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A Quick Challenge for You
Today, I changed something fundamental about myself, something I didn’t think would ever change. I have been tongue-tied, literally, all my life, and it has always been one of the weird little things...
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Branching Out Into New Territory
This week was all about branching out into new territory. Not only did I change a little thing that has defined me all my life, but I also opened up a shop on Redbubble. What’s Redbubble? It’s an...
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Where to Find Inspiration
For many scrapbookers, the hardest part of creating a scrapbook page is the act of getting started. Just sitting down with paper and pen and photos can be very daunting at times. One of the easiest...
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My Inspiration for Today
Yesterday was a simply beautiful day here in the Northeastern US, so I went for a walk with my camera. The most inspiring thing I found while wandering? The colors in my front yard. My youngest son...
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Inspiration Results!
When I went wandering earlier this week, not only did the flowers in my front yard inspire me, but the people in my neighborhood as well. Using the colors inspired by the flowers, this is the page I...
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Work in Progress
My craft room is no more: It looks so small and sad now. It won’t take long to turn it into a lovely little jewel box of a bedroom though. And my new craft room? Barren and colorless and cluttered with...
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Inspiration at the Paint Store
While trying to decide on which color to paint the new craft room, I came across this flyer from Behr: None of these colors were exactly what I was looking for as far as paint goes, but they worked so...
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A few summer sights
Have you been playing along with the summer photo scavenger hunt? (You can find the original post, with the list here: We’re going on a scavenger hunt!) Don’t forget to share your photos on Flickr in...
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Circle Inspiration
While switching craft rooms this summer, I came across a couple old catalogs from The Angel Company. Back in the day, I was a demonstrator with them, before they went out of business. If anyone is...
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We live in a time when more and more pictures are being taken. People take pictures of the food they eat, the places they visit, and what they’re wearing. They snap adorable photos of their children,...
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A Moment of Reflection
This blog has been up and running for two years now. How cool is that? In the past two years, I’ve published 236 posts. That’s an average of a post every three days. Not too shabby. The most popular...
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Feeling the Urge to Create
Some days, it feels like it’s been MONTHS since I’ve made anything. (It’s only been a few days! I made pages on Saturday!) Some days, I don’t know where I want to start. Some days, I feel the need to...
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Inspiration & Creation
Do you remember back in January, when I showed you these inspiring pics from Pinterest? Illustration by Chris Garbutt from Journey to the Centre of My Brain by James Carter Card by essillustration...
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Got a Date with Myself!
I just realized today that I have been falling into an excuse-making pattern. I’ve made very few pages lately. Most of what I’ve created has been for the blog, or LOAD. I haven’t really been...
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Embracing Your Inner Geek
I have a confession to make. I am a geek. Bet that doesn’t surprise you at all, does it? I am a fan of storytelling, of huge epic stories that create worlds worth exploring. Whether it’s books, or TV,...
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A Huge Pile of PL Pages
When preparing for a crop, I prefer to bring projects that don’t require a lot of thinking. I can NOT journal in company. Just having people around thinking is too loud for me. For the crop two...
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Retail Inspiration
My mother and I have been doing some mall walking while waiting for the weather to break. I haven’t been to the mall in a while, so was interested to find window displays that echo some of the trends...
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Making Time
This past month has been one huge adjustment after another. Getting up every day at 6 am to make sure the big kids make the bus in the morning. Prepping every day to make sure I have a full class’...
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Wait. It’s March?!
The best laid plans have a habit of falling through around here. I was so pumped for LOAD. The last LOAD led by Lain. A reason to scrapbook every day. I was going to get so much creating done. Well....
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Inspired by Alcohol
Many scrapbookers out there love to unwind at the end of the day with a glass of wine or a beer and their scrapbook supplies. I’ve been known to do that myself on occasion. Somehow that seems to make a...
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