Learning to Live Again

I'm starting this project very simply and may change it as I go along. For right now, I'm just using papers and supplies from the OLW digital kit and I plan on printing the pages out and putting them inside a physical 6x8 album every month. The word I'm focusing on this year is breathe . My family and I have been through a lot of trauma and turmoil over the past five years or so and this past year was a doozy. I want to focus on slowing down my thoughts and reactions and brea

Over the past 2 1/2 years, travel has become a much bigger part of my life than I imagined. My youngest child stopped coming home during college breaks, including the summer, due to a job and my middle child moved to the east coast for law school. So I started traveling to the east coast multiple times every year plus, without my youngest coming home, my husband and I started traveling more on our own. And even more recently, my mother moved into a new house in a retirement c

I started scrapbooking in 2004 and it changed who I was. Yes, that sounds hokey and goofy and just silly but until then, I didn't think I had a creative bone in my body. I had never taken an art class, couldn't draw a straight line, and wouldn't even attempt to draw or create anything with my hands. But scrapbooking opened up a part of me that I didn't know existed. It created a way for me to have something that was JUST FOR ME as I was in the throes of having three kids in f