Henna

While all of my daughters are getting pierced and tattooed, I went out on a limb and got a henna tattoo while I was in Regina. While it only lasted a week or so...I know that is about as long as I want anything to stay for right now. I may change my mind in the future...but for now this was enough for me.

My Bikini and Domestic Goddess Mini Book

This is my favorite page I did this week. It's me when I was a baby. My mom made me the bikini. I used Fancy Pants paper and a die cut. I used Creative Cafe felt scalloped ribbon, Basic Grey lettering and Stickles to dot the square.

I have begun a mini-book using the Basic Grey Domestic Goddess line. I have a lot of embellishing to do yet which I hope to do today . . . holiday monday.

Ruff Work and Duck

I've loved these little dogs on the Basic Grey line for a long time. Finally I decided to do a page with them. I am so glad I took pictures of Lucas practicing his fine motor skills by using scissors. He is so cute.

This is my favorite picture of me as a kid. The tag tells the story of how I got the nickname Duck and how it carried on through my teenage years. Again, I used Basic Grey and while not trying to, I almost re-created earlier pages I've done. Out of the box, out of the box. Man, I have lots to learn.

Summer 2009

So, every year I do a page of who/what/where I am at this point of my life. This is it. As you can see, I've been reading quite a bit. Today I found out why I haven't had the energy to do anything more than read. My iron level is really low. The doctor said the range for iron is between 20 - 120 to be healthy. My iron is at 3. Ya, 3. So, given that, he understands why I have no energy to do anything; which is why I feel so lousy, why I have been gaining weight and wanting food that is no good for me. Well, hopefully by my next birthday, I will be feeling better.

Looking Back

Yes, sometimes when I see an older picture of me I tend to think about the choices I've made along the way. Eventhough this picture was only taken maybe ten years ago, a lot has changed in my life. How could anyone say that they'd change their lives once they know their children? Maybe some things would change--but since we are not given that choice, I want to teach my children that they have to be strong individuals and make every choice the right one for them. I want them to know that they have to make it on their own and not depend on anyone else to help them survive. We don't know what is around the corner for us, so we have to make sure that we know we can survive no matter what. We have to become independent individuals that believe in ourselves. We also have to be able to take the responsibility for our own decisions and actions. It is hard . . . but once we have, we become better people for it.

Sharon as a Kid

I have decided to do some pages of my childhood while using up some papers I have at home. I cut out some daisies and added micro beads to them on this page. The other is about the floats we used to ride on as kids in Sutherland. Again, some old Basic Grey paper together with some newer embellishments. Stuff you never thought of putting together comes together when you are at home and have no other options.

sudoku

Yes, I have been broadening my horizons. While scrapbooking has always relaxed me, I find that I don't have the time to pull it out at home much. But, I have been doing it more lately because we have been so busy at work with work. So, just before bed, I read or do a sudoku puzzle to get my mind off of day to day stuff. There is also another diversion and I understand I share it with many other ladies: Mariokart Wii. Ya baby, what a blast. While I am very lame at it, I enjoy playing it with Lucas. He got me to play with him online with one of his friends the other day and . . . I beat the little noobs. Page to come . . .

Vacation

We got this wonderful paper in at work a bit ago. When I was browsing through old pictures, I found this one and the colors matched. I did a simple, but effective page proving that, YES, once in awhile, I do smile.

My Daughter Jade

I used an older chipboard flourish and added some Stickles and glitter. I used a couple of our dies for the shapes and some old flowers too. I wanted to do this page because of what Jade said the other day. When someone mentioned that we had the same eyes, Jade said that it was a good thing because she always liked my eyes. It made my day.

44

Another year, another birthday. So, at 44 I prefer to wear jeans and a t-shirt, I like my toenails painted blue, I enjoy reading novels every chance I get, I love my music and my children for buying me an MP3 player for my birthday and showing me how to download music onto it. I have to have a cell phone to keep in contact with my kids at all times and I am enjoying having short hair for the first time in many years. Just another milestone. It really hit me hard though, when I registered Lucas for school and realized I only have one child in elementary school and three in highschool. Put me in a whole new class of individuals and thank you to Noreen Duguid for saying to me, "You don't look old enough to have children in highschool." It helped a lot.

Waikiki Beach

Why not? Doing a few old pictures, using the new Bigshot and old paper. I love the fact that I can use pictures from my honeymoon back in 1986 and there is no husband in sight (what the heck, he isn't around anymore so why scrapbook him?). I love Hawaii and since I haven't been on any type of a holiday in years, I brought out some old vacation pictures. Again, I say "Why not?"

Blaize

Again, I am using up old paper . . . as you can tell. I used some old buttons and flowers and some new creative cafe felt ribbon. I liked the page up until the buttons went on. They never seem to go on when you glue them the same as when you set them there. I usually take a digital picture of them before I glue them down so they go down as I had them set. Didn't have my camera this day. Shoulda' waited I guess.

5 Rules

I like the picture of me here. Lucas took it of me at my mom's birthday celebration. I love the paper and embellishments. What I really don't like is that the page is about what I am really all about right now. I am an overprotective mother of three teenaged daughters (my son is almost eleven and isn't into the stuff I worry about). It just seemed like this was what I constantly was finding myself saying this summer: No drinking (alcohol), no smoking (cigarettes or pot), no drugs (illegal), no sex, no stealing. Man, seems like a sensible request right? Just get inside the minds of today's youth . . . you'd be floored! Teenagers don't understand that what doesn't kill them, doesn't make them stronger . . . it gives them a disease or kills braincells. I just have to remind them to keep themselves safe . . . nevermind what everyone else is doing or saying. Not so easy! Okay, so I'm ranting . . . I HAVE TEENAGERS . . . HELP!!!!

Biffed It Bad

How do you scrapbook a bruise? Man, I wiped out seriously! You know how you put one foot on a pedal and then swing the other leg around and start riding. Well, I do it all the time. This time; however, I had on my sandals and one got hitched on my seat. I went ass over forehead and ended up looking like scrambled eggs on the sidewalk. Best of all I had just been in the liquor board store getting some rye. Talk about a bad experience. I couldn't wear short pants or shorts for weeks. A student hurt himself on the playground one day and I showed him my bruise. I told him I took the training wheels off my bike and wiped out. His tears stopped and he laughed at me. Gotta laugh at yourself to stop from crying sometimes.

Kisses

Heidi gave me some kisses one day when she was at the store. She is soooooo cute. She is too little to jump on your lap when you kneel on the floor. She has the cutest face ever. So, I used some of my favorite Basic Grey paper because it is probably the only picture I'll ever get with her. I have an appreciation for Pomeranians because my mother had one that was an angel.

Today is Mother's Day

This is probably my favorite page of the weekend. I used some Wild Asparagus and found my coveted Wilma Basic Grey Chipboard letters. I Glimmer Misted them with various colors to find the right shade and then Glossy Accented over them. Again, it is a simple page; but I wanted to see the roses that my children got for me for Mother's Day this year.

Opening Day

Very plain page about Mother's Day at the race track. Just used some grey cardstock and black for tires. Used some old rub-ons for the arrows and old chipboard letters and black and white pens to fill er up.

I Am A Mother Because Of You

Lucas needed a picture of me for school, so I decided to make a copy for myself and do a page. Lucas and me just before Mothers' Day 2008. I used Wild Asparagus paper and Prima flowers.

Oopsie Daisy

A dare is a dare. Everyone at the Spring Fling expected me to wear jeans and a t-shirt--so . . . I dressed up. It was quite the sight for everyone. I had to take a few pictures so that I would remember just how silly I looked. I painted some chipboard daisies and for some reason OOPSIE DAISY seemed like the perfect title. CRAZY DAISY!!!

Sharon At One

We have this wonderful new paper in the store that works so well with black and white photos. I pulled some more older pictures out of my stash and had so much fun with all of this pink stuff. There are not many pictures of me as a child (since I am the fourth of four), so when I do a page, I use fun stuff. I used some new flourishes in the store, new paper and die cuts, cri-cut for the title, old flowers and some ribbon.