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Published

My Home frame from September  has been published on Craftsylish
a very interesting place.

Fibro Friday - A brave woman

Arizona Trail for Fibromyalgia | 800 miles across Arizona to raise awareness for Fibromyalgia.

I  found this blog of a woman hiking across Arizona to help raise awareness of fibromyalgia. I was impressed with her courage.

It is estimated that 7 to 10 million Americans--mostly female--suffer from FMS (fibromyalgia syndrome). The median age of onset is 29 to 37 years. It can begin spontaneously or after an injury, particularly when associated with serious emotional stress. Fibromyalgia is characterized by a consistent pattern of non-restorative sleep or insomnia, widespread body pain and stiffness, chronic fatigue and varying degrees of anxiety and depression. Other symptoms may include difficulty concentrating ("fibro fog"), slurred speech, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), light sensitivity, PMS, tension and migraine headaches, environmental sensitivities, TMJ, tinnitus, irritability and mood swings. FMS symptoms are aggravated by stress. Most sufferers even experience pain while resting, and the pain is most noticeable when they have used their muscles for repetitive activity. The pain can be so severe that they can no longer work or do ordinary tasks. Pain killers have little effect.

I want to share a scrapbook page I made recently. It was a kit by Dixie Pieces that I received as a door prize at a crop I attended recently. I almost just stuck it away, but I was tired and everything was already there and precut, so I gave it a try. It was so simple and beautiful when it was done. Kits can be a time and energy saver.

I loved the little details

Still more storage solutions

I like how neat and tidy this idea looks. It's actually a quickutz magnetic folder. This way, you can keep all the squares, circles, etc together.
I found this here

Nestabilities Storage Solution

My Nestabilities Storage Solution........... - Start A Scrapbook Community.

This creative woman used what she had on hand - ingenious!

Granddaughters - Precious

Just wanted to share a  quick page digital  scrapbook page of my granddaughters. I don't know if I will ever print digital pages, but I love looking at them. Elisia will be 3 in November, and Quinn is 13 months.

Politics - Afraid so

Confessions of an A.D.D. Crafter in Japan.I found this on a blog I was checking. This will be my only foray into the dreaded topic of politics. My son lives in Chicago, so I have a vested interest. It's been an experience for a little Hoosier boy...

• "CHANGE CHICAGO STYLE
•  Body count In the last six months Chicago - 292 killed (murdered) - Iraq - 221
•  Chicago is a combat zone.
• Who is in charge? (The leadership in Illinois )
•  Senator- Barack Obama (Democrat)
•  Senator- Dick Durbin (Democrat)
•  Representative- Jesse Jackson Jr. (Democrat)
•  Governor. -Rod Blogojevich (Democrat)
•  House leader- Mike Madigan (Democrat)
•  Attorney General. -Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike), (Democrat)    
•  Mayor- Richard M. Daley (son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley) (Democrat)
•  State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.
•  Cook County ( Chicago ) Sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look it up if you want).
• Chicago school system one of the worst in the country.

Of course they're all blaming each other. Why? They can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois . And he says he is going to 'fix' Washington politics? "

City of David

We did this card for our Christmas card club that meets monthly. This stamp set, City of David, is retired, but I still love it and use it. Some of us take a little longer to let go, I guess. I used wintergreen paper, also retired, but the new designer series paper, Urban garden, uses the same colors, which is a fabulous uptown color combo for Christmas. 

I have 2 of these card kits left. Order this pack of paper online here, and I will make sure you get them. Leave a comment and let me know you have ordered. 

storage solution for your nestabilities

{ imagine. dream. create. }: { storage solution for your nestabilities }.

this is a great idea for storage and for display!

Nestabilities in an album

fresh & fun » Nestabilities.

I found this great and portable idea on Beate Johns website - clever!

A Completely free Class! from Jessica Sprague

    I am very excited about this opportunity. I love the premise behind the class. As a scrapbook teacher,  I know that journaling on a scrapbook page is very intimidating to scrapbookers. They save it for last, and often don't finish the story, in an effort to avoid this task. But it's the memory, the perspective, the history, and the story that makes scrapbooking worthwhile. Without the message, it is just a picture album.
    From personal experience, my mother took the time to organize her pictures into an album, but chose not to add any information. When I questioned her about it, she told me they were her memories, when she was gone, they would be gone. She was tragically right. Most of the pictures, I offered to anyone who would want them, with few takers. The rest, I'm sad to say, I pitched. I will not know those parts of my mother's life. And I would love to see her as a woman, apart from being my mother. An unexpected loss, when my mother died, was her connections to people, and friends, and family that had been a part of my life as I grew older. SO....I have sons, and I don't know that they even know that I am a woman, apart from being their Mom. But I will try to leave some insights into their memories, just the same.
    I've signed up for this class and I hope you do too. Register here