Happiness is getting enough sleep, which directly impedes the joy I receive from:
Happiness #2, which is writing and playing with google blog and scrapblog.
Happiness #3, which is really #1, is the joy of being with my family. I cherish our time together, yet I never seem to have enough time to spend with them. (Part of which can be blamed on Happiness #2).
Happiness #4 is that quiet time of morning when the day has not yet begun. When the night sounds are still heard and shooting stars can still be seen streaking across the sky.
Happiness #5 is knowing I've made a child feel a little better about himself or herself. Although that one is not realized very often!
Happiness #6 is that time of day when daylight still lingers, but dusk is settling in. It's also my daughter's favorite time of the day when the setting sun casts a golden glow over each and every one of us no matter where we are on the planet.
Many more "happy" thoughts, and your post has definitely put me in a happy frame of mind! Thank you!
Hi Annemarie You are spreading alot of happiness around the world with this blog and scrapblog, thanks for putting it out there. BTW if you head over to my blog you will see you have been tagged! Peggy PS Glad to hear you are a Suzanne Vega fan....we will have to take some of her CD's with us on our trip.
If you saw my Discipline collage , you can tell I have a thing for tissue paper. I have used it make inchies and to paint mountain/sunset scenes. Now I am working on some ATCs . I have done some before using the same cardstock I am using this time. However, I am tired of this background and want to alter it some how, so here's where the process went. (Note: I did try it on some sample-sized pieces of cardstock first so you might see those pop in from shot to shot.) I began with a plain piece of cardstock (it is supposed to be green/yellow.) I lightly drew a line on the card. I then squeezed some glue onto the card (don't ask why it's blue...that's another story.) I used scrap piece of stock to spread the glue to get a perfectly straight edge. I laid the tissue paper onto the wet glue and pressed out the bubbles. (You could use a brayer, it gets messy.) I trimmed the excess tissue. (I have torn it before, too, for a different effect.) After the glue dried, I took the c...
Well, as a family we were all going to use the long weekend to trek down to Texas and rip out carpet and paint walls. Come to find out, Gary doesn't have Monday off so it would make a really bad turn around time. So...we decided to stay home and make plans to go another time. Meanwhile, all I can envision is the money pouring out of my already empty pockets into the mortgage and utilities for a house we aren't using. :-(
Now, I will look for some free activities to do in the city for the Labor Day weekend. I have seen several advertised on tv. I hope the temperature stays cooler than yesterday (102F.)
Yesterday I lazed around the house feeling a little sorry for myself wondering why I don't have a job yet. So I got out my sketchbook and calendar journal and fiddled around. I have been thinking about working on a set of note cards to sell at some local gift shop. They would look like some of these:
I just want to unify the theme of them so they seem more like a set.
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...whether I am ready or not. November was a busy month, so busy that I would forget to write on my calendar journal page. I fortunately was able to go back and fill in most of the days. Here is next month's calendar. If you would like to play along for December, head on over to The Kathryn Wheel to see what everyone else is doing. December should be okay. Come mid-month, I will add an extra hour a day to my workday. That's a good thing. At the same time, the kids will be home for Christmas Break...(I'm sorry, Winter Break! What the heck?!) Well, we will celebrate Christmas nonetheless. I am looking at making a trip to Chicago to visit my aunt and hopefully my mother will go up there. The problem with Chicago in December is the weather. You never know what the roads and flights will be like. I have only been to Chicago twice I think. It would be nice to see a different part of the family. It's still up in the air. I still have to work on my Sketchbook Pr...
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1. Happiness is having a good nights sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.
2. Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
3. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Love
Peggy
happiness is coffee with milk and sugar, hot, but not too hot to sip
happiness is hugs from little arms
Happiness #2, which is writing and playing with google blog and scrapblog.
Happiness #3, which is really #1, is the joy of being with my family. I cherish our time together, yet I never seem to have enough time to spend with them. (Part of which can be blamed on Happiness #2).
Happiness #4 is that quiet time of morning when the day has not yet begun. When the night sounds are still heard and shooting stars can still be seen streaking across the sky.
Happiness #5 is knowing I've made a child feel a little better about himself or herself. Although that one is not realized very often!
Happiness #6 is that time of day when daylight still lingers, but dusk is settling in. It's also my daughter's favorite time of the day when the setting sun casts a golden glow over each and every one of us no matter where we are on the planet.
Many more "happy" thoughts, and your post has definitely put me in a happy frame of mind! Thank you!
Roban
You are spreading alot of happiness around the world with this blog and scrapblog, thanks for putting it out there.
BTW if you head over to my blog you will see you have been tagged!
Peggy
PS Glad to hear you are a Suzanne Vega fan....we will have to take some of her CD's with us on our trip.
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