My inner fool!

"I must learn to love the fool in me-the one who feels too much, talks too much takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool." ~ Theodore I. Rubin

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

My image..if I had to have one!

Me so far by Htiderem

What your fav. color says about you.

What Your Favorite Color Orange Says About You:

Joyful --- Enthusiastic --- Optimistic Outgoing --- Accepting --- Confident Loud --- Unruly --- Impulsive

What Does Your Favorite Color Say About You?

Three New Lay Outs!

America the what???

1/20/01 $455 Billion SURPLUS

9/21/08 $330 Billion DEFICIT

1/20/01 $1.29 gas; 9/20/08 $4.10 gas

1/20/01 Dow Jones at Top of Its Game

9/20/01 Economy Going south

Vote properly this November!

Tag! You're it! 7 things about Meredith!

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

7 things about Me!

1. I am an only child! {but I have 2 of the best sisters from another family ever}
2. When I was born, I went home from the hospital nameless.
3. I enjoy working out at the gym. Plenty of eye candy!
4. I love the LORD!
5. I have a camera, something to write with(including eyeliner) and paper with me at all times.
6. I am southern, but I don't drink Iced Tea!
7. I collect lapel pins.

I've tagged Rochelle, Trisha, Sparkle, QueenPam, Tracy, Matt,

Another work in progress...

I'm working on a LO of my mother and I, but can't seem to get the journaling right or at least how I want it...So far Im pleased. The flower above my head isn't glued yet, so that may be moved and I've added black corners to the photo.I won't do every page like this (posting it in stages) but my blog seemed so bare. Happy Scrapping!

Things I love 2008!

Things I love...its coming along!

Okay, so It's not what I sketched, but it's getting there. I added the rhinestones for a bit of bling. Now comes the journaling. Perfect time to practice my calligraphy skills..probably NOT. Hope to be finished by weeks end. I don't have a recent shot of me I like....guess I have to take one. Happy Scrapping

Things I love at 27 Pre-Page!

I am a chronic scrapper. Everyday I find something creative that I can scrap. A fellow scrapper on sparkpeople.com. has a "Things I {heart} at 25” so I swagger jacked her theme and created a page for myself. A link to her blog is below. My list has about 20-25 things I love now and I am going write a journal entry about being 27, female in 2008 in working class Black America and America. This is a picture of the sketch of the page I am going to scrap. I was at work and started doodling (I love my job) and this is what I came up with. Stay tuned for the actual page. Happy Scrapping!

http://savyscrapper.livejournal.com/

Hermosa Beach Winter 2006

This is a picture I took at Hermosa Beach in Cali. There is nothing special about it, but I just loved how the light hit this beach house. The biker was icing on top.

Scrapbook for my godson Zaire.

This is a scrapbook I made of my godson. He was a premie and that was his actual diaper.Hopefully when he becomes a man, he can look back and see how far he as come.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SCRAPBOOKING

I work for the state health department and I visit a parenting class once a week. The majority of the class are Hispanic Immigrants. I walked in one day and they were scrapbooking. I was so excited.
As a part of the parenting class, the instructor introduced them to scrapbooking and they loved it( some of them). For some it was a way to express their love for their family for others it was a new found hobby.

Anyway, it just made me think that scrapbooking for some of us is a trendy hobby that is it the 'in" thing to do as a stay at home mom, or let's see who I can out scrap, but for others it is therapeutic. I found this article about the history of scrapbooking. It's a quick and interesting read! Meredith Happy Scrapping!

www.pagesoftheheart.net/artman/publish/article_727.shtml