Bird Watcher

These are a few of my favorite things.

It looks like a mess, but really it's a pile of all of my favorite things to scrap with. Thickers, ghost shapes, word sickers, bling ...... you get the point. Some how I managed to get four pages done last week, despite a full rehearsal schedule and three performances. I'm really not sure how I did it considering I am a notoriously slow scrapper. Anyway dropped them off at Scrap Chic on Saturday, so I'll post pictures later on this week. Well I better go clean up my desk now, so that i can start all over again.

What's your style?

Now don't call the Scrapbook Police on me, but for a while I was really getting bored with scrapbooking. (I'll wait a moment for you to recover.) I just felt like my pages were all kind of the same. I use 2 or 3 pieces of patterned paper, 3 or 5 embellishments, a title and some journaling. It all just felt blah. I would see all these pages that were a wonderful hodge podge of stuff and think "Why don't I do that?". I tried a few times, but just didn't like it. Don't get me wrong, I like it just fine when other people do it, just not when it do it. Well like I said, I was bored. So for a while I just didn't scrapbook unless I was hanging out with my friends or I had a DT assignment. Even then I didn't do much. Then one day a few weeks ago I was going through my books and reorganizing. Right then I realized that's my style. I am clean lines with a few embellies. That's it. Even when I use of embellies or a lot of patterned paper, I put them into a definite pattern or shape. You know what? That's ok because that is what I like. I started scrapbooking again and embraced what I now know is my style. I'll still try new things and maybe over time my style will evolve into something else. But for right now I am clean lines with a few embellies and that's ok.

Mom With A Cam

I am officially now a mom with a cam as my friend Shannen likes to call us. Anyway I have to say that the XTi really does take better pictures even if all you ever use is full automatic. Although I have ventured out and am now learning how to use those manual settings. Anway I finally had a day off the Saturday before last, so we went to the Zoo. The kids had an absolute blast, plus I got some really great photos. In the next few weeks Brenden and I will be making a Zoo book that we can read to Logan. The shot on this page is probably one of my absolute favorites right now. I'll be sending it off to Scrap Chic later this week, so I wanted to share it before I did. Gotta go now, I have rehearsal for Sleeping Beauty in a couple of hours.