Monthly Archives: September 2006

Midnite Scrapping

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Mr_b_page What to do about that 330am wakefulness of late pregnancy.  Why scrapbook, silly! Course the kicker is your head gets so full of more and more ideas you might find your 330am project turns into 430am project. Even if you make yourself go back to bed images of new page options may float before your eyes keeping you from sleep……  Ah well. Sleep is overrated lol!

Here are some pages from this week, at least one of which was a shameful Cathy Zielske scraplift.  The new Simple Scrapbooks (as well as CZ’s bk on the sidebar) has a good Microsoft Word tutorial. I am playing around with the wordart and text box instructions. Wow!  Really easy, even for techno-challenged ladies like myself. And the savings… think of all the do-dads you no longer need once you have all these fun fonts and text  directions to make Lake_pagebackgrounds with.

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Where did the week go?

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100_3035 It has been a full week for us. We have been gone more than home which is not our norm and I for one am feeling it. Monday Allen packed us all up and took us for a picnic in the mountains. It was a nice surprise.  The children had a blast around the water. They found some eggs of some sort (fish, frog?) at the edge. The big find for the day was a columbine flower. (pic taken before the discussion about not picking wildflowers….)  We had just made a notebook page about them since they are the state flower although we hadn’t actually seen any until now.

100_2995_5 Wednesday we had our piano lessons and errands and yesterday we had my midwife appt. I can make a 95% announcement that this baby is a…….

GIRL!   Ok but with the disclaimer that I am still 5% unconvinced lol! After six boys you get skeptical when you hear news like this. <g> Tell you what though, we got a long look at her(his?) face with the tiny little mouth just sucking and swallowing away. THAT was priceless. Baby is measuring right on target for dates so I 100_3000_1 think we are looking at pretty close to Christmas for delivery.

After the appt we drove up to Denver to shop for pianos. Ours has been played into the ground and with so many pianists in the family we need to make an investment in a higher quality instrument. Investment is apparently the operative word there. Ouch! That and ugly. Gone are the days when a piano was graced with lovely woodwork and carving. : p  I will really miss our old upright. Looks like we are going with black for a new one, since that seems to be the most attractive option.  I now need to rethink the living room plan I thought I had worked out last week.

What else – scrapbooking and vet care but I will give those their own posts. Guess we ought to try to do something academic here today, though I have to hope that all these outings contributed something to their storehouse of knowledge. We had a field day in the mountains, learned more about pianos than you ever wanted to know, got a first hand look at fetal development, and now can regal you with equine dentistry info. Not to mention seat work in the car. That counts right??  Hope you all had a great week!

Ignite the Fire

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Some of you are familiar with Terri Camp, homeschool speaker and author.  She has a wonderful site called Ignite the Fire where she shares her vision.  Jen sent me her new site today which has more articles including this one:  Freedom from Fear which was especially encouraging.   She also includes a chapter exerpt about marriage.  (I discovered that Terri is unfortunately no longer married, though from what I understand through no choice of her own.  I found it encouraging that instead of becoming bitter she remains her same positive self, choosing to thrive in less than optimal circumstances. We can all learn from that!)

Along the lines of being  homeschoolers,  wives, and mothers, Elizabeth Foss writes compellingly this week about Who is At Home? reminding us that the key word in homeschooling is HOME. If that falls apart, the rest doesn’t really matter. Too often we run ourselves ragged in the quest for more and better, not realizing we are tearing our own homes down in the process.

Loveliness Fair on Monday

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Lives_of_loveliness_logo_2006 Starry Sky will be hosting the next blog fair in the Living Lives of Loveliness series.  The goal of these fairs is to encourage others in creating environments of simple elegance. The focus of this fair will be bedrooms – master, guest or children’s.  How do you create a warm, restful, simply elegant room?  Send your links to me by email (kimallenf@elpasotel.net) and I will post them next Monday!

Here is a list of upcoming fairs:

Living Lives of Loveliness
September 18, 2006 – The Loveliness of Elegant Simplicity in the Living Room (Sarah will be your hostess)
October 2, 2006 – The Loveliness of Autumn (Michele will be your hostess)
October 16, 2006 – The Loveliness of Babies (Elizabeth will be your hostess)
October 30, 2006 – The Loveliness of Prayer (Leonie will be your hostess)
November 13, 2006 – The Loveliness of Homemade Gifts (Dawn will be your hostess)
November 20, 2006 – The Loveliness of of Thanksgiving (KC will be your hostess)
November 27, 2006 – The Loveliness of Advent (Jenn will be your hostess)
December 11, 2006 – The Loveliness of Preparation (Kathryn will be your hostess)
December 25, 2006 – The Loveliness of the Christmas Season

Emilie Barnes

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I am enjoying rereading Emilies Barnes books these days.  I am a big fan of digestible bits of information and she is master of that.  There is a good amount on her website as I recently discovered. Here is a sample:

"But whatever you do to your walls and your windows, don’t forget that the most wonderful adornment to your home is your spirit of hospitality, your willingness to share your home and your lives with others. Love what you have and invite others to share the bounty. Your gracious welcome will fill the gaps and make the problems seem to disappear."

and

"You don’t always need money to create memories. You just need the desire to turn the ordinary into extraordinary."  : )