WOW. I did it! Here's my very first digital page, and it only took me 10 Hours! LOL. I spent all day yesterday watching the learning videos - most of which was just a reminder, and started on this page about 1 am (thanks to my wonderful kids. - one would wake up - settle him, then she'd wake up, settle her - which by that time the other would be in another coughing fit. and on and on.) So I figured why not scrapbook! I had some issues like I duplicated 18 daisy's before I realized my "move tool" wasn't so much the move tool. LOL. and I went to CREATE. the tabs are PROJECTS and ARTWORK. Under ARTWORK, I found awesome flowers and all kinds of embellishments and paper etc. even the daisy mentioned above (of which after all that - I changed all the daisy's to the blue and tan flowers). anyway - when i go to the same spot now - nothing is under ARTWORK anymore. any help there - would be great.

All in all - I am pretty pleased with myself. I challenged myself to learn digital scrapbooking and actually followed through. Hey I even journaled on the page! But this wasn't about scrapbooking. This was about ME. It is so easy to make excuses for ourselves. Either we are too tired, the kids too sick, too many dishes and laundry, or whatever. Which are all valid excuses. But I really think it is important to challenge ourselves outside of that mom/wife mode. We owe it to ourselves to practice what we preach to everyone else. I cannot count how many times I've told someone else to steal some time for herself. to take on a hobby or to just take 5 and drink a cup of hot tea - all by herself. How come we need someone else to tell us to relax or to venture out and try something new? So, I challenge you to find some ME TIME. (the funny part about scrapbooking is that it is my hobby, my escape - yet it's still about my kids - so maybe I should get a mani-pedi, too -on top of the scrapbooking - not instead of. LOL) anyway, do something just for you. after all, the chores will wait (unfortunately) but if I don't take care of me - eventually I won't be able to take care of everyone else. Here's to you - or me that is.

Credits: Elements from It's My History Kit. I took the pumpkin photo at the patch - put a vivid landscape effect on it and then accidently put a sun faded effect on it.
Thanks for looking - any tips would be wonderful. : )