Enjoying and capturing the every day moments in life that the Lord has given us.
Margie:
“You are so talented! I love all the digi work that you have done. That paper collection is gorgeous. I am comforted just by reading all you have to say about home. It sounds so soothing. Thanks for participating in the blog hop! xxxx Margie
PS My word is serendipity”
I’ve emailed Margie with to get her the collection. She was the lucky one with #7. I used Random.Org to randomly draw a number among the comments. You can see the result here.
January’s Gone, but not my One Little Word. Home. In fact, I feel a bit renewed as a new month begins. This month should mean less travel and more time at home. I’m already tuning in to developing some better routines here at home.
Some observations from January:
1) I knew this year would I’d be spending more nights waiting for Cody to come home. But bright and early New Year’s Day, my One Little Word and the Future clicked. I hadn’t thought about waiting for Cody to come home when/if he works nights. He was out on a ride along when I woke up about an hour after he was to “get off”. . . and he wasn’t home. My One Little Word took on a different meaning before 5 AM on 1/1/11.
2) As part of exploring my One Little Word and a prompt from Ali’s One Little Word Class/Community, I looked up the definition from home. I hadn’t thought about baseball when I chose my word. How could I have not thought about that! or Home Field advantage. I love the idea of having home field advantage- at home! When I think of all that it means in sports, it’s brings confidence that things at home can be great this year. (or more confidence that I can keep house, run a business, etc with the advantage of being at home!) I’m also looking forward to SFA baseball starting this month- and sitting behind home plate.
3) Another definition that I loved- In One’s Element- as in at home within oneself. I loved this definition. I hope this year brings that sense to my life this year.
4) Cody and I’ve been getting more stuff done around the house- I’ve got frames nearly painted for the bedroom. We’ve done some re-arranging in the bedroom as well. I’ve cooked more at home. And we’ve got a few small projects we hope to get done in the next few days. (We’re also bringing a new washer into our home. . .)
5) I’ve really spent a great deal of time concentrating on Reflective Scrapbooking and am excited to have scrapbook products available online now and soon some free videos about how to scrapbook digitally. Loving the idea of working from home and my husband’s support as he helps out around our home while I’m working.
6) I’ve loved seeing pictures of my childhood home. As part of another class I’m taking, mom sent pictures my way. I’ve loved looking at all the old pictures- though I’m dreading trying to deal with that lovely orange shag carpet in my scrapbook pages. It’s been fun to see those pictures- including the things in the background of those pictures- the little bits of the stuff of life.
So now, it’s February. Wonder what surprises my One Little Word will bring home this month! I know that I want to work on exercising here at home and building some better routines at home. And I can’t wait to see what prompt Ali brings us today in our One Little Word. (It’s certainly not to late to choose a word for 2011. If you do, I highly recommend joining us in Ali’s class. The community is awesome!)
Speaking of Ali’s class, I’m participating in a blog hop! We’ll be sharing our January Prompts today. And, I’ll be giving away here on this blog the Sinton Paper Collection that I created and used on my January prompt and title page.
One Little Word Title Page
A New Picture taken in front of our home.
Page Protector Page
I created a template (available free here) for use with the page protectors for this class. I really wanted to do something digi that wasn’t just one flat page. This is the file before I printed it here at home and cut out the cards.
Since Ali urged us to handwrite- I decided I’d strike a balance and fill out part of the cards with my own writing. I also took advantage of the size to try some sewing on my page. . . that was pretty fun.
The Giveaway
I’m giving away these papers, the Sinton Paper Collection, to three lucky winners.
To enter the drawing, leave a comment telling me what your One Little Word is or what it could be in 2011. I generate a Randomly drawn winner from those comments left by 8 AM PST time 2/2/11 and announce the winner later on Wednesday. (Comments can be left by clicking the number of comments just below the title of this post.)
The Blog Hop
I want to say thanks to Becky for directing folks over to my blog and encourage you to visit Marlene’s blog next. All of our posts are due up by 8 AM Pacific Time.
Here’s a full list of everyone participating:
