In Loving Memory...

You are missed every day, but especially today. I love you Mommy.



Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Catching Up!

Wowee!! I've been a pretty neglectful blogger this past week or so, haven't I?

We have had two great challenges since the last time I logged in over here to show my stuff!! Challenge 11 was a "Wings" challenge! We were supposed to use wings to design our pages! It didn't matter how we used them, just that they were there!

SO, I scrapped about this pair of wings that has been in Rachel's closet for quite some time now!! She got them about 4 years ago from my mother, who has been gone for almost 3 years... Here's my page for Challenge 11:


Also, we had a 12th Challenge, which was that one of us was to supply the photos and the journaling, and the other was to supply the scrapbooking!! Linda sent me these two great photos and a lovely journal, and I scrapped them into this page:


This was one of the harder challenges for me so far... I didn't realize how much I would want the page to be perfect for my partner, lol...

There is really only one more challenge in this race that I need to complete and I have until 9pm my time tomorrow night to finish it- the Bonus challenge, a page based on something that is part of your daily routine... I think I'm going to do mine about driving Rachel around, lol...

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Challenge #11...

Here's my Lo for challenge 11. It's a pic of the garden I planted the day of my dad's funeral. It wasn't complete yet when I took the picture, by this is as far as I got that day.

I can't wait for the snow to melt and the flowers to bloom. I love being out in my garden, just me and my thoughts digging in the dirt, tunes cranked WAY UP and forgeting about the rest of the world for a few hours a week.

I can't believe we are down to the past challenge already! What am I going to do with my free time now? LOL, good thing it's wedding season and I have orders to work on.

Linda

Challenge 10, Road Block!

Well, only one of us had to do this challenge and it was the one who hadn't done the other challenge that only one of us had to do... SO, it was my turn!! The challenge was to use 50 different elements from at least 10 different designers!! It wasn't easy, let me tell you!! But, in the end, I love how my page turned out, it is really kewl, I think...



I don't know if you know this, but on all of my layouts, You can click them and they'll get bigger for you if you want to see more of the details of them!! :D

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Challenge 9...

Here's my page for challenge 9 (Altered Art). I love the altered art style. It kind of fits my decorating style, although my family will tell you I don't have really have just one. I have every room in my house decorated in a different style because I like too many to pick just one! I have rooms decorated in retro, vintage, primative, Americana, modern contemporary, country, outdoorsy lodge and I'm about to redo the main bathroom in shabby chic. LOL, it's way cheaper to scrapbook my styles than decorate with them.

Linda

Challenge 9, Altered Art!

Well, I don't know anything about Altered Art so I have no clue if I did what they asked me to do... Don't be surprised if you see me show up with another layout in a couple days that is more "altered", lol... But, I sure like how this one turned out!!



Linda, I have to tell ya, I went to Alaska in the summer time, which is really the only time you can actually go and visit. They sort of batten down the hatches for winter up there, lol... BUT, in the summer, the weather is crisp but not freezing. We wore our jackets but we didn't have any snow fall on us. The glaciers didn't melt but it wasn't very cold. It was really awesome to leave Southern California in the middle of a nice hot summer, and head north for cool temperatures if only for 10 days!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

WOW

Those pic's turned out big! I forgot to mention that those crazy bridesmaids are my daughter and her friends. There were 6 of them that got married in 2006 and they all stood up for each other, and got a little more crazy with each wedding. My daughter is the one with the cones, and one the two "hay wrestling" LOL, she's also in the pic on the water wheel. The two of them decided to crawl into this huge water wheel outside of the country club where the reception was being held and see if they could walk like hamsters on a wheel! LOL, they never did get the wheel to move, but my daughter had some nice bruises from where her foot went through the rotted wood on the bottom of it. Those girls are a crazy bunch. I have a ton of pic's from the various weddings and bridal parties, but some of them would probably get me banned. Let's just say that when a bus load of girls on their way home from a bachelorette party at 2:00am have to take a potty break and nothing is open... any field or convience store parking lot will do. I think I'll just keep those pic's for blackmail purposes.The picture on the bottom is all of them (including my other 2 daughters) at my daughters shower. I guess married life agrees with them, about half of them either have or going to pop out babies this year.

Sarah, your vacation to Alaska looks like it was a great time. I hear that it is beautiful there. But being from Wisconsin I have no desire right now to visit anywhere that it is colder than here. We got 3 more inches of the white stuff today, and they are predicting more next week! I can't wait for it all to melt and the sun to come out for more than one day at a time.

See you after challenge #9, Linda

Challenge 8...

Yeah! I got to make a neat page. When I found out we had to scrap a page about our most memorable trip/vacation I knew right away what I would do. I did my page on a trip to the season 4 American Idol finales that my daughter and I won thru a local radio station. I hadn't looked at these pic's in a long time. Some of our pictures are still on my daughters cell phone as we haven't bought the cable to download them yet. :( But we did get some great shots out in the courtyard at Highland Center. It was the first time I had gone on a vacation alone with one of daughters. We had a great time. We got tickets to the last two tapings, and our air fare/hotel stay! Now we're saving up to go back and see all the fun things we missed while the show was taping...

... Linda

Challenge 7... I just can't do messy!

Here's my attempt at a "messy" page. I guess I'm an organizer by nature, or as my youngest daughter tells me... I'm too anal about things being in their place. LOL, I had a hard time with this one, and yes I will be straightening a few things out before I save it for myself.

Linda

Challenge 8! That's Great!! :D

This was a fun challenge, not too into the therapy, and not hard to do, just a little different... I'm not big on black and white photos usually, and I really had to punch it up with the wild colors in the papers to make up for the fact that I felt like the pictures were a little blah... Still, I think if you look closely at them and see what they are, you'll think they are pretty kewl!! :D



Thanks for stopping by!! Is anybody besides me or Linda even seeing this thing?? I have no clue on how I would find that out, since no one ever leaves us any comments, lol...

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Challenge 7, Holy Canoli!!

WOW!! This was a SUPER hard challenge, with a different challenge for each one of us on the team... It was hard, but so worth it in the end! I love how it turned out!!



This is a letter to my 16 or 17 year old self, the journaling reads:
I'm trying so hard to write you this letter and tell you all the things I want you to do
differently to fix the mistakes I made when I was you. But, every consequence
I have had has turned into a blessing as time has gone by. The only
things I can think of to say wihtout changing my life now are
these: Please learn to eat right and exercise! You can't
imagine how much you'll wish you had later! Learn
to keep your room clean! Mom really is right
about that. Cherish Mom. She is not
indistructable and won't be with
you forever. Stop having Sex!
You can wait! Someone IS
waiting for you! I
shouldn't tell
you who but
since you
don't
listen
to
grown-ups
anyway,
(title) Just go to prom with This Guy!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Challenge 5, Revisited... Ugh!

Well, it turns out that my "implied" questions didn't go over big with the rules people at ADSR, but the good news is that they let me redo it so we wouldn't get disqualified, YAY!! :D So, here is my new and improved layout for challenge 5!!



I actually like this one a lot better than the other one now that it is finished.

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Challenge #6

Here's our layout for challenge 6 in the ADSR. It was a road block and only one of us could do it. Our challenge was for one of us to "lift" a page out of the other team member's gallery, spin it, and make a page with the opposite meaning. Whew! Since Sarah had more lay out's posted we decided I would lift one of her's.

This is the result...

"Now that your gone" a page of my dad.

My spin on Sarah's "Before you were you",

A page on her daughters ultrasound pic.

Challenge 5- Just glad it's over!! :D

Well, here's my layout for challenge 5, it wasn't doing for me like I wanted it to, I don't know why... I am making friends with my tablet though and used it to do the journaling in a very sloppy version of my own handwriting!



I think this will be one of those pages I come back and do again later so that I will be more happy with it!!

Bring on Challenge 6!! I can't wait to see what it will be!!

On a personal note, one of my feet is swelling unpredictably and seemingly without reason, it is upsetting me a bit, so I'm watching it right now... I hope I don't end up having to go to the dr... I hate going to the dr...

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Challenge #5

I know I should really be in bed as I have to get up for work in 5 hours, but this time change is really messing with me. So here I sit playing on the computer at almost 1:00 in the morning, dreading the sound of my alarm clock going off and knowing I have to get up and face another 5 days of work. Uhhhhhhg

This is my page for the ADSR challenge 5. Our challenge was to do a 4 question interview any inanimate object. I interviewed my husbands pride and joy... his '55 chevy show car. I play with computers and he still plays with cars. At least he has a hobby that he can work on at home. We built a 3 car garage in the backyard to house his "toys" and thats were you'll find him 75% of the time. It's even heated so he can go there in the winter. So, I've named her her Lola, and I refer to her as his mistress because somedays she gets a lot more attention than I do. But, I don't complain , it's fun to take her out for a ride or spend a lazy day at a car show. And besides, if he's working in the garage, I have more time to play on the computer!

Counting down to Saturday...(no work=more computer play time)

Linda

Challenge 4, WOW

This was tough... When I opened the page showing the challenge and read the subject "spill it" I knew without reading any further what my subject would be. I've tried to make a page for my dad many times, but always quit when the tears started to flow. I had to edit my journaling to get it all to fit, but it pretty much sums up what I would consider the worst year of my life, with the exception of the birth of my grandson Owen. Good-bye 2007. I am looking forward to those new beginnings this year, starting with grandbaby number 5 who will be here in September. And even though he/she was a total surprise to my daughter and her husband (their youngest is only 10 months old) this grandma's ready for another little bundle of love.

It's crazy... How in a few short weeks, I've learned so much about Sarah whom I've never met, just by making and reading a few scrapbook pages. We both chose green as our favorite color, we are both proud mothers of daughters, we both love dogs, and each of us cried making that last page. I am really glad I did this race and had the chance to make a new friend. I'm excited to see what else we have in common in the next few weeks and I am praying the next challenge will be a lighter subject. LOL, I have a bunch of fun pictures just screaming to be made into a page.

Patiently waiting for challenge #5,

Linda

ADSR Challenge 4

This was a super awesome challenge, I thought... I've been wanting to make this page for a long time, ever since I started DigiScrappin, I knew I wanted to make a page like this, so I am STOKED to be able to now...

When I was in college, and Rachel was 2 and a half, almost 3, one of my teachers had a Valentine's Day poetry reading. I told her I was going to find a great poem about a parent's love for their child and read that. She said I should start writing because I was never going to find one. I spent many hours in the library proving her to be right, there just wasn't one to be found.

So, about an hour before the reading was to start, I sat down and wrote this. It was an amazingly healing moment for me, it really helped me to let go of anger and move on to the love I have for my daughter. It changed who I was as a person and as a parent. I am so grateful for that, because I immediately became a better mother, and more free as a person.

Here's my page:


And, here is my poem in case you are interested:
Thanks So Much To You
by Sarah (Schlenz) Henderson

There’s a fetus in my stomach
It’s something very new
It’s been there for three months now,
Thanks so much to you.

But, a fetus is a baby,
And a baby’s lots of work.
They take a lot of money
Because of their great worth.
But, a baby is a child
A person all their own,
For moms and dads to fuss over
And see how much they’ve grown.

Do you think you’ll do the fussing?
Do you think you’ll spend your time?
From somewhere deep inside of me,
I know that I’ll spend mine.
I’ll walk and talk and coo,
And I’ll be loving all the time.

But, I can’t help but wonder,
What will happen in your mind?
Will you see her first steps and smile,
Beaming and boasting all the while?
Will you sacrifice all your plans
Just to make them up anew?
Will you change everything about yourself?
Will you?

Well, it’s three years later,
And I have my answers.
Her daddy’s just a picture,
Because you didn’t change your life, sir.

I thought I would be mad.
I thought I might be sad.
I never thought for one moment
That I’d be so glad!

You see, a baby is the best thing
To have with you everyday,
And a baby is the best one
To share with all your pay,
Because babies can return your love
With just a simple look,
And that’s something that I never got
From any poetry book.

Oh, I love my baby!
I love her all day long!
I love to watch her play and grow
And get so very strong.
I love having a baby
And not sharing her at all.
I love to see her smile each day
And catch her if she falls.
I love that when she’s hurting,
It’s me she wants to see.
I’d love for her to stay this way
For all eternity.

I love to kiss it better
And hold her if she cries.
I know this is the kind of love
That truly never dies!
So, I wanted to take this moment
Just to look at you and say
That what you gave was a true gift,
Even if you didn’t stay,
And in my life, I’m never really blue,
Because I have my Rachel,
Thanks so much to you.

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Challenge 3

This was really a hard challenge for me. I'm not one to take the spotlight or talk about myself. I usually leave that to my daughters or grandkids. But, I did finally manage to make a page and I did it without using a picture of myself! I hate the way I look in pictures and am pretty good at keeping out of most of them. There are very few pictures to be found with me in them and if I get ahold of them they are gone!LOL, maybe someday I'll be brave and actually try and find one I like enough to show.

Wowee! Challenge 3!!

Here's my entry for Challenge 3!! Wow, this one was super hard. It isn't easy to create a page about yourself and write all over it!! It was tough to stay on track and not talk about other people instead of myself... But, I had a super fun time with it! By Friday of last week, I was sad there wasn't a challenge to get started on, it's a little scary because when the race is over, I'll have to go searching around for challenges, lol...

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Challenge 2

I agree this was really fun, I've never done something like this before and it really was a challenge. Love the way you stitched the our halves together Sarah and your dogs are adorable! Can't wait for Sunday and challenge #3.

Linda

Here's our entry for the second challenge!!



I think this was a super fun challenge! It was interesting to work together to create just one layout! Not only that, but I was actually surprised at how easy it was to just grab half the page already done, and add a complimentary opposite side!! It was truly an interesting experience!!

I have got to take some better pictures of these dogs, lol... I think they are super cute when they sleep and I can never get them to look adorable together when they are awake, lol...

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Woo Hoo! We're off to the races...

Just finished my first challenge for the race. I'll post a pic but first I have to figure out how. LOL

OK, I got it. It's kinda small but you can still see her. This is my new puppy Dixie (I just couldn't chose one of my grandkids over the others, so the dog wins). She was born on my birthday last November and we brought her home in January. She is a mini dachshund, but don't tell her that... she thinks shes a doberman. LOL, just ask the poor cat.

My favorite color is also green, although I went with a teal on this one. And my favorite element of the moment is a flower. I guess its due to severe spring fever. If you live anywhere near WI. you know what I mean. And we are supposed to get more of the $#@* tomorrow! Sure could use some of that California sunshine about now.

Sarah, love your layout, and your daughter is beautiful!

Patiently waiting for the next challenge and a little bit of sunshine...

Linda

It has begun!!

Here is my first layout for the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race!! YAY!! :D



The challenge was to make a page about your favorite thing to scrap about. Make it at least half your favorite color, use the sketch provided, make it your own in some way, and use your favorite element 3 times over!!
My fave color is green, my fave scrap subject is Rachel, and my fave element is RIBBON!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Holy Cow!!

We got us a blog!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~