A New Week...

Yes, it is Monday and the week is already off to a great start. I will be starting a new job, in a new office with new people....change can be good every now and again. Not that I don't like the job I have now, I just think sometimes moving on allows you to grow and learn. I am hoping to get something accomplished this week by way of my scrapbook. My husband is going for a day surgery this week so I will be off work catering to his needs (LOL) he would do the same for me I am sure, so I figure I may be able to finish a few pages in-between the bell ringing... I have however, finished 2 pages of my best friends, not sure if I like them yet or not but its the first time I scrapbooked my dogs...They didn't turn out how I imagined, but I really liked the colors. They will be the first two pages of a mini...As I can not seem to get the scanner working to my preference, I had to take an actual picture.....As always its been a pleasure and thank you for stopping by...

Lessons Learned...

I guess another weekend has come and gone. It was a long week and a short weekend, maybe a little too short. I was a single parent this week, while my husband was out playing with the army, which ment not a lot of time left for scrap booking or anything else. I did however, manage to get in 3 runs, one coffee with friends and laundry caught up. Although, it was a busy week my coffee with friends turned out to be the best coffee and conversation I had had in a very long time. I learned a lot about myself that night and I also learned a lot about my dear friends...

1. KARMA - we really do get back what we do to others whether it be good or bad... Surround yourself with open-minded, non-judgemental, positive, nurturing and warm people. Who you associate yourself with says a lot about you;
2. I have friends in high places, friends I never knew I had. That puts me in a very happy place;
3. Things are not always as they seem, ask questions and you shall seek the truth;
4. I am a strong open-minded woman, my friends are strong, open-minded, trustworthy and people I want to be seen with; and
5. No one can define your life, you make your own destiny; allowing someone else to define who we are, we lose our ability to discover and grow inwardly. We no longer are able to discern a truth from a lie, because we have been honest with ourselves, we are able to love ourselves with all of our imperfections, and therefore need not have others approval.

It was a long coffee, but it was well worth it, mind you the other Tim Horton's customers may not have thought so through the laughter and tears...So as I stated above no scrap booking, no paper, no glue, no flowers and no pearls but I still made memories on that Monday evening....

Another sweet find...

I found these little guys stuck in an old scrapbook, just lying there waiting to be resued....I put a date of 2001 on the back of them, so they have been hanging around for awhile. I have moved across Canada many many times as I am in the military, so I am asuming I lost and found quite a few things between moves....but during my organization I am finding a lot of oldies. Although, I will never use these things I am still very much enjoying them...hmmm...maybe a mini about all my special finds????

A Life time ago...

Although, I love these paper piecings and enjoyed doing them all those years ago, my style and the way I scrapbook has very much changed. Now I love the flowers, pearls, patterns and lace just to name a few... I just can't put them away, its a memory of where I was...

I made this aprox 5 years ago for my DS bedroom door. Although, he still loves the famous Harry Potter this piece has been replaced for the sake of his little friends visiting....he is 9, and afraid of teasing...

Tinkerbelle, again made 9 years ago. It was once a young girls favorite character...

Winnie the Pooh, made 9 years ago...