Happiness

I did this for Ali's challenge from her newsletter, you can read it here, the basic idea is to pick a word and let it guide you for the coming year. Mine, was happiness. Not to say that I haven't been happy in the past, just that I want to find more of it in my life. I created my own little 7 Gypsies"ish" card to read "Make your own happiness; create it everyday, it lives with in you, in your home, your heart and your spirit. Find it" Mainly to remind myself not to depend on others, or outside things to make me happy. That I can find it right within the smiling faces of my family. And that is all I need.

Changes

Making changes, little ones, here and there. Signed up for the Big Picture Scrapbooking, Library of Memories class, and am really intent on staying caught up, and completing the tasks. So, our first one was to personalize our clipboard that we received in our Welcome Packet. Check, that baby is done, and surprise, surprise, I like it! Next task, well, that'll be a little tougher. Need to organize my photos. Not sure about just exactly how I want to go about that, but I guess the best thing is just to dive in and see what happens. I usually resit change, but this one I'm trying really hard to embrace for a couple of reasons. One, is I've paid out some cash for this class, and I want to get my $ worth, and two, and this is the bigger one, I want to get back to the place where scrapping was fun, enjoyable and creative for me. I've lost that and I want it back. I want to let go of the guilt, to make pages that I love, and that describe how I feel for the important people in my life, and I want to have fun! So, working on accepting change. Maybe I've made a resolution after all.

Back at it in the New Year

Well, it's a new year, and I'm not making any resolutions, I just want to try and live my life as honestly and openly as possible. That in and of itself is going to be a huge challenge! So, to kick it off, I'm back at the You Think Journal and am working on pages. Don't think I'll do them all in order, will probably work as the mood strikes, but I am hoping to complete it by years end.

Today's page is Angry. Wanted this to be stark, and the colors of red and black are what I see when I am angry so that is what I used. Probably lots more things that get my temper to flare (it's not hard to do), but I think for now, this will suffice.