{ Catch Up Post }

I have tons of things just waiting to be blogged about but have been spending my free time finishing up some purse orders and have actually been getting to bed at a reasonable time all week so the computer time has been rather limited. I did start on this LO earlier in the week. Hopin to maybe finish it tonight. Here’s a peek since (once again) I always like to see other scrappers works in progress. Sorta gives an insight into how LOs come together and it seems to be so different from person to person. Kinda interesting to me so hopefully it is to you too. :) I’m thinking journaling along the right there or some sort of clever title. The pictures are actually from a year ago now but I’ve always wanted to scrap them & I was in the mood to try a Beans page but I struggle with the boy pages since most of the neats happen to be girls. I used Michelle’s new All American kit.

I also have to share a new blog that Nancy pointed out over at the DST forums. It’s a blog by Melody of the Chatterbox paper line. If I were a paper scrapper I think Chatterbox would be my favorite stuff to use. Well, apparently not only is Melody an amazing artist & businesswoman in the scrapping industry but personally I think she’s missed her calling as an inspirational writer. I couldn’t stop reading post after post. The post that Nancy had linked to over on DST is about depression and something I think everyone should read. Whether you or someone you know has dealt with depression or not. I think it speaks to scrappers very specifically about "Leaving Out the BAD, SAD or MAD Parts of the Story" and just us as humans in general about understanding the disease of depression. There were troubles with typepad yesterday but you can still find the post HERE. There were two other posts that particularly inspired me. This one about slowing down to enjoy life and this one about the courage of a little blackberry bush. There are SO many more inspiring posts that I couldn’t possibly list them all. To my sister Manda, if you’re cutting down on blog reading I think it’s okay to add this one. :)

Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned it in a post here yet but you may have noticed that I added the new music player awhile back. I was concerned about the issues that people were apparently having with the videos I used to play and finally figured out how to use the wimpy player to open up in it’s own window. So now you can listen to some great tunes and surf to other blogs or make comments without it restarting each time (or worse yet locking up your computer). I’ll be changing the playlist soon but for now I’ve got some of my current favs on there and the first one is actually the song that I used the lyrics for a LO in my previous post (in case you wanted to hear how beautiful it sounds with music). Probably my other favorite song in the playlist right now would be Elisa’s – Rock your Soul. Love her voice, love the title – great stuff!

Kay, long post here. Guess that’s what happens when I go a week without posting. I have been doing the pilates though so I’ve gotta post my progress for the week so far. I’m loving the new Winsor pilates dvd with the power circle. Highly recommend it. I’m gonna get mom hooked on the original dvd’s and I know my sister Tam already does pilates so maybe we can get a family challenge going. My goal is to do it at least 4 times a week. I’d actually love to do it every day but aren’t there about a hundred other things I’d love to do if I could just get that 27-hour day thing figured out. :) So I found a couple images to use to post here when I work out (idea from carrie colbert’s blog from awhile back) so if anyone wants to join me on a blog exercise challenge we can keep track that way. Haven’t had a chance to read much on Melody’s fitness challenge yet but maybe it could fit into that too. :) So I’m posting 2 images for Monday & Tuesday this week. Yesterday I got right into sewing and actually was at Hobby Lobby waiting for them to open their doors at 9 am and this morning I got right into some heavy house cleaning & laundry so I’ve missed 2 days but I’m planning to get right back into it tomorrow morning and should still be able to get in my 4 times this week. :)