I am not going to Hell :) Words everyone wants to hear !!!

So many things have happened in my life in the past three months.

 I have not been able to post to the blog or scrapbook for more than just work.

It hit me that I miss my scrapbook life so very much. Someone said to me a few months ago that I should stop scrapbooking about my life and start living it.....That was some of the worst advice I ever got !!!!

LOL

(love ya anyway, you know who ya are, but it was horrible advice)

When I sat today in church, for the first time in years, I held in my hand my little bible that I carried with me during the time in my life when I was the closest to God that I have ever been and as I turned the pages I read the notes I had written in it from the services that I had attended and who the minister was and what his message was, etc and I started to think about my scrapbooks. I held that bible in my hand with prayers written in it from various trials I had faced and I just couldnt help but to think that when I was scrapbooking everyday I was always in a frame of mind that made me thankful for Gods blessings in my life. I realized that I am better when I scrapbook !!!!

Mike & Mikey & I went to church with my brothers family today and it was one of the three or four times that Mikey has been to church in his life. (That is so sad) He loved it. He said to me at bedtime that he wants to go to Church on ALL the Sundays !!!

 It hit me today that I refuse to put myself around anyone who will not think postitive about my ability to save my little struggling family. We have suffered thru so much this past year... The hysterectomy, the fire, the accident and untold things that cant even be spoken outloud.... but tonight for some reason I know that we are going to be okay. A year ago I had someone who was important to Mike & I say to me that they look forward to the "grand and glorious" day that my family would  fall apart.....those words hurt worse than I had realized. 

Today I sat beside my brother in church and he leaned over and told me that I am not going to Hell and it made me cry. I loved the sound of his approval and the sound of prayers and the songs and the fellowship. I love my brother. I am so proud of him and I am so thankful for his wife Angie. She has been a part of my life for so many years I cant remember what life was like without her in my family and I am so thankful for her. I have two sister in laws and they are as different as day is from night....but I feel so very blessed to have both of them in my life.

They are both wonderful mothers to my nieces and they put up with my brothers...lol

I cant tell you that I am ready to be faithful to my blog. But I can tell you that I am ready to be faithful to my family. For the first time in a very very very long time...I look forward to tomorrow.

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Vacation & Blog catch up

I wanted to drop in for a quick post to tell all of you that I am not dead ! LOL

I have had so much going on in my life over the past month or two that I have not had much time to do the things that I love so much. (photography & scrapbooking & blogging)

I miss the blog. I feel as though so much has happened since my last post. I dont know where to even begin.

I am not ready to even try to sum it all up. I have not scrapbooked in over a month and for me that is a very long dry spell !

I promise....there is lots of scrapbooking still in me. I just gotta stop scrapin about my life for a few minutes and actually live thru this part....I guess I have always said...scrapbooking captures your memories but there are some things...lol....I prefer to forget !

Vacation is planned and I am super excited about the trip.

In my life I have always dreamed of going to certain places. I made a list years ago as a child. Over the past 20 years as a grown up I have crossed things off that list as I was blessed to do them. I posted that list some time ago. One of the things on it was to visit Hershey Pa and Gettysburg. I can not wait to get there this weekend and I am taking my laptop so that I can catch up on everyones blogs over the week. I am not really sure that I am a relax kinda person. I remember that once a long time ago I knew how...lol...I am hoping that a few days in I will be able to slow down enough and forget the B&B and just enjoy having NOTHING to do.

I will blog the vacation and hopefully all the great scrapbook stores I find along the way from WV to PA. If ya'll know of any places I cant miss be sure to comment me and let me know. Oh I so gotta get my picture standing on the dang Mason/Dixon Line ! lol

Okay the adventures await......

As time goes by...mom & dad page

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This page is of my mom and dad. They have been married for as long as I can remember...lol

My mom is forever in my mind as she is in this photo of her in 1990. The frosted hair, full on makeup, dressed all matching and most of all I remember her as flirty and funny and full of life. No matter what she ever does or becomes as she ages....I close my eyes and I see this person.

My daddy is sneaky and rotten and beautiful. I think of him this way. I look at the photos of him and the person he is today and he hasnt changed that much to me. I am now and forever to be....My daddys girl.

I played with sewing machine stitches on this one. I love girly paper and I dont care what the subject is...Frilly girl-ish paper is my very favorite.

-Wendy

You keep me in stitches Page

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Oh how I loved this page...

You know how you open a magazine and flip.....well...this was the first page that

the new scrapbook trends magazine opened up to today and I had to give it a try...

Love the sewing machine stitches ! I love love love this one !!!

-Wendy

Lots of circles !!!

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Okay this page was sorta out there for me because I NEVER do a two page layout and I NEVER do this many photos ! hehe

It was fun and I may actually do a few more two page ones.

I started out doing two pages years ago when I began scrapbooking and got away from it because to be honest I like the embellishments and all the other things on the page as much as I do the actual photos...lol

When I look back thru my books I see that I used to never do a page that didnt have a two page match...Okay its fun for a few pages...but I am sticking to the single page ones....

-Wendy

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Okay this one was fun. The photo was given to me by a friend recently and it totally cracks me up ! Thats me at like Im thinking 10 or so ?

 How funny is that big ole perm my mother so graciously gave me !!!!

She was a hair dresser and she tried every new thing out on my head I think !!!

-Wendy

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Okay this one was hard....I am totally going to start doing my journal writing in my handwriting....ugh...I hate my handwriting ! But I am trying to start doing it...slowly...baby steps...

Today I put my sewing machine right smack on my scrapbooking table so I am commited to doing sewing on pages too ! hehe

Happy Scrapbooking

-Wendy

My brother Dee Page

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This page was fun to do because of all the layers but mostly because the whole time I was making it I was thinking about my little brother Dee. He isnt my Little Brother...He is a year almost older than me...I tease that My mom must have gotten pregnant on the way home from the hospital with me after having him because from Feb til April he and I are the same age.

The Journal tags on this page say...

When I rmember you as my brother I think back and I see a little boy that was rotten. you were so skinny and yet you were as tough as anyone I had ever met. You were looking for a fight and always won !

you were one of the most handsome boys I ever saw and my girlfriends were totally in love with you. You would whip anyone that messed with me and I was never afraid when you were there. I am always proud when someone says your name. You are my big brother and I love you.

I was remembering the day that he met my husband. He stood toe to toe with him and looked him dead in the eyes and said...If you ever hurt her....Every day that you leave your house....I will be outside...And every day...I will whip your A** ! (smile)

Now thats a good brother :)

-Wendy

Girls make him Smile Page

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Mikey is full of smiles when it comes to girls. He doesnt really care if they are young or old, blonde or red head...if its a girl he is in !

Kandis is his favorite right now !!! hehe

The little hearts on this page came from big lots on a recent find and come a whole bunch of them on a sheet for 1.50 the paper is from the Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday and Ever After line. The Smile-O-Meter is from a set of chipboard sticker things that I got the very first year I was scrapbooking forever ago and are made by K&Co.

-Wendy

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My brothers Girls Page

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I have been trying to get all the old photos of friends and family into some books because I find...as you probably have noticed...that I scrapbook mostly Mikey. So a challenge for me lately has been to try to use photos of other people to hurry and get them all into books so that I can just focus on Mikey ! lol

These are my brothers girls and they are such beautiful girls !

-Wendy

Memories page

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Okay it can never be a bad thing to have a tree on a page !

These little photos of me as a little girl are so dang funny. I must have not wanted to do them in the one from Kindergarten. I am seriously crying ! My poor mom !

-Wendy

Daddy Page

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This page was one me and my friend Kelly did on National Scrapbooking Day on May 1. I think she and I both are loving the journalling around the outside of the pages. We got a little excited over the jewels on this one. HeHe. Never enough Jewels !!!!

-Wendy

Family page

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This is a simple layered page but I still like it. The Family is a jewel sticker that we found recently at Michaels on clearance. Me and My friend Kelly bought all of them we could find ! lol

The jewels around the circle were a sheet of jewels and I used my Hot Off the Press circle template to make the circle and dots for placement.

Elizabeth in the top ten commenters on my blog has won one of the HOTP templates designed by me ! All she had to do was stop by and comment my blog and be in the top ten and her name was randomly chosen from the top 10 commenters list and Now she is getting a free Spinner Wheel Template !

-Wendy

You & me Grandma Page

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This one is simple and sweet. I love my Mama Chris.

-Wendy

Silly Brothers Page

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This page was somewhat of a copy from a scrapbook trends magazine. The colors made me and my friend Kelly nervous when we were doing it. LOL Lots of rub ons and layers of junk :)

-Wendy

So Proud of You Page

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This page was so fun. I have never used the stitch words. I now need some ! Kelly brought hers for our little scrapbook day and I gave it a try. Lordie it takes a while and I am somewhat of a speed scrapper but it was so worth it !

The jewel clusters were part of a sale at Michaels Last week. They have started restocking with new stuff and clearing out the old :) Nothing makes me happy like clearance scrapbooking stuff ! hehe

This photo is one of the very few that I have of my daddy in the service and I am so proud of him !!!

Quilt blocks

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Okay this page is my take on a quilt block. Love me some quilt blocks !!!

-Wendy

Surprise Page

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This page makes me happy :)

It was my version of the front of this months scrapbook trends magazine. It was a fun page. I want to order the little flag punch that Hot Off the Press just started selling because I love these flag Pages I keep seeing everywhere. So cute !!!!

The little bird was a new cuttlebug die and oh my goodness its sweet. Just cut the little cloud out by hand. Its a happy page.

-Wendy

My Brother Page & Butterflies Template

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This page is actually fire engine red but my scanner didnt see it that way. I used the layout from the May 2010 issue of scrapbook trends magazine but changed it to fit Brother for  my title and I used my

Hot Off the Press 15 Butterflies and Dragonflies Template (designed by me) to make the Butterflies for this page.

This template is awesome because no matter what page you are doing...using the scraps from the page...you can have a butterfly that matches perfectly. A total must have in every scrapbook room.

The film strip is felt and I got it from the Louisville, Ky CKC convention. I love it !

The photo of my brother and his wife is from when the got married. I cant remember what year it was...because...well I am getting old ! hehe

Somewhere around 20 years ago because My son is 21 now...Lordie he was in the wedding so there ya go...It was a long time ago...hehe

The little pic of him in his preschool graduation is the cutest thing. I love his little sweater. he reminds me so darn much of my little Mikey.

Happy Scrapbooking !!!

-Wendy

Once upon a time....

The story on the card that pulls out goes....

I was thinking when I saw this photo of one time when I was a little girl about this size...My brothers and I saw a set of Guns in the Sears Catalog (catalogs were paper versions of online shopping galleries...we had those before the internet..lol) The gun set had three costumes with it...one for each of us and guns and knives, hats, and all the things to play cowboy and indian for three kids....Me & My two brothers, Tatar & Dee, decided that we wanted it...and dad told us that we would get it for christmas !

That year on Christmas morning we had so very much....as usual...and when the gifts were all opened...the three of us kids were so upset because we just knew we were getting that two page spread of cowboy & indian stuff...Our family joked for years and years later...we joke to this day some thirty five years later...that maybe this year...we will get our cowboy & indian order in time for Christmas.

It was just something that Dad told us to get us to shut up about the thing...lol...We had more than we could play with already....

When I saw you in this little outfit playing dress up it made me think of us wanting it all those years ago.

 

I wonder what you will wish for...I hope that I can give you enough...

 

-Wendy