As grownups, my cousin and I are not close. By a long stretch. Our lives have gone two very different directions and when we occasionally see each other, we don’t have a lot to say. Yes, it is sad, but it is reality. However, as children, we were always together and we had lots of fun. I made this digitial layout with supplies from ScrapGirls. I am new at digital layouts but I’m having a lot of fun. My class with Jessica Sprague is going really well, I think I really get it! And I am loving it. My desk with all the paper on it over there is calling my name and I feel a bit guilty. I think i will end up a hybrid scrapbooker but the jury is still out. Sure would be cheaper to go all digital. But oh I love opening new packages of embellishments and paper! oh the paper!

This is another digital layout, this one using papers from my Jessica Sprague class, made by K Pertiet. Some really lovely stuff. This is about my grandparents. I did not know my grandfather very well, he died when I was three, but my grandmother loved him so much. She never stopped loving him, all the way to her last breath, fighting Alzheimer’s. He was what she remembered. Not me, not my dad so much, but her Bud. And I think that’s special.

I don’t think I posted this before. I am participating in a project with Shimelle. We document the 25th of every month for an entire year.

This is the *top* of my first month. Its a landscape album and all together, I used 12 photographs on my layout. How cool is that? Check out the project, you can always start, its never too late!

This is the *bottom* of my first month. We had a good day that day and I can’t wait to see what the rest of my 25th’s bring!!!

Now I’m off to run my daughter to school and head to the gym. Don’t tell my trainer or my husband, but I’m starting to like the place. Makes me happy to feel good about my health and slowly I’m learning to love the body I’m in. Check out Kal Barteski for more about loving life just the way you are. I’m off! Its going to be a hot, muggy, sticky, GREAT day!

Okay, so I’m back and I uploaded one more layout. I just did this in PSE6, all digital with a kit from Songbird. This kit is gorgeous and the proceeds go to charity AND its only 8 bucks! With seriously, tons of papers and embellishments from a bunch of well known digital designers. Anyway, I had fun with it and I’m a beginner so if I can do it, its pretty easy folks.

Okay, I’m off to do a little bit of playing with paper, no more computer this evening.

Night night.