I am very excited, I am going to an all day scrapbooking crop with my mother. I haven't done one of these in a good number of years (probbably 6 or 7). Its so motivating to get the time set aside to scrap and get some albums done. The downside is its in a scrapbook store and there's a lot of temptation to get more stuff. I have a rolling scrapbook tote that I have filled to the brim with supplies.
My plan for today is to work backwards today. I am going to work on my album for 2010 first. I am going to do this year's album, starting with the most recent pictures, and going back to January. Then, I will tackle the other pictures that I have of my little man working backward over the last 3 years. If there's time, then I am going to tackle my wedding album.
Yes, I've been married going on 8 years and I have not done my wedding album yet. I pick it up and put it down, but I have not really done anything with it. It gnaws at me and makes me feel unsucessful and unproductive. There are a lot of emotional issues tied to the wedding album. Its not that I am not happy that I am married or that I love the big man (because I do), its just there are certain memories of that day that have overshadowed everything else, and it has been difficult to get beyond it. But today, its a new challenge for me. I need to set aside certain feelings and emotions to get this DONE.
I tend to wrap up emotions in the pictures that I am scrapping. I can go back to the moment in time when the photo was taken and conjure up everything surrounding that event or non-event. It has its positives and its negatives. If it was something happy, then its great. If something wasn't so happy or whatever then those feelings come back when I am scrapping, and it makes it harder to do the page. I try to find the joy in my world, but there are somedays that its harder than others.
In the past, I've had issues going to crops where I wasn't entirely prepared with what to do. Today, I've got a plan of attack of what I am going to do. Part of me wants to get this done and caught up, and part of me isnt' sure what I will wind up accomplishing.
Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. Margaret D. Nadauld
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