My Blaaagh!

Oh dear, start a blog, then never update it. That is SO like me! Well, I found out on Thursday that our dentist wants all our money. Zoe needs phase 2 orthodontia to the tune of 5k, Isabel needs braces (luckily they can wait), and Sadie has two cavities that need to be filled under anesthesia in the hospital. I can tell you that none of the above is going to happen. I'll be looking for a new dentist now, thank you very much.

Some noteable things that happened recently include:

• Sadie said "churkey" (instead of turkey)
  
• Sadie said "to the rescue!"
• Sadie went on the "big girl swing" for the first time and we had a hard time getting her off of it.

I got the book "The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker" by Wendy Smedley and Aby Garvey. Lain Ehmann reviewed it on her podcast and ever since I heard the review I kept thinking that I need that book. I got it at Archiver's with my 30% off coupon. It was well worth it. I am now in the process of analyzing my everyday life and what "inspires" me to scrapbook. I can see that my style and inspiration is never cut and dried so it will be interesting to see how I can organize my space to work with so many scenarios. I don't even have walls in my space so how I am going to actually accomplish anything I am not sure.

I have realized that my inspiration for scrapbooking (the reason I put a page together is based on many different sources). I remember a few years ago driving down the main road that you take to get to our house and I saw a dark brown wood garage with these beautiful coral/fuschia colored flowers planted along the edge and thinking what a gorgeous color combination that was. It made me want to create a page using those colors.

Other inspirational sources include: gorgeous photographs, patterns (circles are especially attractive to me), seasonal changes (spring and fall are my favorites) and photographs of family. With regard to family photographs, they inspire me to create layouts or mini-books to document those special times. I usually need time to come up with the "plan" for how I want to preserve them. I will usually see something in a magazine or products in a store that will give me the idea and I will run with it from there.

It's interesting that I have never taken the time before now to analyze the "why" of my scrapbooking. I know that I have a creative need to express. I also feel the motivation to document family events. So through the creative process so I feel like I am killing two birds with one stone. (Why do I use that expression? Yuk.)

I guess that's enough blathering for now.