New One Little Word layout and more

I did an additional page for my One Little Word. I'm not taking Ali Edwards class on One little word Im taking a Faith approach to doing mine. Im following my own props and some of my friends. My word of the year is ACCEPTANCE. This is a year of change. So I made that my word. So much I have to accept. I have a hard time with that and it is time I learn to deal with it. The other day a book mark from when I was around 10 years old fell to the side out of my bible. It had a quote that my Grandmama used to say and said to me often. She was trying to teach me to have faith and to pray about all I needed to God. She couldn't get it across to me so finally one day she just bluntly (as she ever so often did) said " Well, have you prayed about it as much as you're whining and carrying on about it?" and it finally made me understand I needed to pray more about it and not complain. God was obviously the only one that wanted to hear my distress. So I started praying about my wrongs and complaints to him. she noticed I wasn't complaining anymore and asked me about it. I told her I was telling God. She said GOOD! Thats what youre supposed to do. But you can tell me if its something I need to know. Which now I wondered what she needed to know. Grandmama died not long after that when I was 11 years old. This is one of my fond memories of her teaching me about prayer. We said our prayers before every meal and at night before bed every time I spent the night. she let me read aloud from the bible and she read one of her devotions in Open Windows. Here is my page for my One Little word.

I know my page letters are a little off kinda crooked. My hands are shaky from my tremors, it really is starting to show more in my scrapbooking, but Im still trying. I did another page this one I did today for my friend Jeanne. SHe has gone through so much last year and this year with her health and the death of her mother. I thought I would show her some love and do a page about her. she is such a dear friend of mine.

This picture was taken at DIsneyworld. We finally got to meet. we have tried to meet several times and something has happened each time where we couldnt. I was so happy to finally get to hug her. Next is a challenge page from Scrapbooking the day away page a day challenge this one was one of the first challenges. I looked hard for this paper. It was in my stash of patterned paper. I looked hard for it finally found it. I know it is tie dye but we are pretending it is rainbow, The picture doesnt pick up how fabulous it is. It is glittery and shiny and spectacular. It was perfect for a Disney world fireworks picture.

The last one is from Scrapbooking the Day away daily page challenge 123 challenge. 1 picture, 2 embellishments, 3 colors of paper. Well I sorta did the challenge. I kinda went crazy with it. I actually did more than 2 embellishments. and my colors are patterened paper so its kinda more colors. so I didnt follow directions well. so whats new. BUt, it was a good starting point for me. I enjoyed making this page and I did some good journaling for Bella.

I've been scrapbooking a lot with the daily challenges at Scrapbooking the Day away. I do most of them. I've enjoyed them. Im also loving listening to the scrapgals podcasts with Tracie and Tiffany. They changed their podcasts to a new format over to Podfan. It is so much better! Ive been listening to old podcasts through the week when their isnt a new one. Ive been laughing and enjoying hearing their ideas and the interviews with other scrapbookers. If you wanna join the podcasts its at THESCRAPGALS you get a bunch of bonus features along with the podcasts that are super informative and funny! Ive been listening for a while now I didn't like their old format and it was hard for me to listen to . it would cut me off in the middle of it and jump to the end when I started it back. so I just stopped listening.BUT, this new format is awesome and I have had no problems and it brings up the old ones easily. I love it!