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Love list

I've notced lately that there are a few things that consistantly make me happy. Some I just remembered "hey, I really love that" and others I never forgot. In no particular order, these are some things that I always love:

American Typewriter font, Raspberries, Banana flavored anything (not actual bananas), good pizza, birds chirping outside, the sound of water, making something I think is beautiful, chubby beautiful pink babies, sitting outside in the shade on a warm day with nothing to do but breathe the sweet air (and hear the birds and water I mentioned before), watching a really entertaining movie that I can lose myself in, beautifully designed fonts from veer.com, colors that sing to me, processing a good image into a great photograph, my camera, computer and software, vacations with my whole family, coming home, the internet, good rootbeer, creamy peanut butter on toasted english muffins, waffles, ice cream, rainier cherries (best bought from a local family fruit stand), black frames with big white mats, painted white wood moulding/wainscotting/trim with colored walls, black as an accent color, warm homemade fruit muffins, natural fiber yarns, calendars, music, stars, my original-style crocs, mary jane shoes, seeing my daughters happy and healthy, Friends re-runs, laughing so hard with my husband that we're crying and gasping for air, hooded sweatshirts and jeans, books, funny tshirt and bumper sticker sayings, cotton quilts.

OK, enough for now, but I know this is just a start.

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Happy Sunday



Four more this weekend. I am getting a bit of sleep, 4-5 hours each night, and still plugging along with the middle-of-the-night layouts. Love love love how this batch came out. Hopes & Dreams, above and:

Where's Shade?

Hot Spring

[Idaho] Local color (my FAVE!)

Also made the cutest little box of 20 ready-to-go tags for packages or making cards or maybe even on a layout. Housed them in an empty Maya Road mini metal lunch box. Too cute, and maybe even {gasp} useful!

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Toast



This girl is such a sweetheart. She just made me yummy, buttery warm toast, so I wouldn't have to get up. And you know how adults always cut toast in half either diagonally, making 2 triangles, or in half vertically? She cut it half horizontally, so one half is all the curved top and the other half the rectangular bottom. So sweet, my little mother-er trying to take care of me.

Love you, bub.

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I think I might feel like dancing



Two more layouts (plus a tag and a slew of cards) for today, or rather, last night. And I must say I GOT FOUR HOURS OF SLEEP LAST NIGHT!! Not in a row, mind you, but cumulative and wOo hoo, so happy, I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, that "light" I'm seeing might be the proverbial "end of the tunnel."

Last night I heard that old song that starts out "Sunshine go away today, I don't feel much like dancing..." and it SO FIT THE MOMENT. Look for it on a future layout, that sentence just too good to pass up. This morning, however I am happy to say that, yes, I DO feel a little like dancing. Things are moving upward and onward. Amen.

The other layout is here:

The girl can fish

Enjoy your day, it's the only one there is JUST LIKE IT!

[ t ]

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Another day down



Here are three more from last night. Went to chiropractor today (my 4th visit total in the last 2 weeks) and it wasn't AS "brutal" as the time before, so hopefully that means I'm healing?? We'll see how the weekend goes as I don't go back until Tuesday. If I could just get some sleep I think that would help tons!

Besides "Empty Summer" (above, with hidden journaling that talks about how missing my daughters when they visit their Dad for the summer makes me not like summer very much), I also made:

Today is not all sunshine and blue skies

You challenge me

One thing is good, I am rockin' the layouts in the middle of the night! Happy with every one I've done lately. Maybe I just discovered the "secret" to unlocking my own personal creativity?

Have a great day everyone.

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