This is the time of year when we start to think about what we are thankful for. Well maybe not everyone thinks about it, but I do, do you? “What are you thankful for?” is a great question to ask when you are scrapbooking. Scrapbook a page about what you are thankful for. I plan to that this month but why don’t I first share about this great kit “Thankful” made by the ScrapDish team for the Scrap-A-Faire starting tomorrow. If you would like to get this kit check out the ScrapDish booth at Scrap-A-Faire.

Credits: ScrapDish’s Scrap-A-Faire Sampler – Thankful for Love by Kim Jensen

Journaling: Cutting of the cake is always an interesting event. First the Groom cuts a slice of cake and shoves it up the Bride’s nose. Then the Bride cuts a slice of cake and tries to smear the huge slice in the Groom’s beard, nose and eyes.

The Challenge:
You must use all 3 elements that I have listed below and upload them to the Element Challenge gallery by October 31. You can use other elements if you wish but the 3 listed below must be present.

The Elements:
1. Foliage
2. Button(s)
3. RicRac

The Prize:

Includes: 8 Pattern Papers, 3 Photo Corners, 2 Fibers, 1 Tag, 1 Pumpkin

Remember all three elements must be present and your layout must be uploaded and a link posted in this thread by midnight October 31 to receive the prize.

Please post a link to your layout in this thread.

My favorite poem of all time is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I wanted to make a layout about my love of this poem so here it is:

Credits: September 07 RAKScraps Mega-Kit (orange paper by Cathy Rose; stitches by Christy Heins; leaves by Candace Duffy Jones) and Addon (light tan paper by Rachel Dickson; photo corners by Robin Cabana; button, button thread, button tie, and ricrac by Kim Jensen)

Journaling: The first time I read this poem it immediately became my favorite. That was 15 years ago and I have come by many choices. I have always thought of this poem. I would always choose the path I truly wanted. It wasn’t always the easiest but it made my life richer and more meaningful to me.

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

My son is really getting to tantrums now. One day it was so funny that I had to take pictures. I was also trying so hard not to laugh!

CAST
LIAM JONES, 1, a little boy.
MOMMY, 27, the mother.

SETTING
The setting is in the living room. The scent of cooking dinner fills the room. There is a couch with a coffee table before it. A television is against the wall. MOMMY is sitting on the couch, watching television while daddy is cooking dinner. A very hungry LIAM enters the scene.

TIME
Dinner Time, May 2, 2007

Credits: ScrapDish Nov 06 Collaborative Kit (Papers by Correen Silke, Jen Reed; DRAMATIC alpha by Jen Reed, Journaling Block by Kim Jensen; Flower by Correen Silke), Atomic Cupcake

Credits: Baby You’re a Star by Jen Reed, Cardboard Bits Jumbo Shapes by Kim Jensen, Atomic Cupcake

You are so adorable when you sleep. You look so peaceful. Although you sometimes get yourself into positions I would think are very uncomfortable. You seem to like those positions, you always sleep in the same way with your neck stretched with your chin pointed out. I would get a kink in my neck! You can also see in these pictures how much you have grown in the past 22 months. You are no longer my sleeping baby, but my sleeping little boy. I miss being able rock you to sleep and to hold you as you sleep. Atleast I am still the one you wish to see first thing in the morning!

This layout is a little personal. My husband is a meteorologist for the Air Force and he is getting out this summer. He is still looking for a job so we don’t know where we are moving too! This has caused a lot of stress and alot of bad weather for us.

Credits: RAKScraps April 07 Mega Kit (blue paper by Kim Jensen, scribble paper and ribbon by Gwenevere Dupus, metal weather plates [except sun] by Jan Bolton, tab by Irene Brown), Glass, Chipped Painted Metal and Folded Torn Paper action by Atomic Cupcake.

Lately we’ve been under a lot of stress with the upcoming move and Liam’s constant tantrums; our weeks are starting to look like the weather forecast for a storm coming.. I do not like arguing with you but we always seem to be doing so. At least at the end of each storm we have sunny weather when we spend time to together and love each other. Now we just need more sunny days. Being a weather man maybe you can forecast some sunny days ahead for us!