Fabulous Fun with Words

I am a title guru. It is pretty close to impossible for me to do a page without one. I am obsessed with title idea books. Maybe its the writer in me.
Or maybe it just makes a page extra cute! I found this idea on A Scrappy Patch from Cafe Mom and fell in love with the challenge. I have been having a blast scrappin with the ladies online and the "virtual" crop feeling has been a new way for me to find inspiration from across the United States.

The challenge? Create a crossword puzzle theme title...what a "FUN, Fantastic" way to play with words!

Change Your Perspective

It's funny sometimes, how we tend to get stuck on an idea.
I was totally inspired to re do the Family tree page in my Son's baby book. Originally, it was the old creative memories pre printed page, that just had blue and pink drawings of ribbon that you wrote the names and dates down on... I thought I was so creative at the time, and cut out tiny little photos of everyone on our tree and put the photos at the edge of the names and dates, at the time I thought it was clever... Then I found this layout!
 
So I bravely started the redo Friday night while a few friends were over, scrappin the night away with me. At first I thought I would split the tree down the middle using the center of my two page layout as a split for the two sides of the family. I had it kind of laying on my background paper with the 5 x 7 on the right, as the layout I found online had called for, But it just was not fitting the way I needed it too. I was stuck... I found myself moving things around and trying different angles, and nothing was quite working the way I had thought. One of my friends saw me struggling and came over, what if you switch the layout around? Flip it... Reverse it... It's funny I am always telling people when I am teaching them how to use a layout that you can turn it any direction and change the sizes and shapes, but did I thinkof it when I needed to do just that? Of course not.
I switched the background pages, right to left and did the layout in reverse... and it worked like a charm.

Sometimes we just need a friend to change our perspective. To get us out of the rut we put ourselves in... And this is why I love scrapbooking...

finding my mojo

So I have been a little low on inspiration lately. Maybe its the winter blues, or maybe I needed to take a break.
This layout has been on my desk for three weeks now, and I finally decided it must be done. I am over it. Sometimes a scrapper just has to move on.
I have been struggling with some inner turmoil and I think it has given me a bad case of the scrap blues...
So I am letting go. It is good enough, not perfection, but good enough for what I had to work with.
I think sometimes we all get caught up in the perfection trap. Things have to be perfect or they are not good... and that is not a healthy way of looking at things. Sometimes we have to take the little imperfections and accept them for what they are. Life is not perfect, and neither are we. We are only human and we are going to make mistakes.
I think we have to accept each other in that same way. We may not always see eye to eye, but the world would be a boring place if we all had the same thoughts. I think the key is accepting that we are different, that we are not perfect and that we have the ability to see past those imperfections and see the beauty underneath. Sometimes it is best to walk away for a while and come back with a fresh perspective and a positive attitude... find your mojo.