Street Children of Nepal

Viva Artistry created this kit; Katmandu Love Charity

to benefit the street children of Nepal/Tibet via SEWA, a foundation of volunteers who bring assistance to Nepal. The Vi part of The ViVas (Vivienne) former neighbor is an amazing man named Harry who helps those in need in whatever way he can. He takes handicapped people on unique tours of Nepal and Tibet, he helps an orpanage in Katmandu with support for daily supplies. He even helped to develop a hotel in the area which can handle handicapped people (http://www.kathmandu-sightseeing.com/). He told Vi once of a blind man he guided throughout the region and how he had to explain the views and sights. Harry gave Vi many of the images that we used in this kit. All proceeds will go to SEWA (http://sewaconnected.org/). Check their site to see what they are doing.

 I made this page for the ViVa's after downloading the kit, and then going and researching the abuse of the street children in Nepal.  I was blown away, it hurt my heart as a mom to adopted children out of foster care, I know abuse first hand, but their is not much hope for these children, and that is sad. 

Please join me ....

FIRST Journaling challenge at The Digi Chicks!
well my first one hosting...shhh, but it goes with my theme!

I am hoping to really stir you to pick up that pen and paper,

or stare at those letters on your keyboard and start clicking.

FIRST!
1st

What comes immediately to your mind??? I went and found some images from my dear friend Google! These are just to stir you, not set in stone. You can see the picture of the chicken and the egg? Which came first? I was thinking in scrap pages, sometimes we put the picture first, over the journaling. ! Sometimes words are the hardest on a page, so I am gonna ask you to try something this month a bit different.

Let’s do the journaling first.

Don’t worry about a photo, just get those words out. There is not a minimum or a maximum, they are YOUR words.

Make a text box and just start writing.

Here are a few opening lines you can choose from if you wish:

I remember the first time I …………………………………
The first day …..
My first paycheck…..
The first move was…
Our first house…..
First off, …….

It does NOT have to be about you, it can be about someone else also. But let’s try and get that word first into your journaling and try to do that first!

You can then play and add elements at will, if you have a picture or more to add, please do so!!
If you are a template addict, try and add that journaling box prior to gathering your fun things.

Here is my example to show you what came first in my head:

I played with Wendy Page's Summer Funk

Please if you have any questions, leave them on the forum thread and I will answer to the best of my ability!! I am really excited and so hope you play with me!

Heavy heart, but our dog went back.

A bit of craziness,but Tessie had to go back to her home.  We drove her to the gate of White Sands yesterday to return her.  She was fitting right in, but there was blood in her urine, and at this time in our finances, having a dog with medical issues is not feasible.
We are still looking for another one, but will wait until hubby is employed full time. 

True Love Waits

I opened this kit; Love in the Park by eNKay Designs and just pondered.  Nathalie is a new to me designer and I love the crispness and bright feel to her designs. 
There were a few elements I knew without a doubt I was going to use, the clouds and the remarkable word art in the ink splots.  I love the backwards LOVE and the feel to it.  I doodled and played and really planned on putting a photo in her gorgeous red frame, but I needed something...and the phrase true love waits popped in my head.  This is a commitment of purity til marriage,  that I believe will bless marriages and others.  The media and others tell us to go for it.  I know different.  I have seen the ravaged emotional lives of those that didn't wait.  I know this is just a page on a scrapbook blog, but it is a truth that I hope others will grab.

~never lose your joy!

Zero Rules in Art Journaling! and blantant beg to Holliewood Studios!

First the announcement!!!

 Paula Kesselring asked me to be on her team!! I have spent most of my allowance on her designs and now I get them for FREE! I said YES, oh YES, then made a page immediately! hahah
You know I was wanting it to be like a butt kicker of a page, the first impressions and all! oh I saw
Paula's  wicked cool Summer Beach,
 and it has all the fun things you would expect in a beach kit, but it has the best Beach Babe! I feel in love with her, as we have the same girlish figure, so here she is in all her glory:

Doesn't that make you just giggle?
Then the DigiDare Devilish Diva's threw down this gauntlet for the Dare this week!  I saw some fun things in Paula's store over at Catscrap! Just go through the store and grab!!I also used some of my stash from the wickedly talented Holliewood Studios, whom I pay for kits, unless she finds it in her heart to have me as a CT one day! hint hint!! See, lookie, I even linked to you HOllie, you need me!!

So go laugh, create and get out of the box!

Dog, , dog, dog, wow!

Okay, we talked about a dog on returning to Alamo, and figured after a few months we would settle in and find the right dog.  So, about a week here, I found a FREE little dog, named Boo. 

 

Under all that fur is a yorkie, poodle.  She is a fluff ball, and I know she has eyes.  We took her last week to get groomed, and we had to go way short to get all the mats out, but she is so tiny:

Oh I could just roll laughing at the difference! 

Then yesterday, another dog shows up for adoption. This time it was a miniature schnauzer. I talked with the owner for a long time, and we set up a foster for the day.  We picked up Tessie (all 13 pounds of her chubby self) from McDonalds this morning and brought her home.  She is doing great. 

Boo is tolerating her at this moment.  But they are enjoying life. Tessa has one ear that stays down and the other is straight up, it makes me laugh so hard:

Boo and Tessie are doing fine.  Tessie pees about 12 times outside and Boo runs behind and pees in same spot. They should be friends soon, or dehydrate in the process? haha

Bha ha, look at Tessie's ear? Hilarious! The foster time is now ended and Tessie has found a forever home.

Back to School! Pencils, paper and LOCKS???

Oh boy, school supplies! I finally have enough glue and crayons from deals over the past few years of hoarding, and now my kids are in Mid and High School, and don't need them! They need LOCKS? ha ha, I don't know why this makes me laugh, but it does, and since my shopping cart is filled with notebooks and folders I need to laugh. So when The Digi Chicks showed their new collab for August; A is for Apple, 
I knew how I could get this memory down for our 2011 book:

I set to playing with all the goodies, and had a down right blast doing so! Here is the beginning of our back to school memories for 2011/12 School Year!