Day 7.........

Hard to believe that the surgery was a week ago today. All I have done for the last 7 days is lay down.... stand up....walk laps around the house...sit down but for no longer than 30 minutes and then REPEAT! I still haven't figured out how to scrap laying down much less laying down and getting anything straight! I'm working on it though. Beginning today, I can start adding a few minutes to my sitting up time....hence I finally got to blog!! YEA!!! I'm alive again. And for those of you wondering....I packed the overnight bag...just in case. And no..I didn't need to use it. I really..really...really don't like hospitals so when told I could go home IF I wanted to....well I was outa there!!! Thigh high support hose and all!! Now that is another scrapbook page waiting to happen. Stay tuned!! Once again...I'm sooooo glad that Ken didn't have the camera!!!

High Noon.....

Sometimes I think life is a scrapbook page just waiting to happen. I know this is the case with this layout.

I have been waiting for this for a week or so now but really for a couple of months. I have a herniated disk in my lumbar area and after drugs....physical therapy...and an epidural steroid injection....it's time to just go for it! It wasn't an easy decision but I'm scheduled for a lumbar diskectomy tomorrow at noon...I'm waiting for it to happen!!

Waiting for the pain to finally stop! The bulge in the disk shown above in my MRI with the little "pink arrows" pointing to it is affecting the nerves down my left side. It feels like my left leg and foot is waiting to wake up...like when it falls asleep and tingles.

And so I wait for the "Battle of the Bulge" to be over but not before I document the little guy on a scrapbook page!!! The hospital said to pack an overnight bag....I wonder if they meant my

scrapbook bag? Probably not huh? I'm just going to make sure and leave the camera at home....Ken getting pictures of me all goofy is NOT a scrapbook page waiting to happen!!!

I'm so glad it's Friday.....

I think this little saying is the perfect ending for a great week!! Sure hope everyone has a nice, productive and creative weekend! I'm planning on it!!

More words................

I have had this blank wall for going on 20 years now and for as long as I can remember we have never had anything on it. I finally found the perfect thing...or so I thought! This is not the saying that I ordered for this special wall. The words came in this week and all I can say is oh my gosh!!! I started to unroll and unroll the saying until it was finally all laying there flat on the floor. It ended up being 56 inches long! And the word "FAMILY" was 17 inches high!! Each letter was 17 inches high! I held it up to the wall and there was no way that was going up on my blank "little" wall. It was more like a billboard and not only a billboard but one I'm sure could have been read from Dodge Street. It was huge!! It was the size it was supposed to be but I guess it was just hard to visual the actual size! I'm going to have to cut the letters up individually and sell them as monograms! I already have takers for the "M" and the "L" and the "Y"...anybody need a huge "I" or "F"? I will say though that after finally getting this all put up tonight ...even after 2o years... this is the perfect thing for my blank little wall. I hope you can't see this one from Dodge Street!

It's back..........................

Yes it is Monday morning and you could say that I had a very creative weekend. One look at my work area and you see the "creative mess" is back. You've heard the old saying that something has to get worse before it gets better? Well that's me and scrapping...out from under all this mess came some great memories and some great layouts. Now I'll start another week by cleaning off this mess and beginning another PAGE!!!

I Confess....

For those of you in the "scrapworld" you know good and well what scraplifting means. You also know good and well that it's not necessarily a bad thing. Now is it? It helps a great deal when you just can't come up with the right idea for that perfect page. It's kind of like that little nudge that you need to get those creative juices going again. I have to confess...right here and now that I can not scraplift. Yes I said I CAN NOT SCRAPLIFT. It's not because it is naughty or anything...I've tried when I'm drawing a blank and I just can't do it!! I set out with the best intentions...I really do!! I fold back the page of the magazine and I study it and look at all the products that were used in the layout, get everything all lined up and then right when I think I'm going to do it...I can't! I cut the first strip of paper and then I completely lose it....going off in a completely different direction than the layout I spent so much time studying. What's wrong with me? I have never liked to read directions for anything...I guess it boils down to I just want to do it my way!!! And for those of you in the "scrapworld" you know that's not necessarily a bad thing either!!

Cuttin and Pastein'

I spent most of yesterday in the scraproom working on a couple more layouts for a project that I'm doing. It's finally starting to come together ever so slowly!! Sometimes it just takes a while for those creative juices to get going. Once they start though there's no stopping me!!! I am a firm believer that time flies when you're having fun...and I feel so blessed to be able to do what I think is fun!!! But for some reason there is always something on the layout that I think could be a little better!! That's what happened late last night.....early this morning!!! I finally just had to give in and go to bed!!! After sleeping on it (which I always do) I decided it was the way I wanted it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I tell myself...JUST GLUE IT!! down....call it a day and move on!!!

An organized mess......

Last night at work we had roughly 30 women all scrapping in just two rooms. That means each woman got roughly 3 feet of table space to spread out and work...and yes some were very productive at the end of five hours...and some..not so much!! A lot depends on how organized the women are when they arrive and how motivated they are. So this is what I came home to today....and this is one woman scrapping and yes I have a lot more room than 3 feet to spread out in! And was I productive? Not so much!!! But I'm being creative! I start with a clean slate every time I start a double lay out and yes it was this messy! But it was an organized mess!! While I'm being creative~you can't expect me to be neat too!!!