Stacked Stones Studio!

Second time is the charm...

I am totally blessed to have some dear friends here in Nashville...and you know -- I didn't even know them this time last year. That amazes me...God is so good. Last summer, I realized that some of my "lack of balance" in my life was due to the fact that I had not found good, solid girlfriends after my move here two years earlier. I began to pray about it -- and looked around for places I could meet some good women friends. I went to a couple of book clubs, a "Women in Management" group and even attended a bible study. I just didn't click with any one. Then I walked into a scrapbook store... ScrapIt! and viola! I found wonderful sweet friends. Over the next few months, I have gotten to know Ann and Bill the owners...and they are dear people who really care about their customers, the Lord and their family in such a huge way. The crops have become my favorite escape and bonding time. It doesn't matter that I am less productive on pages at a crop than I am...

Couldn't seem to get the pic of my layouts into my last post...so I put them here instead This one...Tammy and Ruthie picked out some papers for me to use after seeing my picture. It was kind of a fun challenge to see what I could come up with using things someone else had picked out....we may want to do this as a group of friends sometime....make challenges for each other. It got me outside my box...and away from typical halloween colors.

is very healing. Since returning to Nashsville after my mom's home-going, I have found that I really wanted/needed to return to some of my creative pursuits -- writing and scrapbooking. I have been a bit thwarted on the blogging front because my ISP service hasn't been providing me any service at my house "in an effort to make my cable and internet experience the BEST it can be!" Currently, I am not having much of ANY experience with it. *laugh* Job-wise I have been editing a 300+ page document -- and that has been both challenging and tedious (challenging to make it say what it needs to say and tedious because I also have to format the document for printing and it is in pretty sad shape). To get a little peace and quiet to work in, I have been heading over to the Mt. Juliet Public library in the mornings and to Panera Bread in the afternoons to get internet service and NOT be in the office. Yesterday I saw one of the most hysterical exchanges while I was at the libra...