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TAKE TIME TO BE KIND

Make a special effort today to show kindness to those around you. So many people are hurting and need just a bit of human kindness to make their day brighter and their burden lighter.

Forgot I had been TAGGED!

Four jobs you've had in your life

• Fifth grade teacher  (in the same grade school I went to!)
• waitress (senior in high school) (worked after school for long hours, but loved it!)
• Secretary in the pentagon for JAG (my DD's baby shower was held there with a JAG in attendence!)
• Chiropractic Assistant (Loved doing this but the hours were really long and the pay wasn't good,other than that it was great-:-)

Four movies you would watch over and over

• The Sound of Music (hubby and I saw this as newlyweds-ahhhhh)
• Snowball Express (Saw this with DD when she was young and we wore out a copy because we watched it so often. It makes me laugh!

Four places you have lived

• Paducah, Ky
• Arlington, VA
• Columbia, Mo (University of Mo) We lived in university housing in University Village

            and I worked at the University Library.

• California

    

Four TV show you love to watch

• CSI
• Law and Order
• Survior
• The Apprentice

Four places you have been on vacation

      Canada

     Disneyland and Disney World

    South Dakota

Four websites you visit daily

• Scrapbility
• 2Peas
• PCCrafter.com
• Creating Keepsakes
• www.theultimateword.com

Four of your favorite foods

• Fudge
• Strawberries
• watermelon
• Tomatoes

Four places you'd rather be right now

  I love being home and retired and able to be online with my friends!

Four blogger you are tagging:

Waiting is soooo Difficult

I have a brand new baby(well a "printed" baby ) that I haven't gotten to see and hold in my chubby little ole hands yet! A copy should arrive here today. I can't wait to see it. This one is so special to me. I wrote it with my PCCrafter Message Board Friend, Lynne Carey. We saw a need for journaling and poetry for bereavement pages, cards, etc., and set about to help fill it.  We will have some copies with us at CHA if you want to share our excitement with us.

IT IS AVAILABLE NOW AT http://www.theultimateword.com/

It's like waiting for a birth but without that 20 lbs to lose later....:-)

CHA BOOKSIGNING ALERT

Just found out that Linda LaTourelle and I both have book signings at CHA:

On Monday 30 from 1 - 3pm
On Tuesday 31 from 1 - 3pm

At Rogers Craft Source Booth #2207

Hope you will come by and visit with us!

"Scrapbooking is Changing"

The message boards are all abuzz with the fact that the scrapbooking industry is changing and with questions expressed as to what the changes will be and how will they affect us.  I can't say that I'm surprised, because look at us as individual scrappers-are we not changing as well?

This change is not necessarily an unwelcome or bad thing. It could work out to be the best thing for all of us. Of course it hurts if we see our favorite stores closing or much loved magazines fold, but change has always been inevitable and always will be. If no change, how can we grow and get better?

So many people now have reached their satuaration point as far as supplies and are weeding  out and downsizing. Where not so long ago we longed for a special work space and dreamed about a dedicated scrap room, now most folks have outgrown the iris carts they thought would never fill and are lusting after the room that might be available when the teenager goes off to collage.

Most people admit that while they are excited at the thought of new products, they actually are overwhelmed at times at the sheer volume of products when they go into a store. Many of us have product (did I admit that?) still in the orginal store bags because there is nowhere left to store it until we weed out and reorganize.

Yes, change is coming and iwith it our chance to help reshape the industry into something better. How? Well, let's learn how to be the trendsetters instead of the trend followers. Let's buy what we really like and what we really need. Let' not jump on the bandwagon to participate in a trend that we really never enjoyed and didn't like on our pages. Let's ask for the things we need and support the companies that create them. Let's be more selective consumers.

Let's stop taking ourselves so seriously and get back to having fun. I still have my decorative scissors somewhere and I'm not afraid to use them!!

Sunshine and Rain

Sunshine and Rain

People love sunshine

But fear the pain

That they feel in their hearts

Comes with the rain.

Sunshine brings lightness

To soul and heart

And storm clouds remind us

Of things torn apart.

But how would we know

How good it could be

To dance in the sunlight

If no storms we could see.

In both I have found joy

In both I have had pain

I have  cried In the sunshine

And  I have danced in the rain.

Thena Smith

I Have the World's Best Publisher!

Our group from Two Peas is meeting at CHA for a PUB Dinner and my publisher called last night to tell me that she is sending one of my books for each gift bag!  I am so excited!

I hope all of you like romantic poems...hint ...hint.

Be Quick to Forgive

In hopes that when needed, you may be quickly forgiven.

Thena

An Ordinary Photo

I'm going to start taking random photos and sharing things to do with them.

Scrapping Your Life

There are some perks to being old and mellow. I think that it is only fair since we give up quite a few things such As good teeth, good eyesight, good bodies-you get the idea.

One of the perks is that we can scrap things out of order but as they are in relation to other things. For instance I can scrap my teen photos with my daughter's teen photos. I can  do a page about how I was feeling in a particular photo along with my tears and fears and frustations on the same page as the happy outcome or the way the problem was solved.

I can do pages of myself from infancy to little ole ladyhood. I can go back and redo pages that I did as a teen with the perspective of maturity.

And I can be as silly as I want sometimes and people think that I'm due a bit of fun-since I'm old. I'm not strange-just eccentric! :-)

I love scrapbooking and I love the freedom from worry that I have now. I have left the world of contests and stress over them and it's such fun here on the sidelines cheering the rest of you on!