January 4th and 5th pics

January 5th pic...a close up of my paint drawer...I love all the colors and paint is one of my favorite scrapping supply!

January 4th pic...this is just a quick snap of Mercedes pile of Webkinz...I would have taken another pic, but my batteries died.

January 3 picture of the day

This is a picture of my grandmother's journal started in Oct 1977. My mom has hired me to type out all the many journals and writings of my Grandma. It's a weird feeling reading about the daily happenings and feelings of my Grandma...it's almost like I'm being snoopy or something, but I know my grandma would be happy to know that the things she left behind are being treasured by her posterity. I thought it would be cool to take the picture by candle light...for me it evokes the sacred & secret things that are between the pages of this book.

Stress

I've come to the conclusion that stress really inhibits my creativity. Brad stopped by and was all mad cause I told his parents that he's not living here...something I had told them a month ago but apparently had forgotten. Anyways we got in an arguement & I was glad to see him leave. But now I feel all stressed and can't think of something to work on. And I'm trying to take advantage of tonight because Mercedes is staying over night at my sister's. I do have some cards that I should finish and maybe I'll do another page in my clear album. I'll post pics later if I actually accomplish something. Plus I took my pic for today and should post that as well.

A few pics, a couple ideas and a dose of don't over do it!

So today I came across this blog http://photojojo.com/ and one of the challenges was to take at least 1 pic a day for a whole year. I think this will be my focus this year. I've had my camera for almost 2 years already and still don't know anything about the manual settings. So I'm hoping that by taking at least one photo a day, by the end of the year it'll be interesting to see if my skills have improved. Anyhoo, here's a couple pics that I shot today.



This is my pic for January 2 - I just couldn't get over how cute these little Webkinz look in their clothes...plus it kept Mercedes occupied for hours! lol

Here it is...the first sneak peek at my clear album. I have a few pages done, but my photos sucked so I'll try taking some more again tomorrow. :)

This pic was taken by Mercedes today...all by herself...gotta love those Webkinz! She kept rearranging them and changing their clothes, trying to get the perfect pic. I think she did pretty good considering that she used my camera and it's quite heavy for her to hold still.

2008

Wow, 2008...Happy New Year's everyone! I still haven't recovered from all the Christmas visiting and my house looks like a bomb hit it, but slowly and surely things are starting to get back to normal...whatever that is! lol

I bought myself an 8x8 clear album when we were in Edmonton and I've been working on that for the last couple days. I was going to post some pics but my camera batteries have to recharge first. I'm having alot of fun with this album. It's definately a challenge and really makes me think creatively and I absolutely love it! When things start to stagnate or I need to just walk away from the clear album, I've been making lots of cards. Doing something creative is such an important part of my life...it literally keeps me sane. I went 7 whole days over the Christmas break away from my scrapping supplies and I was just dying to get home and make something! lol

Hopefully I'll have some pics to post tomorrow. :)