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I have had this bug and luckily some time to go along with it to start using up some of my scrapbook kits.  From the 6 X 6 books to the mini books, you name it they are stacking up.  So I've challenged myself to pull out a project and have some fun!
Of the fun I've been having I completed a mini book for my neice's birthday party and one of our recent camping trips just by using up some of the...

I'm reading two books at a time - depending on what's going on in my day will depend on which book I pick up.  And they are both at opposite ends of the spectrum.  One is an upbeat funny book and the other is a sad, deep and depressing book. 
Last night I finished THE ROAD and it brought me to tears.  The book never gave you any characters names, where they were or how they had gotten to this...

Chel and I went to work out at the rec center as soon as I dropped Zach at school.  She then went off to shower and go to work - I stayed and did some walking around the track and then headed home. I like getting that work out in first thing in the morning because I seem to make excuses as the day wears on to why I can't go if it's any later.
Then I made an unexpected trip to the dentist.  There...

I have not eaten at a McDonalds in almost 3 years.  (once I watched that supersize me movie I never went back!) I listen to Green Day's Hitchen a ride, Queen's Don't stop me now, Garth Brooks Ain't going down till the sun comes up on my Ipod while I work out. I've lost two brothers.  One born before me one born after me. My son Zach's name was picked from the movie Fern Gully because it was Ryan's...

Was a spa party!  Now how fun was that for all of us!  My plans were for Chel and I to just get a pedicure.  But once we arrived we found their were so many other choices of things to do our options quickly changed.
The girls all gathered around the salon laughing and giggling together.  There was pizza and desserts, fruit and wine and all kinds of other goodies to enjoy



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I found this on Melody's blog and wow... what an amazing speech!
 
Commencement Speech
made by Pulitzer Prize winning author Anna Quindlen
at Villanova University
I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work.
You will walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds...

consist of scrapbooking!  I already planned out quite a few pages... now lets just see if I finish them all?  I decided to work on Christmas and I'll throw in some others in case I get tired of that. 
It never fails though, I always take way too much stuff!  Why is it we think we can accomlish so much more?  Maybe I need some sketches to help me plan things through?
Either way - I'm looking...

My weekend was full of projects and I'm proud to say I completed some layouts of my favorite pictures.
Zach's going into 8th grade and yet I just scrapped this picture of his 6th grade class.  I love how all the kids were clowning around!

 This is one left over from Easter of 2006 that I hadn't scrapped but just loved the picture with all the kids being silly again.
Seems like I had a silly...

 
The It Kit Challenge for the month of August is do a layout from the prompt SUMMER IS.  I used some pictures of some of my favorite paths and flowers.