Another Layout done!

This is another picture of my grandmother - I think she is about 6-7 years old here. I made the page coordinate with the first one so if they are printed out and put in a book, they will look nice side by side.

Getting Ready to Leave for Alaska Cruise

Tomorrow, July 4th, I have to go to work for just a bit then come home, finish packing and fly home. I get to spend all day Sat with my family then Sunday morning, my mom and my sister and I fly to Alaska for a Holland America cruise to Alaska. This will be the third year in a row we have taken this cruise and I am looking forward to a nice relaxing trip. The cruise is with Dr. Chuck Swindoll and should be a great one.

I finally figured out how to make my blog header fit the page so I am happy with it now. I really got involved in making the header the other night. I wanted it to be something that was "me". So the background is a scanned copy of a quilt that my great-grandmother made for me just before I was born. She died shortly afterwards so I never knew her, but the quilt is still special to me. The pictures I put on the page are of my grandmother, my grandfather, my mom (as a little girl) and my great-grandmother (the one who made the quilt).

I am off to bed, have to get to work early to finish closing the month before I leave and I want to be there, done and back home by about 10:30am.

Annabelle Lawrence

This is my grandmother on my mother's side when she was about 1 year old. This is the first digital scrapbook page I did and I can already see things I would do differently now. Anyway, I think it is a sweet picture of her.

Hmmm...what to do with the header?

Well, I played all night to see if I could come up with something I liked as a header and have gotten nowhere so far. I did learn some stuff in PSP that I hadn't tried before so I guess it wasn't a total loss but still no customized, "this is me" type header... just blah. I will probably get into bed and then come up with an idea. Hope I remember whatever it is tomorrow. Anyway, I guess I will post one of my digital pages. I had decided awhile ago to scrapbook all of the old family pictures so that my brothers and sister and their families could have access to them. So that is where I started and these are some of my very first digital scrapbook pages. I will probably look back on this (at least I hope so) and see progress as I learn more about this. I think I have found something that I really like doing (along with 5 million other women) but that's okay. It's an outlet and creative and fun plus it makes me think. If I am going to blog, I guess I have to put some of my thoughts down and I have never been very good at that. This will be a challenge for me - hope I stick with this.

Joining the blogging world

I am going to join the blogging world today and start a blog to put my digital scrapbook pages. I have a couple of friends who do this and they have inspired me - besides, it is a good place to store all the digital scrapbook pages I do.