...double dog dare

This past weekend our church held a Double Dog Dare-A-Thon.  It was an opportunity for middle schoolers to share their faith and invite a friend to church.  The best part?  The sleepover on Saturday night, of course!  The middle school staff staged a Dare-A-Thon which began at 8 pm and included silly dares about every 20 minutes; how many gummy bears can you stick to your friends face? how many shoes can you tie together? what's the smallest space you can fit into? use shaving cream to create a crazy hair-do!  Rae and her friend had a blast working through all the dares as a team.  They were up pretty late (Paul and I scooted off to bed before they were even done!)

After a great day at church on Sunday, the girls were out of ideas on how to keep busy.  But they spotted the leftover shaving cream and an idea hatched.  Here's the scrapbook layout to tell the story:

Title: War
Journaling reads: it’s a war among friends.  a lazy sunday afternoon and rae can’t find anything to do. with a little imagination and some left over shaving cream an idea is hatched.  she and olivia change clothes, get towels and bowls.  they divide up the shaving cream fairly and take turns slathering each other.  they make funny faces and laugh at each other.  when the fun is over they call out the photographer, because in this family EVERTHING gets photographed.  even the quiet, messy, friendly end to a war.
Supplies: 9th & Bloom, Details in the Fabric, as part of The Digi Files April 2011

...catching *way* up

I'm going to embarrass myself right now.  I finished two scrapbook layouts today... (not the embarrassing part.  ready?  here it comes....)  from my Project 365... of 2009!!!!  That's right.  I posted my weekly layouts about 19 month late.  And I still have 12 more weeks of layouts to complete for that project.  Embarrassing?  Yes.  Empowering?  Yes.  If you joined me yesterday you know that I'm rededicating myself to some well deserved me-time.  So spending an hour with my beloved Mac scrapping lyouts that should have been completed a long, long time ago feels great.

Here are the pages I posted:

If you would like to see the other pages in this Project you can go here or select Weekly 365 layouts from the labels cloud on the right.  

It feels good to be scrapping again.  What can you do today to get back on track?

...long time, no blog

Life.  Can't live without it.  But sometimes it gets so busy.  So crazy!  And something has to give.  And for me lately, my blog has been the thing that suffered the most.  When things get crazy around here there are a few things that happen: I clean, I run and I sleep.  Cleaning helps me feel in control - "a clean home is a happy home" after all.  Running helps me clear my head and gives me some time without demands or schedules.  It allows me to relax.  Sleeping helps reboot my system.  When things are going smoothly I can live on 6 hours a night, but as things get hectic my body demands more sleep.

So with all the extra things going on in my life (joining a tennis league, working for the soccer league, making costumes for school functions...) cleaning, running and sleeping have taken over every extra moment I have.  Which has left blogging in the dust (metaphorical dust of course, because I've been cleaning a lot lately).  Every once in a while a little thought bubbles up to remind me that I like to blog.   I like to put down in writing what's happening, what's not happening and what I wish was happening.  I like to share pictures and scrapbook pages with friends and family.  I like the feeling I get when someone comments on a blog post, or a great photo.

So I'm rededicating myself. To myself.  To this blog.  To my creative endeavors.  I'm going to carve out 30 minutes a day to scrapbook, to write, to create, to blog.

What has gone missing in your day?  How can you reconnect to it?  Share it here and maybe you'll inspire not only yourself but someone else.

...here we go again

That's right, it's time for another surgery. Nerve decompression this time. (Paul just wanted a matched set of scars on his neck).




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...all on a saturday night

It should come as no surprise that my hubby and I are diehard fans of 80s new wave music.  Our extensive CD collection is chock full of little ditties from Simple Minds, Sparks, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Devo and The Fixx.  So Saturday was just a treat for us -- A Back to the 80s party hosted by some good friends.  Costumes NOT optional!

I suspect that Paul was equally into 80s rock but I went a little more right of center and spent plenty of my high school and college years listening to punk rock.  So when it came time to dress up Saturday there would be no Madonna ala Suddenly Seeking Susan, or Flashdance or neon pink and green hair bows.  Nope!  Straight up punk rock for me!  Even Paul got into it.  He's so cute with a 'hawk!

...super

Bowl, that is.




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...games

Poker night!




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