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 It's Friday... and there's a lot going on!

Another Friday with a lot of things to do... and lots of hope for the weekend.  Hope you have plans and good things for the next couple of days.

I want to share a recent layout I made dedicated to my home.

But... what's a home?  Not just a "place" where you live... it's more than that.  So even though I show a photo of my "house", I journaled about all the things that make a house to become home.

I used buttons, felt ribbon, washi tapes, baker's twine, doily, chipboard, ink, and of course... stamps!  I  tried to make the layout a "homey" page... (LOL), so I coordinated different elements but made sure to use diversity... just as what you can find in a real "home"...

I stamped directly on the photo with a phrase from Unity Stamps that says:  "home is where you park your heart", and emphasized the word "heart" with color.

Journaling is in Spanish, but this is the translation:

"In this house we have laughed, cried and received good and bad news.  We've got tired, frustrated and even inspired.  In it we have loved, yelled, and regretted.  Being here we have made plans and in every corner at some point we have talked to God.  We have partied and we have honored family, friendship and love.  With it we have fought, we have fallen, we have dreamed, we have prayed.  Here we sleep, eat, take showers and live.  It's just a house, but it is also a dream come true.  It's really more than that, it's our home."

Here's the whole page.

Hope you like it.

Leave a comment.  I'm going to link this to Friday's Friends with Flair from Unity Stamp Co, so you could win great stuff.

Have a great weekend.

Driving Back Home...

Hello...

Well... I'll be travelling a couple of days for work and I wanted to make sure to post another message this week... and it's a great opportunity to confirm this "scheduled" posting works... So if you are reading this message before November is gone... then it works!!!!

Well well... so what's this post about? Does it happen to you? Is your mind very active when you are driving back home? I know minds are awesome and are always doing something... but when I'm driving back home is like I have relaxed and stressful feelings combined at the same time... Crazy, huh?

It takes me an average of 45 minutes to drive back home from the office everyday, from Monday to Friday... and that is if there's not any special happening affecting traffic. And there's so much in my mind... I review the day... all the things I did, what I left for tomorrow, things being said to me and by me, projects completed, new tasks...

And then... I remember something and I write it down... so I don't forget. And then, I remember I have to buy things, I need to clean that, I should call ... blah blah blah... Then... I get a call from mom, read a text message from my brother, tell my husband I'm on my way home, etc... (I'm not a saint, but really... I avoid using the phone while driving, I use a bluetooth, and I text if the traffic is slow and there's no risk...)...

And, driving back home, I look around and see other cars, other people, the trees, the signs, the sky... And I give thanks to God... And I turn on the radio, listen to music, sing (or make some noise), and move my hands to the rythm of music...

And one day I said to myself: How do I look while driving back home? And the traffic was too heavy... I was almost stopped. So I took my camera and turned on the timer and get ready for a picture... and this is how I look!

And I scrapped the photo... and I documented my driving back home experience. Here's the layout...

Have you ever scrapped your "driving back home" or similar experience? Do you like to scrap on everyday situations or do more traditional scrapbooking for birthdays, special occassions, etc? Please share your experience with me...



(patterned paper: Fancy Pants Designs, Basic Grey; journaling card: My Mind's Eye; stamp: Glitz Designs; flowers: Prima; brads: Fun Expressions; ink: Color Box; pen: Sakura, Sharpie; punches: Martha Stweart; adhesives: Scotch, Scrapbook Adhesives; miscellaneous: cardstock, ribbon, Cricut cartridges Opposites Attract & Graphically Speaking)