i wish you enough

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

i am grateful...

i am grateful for so many things in my life, but sometimes its important to actually make a list of the things im grateful for.  it helps me keep life in perspective, especially when things get tough and when its hard for me to get out of bed in the mornings.

so here it is... my grateful list.

• fresh cherries bought off a truck on the side of the road

• getting pizza and staying in with my husband on a friday night 
• orange juice to satisfy my craving
• slow days at work 
• online gift certificates 
• affirmation e-mails in my inbox 
• this little puppy face 

• a healthy family 
• that we have two working vehicles 
• the opportunity to go to sunday of the convention again and hear the very last talk again
• knowing people in this world who inspire me and care about me
• having a camera and lens that i can take pictures i love with 

week | twenty-six

• having lots of things to blog about and feeling good about sharing
• new music 
• drinking coffee from my insulated starbucks cup!! 
• editing pictures of dear friends 

• having a space of my own to create that is so full i need to spend the afternoon cleaning and organizing
• being in love 

have a wonderful, happy and grateful weekend.  

king of anything

this video found me today...and i love it.  i love the song and the message behind it so much.  it speaks to me.  especially these lyrics:

all my life i've tried to make everybody happy while i just hurt and hide waiting for someone to tell me its my turn to decide

this is what i have on repeat today. enjoy. :)

courage revealed

today is the first of july which means that the newest kit over at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out is revealed.  and our amazing emotion for this month is:  Courage.

"Courage is found in unlikely places" -JRR Tolkien
"The secret to happiness is freedom... and the secret to freedom is courage." -Thucydides
"Courage is grace under pressure." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." -Erich Fromm

here are a couple pictures of the amazing kit.  it is full of bright, powerful colors, fun chipboard stars, thickers, rubon letters, flowers, ribbon and papers that will inspire you to create.

how gorgeous is this kit??  i had so much fun playing with it and altering it to fit my style of scrapping.  and the emotion of courage was an interesting one to dig deep into.

this is the part of my blog post where im going to put a little bit of a disclaimer...  my blog is about to get personal.  and i mean really personal.  some of these pages i've created are my heart spilling onto the page.  and i know that the thought of sharing such things with the whole world via a blog is not comfortable for some people.  and that has caused me to change what i blog about in the past.  but Scrapbooking from the Inside Out is a concept that i am passionate about.  there is power in revealing things, no matter who reads it or who you share it with.  so i guess my disclaimer is:  if it makes you uncomfortable, don't read it.  but im going to be sharing.  i am getting personal, and i like how it makes me feel!! 

as part of the design team i am honored to create 5 layouts with this kit and based on this theme:  courage.  i would like to share my first one with you today.  it is called "wait & try"

the journaling says:  WAIT: it takes courage to wait to have babies...especially as a young couple.  everyone seems to think that its the next step.  but waiting has been so good for chris and i.  we have grown so much together these last 3 years, learned even more about ourselves and each other and have done things we couldn't do as parents.  maybe this is the right choice for us...to stand courageously as two and wait for what the future promises...maybe we can have babies then.  TRY: it takes courage to try to have babies...to make the decision to try is huge.  are we ready now?  what if we try and it doesn't happen?  how will our relationship change? will we be good parents?  all these questions come up when you think about trying.  and we have both seen and experienced the hurt that children can bring--but also true joy!  maybe this is the right choice for us...to courageously try to start our own little family...to try to have babies now.

thanks for taking a peek at just one of my layouts i created with this amazing kit.  swing by Scrapbooking from the Inside Out today to order a kit of your own.  and don't forget to join our kind and supportive community while you're there. 

JUNE 2010:  this month i shared more of my love of sunflairs, wrote all about my puppy spencer and the things that make him special, went on a road trip with the love of my life, had a visit with my special girls, kelly and kt, got my new glass as an anniversary present, enjoyed seeing special old friends in canada, worked on my pages for the design team over at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out, got a free tire for one of our cars, had a horrible allergic reaction to all the mosquito bites i got up north, celebrated my 3 year anniversary with my hubs, fell on my face at the convention and still have a bruise from it, took pictures of my dear friend rebecca, got my hair done again, dealt with frustrations and depression, fell in love with eat, pray, love, answered 8 questions about myself, went to the convention in Prince George, watched 'so you think you can dance', dealt with a family emergency, won a gift certificate, loved it when spencer got the hiccups, weeded my yard with my mum, drank a lot of orange juice, spent a bunch of time with my friend taya, had some crazy nightmares, got new living room furniture from my parents, felt a drain of creativity, had some good heart-to-hearts with some special friends, got a new clock for my collection and was glad when the month was over.