random Friday fun

We're nearing the end of week 2 of the school year, and I am just exhausted. All this making lunches, signing forms, volunteering at the school, rushing home to get them to tennis... it's all wearing me out. I don't remember being this tired last year. Hmmm. I'm thinking this is where it would have been good to have my babies earlier in life, no?

Oh yeah. The title of this post said something about fun. So I'd better lighten up the tone, right? :P

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I love this layout I made a few weeks ago. It features an old photo of me, taken in my dad's childhood home. I took a photo of that same entranceway in June when we travelled to China. I love the connection I feel to the past when I create pages like this.

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I was going through some of our summer 2010 vacation pictures a few days ago, and I stumbled across this picture. This is me with my youngest sister, Bren. I love her to bits and wish she and her son lived closer to us.

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Things I am looking forward to in the coming days and weeks:

• playing tennis with Jamesie on Saturday mornings
• taking a one-day workshop on how to teach indoor cycling classes
• doing the Terry Fox Run with my boys at their school
• running but not racing - being sensible about my achilles tendonitis
• working on a scrapbook all about me in Cathy Zielske's Me: The Abridged Version class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking
• shopping for some new fall clothes and shoes
• creating 8x8 pages for my mom and dad's gift album

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One last thing. Did you see my post about double-page vacation layouts on the Ella blog last week? It was the first of three posts, featuring a few of my best Canadian scrapbooking buddies. Look for my second post later on today!

As always, I thank you for dropping by to visit me here. I always worry that I'm talking to myself here on my blog, but when I check my stats via Typepad, I know that I have a visitor or two dropping by every day. lol

Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

Comments

[Nathalie]

Great page Barb! I love the softness of it. Is it an hybrid page? The weekend is almost here. Enjoy yourself and don't be too hard on your ageing body now you hear me!! ;P LOL

[Pamela Young]

Fantastic layout! I love it! :)

[chris]

Very pretty LO! And I'd seen your one on Ella also. Wonderful work.

[Linda Beeson]

What a fabulous connection in the photos! WOW!

[Lisa]

That's an amazing layout, Barb! What history and emotion there!

[melanie]

You're not talking to yourself. ;p I just haven't had time to leave a comment.
Love the page, and I did manage to check out your Ella article, it's fab! I hear you on the exhausted part... the school schedule is kicking my butt too!

[daniellemarieclaire]

Great page, Barb. I really love it, love the antique-nes of it. You were such a cute doll when you were 3 years old !

[Rhonda/QuiltNut]

this layout is in the top 10 of my fav layouts you've done. love it!

i'm exhausted too. it's 11pm and i should be in bed *yawn*

[Jess]

HI Barb, Thanks for starting the blog roll on Me:TAV, it is so great "meet" other Canadians interested in scrapbooking. Also, I didn't realize you wrote for Ella's blog, how cool! Love your layout shown above. Cheers, Jess:)