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Talk about a GREAT feeling!  I did a layout, started a new "About Me" album, which I’ve been KIND of wanting to do, but was afraid…  not ONLY that, but I got OUT of the rut!!!  My layouts have recently been looking all the same, ribbon border, title typically on the bottom, with a 3 inch piece of cardstock or patterned paper to offset the rest of the paper… I’m not saying there’s anything WRONG with that, it’s just that a LOT of my layouts were looking very much alike!  I was in a major rut, and I was tired of scrapbooking.  So, last night when I was at Target, I was looking at various glitter alphabets, including some very expensive chipboard ones, and I was just drooling, but I KNEW it would be a waste of money, because you always use the vowels up really quickly, leaving a whole bunch of consonants.  It really borders on ridiculous to spend that MUCH money to get maybe 3 or 4 titles… especially when I could make my own, and customize the whole thing.  Even JUST the glitter sticker alphas were running 4-5 dollars!  Gees.  So I got some chipboard, ran it through my xyron (it makes one side sticky), then cut it out using a VERY expensive Sizzix alphabet I’ve had for a number of years, but for the last couple of years has just sat in storage.  I didn’t want to sell it or get rid of it… and I’m glad I didn’t… doing that by hand would have HURT.  So after I cut it out, I took off the backing, and stuck it in purple glitter.  It looks really fantastic!  I printed out my journaling on vellum, attached with yellow brads (in the picture, my shirt is purple and yellow tie dye), put a scallop circle Bazzill paper on top of plain purple paper… I’m liking the effect.  Here is the layout:

and here is the journaling:

I am AFRAID to begin an “About Me” album, and yet, the more I think about it, the more I am looking forward to starting it.

WHY?

Well, I think first, I didn’t know what to do with it.  That can always stop a person in their tracks.  Then, why me?  Who would care?  Oops, trick question there!!!!  I mean, I always wanted to know more about my mom, and my grandma…and my whole family.  So I have to guess my kids will care, and so will my grandkids.  Who knows after that? 
I love to write.  I love to write about anything and everything.  I’ve kept a diary for as long as I can remember.  I know when I was 10, I wanted a diary for Christmas, and I kept if ror maybe a week, and that was it.  When I was 13, I had to do a diary for an English class, so I did it for that, and that was it.  But when I got older, I kept journals in wire bound notebooks, and I’d write pages and pages… and then when I was about 24, I read them over.  And I HATED them.  All I ever wrote about was how miserable I was, how I needed to improve this or that, or the other thing, and they were just a litany of my depression, really.  So I burned them.
Oh, yes I did.  I burned them all.  You wouldn’t want to read them anyway!
About the time I got married (the second time), I started an online diary…nowadays they call it blogging.  I can’t say I’ve kept it faithfully, but there are plenty of times where I keep it up every day, and it’s a good record of Shabree’s pregnancy, and Sammi’s pregnancy, and my early married life to Jerry… my life at Apple to an extent too.  I don’t think I kept it up very well while doing Freedom Solutions (doing…as opposed to working… ha ha)

So I will see what I want to put in this “About Me” album.  I think it definitely needs a “50 Things” about me… or maybe a list of 5s… I am not sure where I will take it.  I DO like to talk about myself.  And my online diary is called “This would make a good book” so I don’t think I’ve lived a boring life by any means… in fact, I’ve done quite a few interesting things.  Some of them have just been day to day chaos and madness, ha ha.  And hopefully some day my kids, and then my grandkids, and if I’m REALLY lucky, THEIR kids, will have an interesting perspective on their mom/grandma.  I know that is something I lack, and having that kind of history can teach you a lot about yourself.

So I guess that is why I will do an “About Me” album.  Hopefully it is something my whole family can treasure…. for generations to come.  If I’m lucky.

(End journaling)

I’m going to leave notes open to anyone… so be nice :).  That can be changed…