Wishing for fall. When the temperatures start getting up there, I like to do a page that makes me think of crisp fall air and beautiful leaves!!

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My only addiction!! Even my husband feeds it - he will bring home a magazine for me if JD is on the cover, or appears inside!

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A wonderful night out listening to my daughter's boyfriend's band. We had so much fun. The coffee house was a very nice and warm place to be on a Friday night!

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I like the look of this spread when the pages are side-by-side. The starkness of the black and white next to the color pencil page is a nice contrast.

I love to make these color pencil pages.

I like this spread. I found these birds in some Bird and Bloom magazines.

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Page 2 (I put them up backwards!). I had a drawer full of movie stubs (7 different showings of Pirates of the Caribbean!), they're so colorful I thought I would create a pocket and stick them in.

At my church they try to give all the childrens ministry teachers a few months off durng the summer, then we teach for 10 months straight. I was not looking forward to going back this time (I've been teaching toddlers for 14 years!) and was somewhat distressed to have summer come and gone. The first Sunday back they also promoted the children, so I had all new students aged 2 1/2 to 3, one was boo-hooing the whole hour, and one was just wild, and the other 8 were all potty training but not sure of the whole thing, so every few minutes one of them was needing to go to the restroom (and some of them went 4 times!!), and when the psarents finally came an hour and a half later (two parents were having too much fun to come and pick up their children, apparently), I was about ready to pull my hair out! So the next Sunday, as you can imagine, I was NOT looking forward to going. I could hardly concentrate on the message (probably something about suffering making you grow in faith!), and I went to my class and had 8 children who were perfect angels, and I was "on", the Bible story coming to life and the children participating and laughing and hugging me and crying because they had to go home! What a difference a week makes!!

I felt the need for a colorful spread on this day.

I have become a huge Dire Straits fan. My daughter's boyfriend made me a cd and I fell in love with it, and them. I now own 2 Dire Straits and 2 Mark Knopfler cds.

I love the softness of this spread. My son went on a "graduation road trip", his first time away from home for any length of time - atleast without a parent. He and two friends went to Virginia and road a tall ship and toured a battleship. pretty exciting, and something he will remember all his life!

I was a bit disappointed in this page until I thought to rub a little purple chalk over the stamped "Dream". I love the way it looks now. An entry about working in my garden. I've got to change the plants because there is so much shade now. Every gardeners favorite phrase - "NEXT YEAR".

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Summer Days

Opps, scanned the pages in reverse order. Oh well, this is not one of my favorites, seems like I've had a lot of those lately. The journal entry was about how I've been noticing so many women who have remained in contact for 40+ years with old friends. I find that facinating. I've not kept in contact with any one from my childhood or teen years. Sometimes it will be a group of 6 or 7 women, and they take trips every year together. Anyway, I thought it was kind of neat.