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Today I decided that my monthly journal will become something I ‘play’ in with quotes! I write on my blog almost everyday AND write to my yahoo group… I’m finding it hard to do a daily journal. BUT I would like a place for cool quotes and a place to play with color and composition.

I decided to take full creative license to learn I want to do something different!!! Feels good to learn doesn’t it?

Today’s entry tells this discovery… and I made a ‘play’ on the word ‘perfect’ for my cover… found this tag & VELVET rick rack from the Ribbon Jar… ohh la la!!!

I want a creativity quote for the cover…. you all KNOW I don’t use that ‘P’ word… so it cracked me up to put it on the cover! Send me any Creativity quotes you have!
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Learning from your Granddaughter

My secret is I have the most wonderful, talented
Granddaughter in the world and I’ve learned a
lot from her. Watching her speech events, plays,
and etc. she gave me the courage to try to perform
and now I do around 75 shows a year at retirement
homes, churches and so forth. Now I am learning
even more doing these pages. We are never too
old to try new things.

Shimelle you inspire me.

Donna B.

Playing catch up again





wonderful time of the year

My son has reserved a condo for Thanksgiving week
in Branson, Missouri. He has invited us to come spend
the week with them. In the picture is Andy William’s
Christmas show from last year. We have tickets for
all of us to see that show this year. All the shows will
be Christmas shows and the whole town will be lighted
up, it is special. I love the Holiday season, love how
people can show love for one another. My family comes
home and for a while my house is full again.

Donna B.

Posting is Learning

I have a feeling that one of my entries is going to be about posting here. I always post a ton of entries at once! I’m going to have to let this little tidbit marinate a bit and see what this teaches me….

Anyway, here’s my latest backlog.

13 September, I always have a ton of things to do in a day, and keep a running “to do” list that I just add to each day. I learned that I am getting everything done!! In spanish, todos means “all” so for me “to do” means “todos”.

14 September, I am a Miami native, and I’ve only lived in Atlanta for 3 years. At first I hated it: smog, no south americans, materialism, but on this day I seemed to have an “a-ha” moment and I learned that I actually like living here in Atlanta. It has really grown on me and I consider it home now.

15 September, my midway point page about me. I got a little doodly.

16 September, the hubs and I have a tradition of going to see the Marlins whenever they are in Atlanta. Just my little way of keeping Miami alive…but there is just something about going to a game on Saturday.

17 September, my little lesson for the day is procrastination…a lesson I am still learning. I don’t…sometimes can’t…get a page done everyday with my teaching schedule, so I use the weekends to catch up. But, I’m procrastinating on a much larger scale with a couple more projects. C’est ma vie!

18 September, I drive an hour to and from work everyday on the days that I teach, and any time I can find a shortcut, my life is made that much easier. Yesterday, I trusted an instinct and cut 5 min off of my drive. 5 min isn’t that much, but when you spend 2 hours in a car everyday, you take what you can get!

TFL!!
Colleen

Fallen behind....

I had fallen behind with the classes, I got the daily prompts, knew what I wanted to do, but just never seemed to find the time to make the actual LO, but whyile my husband was away this past weekend, I took the opportunity to finish it all – well nearly all, the only one I haven’t done is Sept 10th, but i have put the print out in thepage protector so i can go back to it….....well as I don’t want to hog the gallery by uploading about 2 weeks worth of LO’s in one night, if you want to have a look then they are in their own gallery on my Blog, www.world-of-scraps.squarespace.com

I am loving the class and dead chuffed that after more than 2 weeks I haven’t given up and let daily life get in the way…..much!!!!

Cherish Friendship


Another of my catch up pages.

Autumn


Another one of my catch up pages from this weekend. This morning the air had that distinct autumn scent – so I had to include it in my journal as it means so much to me.

Journal Front cover

I have a great weekends crafting and have more or less caught up now and finished my journal cover – the first time I have ever made an album from scratch! I do feel proud of myself!

Get a laugh from a wrinkle

When I first saw a wrinkle, I didn’t see the humor
in it. I’m afraid they are just a part of life so I
thought why not enjoy them. All of these wrinkle
creams give me lots of laughs, but they don’t
work miracles. I have found just smiling makes
your face look younger and more attractive. So
I do lots of jokes about wrinkles. Now I think they
are fun.

Donna B.