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My friend Jamie chose seven of my interests for me to explain. Well actually it started on LiveJournal where, I guess, they have a list of interests in their profiles. Since I didn’t have a list he just selected seven of my most popular tags. If you comment on this post I will pick seven interests for you to blog about.
Here goes:
adsr: ADSR stands for Amazing Digi Scrapping Race. I participated in the 2nd season this past August. I teamed up with Jodie Smith. I really enjoyed all the challenges. You can read more about this here. Here is some of the layous I made for the race:
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atomic cupcake: Atomic Cupcake is a website that offers many Photoshop actions geared towards scrapbookers. I end up using one of the actions in most of my layouts. My favorites are the paper tearing and chipboard actions.
japan: Is where I lived from October 8, 2004 to Januay 7, 2006. We were stationed at Yokota AFB outside of Tokyo. I loved it but I was missing my family so much that I didn’t realize how much I loved it until we left. My first child was born there. The people of Japan are very nice and friendly. They are honest and hardworking.
jeanine baechtold: Jeanine Baechtold is my favorite designer and I work with her at RAKScraps. She is in my tags list because I use her designs most often in my layouts, along with Jen Reed’s designs.
liam: My first born. My son. My life! I could not image my life without him. He is everything to me. I scrapbook more about him than any other subject.
rakscraps: RAKScraps is my favorite digital scrapbooking website. I am also on the elements, sponsor, and events team there. I host a monthly Elements Challenge there along with contributing to the Mega-Kit.
scrapbooking: This is what I do all day… scrapbooking. I love to scrapbooking whether it’s paper or digital. You may have noticed my blog is mostly about scrapbooking! Why do I love scrapbooking? Well because I get to design, craft and preserve history which are all things I enjoy to do.
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Since July 20th, when my husband had his last day of work, things have been tough. The 2 hardest things to deal with actually do not include money. Unemployment pays so well we can’t get Medicaid with less than a $10,000 deductible. Yet we can’t pay our mortgage or medical bills. So that brings me to one of the hardest things to deal with right now and that is no insurance. Before, when we had insurance, I went to counseling once a week for depression. Now I cannot go so my depression hasn’t gotten out of control. I am having trouble getting through each day without yelling at my husband or breaking down in tears. The only things that get me out of bed each day is my son and scrapbooking.
Well since my son prefers his daddy right now sometimes he doesn’t make me want to get out of bed. I try not to let it bother me that he prefers his daddy but with how wild my emotions are right now I can never predict how I feel from moment to moment and I have gone through most emotions lately. Also there are other medical appointments I used to go to weekly, one was physical therapy that without I am a lot of pain. I have some medication that helps (a little) but I am running out of that too and I can’t get more without visiting a doctor and also paying for the meds.
Okay so what is the second hardest thing? My husband being home all day. Which actually goes along with the other hardest thing. My husband doesn’t always think… about anything other than him and his computer. I often (too often) have to remind him about everything! Which causes a lot of tension especially if he is watching our son for awhile and doesn’t change his diaper and then our son’s diaper leaks. Well we were seeing marriage counseling but now that we have no insurance we can’t go and it seems as if he reverted back to not caring about our marriage. I don’t need another child, I need a husband.
So why am I telling you all this. Well it goes along with my latest layout which I made for a challenge on RAKScraps.
Credits: Star Light, Star Bright by Candace Duffy Jones, Atomic Cupcake
Journaling:
A toddler may not know the words but he can still tell you what he wants simply with gestures and/or through trial and error and lots of tears.
Scrapbooking can save your sanity when you cannot afford counseling. I have been more inspired to design when I have to pull myself away from chocolate and from having a bout of depression!
One of the biggest lessons I have learned these past few months, is that having your husband home all day with you, every day, is not good for your marriage!
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I have received a few emails about donating money to help me out in return for all the freebies I have posted on my site. If you wish to help out you can go to C&H Scrapbooks and make a purchase (I get 100% of the money) or you can use the donate button I just added to my sidebar. Thanks for the help!!!
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Credits: Papers from Mood Swings - Melancholy and The Sorta Solids paper packs by Jeanine Baechtold, heart by Chris Turnbull from Winter Warmers, flower by Jan Bolton from In Memory of Miles, button by ksharonk from Winter Warmers, tab from Bohemian Collage by Tracy Collins, staples and fiber by Candace Duffy Jones, cardboard letters from Summer Picnic by Tracy Collins.
Layouts include (from top to bottom, left to right): Welcome to Japan; Nine Months for You; Liam; Trouble; Play it Again, Liam; My Men, My Heroes; Who Am I. You can click on the links to see each layouts’ credits.
Fonts: FG Anton, 18th Century
As a child I had so many goals set for my future career. I wanted to be an artist, an author, a director, an astronomer, an architect and/or an archaeologist. Now they seem like silly careers to chose. Although I enjoy drawing I was never a very good artist. I love to write, but I have bad grammar and rarely finish a story. I don’t even know the first thing about being a director and I am not outgoing enough to do it anyway. I am very bad at math and remembering formulas so astronomer and architect are far fetched. And have no patients for archaeology. But now I have reached an even better goal in life. I have a husband that I love. A very adorable and smart little boy who depends upon me. And I have my scrapbooking which I am slowly turning into the ideal job while still having the best job of being a stay-at-home mom. I have traveled to Italy, France and Japan. I am happy with my goals today. They are real and include growing and nurturing my family.
This layout was made for the 4th challenge in the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race!
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I made this for the RAKScraps sketch challenge.
My wedding was really special for me. I planned the entire thing. I even wrote the entire ceremony (invocations and everything). I included all of it in a program. The poem in the layout below was used as a prologue in the program and was not going to be used during the ceremony. I liked it so much that I had to put it in the program. My mother-in-law also liked it, so she read aloud instead of reading what she had originally brought to read.
Credits: Sketch by Robin Cabana, Forever Yours Collection - Always and Forever Yours Collection - Eternity by Jen Reed and Krista Mettler, Atomic Cupcake
A good marriage must be created. In marriage, the little things are the big things. It’s never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together to face the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful. It is not only marrying the right person… It is being the right partner.
-The Art of Marriage by unknown
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