Word of the Year

Rather than make a resolution or a series of resolutions for 2011, I decided to get on the bandwagon with Ali Edwards and choose one word for the year. Shannon and Jill agreed to do this with me, so all three of us have very different words we are focusing on and reporting our progress to each other as we go through the year.

Over at Big Picture Classes, Ali is teaching this year-long class and all we have to do is make one scrapbook page per month reflecting on our interactions/progress/personal experiences with our "words".

My word is "Learn" and here is the first page I made for my scrapbook. This is a template made by Ali Edwards, and the digital kit I used is called "Celebrate a Year in your Life" by Alison Pennington.

Would anyone care to join us in our "Word of the Year"?

Winter Trip to Wisconsin 2010

All in all, we had a nice but very short trip to Wisconsin for Xmas. I very quickly put together my scrapbook pages of the trip for my "Trips Home" album because graduate school classes are starting to get under way and I will be too busy in a few weeks. Please enjoy! Click on the images to see larger versions so you can read the journaling.

The digital kit I used for all six pages is called I Love Cocoa, designed by Kristin Cronin-Barrow at Sweet Shoppe Designs.

An Ode to Nasty Commenters

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you...nasty commenters included.

If going around peoples' blogs and leaving nasty, ugly comments is your thing...just remember that what goes around comes around eventually.

I try to keep my blog positive rather than spend all my time complaining about the stupidity of others, but I thought I would give a shout-out to the negative people out there.

If you want to leave nasty comments about perfect strangers, the least you could do is NOT hide behind a nickname and a private profile so that we are unable to track you down and courteously thank you for bringing such joy to our lives.

Scaredy cat.