. I decided to tweek them and here's what I ended up with. I fell in love with this Jillibean Monster paper. It was perfect for these photos. Please excuse the terrible photos of the layouts.

I know it probably makes some scrappers cringe to see I'm just now working on 2009 Christmas pages, but hey, that's how it is. I really had fun using the Scoreboard to make the rosettes.

Here's a detail of the rosettes:

7 months later I'm back. Having been much too busy, and pretty much uninspired, I decided to redesign this blog. After all, it is a new year and with that is supposed to come renewal. Ok, we'll see. My goal is to create more and post more. Happy New Year everyone.

That Nagging Struggle

Over and over again I face this struggle of not having time to do everything I want to do. I am facing it again today. I'm not talking about the daily grind of work/laundry/grocery/etc., those commitments that we all have to do. The things I feel I don't have time to do are things I want to do to fuel my creativity. I want to take my camera and dance along the edge of seeing things a different way. I want to put my hands on all the fabulous colors and textures of papers and fabrics and create something phenomenal. Maybe I need to try harder to find the joy in doing the daily grind and look closer to try and find something that I must be overlooking. Am I being selfish?

There is nothing like it.

At my house a clothesline is essential. We use it year round. If it's not raining or snowing there is usually something hanging on the line. After all, nothing feels as good on clean, fresh showered skin or smells as good as sheets and towels that have danced in the breeze and been kissed by the sun.

WTH?????

The photos above are a few of the interesting things we have seen on the motorcycle rides over the last few years. It just leaves one wondering "WTH???"

Standing in the doorway...

Finally, I have straightened up my scraproom. I love standing in the doorway and feeling it draw me in. This is my retreat, a peaceful place that is part of me. There are no secrets here. I create something honest and exactly how I feel. It might not be what anyone else would want a scraproom to be, but it feels good to me. I sit down to create, put my beach playlist on my iPod and I am taken away to contentment.

Renewal

I'm thankful for spring this year. I finally feel renewal. After being numb for so long, I feel a wonderful sense of starting again. It feels like waking up. It's sort of like the feeling of traveling all night and still being on the road when the sun comes up. Yes, that's it! I feel like the sun is coming up. Things seem new and fresh. I want this excitement to stay.