I LOVE LISA!!!!

And no I don't mean myself! I just got the second of Lisa's fab kits and they so rock! It takes me no time at all to scrapbook when I use her kits. It usually takes me forever to do a page, so maybe my problem is I think to much ( ha!). Anyways, here it is.

I know I haven't posted in a long time, but those of you who know me know my 6 month old laptop recently went kaplooie. So I am not happy and our old computer is slow and ancient! But I will try to be better, promise!

What the heck happened?

So yesterday I picked up Lisa's kit from TM and took it home and immediatly got to work! Loved it! So not colors or patterns I would normally use, but I was inspired, which I think was Lisa's point. So I finished the layout in record time, usually it takes me days of thinking and pondering and revising before I finally finish a layout, but this was so awesome, so many choices already made for me. Did I mention I LOVED IT? lol Anyways, here is the final product.

That's my friend Cindy, but everyone calls her Cyn, and on MSN and other interent places she calls herself Cynful. Anyways I have had this photo for a few months but wasn't sure what to do with it. This so rocked!

2008?

Okay so 2008 has arrived. I have no resolutions, or at least no new ones. The basics still apply, eat better, lose weight, generally be a better person, try not to be a slacker in numerous different areas, yadda yadda. The same things I try to reaffirm on a daily basis, to varying degrees of success. But what can you do but keep trying? Anyways, I guess one new thing I would like to add is to scrap more. I am in such a rut lately, it not only takes me forever to get started but when I do it seems all my pages look the same. I am having issues with teal and pink right now. Everytime I try to change to a different color, they sneak up and take over my page! Here is my latest effort, see what I mean?

WOO HOO!

So while I think I have somewhat embraced the computer/blog/facebook electronic mania, I don't think there is any way I could ever become a digital scrapbooker. Not only would I probably toss my computer out the window at some point, I love the whole creative process of being a " paper " scrapbooker. I love printing my photos and shopping for supplies and laying out absolutely everything I have that may or may not go with the page I am working on until I find the perfect thing to go with it. I LOVE going scrapping with my friends, sometimes it seems like I talk more than scrap, but love it anyways. Don't think I could ever give it up to sit at my computer by myself. But that's just me, I know there are plenty of digital scrapbooker's out there, and I am totally jealous sometimes of the wonderful pages they make. I just know I couldn't do it. Anyways, here are a few of my more recent pages, thanks to Lisa for the title!

So now that I have mastered adding video to my blog, you are all going to be subjected to little doses of my children over and over again. Aren't you lucky?

Suprise!

This is what happens when a 5 year old gets a hold of your camera!

Back to reality

So, I just got back from Winnipeg. I went for a quick visit, a break, a mini holiday just for me. And it was fun, I hung out with my girls, my best bud Cyn, my family and that was great. Cyn and I went out dancing and drinking, got a little disorderly. It was like a flashback to what my life was like before. Before I met Barry, before I had kids, before I moved away. I think about that time in my life all the time, and I thought I was really missing it. Turns out now that I basically went back to that time, it wasn't so great. Yeah I did have alot of fun, but it also made me realize how much I have now. Awesome husband, who yes gets on my nerves sometimes, but awesome none the less, beautiful kids, who while rambunctious and loud remind me how amazing life can be when you let go of all the crap. Yes I know we all have days where we feel like we should have or be doing more - maybe it's just me - but hopfully now I will have more days where I realize how much I do have and not focus so much on what I thinkis missing.
Here's hoping.