It's Here! It's Really Here! (Spring, that is)

It's spring! It's spring! (Picture me singing and dancing around while you read that.)  Now try again.

It's spring! It's spring!

This morning I refused to wear a coat when I dropped Zoë off at preschool. It is spring now after all, and I froze my ass off it was still really cold! I was going to stop by the local nursery and pick up some flowers for our front flower beds, but I really wasn't motivated to go walk around outside and browse the flower section. Maybe this afternoon when it warms up a bit. And no, I still don't plan on wearing a coat. I'm done with winter. It's dead to me. It is now spring. I don't care what the weather man says.

I finished up the Library of Memories, Lesson Two last night. Can I just tell you how weird it is having homework again? Granted, it is scrapbooking homework, but still! Anyhoo, I was reading my weekly handout and came across my new favorite scrapbooking quote:

"I believe there is a difference between scrapbooking pictures and scrapbooking memories. When you scrapbook your pictures you may or may not be preserving your most important memories. When you learn to scrapbook memories (with pictures) you begin to truly document your life and you set out on an amazing journey of awareness and gratitude that changes your outlook." -Stacy Julian

Isn't that fantastic?! That quote has changed the way I will scrapbook forever. I am going through my "To Scrapbook" photos this week and purging all of the photos that I have kept there just because I felt I had to scrapbook them. They don't necessarily tell a story (except for maybe a family event)  and that is not what I want to focus on. My early layouts/journaling focused mainly on who, what, when, where and why. Frankly, that is barely interesting. I want to document the stories.

I finished this layout on Wednesday (before I did my Lesson 2 assignment). It is not a terribly noteworthy memory, but it was a fun family event. I scrapped them because of Dani Mogstad's new kit Bowl-A-Rama. I just love her work. She is one of my very favorite designers. I have had these bowling pictures lying around for years and couldn't really find anything to coordinate with them. Well, now I do. So expect a couple more bowling layouts in the near future. Not that I go bowling often, but I have three two trips to the bowling alley that have been waiting for this kit. Oh, I used on of Heather Ann's new templates for this layout (also love her stuff) and I finished this layout in an hour. That is unheard of for me. Look how little Zoë is! Awwww.

Side note: Do you know what my least scrapped subject is? My dear sweet husband. I had no idea he had been so neglected. Sure, there are layouts with him in it, but none about just him. (Followed closely by me, there are three.) Expect some hubby layouts soon as well. I'm going to be an organizing/scrapbooking machine.

Speaking of which, I need to go purge/organize Zoë's closet while she is in preschool. Wish me luck!

Comments

[MaryRuth Francks]

Great layout!! Love it!!