Those expressions

I was in the front garden recently taking photographs of roses for my recent Circle Journal pages and my four year old daughter came out to join me.

She was admiring the different flowers.

"Look Mummy," she said, "Red Bluebells!!"

I frowned for a moment as I didn't understand what she meant, till I looked up and she was admiring the Cape Fuchsias, or Phylegius, although I can't remember the correct spelling right now! (anyway, they are pictured here).

"Oh yes," I said, "They are a bit bluebell shaped aren't they?!"

I love the little expressions children come out with... I realise it's only because they don't have the wide knowledge base to draw from in their vocabulary, but all the same, the simple thought process are delightful!

Scrapbooking Sayings

There are many phrases or quotes that are used a lot in Scrapbooking, not so much in cardmaking though.

One common one, which gets used on layouts of children or young people is:

Dare to Dream

This is one that was initially inspirational to me... then just familiar, but then I started to "think" about what it "actually" means.

Do you know what it actually means?

It doesn't just mean "think big", "go for your dreams", "follow your heart" and all that. It's the "Dare" part of the phrase that really calls in the attention!

We all dream of things we would like to have, but most of us never "believe" we can have them. And it's not the physicality of "how" we could get those things, or experience such things... it's much more likely to be because in our subconscious, we don't believe we "deserve" such things!

Think of something you REALLY want, and watch what pops up in your head! All sorts of obstacles as to why not, I'll wager! Have you ever said to yourself "Well exactly WHY can't I do... have... be?" whatever it is?

Try making a scrapbook page about something you really want, and call it "Dare to Dream", but this time... scrap it as if it is "already yours", write about it in the present tense, and be thankful you have it now.

The Dare doesn't refer to the Dream....

It refers to the BELIEF!

Try it... explore your feelings... it's enlightening I assure you!

Scrapbooking... it's all in the journaling

I posted my last scrapbooking layout on the UK Scrappers site yesterday and a fellow member left the comment...

"This is great........I particularly love your journaling!!! After all, isn't the journaling and the photos what it's really all about?"

How right this lady is!

I wasn't sure about doing pages about my feelings towards my, for, or about my daughter because I wrestle with them in my mind and maybe I shouldn't make them public, in the way of a published scrapbook page layout!

But scrappers all over the world do, and actually after I read this lady's comment it reminded me that I enjoy reading other's inner most thoughts and feelings, and far from judging them harshly as I suspected I might be, I often feel a kindred spirit. Their journaling being somewhat moving emotionally.

So I made the decision that I will indeed do more pages about how I feel as there must be others out there who, like me, cannot "gush" over their offspring, or anything else for that matter.

I personally find it difficult to show my feelings, something I am working on, but maybe being honest on my pages with my journaling means I can use all those hundreds of pictures I have of my daughter, and maybe in time, when she is older, she will come to understand her mother a little better.

Lessons in Life

I was taking a look at a blog - Scrapbooking one of course, actually by "ScrapDolly" and came across a lovely piece of video courtesy of YouTube. It is moving as ScrapDolly says herself. No I don't believe in God per se... but I do believe in the sentiment portrayed here!

The music and photography alone are worth watching! Watch with an open mind!