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Yes, Spring is coming, I can feel it! Even the rain is brighter, if that is possible. Just a tiny bit of bright sunshine each day is such a big boost for me. I am one of those that should just hibernate during the winter. It would be safer for me and everyone around me. I am not a pleasant person to be around when I sink in to my deep dark depression. Even I don’t like myself. You know it’s bad when even the cats hiss when they see me coming.

Just a bit of sunshine, some yard work and thoughts of flower beds and gardens is enough to snap me out of it though. We were able to mow the lawn and clean up our tiny backyard last weekend, so I am happy and the cats love me again.

This coming weekend, we are going to do those upside down tomato plants. We have been wanting to give it a try for a couple years now, and now that we actually have a backyard we can call our own, we are going to do it. I know, sounds a bit silly that something so simple could make someone so excited and happy, but I have never been the typical “someone”.

I did do some scrapping during February. They had a wonderfully fun contest at Digital Scrapbook Place called the Trendsetter. All their contests and challenges are fun. You get free kits to work with and to me, that’s like winning right off the bat!

Here are my 3 entries …

So, if you ever want to learn digital Scrapbooking, check out Digital Scrapbook Place. I promise, you won’t be sorry!

Well, a quick answer would be, ” I blog so I don’t forget”. Days tend to blur in to each other so easily and go by so fast, I want to be able to remember some scrap of difference for each one. It might be the OCD in me, but I like having each day in it’s own little box and stored neatly in it’s proper cubbyhole in the calendar of my mind.

Yesterdays scraps of memory were being excited to chat with friends from DSP at Teresa’s Wednesday night chat room. It was the first time in several weeks that I actually had free time to do it. But, as luck would have it, there were technical problems with the sites chat rooms and we were not able to use them.

You might think that is a memory best forgotten or really not that important to bother with, but to me, it separates that day from all the rest. It makes that day special.

I also blog to help work out ideas. The main reason I can’t remember my name half the time is I get distracted way to easily. My mind is always going a hundred miles an hour with a hundred different thoughts. It reminds me of the lotto ball machine on crack. Every once in a while an idea will pop up like the lotto ball and if I don’t write it down, it will get mixed in with a bunch of others and be lost in the shuffle. Leaving me standing there with the losing ticket, trying to remember what I was doing it the first place.

Blogging helps me focus. I can write down an idea, word or even picture, and I can come back to it at anytime work on it. I can add to it, make notes, bend, fold and mutilate it, and it is still there. It takes up no space, doesn’t make a mess, won’t clutter my desk or dinning room table. The best part, I won’t find it shredded in to tiny pieces because my cats decided it made the perfect toy.

I have always been a list maker and journal writer. Not to be mistaken as a writer or author by any means. My lists and notes are just my own personal scribbles that would mean nothing to anyone else. If someone else was to look at my journals they would either call the men in white coats to come get me or think the cats got in to the colored pencils again. My notes and lists are as scattered as my thoughts.

Anyway, that is some of why I blog. There is more, like …

• I like waking up in the morning with something to do.
• It’s my online gallery
• I love learning
• I like the interaction and feedback

I blog, not because I think any of you are interested in my day, or my cats or grumpy old dog. I blog to slow down, focus and to find that special scrap of memory, so I can remember who I am today.

I have a habit of coming up with some really bad ideas. They seem great in my head , but when I try to do them, oh boy!

Before Christmas I got this wonderful idea of making my own Christmas cards to send. Now that part was easy, if I had just stopped there. No, I had to spoil it with thinking it would be so cute if I could dress up my fur babies and take pictures of them to use on the cards. (you see where this is heading?)

Anyway, I bought this cute little hoodie sweater, just right for the smaller cats and a Santa hat for the bigger ones and the grumpy old dog. I was so please with myself. (I am so clueless at times.) I got my treasures home and explained to my oh so understanding hubby my delightful plan. He gave me that “this is going to hurt” look, then nodded sweetly and went to look for band aids. I gathered up the smaller cats, grabbed my camera and handed the sweater to hubby.

To make a long and very painful story short, 237 camera clicks, 16 scratches, 6 band aids and only one blood stain later, I was on my way to the store to buy a pack of cards.

I was able to get 2 semi good shots of Little Bit and Jake, but the rest were a blur of fur.

A Furball Chritmas

I wonder if I could get bunny ears to stay on their heads with out staples?

Yay!! I made it through the year.

I know to some, that is probably not a big thing, but for me, it’s a huge blessing. I will have to say that 2009 was not my favorite year. To many losses, huge changes, a lot of sadness and heart break. BUT… I made it, it is done and passed and I have a whole new year to look forward to. I am excited to see what this year brings.

The first thing I did this new year was NOT to make any resolutions. Resolutions only cause me stress and make me feel guilty. Feelings like guilt are what I consider “waste of time” feelings. Like envy, jealousy and grudges, they waste time . Feelings like these make me tend to focus on all the things that are wrong. I tend to play the could have, would have, should have game. They start in my mind and then spread in to my life. It’s a negative focus and leads to a negative output. Lugging around feeling like that is a waste of time and energy that I could be using to make my world better, making me happier which in turn makes the people around me happier and their world better. See how that all works out?

I do have “plans” for this year. I have already started working on the gifts for next Christmas. I am making plans for a trip to New York to visit family in July. I even took the time to fill out my calendar with birthdays and anniversaries. (the shocker on that is I actually bought a calendar before March) So I am making plans, and of course I will always make lists. ( I already have 4 lists made and posted to my cork board) The lists are more for my own sake. I have been known to head towards the bathroom and forget where I was going.

So before I forget the reason I started this post, I want to wish everyone a wonderful new year and many many more. From the Kelley Family

   One of my goals for this year is to take some of the hundred or so dull photograghs I have and make them in to interesting layouts. Oh, come on, you know what I am talking about. Those pictures you look at and think, “why did I take that?” I have lots of those, mostly because I am a compulsive clicker when I get my hands on a camera.  “Oh look, a blade of grass!” click click click … click.

  I admit, I am not a photographer, but I do want to be a scrapper. So I figure, if I can make those photos look good, I am well on my way to being a good scrapbooker.

Here are my first attempts:

This was done for the Mosaic Challenge at DSP

I used a background paper from Wild One Razzle Dazzle by Tina Chambers

And the Tutorial is by Amanda Taylor

Digital kits used:

Grace Page kit by Meryl Bartho

Grace AOP by Meryl Bartho

   From the time I completed my first lesson at DSU, I have been having way to much fun.  Photoshop has become my new obsession. It is like the worlds biggest “shiny thing” and it is keeping me destracted for hours at a time. Yes, you heard right, “hours”, not a few minutes or seconds, hours. I am quite content to sit and explore and learn for more than a fleeting moment and the best part, I am not feeling frustrated while doing it.

   Here are a few of the layouts I have done.  

   All these where done in PS and with Freebies from DSP.  So don’t forget to check out the DSP Freebie Gallery.