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yet another quiz

Which Scrapbooking Paper Collection are You?

My Results:
You are CHATTERBOX paper! You enjoy being a social butterfly and tend sometimes to think of scrapbooking more as a social event! When at a crop you might find yourself talking more than scrapping! But that's okay, when you do do a page it is bright and sunny just like your personality!

Which Scrapbooking Paper Collection Are You?
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My Response:
Butterfly, schmutterfly! But I do like to talk....sometimes a lot.

life is a picture

The question is not what you look at but what you see! ~Henery David Thoureau

morning coffee LO

A morning without coffee is like sleep.  ~Author Unknown

I admit it, I'm addicted.  Not necessarily to SB, but to any brand actually.  Which reminds me...I started reading A Million Little Pieces today to see what all the fuss is about. So far, it just makes me want to take a shower and never ingest anything stronger than Tylenol...but then I'm only on about page 43 or so. More on that later.

Remember LO

All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. ~Marcus Aurelius

I remember my Grandpa as a tall, lanky gentle man with large hands who made me feel safe. I knew for certain that all these were true, except possibly the part about him being tall because, of course, to a child all adults seems tall. So I phoned my dad to find out when my grandfather was born (1889) and how tall he was. My dad said that Grandpa was about 5'10, not what I would now consider tall as my own son towers over me at 6'4". But I did find out some other interesting facts that I didn't know previously.

I knew that my grandfather had worked for my grandmother's father's construction company. He was not only gentle, but shy. He did muster up the nerve to ask my Grandma out on a date. What I learned today was that the first time he kissed her, he did so through the screen door...and then ran. Maybe he had seen her sister, Myrtle, standing behind my grandmother. Aunt Myrtle, it seems, had a fairly good collection of jewelry which she had collected from men that she had dated (or so I was formerly told). In fact I have a ruby ring which was hers. What I learned today is that she was a bonified well-sought prostitute who at one juncture, worked out of a hotel on Broad Street in St. Louis. (Nothing like airing the family laundry online.) This fact was hard to align with my memory of Aunt Myrtle. Even as a child, I regarded my Aunt Myrtle as a shriveled up, chain-smoking haggard old woman (and need I say, a little scary?). Well, my husband has always bragged about the murderous train robbers on his side of the family so I guess that makes us about even.

new beginnings

I haven't taken any photos lately so I'm posting scrap book pages in their place. Normally, my pages would have an actual photo on it but this LO was in response to 2Peas Challenge of the Week which was to scrap your New Years resolutions. Mine, as you can see, are not actual resolutions, but more like intentions (so much for commitment issues). The colors in the scan turned out rather funky but I guess thats par. I am finally putting to use some of the materials I have been reorganizing...it's fairly impressive how quickly I managed to destroy any semblance of order I had created. I used this quote in a reply to Emily, but it's just so darned perfect for my work area I will repeat it here:

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. ~John Kendrick Bangs

And oh yes, one more thing....I found THE most perfect rubber stamps EVER and ordered them this morning. They are MAGNETIC POETRY words! The Magnetic Poetry website has all kinds of exciting stuff for those of us who love words and word play. You can even create MP poems online. Cool, huh?

girls...fun

I come home in the morning light
My mother says when you gonna live your life right
Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones
And girls they want to have fun
Oh girls just want to have fun
~Cindi Lauper

Girls DO want to have fun. It seems it's especially easy to resort to adolescent behavior with friends who knew you in your adolescence. (My own adolescence extended well into my early twenties and I have numerous witnesses to confirm this.) I phoned my college friend Lynn in Chicago (you know, Lynnie, if you got yourself a BLOG I could highlight your name and people could click right on it!) and we actually started laughing even before the conversation started...to try to explain this phenomenon here would never suffice...you had to be there.

I think my fun today will include finishing a New Year goals layout and maybe baking some Christmas cookies...finally. (Actually, just good ole Tole House which I never got around to before the holidays.) Of course the fun in that will come in eating them!

if Layout

I completed a scrapbook layout for the first time in AGES yesterday. And thanks to Emily's advice, I was able to quickly scan and stitch the pages...even with Basic Grey's scratchy paper designs, it is almost impossible to see where the merging takes place. This LO was the first time I started with paper and was so anxious to play, that I just used photos I happened to have just lying around. Of course my desk which was so neat just days ago has quickly returned to it's disorderly state...but I'm certainly the happier for it!