Bucket List Redux

Remember my bucket list?

I scrapped it!

It's simple, but I love it.  W hat a great way to remember this years from now.  I might have to do a bucket list layout every 10 years or so.  5 years?  3?  What do you think?

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 Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers out there...

Mothers who carried their children in their wombs, Mothers who adopt those special spirits, Mothers who take care of other people's children (stepmothers, foster mothers, etc.),  Mothers who aren't yet mothers, Mothers who have four-legged furries or winged children, and all other women who "mother" their friends and family and those whom they love.

Today is your day.  Celebrate yourself.  You deserve it.

Amazing You

When you're down... feeling blue... missing some pep in your step, it's wonderful to have friends.  This month at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out, the monthly topic is Friendship. It has me thinking a lot about the people in my life who I call "friend".

A short while back, I was talking with Cheri about how dejected I was feeling about a few things going on in my world.  She sent me an email or two in an attempt to boot me out of those blue clouds.  I have to admit, I didn't want to see them, so I read them half-heartedly (which goes against all the wholeheartedness Cheri gives out) and continued on my woe-is-me path.

My wonderful friend Cheri took things a step further.  I opened my mail on Tuesday to find the wonderful bookmark pictured above.  It's absolutely beautiful and Cheri included a lovely message in the back.  It stopped my pity-party cold.

I have not yet used the bookmark for its intended purpose - to mark a page in a book.  Instead, I've been carrying it with me everywhere. 

I'm not quite out of my funk 100% but Cheri, this blog post is dedicated to Amazing YOU.  I am so appreciative that you took time out of your busy world to send me a little piece of love and friendship in the mail.  Words cannot express how much this gesture meant to me.  So I will just say...

Thank You!

Weekend Wonderful

This past Saturday, I spent the entire day in scrapbooking bliss.  Two of my very best friends and I all decided to spend the day cropping at the store, while sharing the work shifts.  It was our "collective birthday" crop... both of their birthdays were in March and mine is in May.

I have to admit, the crop was full of chatter and food and presents and fun, with a sprinking of scrapbooking (for me).  So I only completed 4 pages (two single pages, one 2-page layout).  But the difference for me was that these are pages about me. 

I created a layout of me as a little girl, striking a pose (or three) before a ballet recital.  A layout about a canoe trip I went on soon after moving  out here to Ohio.  And, what I thought was so cool, remember that Bucket List blog post I wrote?  I did a layout on that too. 

Sadly, life has not been conducive to getting photos of these layouts, but when I do, they'll be posted here!  I always have to prove that I really do scrapbook!

How was your weekend?

April Showers...

...bring May flowers.

Actually, these flowers were brought to me via spending cash at the store.

 A gal received some for Administrative Professional's Day this past week and they were so fragrant, I had to have them!

Here's hoping I get them planted in the ground sometime soon. 

I'm not a very timely gardener.