With a great LO like this, I hope you will be able to feel more confident as a scrapbooker for one area at least. Love this page, how you scrapped the tough things in your life, too. Like how you journaled around the scalloped circle. You go, girl!
Anna I didn't know you felt that way. What in particular makes you feel that way? I have that problem also. I think mine stems from my mother, she would always tell me how ugly I was and how much she hated me, so now that I'm older I don't' feel beautiful no matter what I do and I hate myself. Eventually I was get around to making of page of it. I think you are a wonderful caring person and although I don't know personally your actions have shown me you are. Wonderful page Anna keep letting it out.
This is a very dramatic LO and you've done a wonderful job "pumping up" your title. The stitching looks great too. Love your color scheme and pp's and your journaling is very touching and heartfelt.
What a beautifully candid lo, love the way you have been so honest in your page and I love the way you have presented it, great work girl, and keep working on it (your self esteem) - cos you are wonderful person and afab scrapper too, TFS :)
Love the honesty in this layout, Anna. Awesome journaling. AND I think the sewing is super. It gives it a personal touch. And I do so love the title with the different letter stickers. I do so know how you feel. Hugs...
Great LO in all respects. Lovely design but also you are very brave to put down your words on paper. I hope you can begin to see in yourself what others, I'm sure, see in you.
Hear, hear. I have felt the same way and could have journaled the same words. And, yes, I don't want to pass it onto my daughter either--you're a lawyer, I'm a teacher, we're writing about this and all of that is significant! Great job--I love the layout!
First tfs!!!! It takes a very strong and confident individual to share what you are sharing about yourself with us. I love the journaling. You have just given me the courage to post a lo about myself that I would never tell anyone unless they were witness to it. Really great job and I commend you!
Did you say "Self esteem".....? Great Lo, beautiful colors and the theme makes me wonder "where do I buy it??? (maybe in Iceland...)
Gorgeous work Anna!!!!
This is one of my favorite layouts of yours!!! I LOVE the color combo, how you journaled this, your sincere honesty, and that you used a scroll as a monogram! Great, great work!!!
Wow... you're so brave to journal this and it's a beautiful layout....the sewing adds such a homemade personal touch......the older I get and the more I assume everyone else is better than me at.....(blank!!), the more I realize EVERYONE else feels this way! Sharing it has helped me overcome it more and more. I wish the same for you in your journey!! Maureen
first of all the title is so cool, and so is the photo, second, i love the topic, you are an awesome person, keep your chin up girl!!! and the sewing??? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay awesome! you have ventured where i will not!!! he ehe.e
remember we all feel those things at times...but as you can see and feel from those around you...it's just our doubt creeping in...this layout is awsome and has inspired me!
This is great. You are the best wife your husband could have (he chose you because he thought you are the best), you are the best mother your daughter could have and she loves your for you, you are the best sister your sister has, you're my best friend in Iceland and I love all the support you give me on my layouts, and your scrapbooking is amazing! I always go to your gallery for inspiration. I don't know anyone who could be you better than you. And that you is wonderful!
Well girl, if you're worrying about your scrapping ability you can stop that right now, and I think we all pretty much feel the same way a lot of the time. I think if we were completely comfortable with ourselves all the time, we'd never work for more, kwim?
Ok this is the first time I used a sewing machine and wow that is fun. The title is made from rub-ons, stickers, fabric and chipboard. I always make so plain titles and I'm never happy with the result but this challenge really helped me to step up and push myself. I used ink on the edges of the pp.
Anyhow as you can see I did the title in english but the journaling is in icelandic.
"I have never had much self esteem. I don’t doubt myself and my abilities all the time but pretty often. It’s my believe that everybody else is better than me. I always believe that other women are better wifes than me and better mothers. I always believe other attorneys are better than me. I doubt myself as a daughter, sister and a friend. I doubt myself as a scrapper. This weakness had caused me pain over the years because all kinds of events that make my feel bad about myself stay with me sometimes for many days after and I never give myself a break. Books, sessions with a shrink and I don't know what have helped me to work on this problem and hopefully one day I will have a great self esteem. This problem is something I don't want to pass over to my daughter. I want her to grow up with a confident mother by her side."
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