Babbling Brook

Well its just after midnight here in Michigan. I had a busy day, I woke very early got right to it. Left the house to get a small amount of shopping done for my friends bridal shower. Got her gift, easy in and out. Went to a craft store that I'm not to fond of, but thought its been 6 months since my first visit there, let's see if things have improved. I like what their scrapbook selection is, quite huge actually but they are just weird. I'd rather not say the name of the store, they don't deserve any bit of advertising. It's just a strange store, w/ they're non computer ways, they're even closed on Sunday's, good grief. So then I'm off to visit with my mom for awhile and do some stuff for her church. I do all the signage for her church, certificates too occasionally. She asked the other day if I could do calligraphy on a baptisism certificate. Sure, I forgot that I have the skill. I don't do it very often, couldn't even tell you where my ink and nibs are. So I bought one of those quick marker type calligrapher pens. Yea, not so much. So I went off to a very good craft store Joann's, I don't mind being an advertiser for them, because they are wonderful :O) So I got a better set of the markers there and it was better, but still love the old school way of writing w/ dipping the ink. I took calligraphy in high school and my teacher had ran into my mom at the office and she told my mom that it wasn't too often that a student was better at calligraphy then her, the teacher. That made my day when my mom told me that. I haven't done it in years, and liked doing it again. When you don't do something for awhile it usually always comes right back.

Finished that for her, went to the bridal shower, and I was very impressed and very happy for my friends. They have been together 8 years as my man and I have been as well. Maybe our day is coming soon. Only God knows.

After the shower I called my brother and visited him for an hour, had some good talk. The shower at the Masonic Temple just off the road near my brothers house so I thought I'd call, and it was nice he was home alone. We don't see each other often. We shared some business ideas, and he made it seem like it was very possible for me to get started and that it will take time but it can happen. I love encouragement! Who doesn't?

I came home spent some time w/ the boy and putzed around on blogger and fb. For whatever reason there are lots of giveaways today. Love that, you should check out my 3 previous post, they have links to those blog giveaways.

Anyways, I'm feeling quite chatty right now. The boy is asleep, man is out w/ an old roommate and I'm wide awake. So last weekend I had entered a challenge and you had to take a movie prior to '85 and make a layout. That was fun, and I did a LO on Star Wars. It gave me the idea to create an album geared around movie titles. We all have that random photo we don't use or a grouping of photo's your just not sure what to do with. Or I like to have an album for only certain types of themes. ie.\School album, Love album, My family album, friend albums, etc. So I thought you don't know sometimes where to fit those photos. My thought was it would be cool to have an album and take a title and find a photo that matches the title. I have a bunch of empty albums and this theme just seems to be fun.

Another thing I like reading blogs that have creative post and consistancy. Here are some ideas I came up with:

1st/LoveLeigh Polls, this started last month. These will last the whole month and it will be polls on scrapbooking. Check it out at the top of the sidebar.
2nd/Movie Mondays, I will post a new layout w/ a movie name as my title for LO.
3rd/Flashback Fridays, a posting of old LO's will go up. I often look at my scrapbooks and think wow, my style has changed so much. It changes often as I learn new techniques.

I figure thats a good start and a bit of fun! Hopefully I can keep up w/ the postings. Well I've babbled long enough and think that I will lay in bed and watch hopefully something good and entertaining on TV.

After reading this make sure to take the August LoveLeigh Poll. Have a great day, and keep being creative!

Morning Steam

Good Morning!
We got a good rain yesterday early evening. We needed it bad, it cooled down a bit. It's been quite hot here in Michigan for past 3 weeks I'd say. Little to hot for my taste. People are always telling me don't complain you were complaining all winter. No most people complain of winter. I appreciate the cold, however I probably did complain about the amount of snow we got. I never harp on the cool weather. Anyways, we let the boy play out in the rain. He loved it.......

Well this morning I woke to some steamy windows.

It was already 80 degrees at 6am. I went out to move the car while the "non-husband" took out the garbage and then drove to work. I should explain the "non-husband" comment....we've been together 8 yrs and we're still not married. So I couldn't believe the humdity so early. Glad I work indoors, well I must get to gettin' and get ready for work. Enjoy your day, I will be daydreaming till the 5 o'clock hour, then running from that place I call work, so I can start my weekend.

p.s.
My plan is to post my layouts that I completed over the weekend. While I scrap I'll be catching up on Days of our Lives that I DVR'd and True Blood season 2 arrived from Netflix.

Love

Yesterday I celebrated 8 years with my Love. It doesn't seem that long ago that he approached me in the coat check line. Time flies I guess when there's Love in the mix. Bill's last name is Love, mine isn't. Not sure what happened there, it would be nice to share the name Mr. & Mrs. Love. I started to get all sentimental last night after everyone went to bed. I was thinking about all the fun times that we've had. I pulled down the little 7x7 album that I started of us. Its amazing to see the changes in us in 8 years. We met in 2002, and I had started scrapbooking in 2004. When I went to that first Creative Memories class at my sister Lisa's house back then, I had ordered their limited edition 7x7 Love Sentiments album. I decided I would start small and it would be an album of us and only us! To the right is the first photograph that we had taken together. I had invited him to a wedding just 2 weeks after meeting him. He was a bit nervous because my entire family was there. He got through it, and the fam accepted him.



This is one of the very first pages that I had created when I started my scrapbook obsession. Its fun to see how we've changed throughout the years and how my technique in scrapbooking has changed.
I also noticed that I only scrapped things that we've done between 2002-2006. I make sure that there is always pics of us at everything we attend, holidays, bbq's, vacations etc. So I need to focus on this cute little album again. I have 4 years of pics that I've neglected. Yikes! I need to scrap-to-it!


Sharing scrap pages throughout the years is fun. I plan to share more of the old stuff. Thankful that I've learned some new ideas along the way!


Update on my Wii Fit.....not going so well, gotta get back on track!

40 years?

This is me and "the boyfriend"

We went to a 40th wedding anniversary this past Saturday. It was so nice, to see the couple again. They were neighbors to my parents, so naturally their kids, and all of my siblings and I were friends. We don't see each other much anymore, usually when there is something big going on.

Anyways, my bf got all sentimental on me, stating "I'll have to be like 75 before I get a party like this!" I didn't really respond. The topic of marriage is a strange one w/ us. It will be 8 years next month. We have a awesome 5 year old son. I don't know really how to explain it other then......the curse of the house we live in. We live in the house that my sister and her bf lived in for 13 years and finally got married once they moved and their child was 12 when they got married. I'm hoping this year is the big year. I don't want to wait another 5 years for married life.

Yikes!

BTW.....my Wii Fit countdown 3/86, oops I missed 2 days in there because I was so sore I couldn't do any exercise but I'm good now. I am just curious as too how many of the 86 days can I complete before my vacation. Time will only tell!