The Color Run: Take Two
Posted: August 12, 2012 Filed under: Running 1 Comment
Definitely the race for anyone looking to have fun. No pressure, no timing chip…lots of crazy color. Just as fun the second time around despite the 4:00 am wake up and rush to get home.
Summer Bucket List Mini Album (and Project Life Update)
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Bucket List, Project Life, Scrapbooking 1 CommentI have fallen woefully behind with my Project Life. Photos have been taken, printed, cut out, and placed; however, I sit down to journal and embellish…and nothing. I have bought my second album. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to fit an entire year into one album. I decided to divide the first half of the year into one, the second half into another. Unfortunately, both albums sit…sadly alone. I am hoping to find my Project Life chi again in the near future…
Sad, unadorned Project Life photos…love the look of cutting a big photo to fit multiple slots:
In an attempt to “make” something, I decided to try a summer mini album:
A fun way to document our attempts at fulfilling our summer bucket list. Really LOVING my new label maker and loving that the labels bring the entire album together: one thread of continuity.
Having fun with different shaped and sized pages:
A whirlwind of last days started our summer off: last day of school for Jake, last day for Ty…
Last tee-ball game:
First pair of flip flops…
Beginning to knock out bucket list items and including bits and pieces of our summer in the album:
I love how the postcard and book cover add more to our story than a simple photo or journaling of the same:
I have always loved the feel and look of book pages. I think it will be fun to look back on these in years to come…
A small 4 x 4 double-sided photo to change up the size of the pages:
I intend to put the same “bucket list” label on each photo documenting its completion…
It has been a busy kid filled summer. It felt really good to get some crafty goodness completed. I am about half way through the mini album. Looking forward to sharing the finished product…
50 in 2012: Book Thirty Three
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Book Review Leave a comment
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
It is the summer of 1942 and twenty-one-year old Anne Calloway finds herself forced to choose between pursuing a search for an elusive, all-consuming, passionate love or marrying a man she knows will provide her with a lifelong comfortable love.
Joining her best friend Kitty on a medical tour of duty to Bora-Bora as a nurse, Anne leaves all notions of comfort behind. Closer to war and suffering than she has ever been her entire sheltered life, Ann begins to find pieces of herself she never knew existed. While out on a beach stroll one afternoon, she stumbles across a secluded beach bungalow. In it, the remaining objects of what looked to be a talented artist. Here, she also forms a relationship with a soldier named Westry Green. Mysterious at first and respectful of her engagement, Westry eventually provides her with the passion and magic she never thought would be hers. The walls of their bungalow shelter them from the evil and tragedy swirling around them.
The natives attempt to warn Anne about the haunted bungalow and the curse bestowed upon it and those who enter: a lifetime of heartache. Confused, Anne fails to understand as the bungalow has provided her with the greatest love she has ever known. Unfortunately, Anne and Westry soon learn that the curse is not merely a fairy tale…
Lies, war, heartache, murder…and a love that spans generations. Absolute magic.
Very reminiscent of The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. A love story that will stick with me long after having finished it. A story that inspires the pursuit of utter and complete happiness, yet illustrates the sacrifices of commitment and duty. One for the favorites list…
50 in 2012: Book Thirty Two
Posted: August 10, 2012 Filed under: Book Review Leave a comment
The Garden of Happy Endings by Barbara O’Neal
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
A story that explores the different ways people react in crisis and how one faces a major life crossroad. How does one decide which way to go next?
Reverend Elsa Montgomery has just come face to face with unimaginable tragedy and finds herself facing her own crisis of faith. She returns home to seek comfort and guidance from her sister, Tamsin, who finds herself experiencing a rather public crisis. Coming home for Elsa also meant seeing the man who broke her heart, yet still held its fragile remains with him.
Somehow, surrounded by turmoil and hurt, the sisters find answers within a communal garden started to bring hope back to a suffering neighborhood.
I loved Barbara O’Neal’s first novel, but this one just didn’t do it for me…it was a chore to finish. Just a “meh” read for me. Disappointing.
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