Scrapbooking for the Cure

My friend, Aimee and I scrapbooked all day yesterday. My in-laws took the kids out for the day, so I was able to go for the whole day...10 to 6. That's 8 hours of scrapbooking. It was a fundraiser for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, so that made it twice as great. All the money raised from the event goes to breast cancer research. The 10 minute massage I bought, the raffle tickets (I won a massage by the way) and the creative memories stuff I plan on purchasing....and I made these really cool pages.



I scoured the web to get ideas and kept coming back to this circle design I found here: http://www.memorymakersmagazine.com/page_idea.aspx?id=18111 .

It took me the whole second half of the day because I'm such a slow worker. Aimee finished something like eight pages...she was smokin. But it was so great to get back to one of my favorite hobbies. I never get a chance (or at least I never prioritize), so it was a special treat to go, and for such an important cause.

I have to blog about my inner demon day that I had last week. But I'm still thinking about it. More on that soon.

Doesn't this just say it all?

Tricycle's Daily Dharma: February 8, 2008

Trying to Get It

We try so hard to hang on to the teachings and "get it," but actually the truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn't seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go; it happens by relaxing your mind, and it happens by the aspiration and the longing to want to communicate with yourself and others. Each of us finds our own way.

- Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are
from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book

Check it out...

This was Elliot's birthday cake. The kids loved it. It was so much fun to make. When I asked Elliot what kind of cake he wanted, a train cake or a tractor cake (I made sure to keep his choices limited), he said he wanted not just a tractor cake, but a Farmall tractor cake. Not a John Deere cake, mind you. What we won't do for our children.