Digi Dare #9

THEME: This dare challenges us to face & embrace our bodies. More specifically, our oh so lovely breasts.

POINTS:
10 points for scrapping within the theme.
10 points for journaling within the theme.
5 points for a using a photo where cleavage is present.
5 points for using pink on your page.

WOW, not a subject that I would ever think to do on my own. Totally outside my comfort zone. But here it is, for what it's worth.

Journaling read:

They have faithfully fed five hungry babies.
But now, in their middle age, they are rebelling;
heading south to the border. Just like Thelma and Louise.

Kit used is Digi Chicks Love Better Than Chocolate

POINTS:
10 points for scrapping within the theme.
10 points for journaling within the theme.
5 points for a using a photo where cleavage is present. (there is so cleavage present. You just can't see it)
5 points for using pink on your page.

total points = 30

Total points for October = 145

Digi Dare #8

THEME: This week is all about an amazing gift we call friendship. Think about that person (or even pet) that you couldn't live without. It could even be someone else's relationship that you admire. Maybe one of your children's relationships. Whatever is may be, think about the strong bonds that surround you.

CREATIVE CHALLENGES: Have your main photo in the shape of a circle, and use a quote that best fits the theme of your layout.

15 Points for scrapping within the theme
10 Points for using a circle photo
5 Points for using a friendship quote

These are my cropping cronies. We have so much fun together. We just returned from a weekend at the lake. I can call on these women for anything. One of them went dumpster diving with me to retrieve my daughter's retainer after she threw it away at lunchtime at school. One has taught me the essence of faith and courage as she helped her husband through an organ transplant. One is a single mom raising an adopted daughter. She is the most generous person I know. One is a teacher to special needs kids. She has taught me patience when I thought I had none left. We laugh, we cry, we play and scrap. We are true friends; life friends.

Poem reads:

Bubble, Bubble, toil and trouble
My mojos lost and I'm a big old puddle
Sisters of scrapping, join in my plea
find the muse who has abandoned me
Gather thy tools of scrapping fame
cutters, scissors, whatever their name
Bring back the joy, return the glee
Send my mojo back to me.

Kit used is Shabby Princess Holiday Sampler Halloween Piece of Cake
Poem written by Jennie Pak

Dare #8 Points
15 Points for scrapping within the theme
10 Points for using a circle photo5 Points for using a friendship quote
total = 25 points

Digi Dare #7

Dare #7
Create a layout depicting your favorite thing about where you live. Be it your bedroom, your house, your town, your country, your planet, whatever you choose.

Journaling reads:

My Room With a View
This is the view from my livingroom. Actually every room in the back of my house shares this view. I can see 180 degrees of mountains. I’m a mountain girl at heart and thisview could not be more perfect for me. I never tire of looking out the window. The scenery changes from minute to minute.I love watching a storm roll in or the fabulous sunsets. I love sitting on the couch in the morning and seeing the day begin. I can’t imagine how I ever lived without such a gorgeous view in the past. I can’t imagine ever living anywhere else.

Kit used is Shabby Princess Moody Blues
Wood frame is from Digital Freebies Classical Guitar
Font is Mom's Typewriter

15 points for using a photo that represents where you live
5 points for using a grungy font on your layout
5 points for using a flower on your page
5 points for journaling about why you love where you live.

Dare #7 Total points = 30

Digi Dare #6

Digi Dare #6 THEME: We all have those moments... the moments where something just clicks and all of a sudden your eyes are wide open. The dare this week is to scrap one of those moments. Maybe it was the second you fell in love, or the time you looked into your newborns eyes, or heck, the second you realized you were a kick-butt digi scrapper! Whatever your moment is, please share it with us.

CREATIVE CHALLENGES: Include a photo either from your moment or that represents your moment as well as the word "moment" somewhere on your page.

POINTS:
15 Points for scrapping your perfect moment
10 points if you include a photo either from your moment or that represents your moment.
5 points for using the word moment in your title or journaling.

Kit used is DigiChicks lynnridge

Journaling reads:

My AHA Moment: I grew up in the land of “MaybeLater”. We would vacation on the isle of “We’llSee”. As I child I didn’t know that there was any other way. A request was answered with either maybe later or we’ll see. I don’t recall ever hearing “OK, let’s do it.” When I got older I began to realize how frustrating maybe later and we’ll see were to hear. I hated asking for something because I knew what the answer would be. I vowed that as a parent I would not use those two phrases in such a knee jerk way. But, like all of us, I could see shadows of my parents in my own parenting style. Now and then one of the dreaded two would pass my lips. My Aha Moment came at the tender age of 32. Can you spell l-a-t-e b-l-o-o-m-e-r? I was barely pregnant with my 5th child. I wanted to take a trip to see my parents over spring break. My husband couldn’t get time off to join us. The 16 hour drive was slightly daunting to me with four children and my present condition. But I really wanted to go. I casually mentioned the trip to my friend Ruth. She said that she and her daughter would love to come with us, if we’d have them. I stopped dead in my tracks. Wait….you can just do that? You can decide to do something and just DO IT? This was all so new and strange to me. I called my mom to tell her that we were planning to come. She said something like “That’s a nice idea. Let me know if it works out.” I assured her that we were coming. She continued with “if you’re able.” We went back and forth. She couldn’t wrap her brain around the fact that I was really going to do it. At that moment I realized that my life is in my hands. I can choose to do something or not. But I can choose. I don’t have to wait for permission. I can just reach out and grab it. This lesson has been instrumental in starting my own biannual scrapbook camp and helping my husband open our own business; two things I would have never considered possible before.

Dare #6 points:
total = 30

Dare #5

Theme: This week we are going to challenge you with "A day in the Life of..." Scrap a day in the life of you, your child, your pet, family, whatever you want!

Creative Challenge: the creative challenge of using a calendar or planner page on your layout.

15 points for the creative challenge of using a calendar or planner page on your layout.
10 points for the theme
5 points for including a photo that shows something from your day (can be one picture or multiple pictures

Here's my week 5 entry for the Digi Dares. A day in the life of my hands. From the moment I open my eyes in the morning until just before I shut them at night, my hands are busy. I wake early to enjoy a quiet cup of coffee, check email and read the paper. Then its right to work on the business accounts, deposits and whatnot. Then off to the restaurant to serve meals and wash dishes. Home again and more cleaning, cooking and household chores. Then driving kids to and fro. My hands never stop until I go to bed at night.

Kit used is Two Pea's Cottage Bluff

15 points for the creative challenge
10 points for the theme
5 points for including a photo

Total week 5 = 30