This prompt was about your looking back to 2007. I counted all my
layouts and minibook pages. Quite a bit, I might add.
Today’s prompt was actually to design your cover. But she also suggested
we could do photos from Christmas and I couldn’t pick one. So I picked
two of my favorites: david opening presents and eating all the leftover
chocolate.
Another minibook from Danelle’s class. I love this and
am reserving for letters I want to write since the pages are tall envelopes.
Another small project we did in Danelle’s class.
I am not fully sure what I will use this for yet, but I like the loose
feel of it. Maybe I will keep it for journaling ideas.
I’ve never been fond of years that start with odd numbers.
Despite the fact that David was born in an odd-numbered year, I’ve just
sort of disliked them. To be fair, 2007 was a pretty good year to me.
For the most part, I was perfectly healthy and made some progress in all
areas of my life.
It was my first full-year of not-at-home employment since David was
born. I spent the first part of the year doing two different positions
and working myself way too hard. Thankfully, I woke up somewhere along
the line and changed my job so that I work with products I feel more
passionate about. I also got to meet some amazing people through this
new position and am working daily on enjoying it as much as possible.
2007 was mostly the year of scrapping and creating art for me. I did 270
pages of minibooks or layouts. I applied for DT positions and was
blessed to get one at my favorite place: A Million Memories. I also
submitted a few pieces of work and one got accepted to be published in
an upcoming Lisa Bearnson book.
I read over forty books. That’s not nearly as many as the years before,
but considering the full-time job and the full-time scrapping, I’d say
that’s pretty good.
I took over 10,000 photos. Most of them are David or layouts but there
are a few trips here and there. To San Diego. To LA. To Fitzgerald
National Park. To Pismo Beach.
Here’s some of the stuff I didn’t do: I spent a lot of quality time with
David and Jake and yet it wasn’t enough. I didn’t lose weight. Actually,
I gained weight. I didn’t hang out with my friends enough. I didn’t keep
in touch with people enough. I didn’t write my novel. I didn’t blog
enough. I didn’t exercise at all. I didn’t go camping enough. I didn’t
spend enough quiet time to enjoy life.
These things will be rectified in 2008. It’s an even year after all.
Here’s the first page of my art journal. I kept telling myself to relax
and have fun with it. I went from dark blue to white to symbolize
relaxing and slowing down. There’s a sheet of kanji in the back on the
right side but it’s barely visible. And, as promised, a quote from Tao
Te Ching:
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
I’ve wanted to keep an art journal for a few years. I’ve even attempted
starting one several times but I never fully did it. So this is my year.
This is also the year I want to concentrate on the journey and not the
destination. As this is the pensive time of year for me, I’ve also been
reading the Tao
Te Ching and I will be incorporating a lot of its quotes to my
journal this year. This year, it’s about slowing down, letting things
go, stopping trying to control, taking what I get, and being present.
It’s all about the journey. Enjoying every moment of life and not trying
to cram everything in.
I picked a Rusty Pickle minibook to do my journal in. Its size spoke to
me. It’s 6.75″ by 11″ or so. Big enough canvas to give me space but not
so big as to be intimidating. I hope to do a page a week or so. It’s a
“gated” journal so it opens from the middle. Here’s the back cover.
Of course, I also picked journey as my one
little word. Here’s to a fantastic journey in 2008.
If you’re looking for fantastic year-end sales, A Million Memories,
where I am a Design Team member is having a sale. 10% off if you use the
code 1231 at checkout
And here’s the beautiful photo of our January kit which I had the luck
to work with and will be posting layouts from really soon:
Happy Holidays, may your year be filled with wonderful memories to
capture on scrapbook pages.
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