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India Arie's song has taken on a whole new meaning for me. I've been having hair problems for six years now and this isn't the first time I've gone this short, but it was necessary. I was having terrible thinning problems, the texture was awful and it was always on my mind. I have when trivial things sap my energy so now it's gone and I feel free. I am not my hair but soul that lies within ( or however the lyrics go!)
Recently, I did a little something for myself. I got a new hairdo (deserves a whole post by itself), manicure, pedicure and my eyebrows shaped. When I cam home from this little "feel better" escapade I found a box on my front porch. I wasn't expecting anything and didn't recognize the return address. Boy was I surprised when I found an African basket and bags of chocolate inside...I felt like such a celebrity becaused I had been blessed by a third R.A.K. (random act of kindness).
Thank you Sherri.
My first two R.A.K.'s came from good friends Lisa Renee Young and Barbra W. earlier in the week...they brought me goodies from their latest scrapbook shopping.
Nine of us got together Saturday, Sept 16th for a late night crop...I know there were some sleepy ladies in church the next morning, but we had a great time. Crop facilitators...LLB had an exceptional time teaching these relatively newbies, new tips, tricks and techniques. These ladies excitement over learning rubberstamping techniques, die cutting titles with Sizzix and visiting some inspiring blogs was off the hook! No matter what product or tool was needed, the Lisa-Lisa team had it covered. Here's a few shots.
Here are four Classy Scrappers...we were work'in those kits.
If you don't want to miss the fun...get ready...next late nighter (a 12 hour event) is coming up October 28.
Still catching up...Here's last week's challenge...another digital page (too lazy to go to the studio to do a paper page)...now I have to go buy $80 worth of ink cartridges to print these dag on pages.
I'm a week behind on my own weekly challenges, but here's last week which was to scrap about Labor. This is one of the few digital pages I've done, but I like to give every tool and technique a try...at least once.
Big thanks to Ramona Williams for the freebie digital kit. This exercise moved me out of my comfort zone. (Check out the three new links to the right too)
Life week I had the stark reminder of how much my family is at risk living here outside of Washington, D.C. On the way home from work last week I saw a military missle with a police and fire escort. I later found out that it was on it's way to the airport to take it's place in protecting the nation's capital.
I've had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes all day hearing the accounts of that dreadful day. I've labeled an album, Life after September 11, 2001 and it's full of our Fall activities and blank pages for Sept. 11th. I've typed up what I was doing and what the kids were doing on that day, I've collected the magazines and momentos from that day, but I've yet to actually create pages. I feel it's even harder now after 5 years because now I hear stories from the people who survived the attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and I get choked up hearing story after story of how God was truly in the midst of it all.
Sorry to say it may be another 5 years before I can bring myself to actually scrap the day's events. All of the other albums on my shelf are complete (over 70 of them) but I'll just take my time with that one day in history...it's a day I'll never forget.
Wow! That's all I can say about the flood of e-mails that I've gotten from my NSA Article. One of those encouragers is Tasra Dawson, her blog is chock full of information & links. Check out her entry for today...It gave me the encouragement to buckle down to get those last few remaining things done to get my book to print. Monday, I wanted to just give up because I didn't get anything book related done over the holiday weekend. But making a list of recent accomplishments gives me encouragement to go on.
Jonathan is so proud of his accomplishment...making his very own pizza at Uno's.
