I have a problem!

It is a VERY big problem.  I can not  stop using scraps.  I get a color combination or a new paper combination and I just get stuck.  I keep going back to it until it is all gone.  Here let me show you my newest examples of this problem.    I first used this paisley and blue combination here.   Then I used it here.  And I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this layout.  There are not many times when I finish that I just love something the way I do this one.   The scraps are still on my desk and so I made:

(1)  My verse notebook for the year.  I am a participant in Beth Moore's blog scripture memory challenge with several women from my church.

 (2) a notebook for a friend

(3) a necklace for my Etsy store

(4) My first page for an ABC scripture challenge that I am doing with Patter Cross .  I have loved her challenges/studies in the past but this is the first one that I am actually going to do start to finish.  I have read her posts in the past but I really want to complete this for my table in my kitchen.  I still have to add the title.  I ran out of chocolate card stock.  My title is waiting for my next trip to Hobby Lobby.

And, Here is the thing that just cracks me up about this paper.  It is from my FAVORITE paper pack.  I think I got this five years ago.  I still keep going back to this one package of paper.  I LOVE my mind's eye.  I think it was called Magnolia.

Faith sisters & FWF

I am so excited to be on the Friends With Flair list from Unity today! Make sure to check out their blog for some amazing work from some really talented ladies. (I actually posted this a little early b/c of traveling on the holiday.)

This layout was done for My Life Time Story challenge at Faith sister. I have really enjoyed being on their DT this year. It is sad to see that time ending. I hope that you have had a chance to participate in the challenges as well. Even if that participation is just by thinking about these challenges, what would I do if I had the time to make a layout about this...? I have missed a few of the challenges and yet I feel that my book is well on it's way to telling MY story. I used my FAVORITE paper, My Mind's Eye. I love their paper. I seem to always go back to this paper pack. So much so that I will not even share one pieces of it. I also seem to focus on one technique or tool at a time. I just purchased a scallop punch so I seem to have cute home made flowers in everything right now. Also, I just re-found my tearing ruler thanks to a little red-headed assistant. I think my last five layouts have had the torn paper and scalloped flowers. I used my new November Kit of the Month from Unity. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that journal stamp. There stuff is so GREAT. It is super cute. Also, I used a Christian Paper Craft challenge from their stampers delight section. It is SO good to be scrapping again. I am so blessed to have the space, time, and friends to scrap with again. Here's the journaling: Provision:

A piece of a conversation between my grandfather and I the first week I started dating my husband. No one knew I was dating anyone at the time.
"God told me to tell you to be patient with him. Patient with who? It doesn't matter. When your grandmother and I got married, I was not the spiritual leader. Be patient with him."
God gave me an amazing man who is a compliment to me. Good and bad.

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sweet

Sweet: marked by gentle good humor or kindliness; much loved; dear

Beloved: dearly loved; dear to the heart

Proverbs 16:24 Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Ecclesiastes 11:7 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.

Deuteronomy 33:12 About Benjamin he said: "Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders."

Song of Solomon 2:14 He MY dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Hidden Journalling: Stay so sweet. How many times did I read that in my yearbook? I didn't want to be sweet. I wanted to be cool, hip, popular, classy, anything but sweet. Sweet is what you called kids. Sweet is what you called old ladies. I did not want to be sweet. I wanted to be effervescent and vivacious. I wanted to be memorable.

Reading and studying 1st Peter this term has changed me or maybe I have grown up a little in the last fifteen years. 1 Peter speaks of a gentle and quiet spirit. 1 Peter 3:4 "No, your beauty should come from within you-the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God."

Is sweet anything like this? Am I beginning to show God in me? Do people see me and see God instead? If this is what sweet means then I am so incredibly humble to be described as sweet. This past week alone three people have called me sweet. I pray that is more of them seeing God in me than me.

Scrappy stuff

Here is my DT layout for Faith sisters. I made this for my room instead of a layout for my book.


I am not good at remembering to be consistent w/ details. I know this about myself and so when I had my kids I was determined not to have a "baby book" that would be empty w/ the exception of sporadic entries. Instead I have a journal for each child. A journal that I write in randomly. I might write what they did that day, a top 10 things list that I love about them, some of their favorites or things they are saying at the time. I knew that with the randomness of me, I could handle this. I was talking about this with a friend. She said it was a great idea and that she needed to get some journals for each of the kids. I surprised her last Sunday w/ one for each of her three kids and an extra for the one they are beginning the adoption process on. I know it seems silly, but I just love doing stuff like this.

Unity Friends With Flair

Charlie (my 4-year old) and I worked together last night making cards. I pulled out this cute doll stamp from the September KOM. This was Charlie's reaction. "Oh, momma. This is the most beautiful dollie I have ever seen. Please can I use it. I will be so careful with her." I let her and she proceeded to "decorate" her clothes with glitter glue. During bedtime this evening though, a little monkey by the name of Brantley spilled orange juice on my card and ruined it. So, sorry friends for only and "kid" card. I hope you enjoy even though there is not much inspiration.

Unity Friends With Flair

I am in LOVE with my UNITY stamps. And I am in love with friends with flair blog hop. There is some really great inspiration. I did this layout a few weeks ago but never posted it. I really love the KOM. I am so counting down till I will have the extra cash again. I know "paying" off the "debt" is better than feeding my hobby. But I still say that the hobby is more fun. :)

Here is one of Brantley, too. No unity here just a christmas wreath in Advent colors. I can't get over how much this little guy has grown up. He was such a baby. Not so much any more.

Friends with Flair

I have had so much fun the last three weeks joining the hop instead of just looking. Make sure that you check out Unity's website to see the rest of the list at Unity's blog . I saw these super cute lunchbox notes from this site Say Please in a post on Stacy Julian's blog. I decided that I had enough "phrases" from my 3 months of unity kits to make my own! Oh, how I wish I had the sayings from all the past kit of the months but at least I have 3 months worth. I will just "dream" about what the new sayings will be and how great they will be to drop in my kids lunch boxes! I made a set for my son and one for my daughter. I made them really simple incase they get thrown away. I also left the back blank so that I could jot a handwritten note if I wanted to. I did use one saying from Stampin Up. I did not have an even number of saying from Unity. I really like the way they turned out. Also, Unity fans scroll down and look at the picture of the butterfly in the post on the secret passageway. Charlie (my daughter wanted to use my "stamps" to decorate her butterfly. She used the imagine saying with a butterfly. I got it in a random set of 50 stamps that I ordered. I don't know what set it comes from but she loves it. Have a blessed and inspired day!

Friends with Flair

These are some verse canvases I have in my house. The first one is Brantley's verse. I used the stars that I got when I signed up for my KOM last July. I LOVE them! I have used them a ton since getting them. I love the simplicity of this canvas. The second one has not been posted to my blog yet. It is not Unity but I wanted to get it posted. Have a blessed day and enjoy the inspiration.

Faith Sisters Childhood friend

Stacia was one of my best friends in 4th grade. She was my next door neighbor. She was the one that first introduced me to the Breakfast Club and Grease. We had some great times. Now, almost 25 years later we live in the same metro area and we have not seen each other in Oklahoma once. I have a lot of those "in this time" friends. She really is a neat girl. Also, I used a Unity kit of the month stamp for the journaling that I haven't written yet.