A Matter of MemoriesA Matter of MemoriesA personal blog about a working moms everyday life as well as her scrapbooking and photography pursuits. Also includes a weekly scrapbooking meme or challenge. Articles
Global warming is real...
2007-05-01 04:03:00 ...and we are feeling it now in South Dakota! Ya know, it would be certainly be nice to have a few weeks or even a month or so of moderate spring temps (in the mid-60's) each spring so that we could have the money-saving benefit of not having to run the heat or the air. But, no, of course not. We simply MUST go from 40 degrees and below to 90 degrees and above in a matter of days! Enough with More About: Global Warming , Global , Real , Ming , Armin
Sunday Spur for Scrapbookers #14
2007-04-29 16:18:00 There are so many different views of creativity. I read a book not too long again called Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain. It included interviews with several successful designers and several shared their take on creativity. “You are a creative. ‘What’s a creative?” you ask. In its purest form, a ‘creative’ is anyone who creates. Anything. If you make More About: Sunday , Scrapbook
The art of compromise...
2007-04-28 03:17:00 So, my hubby got another boat. I'm not even really crazy about the first boat (getting stranded on the Missouri in a boat that doesn't want to stay running isn't exactly my idea of fun, but that's a story for another day) and now he has ANOTHER boat. It's a small one - a 'Jon boat', I think he called it. Evidently, that's supposed to be some sort of consolation to me according to him. Of course, More About: Promise , The A , The Art
What's your visual DNA...
2007-04-27 04:15:00 Swiped this cool website through Jessica Sprague's blog, who swiped it from her friend Michelle's blog, who swiped it from her friend Judi's blog. Hey, I guess us scrapper's are all just a bunch of swipers, but at least we give each other credit!! (I also seem to have the sound of Dora, the Explorer going through my head right now saying, "Swiper, NO SWIPING!" Can you tell I have a young daughter More About: Visual
A pennies worth of history...
2007-04-26 03:27:00 Here's a fun website where you can view "Penn y Postcards" (postcards from the early 1900's that cost $.01 to send) from your state...maybe even your own hometown. There's only one from mine - Tabor, SD. It is and always has been a pretty small town. Here's what the main street looked like in the early 20th century... Obviously, the bigger the city, the more postcards you'll find. This could be More About: History , Stor , Worth , Hist
Sunday Spur for Scrapbookers #13
2007-04-22 16:45:00 It is no surprise that fashion can be a huge inspiration for many things in our lives. According to HGTV, it can be a great source of inspiration for home decorating and while I agree, I think it can be an even greater resource for inspiration in scrapbooking. Recently, the decorating section of HGTV's website featured a piece on the latest colors to hit the fashion runway for Spring 2007. Here More About: Sunday , Scrapbook
A Review of "Real Women Scrap" by Tasra Dawson
2007-04-21 19:07:00 A review of Real Women Scrap by Tarsa Dawson . Amazon Description: Real Women Scrap offers guidance for transformative scrapbooking and creative living. Filled with practical tips, inspiring stories, and insightful strategies, this life-changing guide shows readers how to use key elements in scrapbooking to reconnect with themselves. Drawing parallels between the lessons of the scrapbook page and More About: Review , View
Sanjaya FINALLY got the boot!
2007-04-21 04:30:00 I know I'm not sharing any 'new' news here, but I am just so happy that Sanjay a finally got the boot. My work week was so busy, I wasn't even able to watch and inadvertantly found out yesterday that he was the one to go on Wednesday night...honestly, I hadn't even thought to check because I wasn't getting so used to (and disgruntled by) the fact that he kept making it through somehow. But here it More About: Finally , Boot , Fina
This is why I don't like to watch the news...
2007-04-19 05:36:00 My husband loves to watch all those dooms day programs on Discovery. You know the ones...they're always about the next ice age, the meteorite that going to obliterate earth, or the next biblical flood. He makes fun of me because I don't like to watch them. But who really wants to think about those things and how they might effect us (or our poor children) sometime in the future?? I sure don't. More About: News , Watch , The News , Like
The park is farther than you think...
2007-04-18 05:08:00 Kaitlin has been experiencing some serious spring fever for several weeks now...just itching to get outside and play, asking to go to the park and such. Well, yesterday, with our beautiful, finally-like-spring weather, I decided we'd walk to the park after I got home from work. I had assumed we'd bring out the stroller and Kaitlin would 'enjoy the ride'. But, no, she decided that she was going to More About: Park , Think , Fart
A birthday celebration and Easter #2
2007-04-17 05:33:00 Steve, Kristi and the boys came down for a 'second Easter ' on Saturday and also to celebrate Alex's fourth birthday with us. It is so hard to believe that he could be four years old already! He is talking so much more and better...and is such a 'lovey' little boy. Just a sweetheart! He definitely gets the 'funny' award for the day. When Kaitlin and I first arrived, he came running up to me and More About: Celebration , Birthday , Birth , Brat
Sunday Spur for Scrapbookers #12
2007-04-15 15:55:00 This week's Sunday Spur is definitely something a little different...it is a challenge to extend your support and compassion to a fellow scrapper in need. I recently found out about a fellow scrapper whose 12-year old son has been diagnosed with cancer...terminal cancer. Evidently, the doctors believe that they have done all that they can do. This is just so inexplicably sad. Read Jen's More About: Scrapbook
She's a Dancing Queen
2007-04-14 19:46:00 I recently started fiddling around with the video function on my digital camera recently and have something to share with you that I hope you will enjoy! It is my sister, Lynn, that told her to "shake it." Several things run through my mind as I watch this clip: She's certainly fit right during the trip to Hawaii that she keeps asking for (I don't really know where this interest in Hawaii More About: Dancing , Queen
WHOOOOHOOOOO!!
2007-04-14 01:24:00 I am soooo excited! I got a publication request from Simple Scrapbooks today!! It is for a layout called "Under Surveillance" about Kaitlin's first day of preschool last fall and how I stalked her school bus to and from school (black and white photos and all!)...it is a fun layout and am so honored that they have requested it. It will be in featured in a special issue called "Scrapbook Play!" and
New Scrapblog...St. Patty's Day Kaitlin
2007-04-13 03:23:00 Here's a new Scrapblog I made for some pics I took of Kaitlin on St. Patty's Day... More About: S Day
A quote to ponder...
2007-04-11 04:40:00 Came across this African proverb the other day in a piece that I had to read for work about the Catholic Tradition... "I am because you are." This really struck a cord with me. I am not sure exactly what the literal African meaning is, so might have to do some research on that. I am interested on how others might interpret this quote, especially mothers (or fathers). Let me know what you think More About: Pond , Quote
One busy Easter leads to one tired kid...
2007-04-10 06:14:00 We had a nice Easter . We had a little bit of Easter on Sunday with egg dying...love this pic. Look closely...do you see anything 'wrong' with this picture?? Hmmm...I don't think that boiled eggs are supposed to float, are they? We realized right away that I must not have boiled them long enough, but do you think an impatient daughter and father would let me put them back on for awhile? Heck no. More About: Leads , Lead , Tired , Busy
Photo Contest at Serendipity Kits...
2007-04-10 02:11:00 I entered the following pictures in the April 2007 Photo Contest over at Serendipitiy Kits . OLD NAVY KAITLIN ST. PATTY'S DAY KAITLIN STEELY KAITLINSt. Patty's Day Kaitlin and Steely Kaitlin made it into the top 15 for voting. If you like, please head on over to view the entries and then go here to vote for you favorite...and if you like mine best and vote for me - even better! :-) Voting starts More About: Serendipity , Test
Sunday Spur for Scrapbookers #11
2007-04-08 04:10:00 In light of Easter tomorrow and a day full of food and family, I am posting this week's Sunday Spur a little early... This has been my dilemma...with the rise of scrapper's blogs, online galleries, etc., more and more publishers have been requiring that scrapbook layouts submitted for publication be 'never-before-seen'. In other words, not posted in these online formats. I can understand their More About: Scrapbook
A tag from the Sprague Lab...
2007-04-06 20:08:00 Today's entry was inspired by Jessica Sprague's blog. She challenged her reader's to list the top 10 things that make you happy right now... My list: *Three-day weekends!! Whoo-hoo! *THIS FACE! *My new found love of Bloglines...making it so much easier to follow my favorite blogs all in one place - it even has a nifty little 'notifier' at the bottom of your screen that tells you when new More About: Prague
A Review of Quick and Easy Scrapbook Styles by Memory Makers
2007-04-06 06:11:00 A review of Quick and Easy Scrapbook Styles by Memory Makers. Amazon Description: *Features a range of favorite scrapbooking styles *Includes helpful sidebars that explain techniques and shortcuts Quick and easy scrapbook pages really can be full of character and pizzazz. In Quick & Easy Scrapbook Styles, readers will learn the tricks and techniques for making quick scrapbook pages in six More About: Review , View
Lots of randomness for this post...
2007-04-04 06:50:00 First, how 'bout this weather? Mother Nature isn't playing nice. At least not in southeastern South Dakota. A week ago or so we were basking in the seemingly springlike sunny and upper-sixty degree weather and today it felt like winter all over again...a high around thirty and a bitterly cold wind. I even saw a few snowflakes fluttering around on my way back to work at lunchtime. The forecast More About: Randomness , Post , Ness
Sunday Spur for Scrapbookers #10
2007-04-01 17:27:00 Photography is the basis of all scrapbooking. Have you thought about trying to improve you photography or are you looking for some new ideas of what to photograph to bring your pages to life? If so, then here's a great book for you! A review of Photo Idea Index by Jim Krause. Amazon Description: From Jim Krause comes the fifth book in the popular Index series: Photo Idea Index. This More About: Sunday , Scrapbook
Professional Photography Blogs Blogroll
2006-11-27 04:51:00 Here's a list of some great blogs by professional photographers! Enjoy! If you would like me to consider adding your professional photography blog to my list, please email me here with the following information: Full Name: Your email: Name of Blog: URL of Blog: Of course, if I post your blog, I would certainly appreciate a return of the favor, if possible. :-) Now, with all that said...I More About: Blogroll , Photography , Blogs , Sion , Logs
Other Blog/Website Inspiration & Resources for Scrapbooking
More articles from this author:2006-11-27 04:41:00 There is some great resources for inspiration on the world wide web and many of them do not fit within the 'blog' catagory. On this page, you will find numerous resources...some are blogs, some are websites, all are inspirational. Please visit often, as this page will be updated frequently as I find new sites. You will see a (*DATE) in front of the sites most recently added.) If you know of a More About: Website , Resources , Inspiration , Blog , Scrapbooking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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