Up for a Challenge? and a freebie????

I am hosting this weeks challenge over at The Loft (the blog for Tangie Baxter's creative team !!
Lucky me, I get to give away a freebie mini kit for yu to create your challenge LO. Be sure to check The Loft on Friday, March 14th to grab this lovely kit that will Inspire you to create a memory.

In the meantime, wanna see my latest LOs?? I got quite verbal this week!
Both challenges for ADSR required a LOT of journaling. For someone who was at the top of their class in English and writing, I, for some reason, haven't translated my love of writing over to my scrap pages. I seem to get so involved in the visual part of my pages that I forget to leave room for the journaling! But there was no escaping that this week. Another big change for me was that I did both pages about, get this, myself.

The first LO shares my fear of dying young like my mother and leaving my children without a mother. It's hard to write about something that most of us are afraid to talk about. The response I got from other women who lost their Mom's has been so touching. It was comforting to know that I am not the only one who seemed to view my life expectancy in terms of how many more years I had until I reached the age of my Mom's death. That number sort of looms over you like an expiration date. That scary number. I am relieved that it is now behind me -- now on to the rest of my life!

For this Challenge LO, it had to be about yourself, and fill at least half the page with journaling
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The journling is my Pushing 50 blog entry. I love love love those Vintage Frames from Jen U!

Challenge 4 for ADSR was from OScraps. It required: at least one large Picture, some blending and Spill It Journaling (at least 1/4 of the page had to be journaling). I've always loved this conversation between my daughter Pam and I right after she gave birth to Tayler.

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Journaling: I had gone to visit my daughter Pamela just three days after she had given birth to her daughter, my first grandchild Tayler. I was just sitting there as Pam gazed lovingly at the baby sleeping soundly in her arms. After a few minutes, Pam looked up at me with that “baby love” look and said, “Oh, Mom, I’ve only had Tayler for three days and already I love her sooo much. I can’t even imagine my life without her. Did you feel this way about me when I was I born?” Without a pause I said,“Pam... I still do.”

It was at that moment my daughter finally understood a Mother's Love.

I did this one, too, because I wanted to use Kathryn Wilson's Stripped tranparency and word strips (only $1!), Tangie's new Threaded Ribbon and Jofia Devoe's Diamond Rain. Hey, why not use them together???