Wednesday Scrapbooking

This is one of the things I have come to love about Wednesdays. It's my one day a week that I know I will get a lot of scrapbooking done. So in the effort to finish last year, and I find myself working backwards from the end of the year to the beginning (I still haven't done St. Patty's day or the weekend trip to Semi-ah-Moo, which will never be matched in the most stories from one night). I'm not sure if this is a good plan of attack, and I really want to hold myself accountable to scrapping everything that I think is important from last year, and I'm working really hard at not getting ahead of myself and starting this year, as tempting as it is.

So this is my desk 2007, and things that are very me.

Buddy and I took a lot of walks this fall, and continue to do so. He's 14yrs old, mean and hairy. I never thought that we would get along, but we seem to be doing okay. It makes me pretty happy to come home to him jumping up and down excited to see me!

The holidays: boat show, the Olympic, drinking at Kate's on Christmas, and of course, drinking at Murphys :)

And us all dressed up and pretty for New Years! I used a glue pen and put glitter on the top in swirlies. Looked like fun!

Backlog

Here's a bunch of the pages I've done within the last couple weeks. Finally busted out my camera and took pictures of all of them! =o)

Think before you speak

Sometimes we just don't think of the effect we say will have on the people that hear it. A simple comment like "I would never wear that shirt" about a passer-byers shirt, when your girlfriend, who hears this comment, and owns the exact same shirt, could really upset her. When it may look fabulous on her, and you can't take it back. You've said it, the dammage is done.

An exercise for a communications workshop has you take a tube of toothpaste and a plate and rush to see who can get all the toothpaste out the fastest. Then once it's all out you're told you need to put it all back in with a toothpick. The thing is you can't. Once you say something stupid, you can't go back and change it, it's out there, and you can try to back track and compensate for what you said, but the fact of the matter is people will always remember what you said, or did. Lesson is- think about what you say and how it will be taken before you say it. Or chose your words wisely.

All these thoughts led up to this page I made of my sister and I. She had told me a couple weeks ago, that if we weren't sisters that she didn't think we would be friends. I thought about what she said a grea deal. Would we be friends if we weren't sisters? I had never considered that we would ever not be friends. But the thing is we haven't always been friends. We used to HATE each other, she used to write "die bitch" in my shower, or crack my head with an accordian. We've only recently decided we like each other, and that we do want to be friends.
We made that choice. I chose to be friends with her, and I since then I would never have thought about us not being friends, or that she doesn't think we have things in common, or enjoy each other's company.
Well I love her, and I want her to know that I choose to be friends with her, we're friends just because we're sisters. We're friends for because we choose to be friends.

And I shouldn't have done this already cause this is a 2008 night out, and I don't have a book for this year yet, so it's sitting lonely on my desk until I get a new book, but I wanted to play around with some accents and pink. I was in a pink mood. So here's my first completed page for 2008 and it's April. I have some catching up to do!

Meat

Oh and I ate two bites of chicken today. I haven't had any meat since I went to Bali, which was October 31st of last year, so it's been a long time. My first bites were Starbucks chicken in pesto, and the chicken was overdone, and kinda blah. Not really sure if I want to eat it or not, but there you go. No more vegetarianism for me :P

Too tired to go out- I scrap

Halloween seems like ages ago! But so many fun photos. I had to limit the ones I used so I would just have two pages. But I think I got the good ones. Hopefully we'll be the 3 musketeers again next year cause that was the coolest costume!
Baby Sophia's baptism, or christening, I'm not sure what you call it. I played with the eyelet punch to hold the fabric down and that was fun! And using fabric on my page for the first time, which was cool. Trying to play with textures more.
My sister took this photo of my when we were in Hawaii. I loved this paper, and I just got this small notebook with cool print on it to write notes. Didn't feel the need to write too much on this one though. Just wanted to remember the sunset on the beach, climbing around on the rocks in the water. Enjoying being warm. I want to go back!