5/31/2011 QOTD

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

5/30/2011 QOTD

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

5/29/2011 QOTD

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Abraham Sutzkever

5/28/2011 QOTD

And above all...Think Chocolate!

Betty Crocker

More of my trip to Portland...

The view from window on the plane.

My first prop flight.

I look relaxed, don't I?

Arriving at our hotel in Portland.

My first purchase of the shopping trip, a new pair of sandals.

Love the colour!!!

My mission shopping was to replace my little white runners.

How much closer could I get considering I bought the old ones 8 years ago.

Some styles never go out.

Beers on the Patio.

5/27/2011 QOTD

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

5/26/2011 QOTD

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Chruchill

5/25/2011 QOTD

I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

Bob Hope

5/24/2011 QOTD

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

Author Unknown

Portland and Dance

PORTLAND, OREGON

Izzy was very lucky and won a trip to Portland to see a dance production.

I was very lucky and she asked me to attend with her. What an absolutely amazing performance. I love dance but I really love dance when the piece tells a story in a very memorable way.

Here we are arriving at our hotel "The Paramount Hotel". Our Conceirge Brady was perfect, he offered great restaurant recommendations, always had a friendly happy hello and also offered to take our picture so that we could remember the "Fun".

 

For dinner the first night we went for a Greek dinner.

Thanks Izzy!

(more photos to come)

5/23/2011 QOTD

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

5/22/2011 QOTD

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

5/21/2011 QOTD

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Warren Buffett

5/20/2011 QOTD

I really didn't say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

5/19/2011 QOTD

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Nigerian Proverb

Memories to be treasured

The photos on the layout above were taken by Michael on a fieldtrip.

I was so impressed with his different angles.

I love that he thought to looked up and also gtt a close up.

The human zoom as I always say.

You are becoming a fantastic photographer.

Here are some old photos from my very first crop

hosted by Get Creative Scrapbooking Company

at Riverview Park Elementary.

The best parts of this layout are that

my Mom and Sandra are captured in the photos.

5/18/2011 QOTD

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.

Author Unknown

Card & Layout

5/17/2011 QOTD

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

A walk through Cindy's Garden

I love spending time in Cindy's garden.

5/16/2011 QOTD

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Samuel Goldwyn

Getting my CREATE On!

5/15/2011 QOTD

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Albert Einstein

Layouts from Florida Trip 2007

Here are a bunch of layouts that I created last month at my various retreats.

April was a very productive Scrapbooking month for me.

5/14/2011 QOTD

Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test -
Time and change - are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
Friendship never knows decay.
For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we our youth renew.
But old friends, alas! may die,
New friends must their place supply.
Cherish friendship in your breast-
New is good, but old is best;
Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.

Joseph Parry

5/13/2011 QOTD

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Robert Frost

5/12/2011 QOTD

I want to be your friend
For ever and ever without break or decay.
When the hills are all flat
And the rivers are all dry,
When it lightens and thunders in winter,
When it rains and snows in summer,
When Heaven and Earth mingle -
Not till then will I part from you.

Chinese 1st century AD, translated Arthur Waley

5/11/2011 QOTD

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

5/10/11 QOTD

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.

Caroline Sheridan Norton

5/9/2011 QOTD

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

Albert Einstein

5/8/2011 QOTD

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.


Pietro Aretino

5/7/2011 QOTD

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.


Victoria Holt

05/06/2011 QOTD

Love is like the wild rose-briar;


Friendship like the holly-tree.

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,

But which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte

05/5/2011 QOTD

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

5/4/2011 QOTD

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!


- George Elliston

A few layouts to share...

During the month of April I spent lots of time scrapbooking and now it is time to share and remember. Life is very full these days with Basketball, Baseball and Homework. Michael is doing well with all that is going on but it sure does make for a full calendar. I'm glad to see tax season done and I'm ready to dive into some Spring Cleaning and Purging. Today I bought new slippers and I'm going to throw out at least two pair.

I see I'm bad at journalling. There is jounalling with only 1 out of 5 layouts.

"We 3" has hidden journalling. Hmmm what is this telling me.....???

I think it is time for a journalling challenge.....Does anyone have a challenge for me?

You know how I love a challenge.

5/3/2011 QOTD

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.


Cicero

5/2/2011 QOTD

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

5/1/2011 QOTD

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.


Euripides