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i do for relaxation and creative fulfillment if i make it stressful what s the point i might as well make laundry my hobby if i want to constantly freak out over being behind or not finishing i do hereby give myself permission to enjoy my hobby load then becomes a month long opportunity to do something fun for me um yes please 2 practical tip get your space ready before february 1 you ll need some supplies within arm s reach but having stacks of layouts that need to go into albums or scraps everywhere will make trying to create harder than it needs to be do yourself a favor and clear an area to work in stockpile a little adhesive if you re running low check the ink levels in your printer cartridges oh and pick up some fun new product or cardstock or a new pen just to get in the spirit of things 3 practical tip if you re in charge of dinner at your house plan all your dinners ahead of time my family will not eat out of a crockpot but if yours will consider yourself lucky we have tacos spaghetti soup baked potatoes casseroles pot roast anything that takes just a little time or can be thrown in the oven and dealt with later we also have something called yoyo which stands for you re on your own 4 i m crazy excited about the prompts for this load but i know from experience that at least one or two just won t work for me or i might need more than a day to get my story together so i make a list of topic ideas of my own i have all my christmas pictures ready to go for example plus pics from a friend s visit in november if you re familiar with lain s scrapbook improv that s a fun way to do some layouts during load she has a spinner but i roll dice to find out what my topic is what my embellishment s are what style of journaling to use etc that will cut your scrapping time considerably and you ll find your creativity kicks in when you re freed from making so many decisions 5 don t overthink it have fun you may not love every page you make for load but i bet you ll be surprised by how many you do love especially the stories that you never thought to tell or the techniques you try on a whim i made this page during load214 and it is nothing like what i normally scrap where are the pictures where s the journaling where s the product this may be one of my favorite layouts ever because oh my gosh it references flappy bird that was a year ago really when you exercise your creativity day after day you ll find that it becomes easier and easier to jump into that space of flow i m about as busy as the next person and i sure didn t think i could add anything as time consuming as scrapbooking into my daily routine but between the prompts lain s improv method and how amazingly creative i feel at the end of the month i have found that a little bit of extra effort pays off in a big big way thanks for stopping by to hear my load story i m excited about seeing your layouts in the flickr gallery be sure to check out the rest of the load215 blog hop scrappers here karen siegel fitting http wp me pdovl dg nicole gray http nicolesscrapbook blogspot com load 215 blog hop ht alice boll http scrapbookwonderland com load215 tips lisa hausmann http lisahausmann blogspot com 20 load215 blog hop html wendy elliott aebi http aebidabbadoo blogspot com how i learned to stop wo connie ochoa hanks http wp me p33slz csg kristie sloan http kristiesloan com scrapbook page a day prepping for kelli panique http scrapbookgirl71 com load215 blog hop lain chroust ehmann http www layoutaday com a layout a day heres how christy strickler http myscrapbookevolution blogspot com load 215 blog ho lynnette nagle http sassyscrapper2010 blogspot com pre load blog hop h danielle leonetti http scrapperonthestreet com 01 lets get ready for load danielle hunter http ecoscrapbook blogspot com 20 load215 blog hop html leslie smith http lcsmithsaved outofthemire blogspot com 012715 load heather dubarry http wp me p35z1m d5 melissa pearson http melissakaythehappyscrapper blogspot com lesson valerie lindgren smith http fromvaleriesheart blogspot com load215 tips posted by wendy at 5 00 am 12 comments monday december 01 2014 christmas is coming ok i m trying something new here so hopefully this will work for the last seven or eight years i ve put together a calendar of activities for our family to do during the month of december that s not the new part back in the dark ages i made a paper chain and fastened it on the wall like a caveman i cut a star out of yellow construction paper and it moved down the chain to show what day it was i m totally laughing at how primitive this was compared to the advent bucket lists we see on pinterest now it is completely impossible that they were ever this little somebody must have been using a trick camera some of the activities stay the same year after year under threat of rioting by the minions watching elf for example absolutely must happen last year i collected a couple dozen elf quotes and put them into a bingo card generator everybody s cards were different and it was so funny to watch people tense up when they were approaching a bingo and the line they needed was coming up so now we can t just watch elf and be happy we have to watch elf while playing elf bingo but i m okay with that some of the activities stay on the calendar for a while but then fade away due to changes in age or location play in the snow is a safe bet at some point in december if you live in virginia but not so much in south texas sadly letters to santa and put out ho hos and milk for santa have also cycled off the calendar on the bright side christmas eve tamales is a delicious new tradition now that both my kids are older read have more demanding homeschool schedules and gasp independent social lives we may not be able to do every single thing i have planned i m going to find a way to be okay with that i don t want to be the crazed pinterest mom making the whole family miserable because today is random act of kindness day do you hear me so here s what i m hoping december 2014 will look like at our house feel free to copy any ideas that appeal to you or better yet leave some ideas of your own in the comments here s the new part i mentioned i ve never had a download link before today the instructions seemed pretty straightforward which is almost always a sure sign it s not going to work if you try to download it would you please oh please do me a favor and let me know if it works click here to download calendar posted by wendy at 3 14 pm 1 comment labels creative endeavors monday november 17 2014 watch me grow this may be one of my favorite crafty projects of all time i used my cricut to cut 4 1 2 circles from cardstock then i chose one picture i usually pick my favorite but if the birthday kiddo has a strong preference i try to use their choice for each year of their life i cut the pictures into 4 inch circles affixed them to the cardstock and threaded everything onto some sturdy jute twine both of my children were born toward the end of the month so i pop this banner up in the kitchen at the first of their birth month each year we add a current picture it is so much fun to watch my babies transform into little ones then school age and now into their teens through this simple banner i loved this idea so much that i also made a scrapbook layout for each child that i maintain in conjunction with the banner can you believe that 18 years worth of birthdays will fit on two 12x12 pages i always think of the sweet old ladies in the grocery store post office restaurants who would tell us frazzled moms with babies and toddlers to savor every minute it goes so fast my son only has four empty circles left on his layout i get choked up just thinking how fast they ll fill up posted by wendy at 6 00 am 1 comment wednesday november 12 2014 whatcha readin week 46 another week another thriller i m telling you next week i m going to read rebecca of sunnybrook farms to balance myself back out sleep tight by rachel abbott is the story of a woman her three children and her unstable obsessed husband what could possibly go wrong the woman olivia and her children disappear and the case is assigned to detective tom douglas who has actually investigated three other cases involving olivia her husband robert is of course their first suspect he tells them a little truth slanted to serve his purposes and a lot of lies from the evidence they uncover the detective and his team have three theories 1 olivia and the children have been killed 2 olivia and the children have been kidnapped or 3 olivia and the children wanted to disappear robert has spent years planting seeds in case he needs to make olivia look unfit so the team also has to figure out whether the children are safe if they are in fact with olivia robert in the meantime is running his own covert investigation and he s a step ahead of the detectives the entire way i like books to have happy endings with clear and definite closure but the more details abbott revealed the less sure i was that i was going to get that i was reading as fast as i could in spots as if i could help the detectives catch up by reading their parts faster it might have worked if i d been able to read robert s parts slower ha this book could have been a predictable formulaic read but rachel abbott did a great job at keeping the reader off balance throughout the book by frequently changing narrators and looking at the same clue from various perspectives that s not to say that the book didn t follow a formula i just wasn t sure which formula it was until the end she also kept the suspense taut by changing the pacing of the story at first robert is merely agitated but soon his sections read like a crazed bull in a china shop we re watching him unravel and lose control we see him rapidly shift from being concerned with maintaining appearances in front of the police to being obsessed with finding his wife regardless of who or what stands in his way it was frightening i was also struck by how abbott slowed the story by alluding to the detectives lives tom would make dinner for his girlfriend or take a phone call about his cottage being robbed and i would think dude you don t have time for this robert is thinking about one thing and one thing only and he s ahead of you at the moment that is good writing right there my friends as i keep saying i m done with this genre for a while but i would definitely recommend this book posted by wendy at 6 00 am no comments monday november 10 2014 homeschool week in review week 11 bible this week we studied the name melek which means king this was another name that overlapped with a title given to jesus we learned earlier that god is jehovah shalom the lord is peace and jesus s was also the prince of peace god is king of everything just as jesus is called king of kings for god is the king of all the earth sing to him a psalm of praise psalm 47 7 math we did math i just can t remember a single thing about it at least that means it went smoothly unfortunately the rough days in math are the ones that really stand out in my memory so yay i can t remember a single thing about this past week s math grammar will is working on verbs and objects he works independently and only has occasional questions for me i m a grammar nerd so of course i m really pleased to see his proficiency increasing katie is working on nouns one of the lessons was on collective nouns which we always think is so much fun our favorites are the ever popular murder of crows and a clowder of cats literature we re still reading the blood of olympus it s a long book to read aloud we re going to have to start our next genre and study them concurrently or we won t finish before may may 2017 i think it s a really long book history we read about mussolini and fascism in italy but i didn t learn as much as i wanted to so we re going to park here and dig a little deeper you ve heard the expression if mama ain t happy ain t nobody happy well the homeschool corollary is if mama s curious about something everybody s curious about something ha science co op we ve had a ton of rain this week which is really unusual for this area will had just finished a science chapter on the water cycle and he made the comment that if this rain continued it just might raise the water table he was shocked to hear himself spontaneously apply what he was learning it was a pretty cool moment iew co op both kids knocked out paragraphs on how antiseptics make surgery safer we also got to recompile all their assignments because the teacher s grade book went missing at the auto shop i thought it was going to be a huge pain but it actually turned out to be kind of fun i think i heard one of them say that they were moving on to multi paragraph essays so i m guessing our time of quick n easy iew is coming to an end other news both kids are spending the weekend at cold play our church s fall retreat for students they re both so excited that it s a miracle we got anything done this week posted by wendy at 8 24 am no comments wednesday november 05 2014 whatcha readin week 45 another perk of being an amazon prime kindle user is kindle first a program that gives you the opportunity to read certain books the month before they re released my sister s grave by robert dugoni is a suspenseful thriller in other words amazon lured me way out of my typical genre with this one tracy crosswhite s younger sister sarah disappears and is never found a man with a history of rape and assault is convicted of sarah s murder with circumstantial and suspicious evidence tracy sees the inconsistencies during the investigation and trial but no one will listen to her tracy blames herself for sarah s disappearance and becomes obsessed with trying to figure out what really happened she eventually becomes a detective with the seattle police department always reviewing her sister s case in her mind not too far into the story some hunters or hikers find sarah s body the case of course goes from the back of tracy s mind to the forefront she returns to her small hometown to give her sister a proper memorial and burial but she is still bothered by the way things don t quite add up and despite warnings from everybody in her life she just can t leave it alone i ll be honest this genre stresses me out i don t like not knowing what s going on i don t like little hints here and there i don t like holding my breath and waiting for the boogeyman to pop out at me this is not my favorite genre me reading my sister s grave i made it through the first two thirds of the book just fine but that last third eek i couldn t put it down couldn t read fast enough i was so glad to reach the end and just collapse my sister s grave had the level of character development that is typical of this genre which i think is too bad because tracy could have been really fascinating but again if dugoni had spent a lot of time and effort on character development it would have slowed the pl...