~I Scrapped!! Survivor Is Full Swing!~

Good morning!!!

I am so excited that my life is finally calming down a little bit and

I was able to sit down and play with paper again! :)

Tally Scrapper is hosting their annual Survivor contest, this time

Christine is running it and I am always inspired by this challenge.

In fact some of my deepest and most creative layouts have come

from these Survivor challenges.

For this challenge we are challenged to create a MAP, on our page

and I came up with this page. I did not follow the example I sort of did

my own thing but it worked! I cannot wait to try it again!

I am so excited about how it turned out and I had to crackle the

photo to give it the whole affect.

I lived in Oregon my entire life, until I turned 30. Both my husband

and I have bad memories from living there and this was a perfect

outlet for me. It's funny because another Tally girl loves Oregon and

made the most creative polar opposite layout.

For me it was alot of pain and a childhood of abuse and adulthood

of nothing but pain. It's hard to not associate my abuse with where

I lived. Of course I cannot blame Oregon, but when I think

of being there I only feel and see pain now.

I hope that changes as I am farther away now.

Journaling: I spent my life in Oregon and it holds so many bad memories.

I can't blame the entire state but thinking of

Oregon really is a state of pain for me.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I am home with sick boys today...poor kids...bring on fall sickies.