.back to basics.

Two pages of my little inspiration...

.me.

I walked gradually down my street today,
towards the woods- always towards the woods.
The leaves crunched beneath my shoes,
one of the most comforting sounds to me.

Children’s laughter, nails being hammered, dog’s crisp barks
carried through the wind in between the branches,
and the idly floating leaves.
I smiled, if only a faint whisper of one.

These long lost dreams are rattling around in silent corners
streaks of pink reflect on my sunglasses
as I pause again and again to take in the changing, swirling colours all around me
above, below, calling in the distance

this is always the best of me
alone in my thoughts
after a soft rain
the tree bark slick and damp
enhances the yellows, oranges, and reds in their splendor, their glory,
before they break free and drift swiftly to their death.

I’m hurting all over
I don’t breathe well alone.
I never have.
I feel as if I’m drifting with those leaves, inside an echo
by the time words reach my ears, there’s no telling how long it’s been reverberating-
through time
through place.

The best and worst thing I’ll ever be…
is a mother.
this title
this honor denied to many.
this person locked inside me.
desperately shaking- trembling with a rusty key grasped in my finger tips.
the lock so far out of focus.

Does he love me?
Need me?
know I love him so completely,
even if I don’t know how to show him.

it’s heart shattering. This child. This piece of me.
letting these dusty cracks fill in, become whole.
tears streak their scars down my skin.
leaving their track marks for the world to judge.
You know they are.
and always will.
nothing makes them proud…

how will I let go?
Be my person, my place, my thing.
my mind is racing,
pray my feet won’t follow.

sketch 125!

This is the page I made based on the sketch 125 from creative scappers!

done done

Finally finished my cousin's albums. Had a great time making them. They spent hours looking at every page- something a scrap artist always loves to see. :)
Going to start on some old projects I've been putting off tonight!
my fav...

never ending projects...

I'm working on a couple projects right now. First and foremost- my twin cousin's albums. They were supposed to be done for their 16th b-days, which was last year lol oops.
So, they're almost done now and I wanted to share a Lo from one of them. :)
Making these albums has been a huge challenge for me. I was making them both at the same time and realized that was my problem. I stopped making two at once and just focused on one. It's much easier to already have all the Lo's created and then just go back and duplicate them with different colors. My deadline is this weekend. It's my Canadian thanksgiving weekend back at home and I'm heading home this friday after my seminar. We're having a family dinner on sunday and they don't know I'm going to just show up and give them the albums. So, fingers crossed- I'll get them done. Now I'm off to create :)

I'm going to scrap today. That is all. :)