Well, I've been on hiatus.....again!  I think I try to accomplish too many things in a day, and of course, there are always those unexpecteds that take time away from what we have planned, so.....I don't get to all the things I want, and scrapping is the thing that always falls to the bottom of the list!! =(

I do have something to share today, but it is a digital layout, not a paper one.  I have lots of digi files from SunshineArtz which I love to use for hybrid projects, too.  It's a lot of fun to 'shop' for papers by browsing through the files I have from her, especially this time of year since I don't have to drive snowy roads to do it! =)  And, the headers I've been making lately are done with elements from Tabea's kits.

I recently got an email giving me a sneak peek of her new kit, DejaVu........and the chance to play with it before it was released!!  YEA!!!  The kit will be available next week.

Here is the layout I made with it.  All papers and elements are from this kit and even though it's a little 'cluttered', I just couldn't call it done until all this stuff was in there.

Oh.......and for those of you who may be wondering.......Yes, I do spin.  I own some sheep. I have a webstudio on Artfire.  I did not dye these yarns myself, but I do some of that on occassion.  And......originally this blog was started to help me stay on track with my fiber adventures. (You can find evidence of that in my right sidebar.)  Ha Ha! Then I found all of you wonderful scrapping friends online, and as they say....The rest is history!

Not a very good start! =(

I had great plans for the start of this year.  I haven't made it very far.

The fact that most of the household came down with a cold the first week of the year was the first bump in the road and my project plans were put on hold.  It takes a little while to catch up, so project plans stayed on hold!

I did manage to ply 4 oz of some wool I had spun as singles a l-o-n-g time ago.  (This is the 'Hershey' in my Spinning WIPs list to the right.)  It is the second skein of three that I will use to make a shawl for myself.  I eyed this wool roving for a long time before I bought it.  Then it sat for another long time before I found the perfect pattern for using it.  I started spinning with that pattern in mind, but it has been another long time finishing the spinning.  ={   I guess 'life' gets in the way more than my 'plans' say it should! lol  I've also been knitting a hat that someone commissioned from me.  Have to get that done and delivered next week.

On the paper crafting side of things, I joined a scrapping challenge-sort of!!  At the end of last year I found Faith Sisters digi scrapping site.  I noticed they had a challenge for scrapping the journey of your life.  Because mine had been full of trials for the last few years, I decided I was going to start 2011 with a new perspective and scrap the blessings God showered on me, focusing on the scriptures He put in my heart and mind along the way.  Then when I read about their new challenge for this year, the Providence 365 challenge, I decided to merge the two!  I have been working on the first layout using hybrid scrapping.  I just don't get as much time to work on it as I'd like.  I know I need to 'schedule' that time, like I do a lot of other things.  I'm getting there, just not helped by some 'unexpecteds'!! =(  I'm going to focus on that layout this weekend and plan to post a pic next week.

I needed a little pick-me-up today so I changed my blog background!  This new one is Whisper (3 column) from Shabby Blogs.  You might want to check out Megan's blog, too!