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Just to let everyone know in case you haven't figured it out.... it's not your computer --- the message boards ARE down. I'm working on getting a hold of our site maintenance to get things back up and running but am not sure if it will be up before tomorrow! Sorry for the inconvenience. Computers! Ugh!

love and paranoia

I think I am a paranoid mom. Maybe it's because I only have her. And because I tried so long and waited so long for her before she came along. All I know is that the depth of my feeling for her knows no bounds and the thought of being without her is incomprehensible. And I don't think I could have ever realized that I was capable of this intense of a love and desire to protect anyone until I had her.

A need for balance....

I think it's now been five months nearly since I completed my last scrapbook page. FIVE months. There was a time when I could not go five days much less five months, without completing atleast one scrapbook page. Scrapbooking was as necessary to me as breathing. And though I absolutely LOVE this new so-called profession, I can't figure out how to integrate the creative side back into my life. It's almost as if I rode a bike well for ten years and then fell off one day, and am now afraid to get back on!

Would I know what to do? Would it all come back to me? I can't help but wonder if I am trying to find excuses to not scrap. So. I have decided that I'm going to get a Franklin Planner and start scheduling time for me. Time for me to scrap. The kits will have to wait. It just scares me that for two years of my baby's life -- I followed and documented her every move from the slightest coo to her first steps and words and now we're at a point where there's just a big void of five months from my having devoted all my efforts to scrapologie. Not that I don't love scrapologie. But somehow I have to get back to the real passion that I have for scrapbooking as an art form. I have to ensure that all the worries and anxiety about the business of my life do not overcome the creative spirit that is life. And I wonder who else is going through this and how they are managing and coping with not scrapping. I hope I'll be able to share a layout with you all very soon.

January Contest - Sponsored by Chloe's Closet and Imagination Project

I want to give a shout out to Ginger Rohlfs at Imagination Project who so generously agreed to sponsor our January Contest. The theme of the contest was to create layouts utilizing papers from the Chloe's Closet Afternoon Tea line from Imagination Project. Ginger not only agreed to sponsor the contest but donated not one, but TWO sets of prizes. The prizes include lots of the wonderful new goodies from Imagination Project that were debuted at CHA Winter 2006 from these collections, as well as some older but still loved favorites:

6 new papers from Chloe's Closet Wonderland Collection

6 new papers from Gin-X He Sings at Weddings Collection

6 new papers from Blue Cardigan Designs Bloom Collection

6 new papers from Center City Designs Sutton Place Collection

9 papers from Gin-X From the Future

9 Papers from Chloe's Closet Derby Days

plus alpha and shape coasters and cotton art bindings!

Aren't they all just delicious!!

Our sincere thanks go to Ginger, to Imagination Project Designer Sharon Laakkonen who helped judge the entries and to all the scrapologie members who entered the contest. Prize winners will be announced tomorrow!!