I so love this! I might be around the same age as you are because I remember wanting to be Brooke, too...and having her hair and Calvins or at least a great pair of Jordache jeans! ;) Love this! 'Totally' inspiring!
First, I think this is an amazing piece of your history that you so beautifully documented in a seriously elegant and stunning layout. Second, I know you live in Colorado and based on your journaling must be in your 30s - so how the heck do you have skin like that? Please tell me you drink water all day long to look so young and refreshed in this dry, dry, dry climate. Love this page and adding it to my favorites.
I found your layout by searching through the Scarlett Letter papers...interesting way to find it but SO glad I did. Your journaling is beautiful, heartfelt and *so true* for so many. Thank you for sharing that and know that your layout is stunning all around. I hope you find a great pair of hand me downs, 1 day for lipgloss and 2 big girly hugs this week!
WOW!!! This is gorgeous!!!! LOVE it!!! The journaling is magnificent, and the whole layout is a masterpiece. The embellies are so perfectly chosen and placed. LOVE the framing around the pic. Fantastic work. TFS!
Oh my goodness, what thought-provoking journaling. Almost have me crying. So true how our wishes and prayers change with the times. I really did not know about your mom, but I know now that I must offer my prayers for her. God bless you all . And after all that----this is a fabulous layout!!!
How inspiring is your journaling. I wish I could journal like you! Your great at it! This was so breath taking! Awesome job with the entire layout! This is by far ScrapTastic! Into my favorites!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so beautiful! It is funny how things change, how dreams and prayers that were so important one day, seem silly when you look back. To sum it up, when in doubt, crank the tunes and Flashdance Baby! Hehehe.
Oh Karin......*pause* I am speechless. Truly. Amazing! This LO is all about the journaling....and you did it superbly. Light and entertaining....yet at the same time truthful and serious. Amazing. We were children of the eighties and I still love it when I have a good hair day - usually when I have no where to go LOL! Always the way! The LO itself is stunning and the photo....I am honoured to have such a spunk as the DCP! You are gorgeous girlfriend. Thank you so much for sharing your dreams.
I first saw this in the BG gallery, and thought Wow... that's gorgeous. But I couldn't read your journaling.... I must say.... the journaling brought it home! Stunning page Karin!
WOW!! What an amazing LO!! The journaling is awesome, Karin! Growth, maturity, transition, life.....incredible!! Love the way you did the title, with the lettering, the rub-ons and the clock! And the beautiful photo of you, finishes off this LO perfectly....I see another award winner on the horizon!!
This is amazing! The journaling is so perfect and honest. I only wish I could convey my thoughts as beautifully as you have here. Oh, and I can see a bit of Brooke Shields in you :)
Your BOM album must be a thing of beauty, every page I've seen from it so far has been so special both creatively and in the journaling! That overlay on the that gorgeous photo of you totally makes the page, your pages are always a favourite of mine!
This is beautiful - love the raw journaling I found myself nodding my head and smiling as I read this - it's truly wonderful!!! Into my fAVS - I might add with hair like that and a face like yours - honey you need not worry about lip gloss!!!
There are just no words expressive enough to come close to saying what I think about this lo!!! I bow my head to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ohm, Ohm, Ohm!! Fantabeauloishiful!!!!
OMGoodness Karin, this is a mind-blowing and STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS LO. Wow, I love everything about it!! Your journaling is the best--such a gorgeous picture of you too!! Into my faves!! =)
This is amazing!!! Awesome picture of you....and you DO look like Brooke Shields!!! I love the way you poured your heart out in your journaling. I can't be that open about myself, but you've inspired me to try. I've got to do one of these soon!!!
Gasp!!! Karin, this is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!!! OMGosh, girl, you have done a magnificent job on this layout...and of course how you have evolved to becoming a woman! Your journaling is just soooo BEAUTIFUL, and I soooo love this gorgeous photo of you! I love the B&W (my fave) and the overlay, the rubons, the gemstones - Just every single thing about this page is mind-blowing! I really, really hope you SUBMIT this for publication!!! It would look so fabulous is glossy!!! Ongoing prayers for your mom, honey and HUGS to you!!! OMG, and CONGRATS on page of the day! TOOT! TOOT!
I already TOLD you how perfect this was! Congratulations on LAYOUT OF THE DAY! WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! TOOT TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!! LOL This is beautiful! I'm off to check out those ghost clocks!
Karin, I am speechless!!!! This is Sooooooooooooo gorgeous!!! I absolutely LOVE your journaling!!!! I'm having trouble just finding words!! The picture is Beautiful! The paper is perfect! Just everything about it is FANTASTIC!!!!! WTG!!! Now I'm in AWE of YOU!!!
Oh Junior, this B&W beauty were you preparing to finish? It's more than words can say. I LOVE the colors, the sophisticated look of the whole page, your photo is just amazing, (you are SO, SO beautiful!!!), the journaling showing perfectly the changes from a teenager to a real woman.......I'm totally in awe! I's so you!!! You deserve a standing ovation with this piece!!!
For the BOM challenge I am in. This was to be about my hopes, dreams, and wishes. Journaling reads: Funny to look back and see just how my hopes, dreams, and wishes have evolved. I remember when I was a child, I would hope for things like frequent trips to Disneyland, a new Baby Alive doll, more Barbies because 20 was never enough- oh, and they needed a new house every year. As I got a little older, say 10, I wanted desperately to wake up and be Brooke Shields. She was my idol at that tender age. I also wanted more than anything to be able to dance and perform just like Alex did in Flashdance. No one, in my opinion, could move their feet like she could, and I watched the movie three times a day to learn, or pretend to learn, every step. As I entered my teen years, all I wished and prayed for was a good hair day, and having been a teen in the late eighties and early nineties, that prayer was always unanswered. A good hair day was incredibly important to me. And I must not forget about all the make-up involved in trying to look perfect- you know, just like one of those rock video girls? I even dreamed of becoming a make-up artist, moving to New York, and making millions. While all of my friends were entering Universities after High School, I went off to Cosmetology school to pursue my dream. That is when life really slapped me in my done-up face. I then began to pray for my ex-boyfriend and I to finally get married, have children, and buy a house. When those notions failed after 8 years, I began to hope and dream of making enough money to support myself and my shopping habits. I wished for brand name clothes and nice places to live. Instead I met my husband. We bought house and got married. i wished and hoped that we wouldn't lose our jobs and in return, lose our nice cars and nice home. I also prayed a hundred times a day for two years that I would finally become pregnant, and wouldn't have to go through anymore invasive procedures to conceive. My prayers were finally answered with two beautiful daughters. Now, as a mother of two girls, I only hope that they will be healthy and happy with themselves and their lives. I hope that they will understand that we can not have as many toys or vacations as others because I choose to stay home and raise them, and the money doesn't come that easy. As for me, as an individual, I hope, pray, and wish for my family to be healthy and safe. That my mom, the woman I love the most, can get a new heart to stay alive long enough to see her grandchildren, who she loves the most, grow. I also hope for great hand-me-downs, jeans that aren't torn to shreds, all of my bills be paid on time, and at least ONE day out of the week to have time to fix my hair and apply a little lip gloss. Funny how things change.
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