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greetings. i am running behind in my journal. this was a midweek spark about what you are suprised to find in your world. mine is my cat, belle. she is the first cat ive been owed by in over 25 years. my allergies act up around cats normally but belle is a sphynx and pretty close to hairless. she feels like a warm fuzzy peach. i dont have human children but belle is happy to be my baby and lets me carry her around. shes my little angel. she will pop up more in this journal since i have lots to say about her. i just totally played with this page i didnt think about it just did it. i used several distress ink pads on the background and blended with tissue. the little belle head is just card stock cut out and glued. i used magazine words to describe belle and the lips are from a magazine too. the picture in the right cornor is of belle and i just added a freeform heart. i used some word stamps in my journal part. this was fun. im not crazy about the journal part because i normally like to think for a while what im going to write but this time i just did it. i had to fight the temptation to redo it. thanks for looking.

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-Rachelle

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Rather than having a “place” to be, mine is more a time of day. After a busy day, and the kids are asleep, the evening is MY time. I love the quiet. This is the time of day that I can go inside myself and actually think. I used bright acrylic paints to depict my busy, chaotic day, and the black to symbolize the quiet night. The foam stamps are Making Memories, and a white pen for the journaling. Thanks for looking!

*Sorry i goofed, forgot to add the picture… my page is directly above . thanks!

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Please don’t flame me but I dn’t like Martha Stewart and my weekend SPARK from awhile ago is about how I boght a copy of Martha Stewart living and didn’t like it. I went digital with it just because I thought it would be easier.

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When I received the prompt for wheels, I started to sing my daughter’s favorite song. It’s sort of like a reflext these days, singing this song about an assortment of animal and human passengers that are quite vocal.

This page very much represents my life now – how so much of my energy, my time, my love, my joy revolves around my daughter.

Thanks for looking.

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Following the prompt, I got some inspiration from Eliza Badurina in creating my “house”.

This is the week that God showed up for me. The quote by St. Augustine just kept popping into my head when I thought of “Home” and “going Home”.

Augustine says, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord. And our hearts are restless until they find their rest (home) in You.

Dorothy from Oz visited me too. She says, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my OWN BACKYARD. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.

The photo is me on my 50th birthday, almost two years ago now. I have no techniques to share as I let PaperWerx papers do all the cool stuff for me. Well, I did use my incredible black marker from American Crafts to “stain-glass” my page.

Thanks for looking, Jane Swanson

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My latest entry. I love my life… husband, kids, family… but I’ve been restless lately. Tired of the grind. Just going around and around, doing the same thing over and over… searching for change… this touches on all of that.

I used acrylic paints, colored pencils, some GinX paper and a Slick Writer for this. :)

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i was playing around with the bleach/photo concept today. i used some steelwool to scratch up the photo some too. i really wanted to distress it good. i don’t even think you can really tell what it is. how memories fade. and how i am glad that photos don’t.

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Still catching up. This is the mid week prompt for week 2. The first thing that came to mind was Kraft Mac & Cheese in my pantry. It represents all the “not healthy” food that my kids eat. That is the main thing I never thought I would have in my house. Kari see’s it as comfort food and I see it as junk food. I guess parenting is partly about compromise and choosing your battles.

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Here’s my risk entry. I generally think of my self as a risk taker – except when it comes to letting people see the real me. I’ve picked up a bunch of random things that spoke to me and just put them together. The picture of me with my hands dirty is next to some lyrics from Dave Matthews “Everday”. I used a bunch of my scrapping goodies, magazine clips, rubber stamps and watercolor crayons. Here’s both pages

Page 1

and Page 2

Thanks!

Nancy

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