In pursuit of enlightenment...

OK, so it's 12:03 a.m. and I am totally nuts for staying up so late, let alone posting at this late hour. But I had to share this amazing documentary I watched. It's called "What the Bleep Do We Know." It's about quantum physics. Matt rented it, and when he told me what it was about, I said, "How boring!" Because you know I've never been one to get excited about math and science. OK, I've never been one to be able to even do math and science!!!! So he put it in and fell asleep watching it, which proved my theory about how boring it was, right?

WRONG!!!! I was sitting at my scrapbooking table working on pages for a swap and I was listening to this movie playing in the background...then I started getting interested, and I totally abandoned my project and ended up watching the whole thing. Bronwyn watched it with me, and it blew both of us away. The main point of the movie was, simply, we create our own existence. And there is lots of science to back it up. We create our reality, we create our health, we create our state of being. If I am doing a bad job explaining this, it's because it's kind of hard to get your mind around; you know, it kind of contradicts what we believe to be true.

The thing is, the thing that's so amazing and that actually brought me to tears, is that this kind of proves the existence of a soul, and the existence of God. Not the way we have all been taught through organized religion to believe, but in a way that makes so much more sense.

I am not enlightened enough to explain it any better than that. I totally recommend that anyone who reads this watches this documentary!!!

The New Monochromatic Look

I have seen a lot of this type of layout recently...all done with the same color of cardstock rather than different shades of the same color. This is my version. I love this picture of Rowan and what it means to me, and I really wanted it to take center stage. I think I succeeded...what do you think? The scan's not the greatest, but you get the idea!

Inspiration is everywhere!

It's no secret...I'm not a fashion magazine kind of girl. It's kind of funny, actually...I'm making a circle journal about this very topic--my lack of and complete uninterest in, fashion and style. But while at the laundromat on Saturday (washing the comforters & sleeping bags), Bronwyn and I looked at some fashion mags. She looked at "Lucky" and I looked at "Vanity Fair." Wow, I have been missing out on a great source for inspiration! I tore out half the pages in the magazine for future reference....everything from page ideas to cool photographic effects to try. There were a whole series of ads that were done in that hand-painted 1950's photograph style...you know, like those postcards of movie stars. That was so awesome it made my list of things I absolutely have to try.

This is what I love about this hobby...the unlimited potential for creativity and experimentation!

And away we go!

All right! Now that I've gotten the hang of posting pictures, I'm going to post tons! Here is where I spent my weekend, shopping till I dropped. Coupons are a girl's best friend! I love love LOVE Archivers! It's scrapbook nirvana...the mother of all scrapbook stores.

Trial and Error!

Here we go...my first attempt at posting a picture. This is my current favorite project...my altered clock!

My first post!

Hello everyone! This is so exciting!!!! My first post on my own blog! I am finally getting in on the act, and I am really looking forward to sharing my projects and my life with my family and friends!

I had a dream the other night...a nightmare, actually. I dreamed I had died and was looking down on my family and thinking, "But I wasn't done yet...I have so much left to scrapbook!" When I woke up, my first thought was, "This is pretty sad...I'm even dreaming about scrapbooking now!" And then I suddenly came to a realization...a late-night epiphany, if you will. It was, simply, that scrapbooking is what I was meant to do. Recording my family's history, random moment by random moment, is my life's work. I may not get paid to do it (yet!) but that's what I was meant to do with my life. Sitting there in bed at 2 a.m., I was more sure of that than I have ever been of anything in my entire life!

And so, that's what this blog is about...sharing snippets of my life's work, and my life, too, in the process.