This past weekend I had a lot of fun spending the weekend with my creative peeps at Scrap Fest Oshawa. It was lots of fun walking around talking to people I've known for years and meeting and making some new friends. I obviously did a bit of shopping... uh. um... or maybe a little bit more... but it was just nice to relax and be surrounded by creativity everywhere!
I arrived home Saturday and was so exhausted - but I did manage to pull out my Art Journal and make my first COMPLETED page... using Zentangles... it was lots of fun... and actually quite relaxing. I have at least a more positive attitude towards Art Jouralling when I know I can at least do this technique... anyone can do it!
Sunday was spent at football and then drying out and warming up after the game. Not feeling to well last night I didn't get a chance to do anything creative, although I was itching to!
When I came home from work tonight I was bound and determined to do something... anything creative. I just wanted to sit and do a layout and not worry really about how it turned out... create for the sake of pure enjoyment and it was so much fun! I ended up finishing 2 layouts in just over 2 1/2 hours which is a record for me as it usually takes me 2 -3 hours for each layout. I grabbed my Studio Calico kit (September) and just start to create. There were a few things I wanted to get down on paper and I just did it... no thinking... no wondering if it is right or wrong... just dove right in and it felt wonderful!! The funny thing is they have turned out to be two of my favourites in a long time - but then I really haven't created anything in a long time LOL!
Here they are for you to see. The first one is just a quick layout about Juniors Bakery in New York city that we visited. It was the most delicious, heavenly, to die for chocolate cheesecake EVER!! ... and the Red Velvet Cupcakes were a close second. I have included journalling on the tag tucked in behind the photo's. I loved the Hexagon shapes from Pink Paislee and mixed them in with some larger free hand cut ones... very fun! I finished it off with SC Mister Huey's Dark Calico mist. I have to admit I think I have found my new favourite letters... Thickers has some major competition here... I need to get my hands on some more!

And of course a few close ups as well....




The second layout I created is a photoless layout. A while back I had had heard this verse spoken on a tv show (the character was at an AA meeting) and I googled it to find it. It just really spoke to me and I wanted to remember it. I think I will hang this one is my scraproom as a reminder for myself... it is certainly relevant in my life right now and I wanted to just create something pretty and special to remember these words by.





I used the exclusive Studio Calico tags - Today, Yesterday, and Today and I knew as soon as I saw them in the kit that this is what I was going to use them for. Other materials are Sassafrass pop ups and I cut up the Studio Calico Banner mounted it on white cardstock and then used Twine to adhere it to my layout. It was really fun!
If any of you are interested, here is what the poem says:
There are two days in every week that we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. Nor can we erase a single word we've said - yesterday is gone!
The other day we shouldn't worry about is tomorrow, with its impossible adversaries, its burden, its hopeful promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is beyond our control. Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds - but it will rise. And until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.
This leaves only one day - today. Any person can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of today that drives people mad - it is the remorse of bitterness for something which happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us, therefore: LIVE A DAY AT A TIME.
Absolutely perfect words to live by!
Thanks for stopping by and letting me share!
Have a great week! I hope to be back having more to share soon!