I'm starting this project very simply and may change it as I go along. For right now, I'm just using papers and supplies from the OLW digital kit and I plan on printing the pages out and putting them inside a physical 6x8 album every month. The word I'm focusing on this year is breathe . My family and I have been through a lot of trauma and turmoil over the past five years or so and this past year was a doozy. I want to focus on slowing down my thoughts and reactions and brea

Over the past 2 1/2 years, travel has become a much bigger part of my life than I imagined. My youngest child stopped coming home during college breaks, including the summer, due to a job and my middle child moved to the east coast for law school. So I started traveling to the east coast multiple times every year plus, without my youngest coming home, my husband and I started traveling more on our own. And even more recently, my mother moved into a new house in a retirement c

I started scrapbooking in 2004 and it changed who I was. Yes, that sounds hokey and goofy and just silly but until then, I didn't think I had a creative bone in my body. I had never taken an art class, couldn't draw a straight line, and wouldn't even attempt to draw or create anything with my hands. But scrapbooking opened up a part of me that I didn't know existed. It created a way for me to have something that was JUST FOR ME as I was in the throes of having three kids in f

There's no way around this - 2025 was a total shit-show for a lot of people and certainly for me. I spent a lot of the year floundering in disbelief and despair at what was going on in the world, and struggling even more to help my family with new beginnings and endings as they also tried to navigate the world. As the year comes to an end and a new one begins, I know that I can't save the world or save anyone else really, but I can work on making myself stronger so that I can