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Favorite things .....(and NO, I"m not talking about Oprah's favorite things...)we all have things that are a "few of our favorite things", but have you documented them?  Or,instead twist things up...do a favorite things layout for each of your kids, or your favorite things each year....you get the idea!  I know if I were to do a "favorites" layout today, I would more than likely do a mini album instead, to be able to document a lot of different things!  Since this was done for my All About Me album, the plan was a bit different from the beginning!  In this layout, I decided to use my favorite color as the basis of the layout, accented with white and a bit of silver in the tags.  The photos are all things that are my "favorites"...my daughter's blessing dress that my mom made, my Cherished Teddies, my cat Tygress...you get the idea!  With the photos you ultimately use, don't be afraid to use some that you used in other layouts, you ...

When I first started scrapbooking, I didn't think about the words much...it was about sticking the photos on paper and placing stickers around the page.  After I learned a bit more about "scrapbooking", my talents really came out!  Your challenge for the day is to go out of your comfort zone and do something you have NEVER done before.  In this layout, there are a few things I had never done in a layout before.....the color scheme for me was certainly a first, using navy, wheat and cream...but I loved it a ton!  Another first was I also used rubber stamps for the title, and yet another first...in the bottom left corner, is a dried flower from my Grandma's funeral...each of us grandkids received a set of flowers, mine were dried in a book, and added to this layout many years later. I put it in a clear envelope that is designed to put things in, and matted to create visual interest...as well as a tag that has a bit of everything in it, with the fibers at the top i...

                                                  Pieces of me... the beginnings of my Book of Me!  Doing a Book of Me album (or All About Me as some people call it) is actually a lot of fun.   When I first started doing my album, I wanted to do layouts that reflected WHO I am.  I didn't want to just do layouts about my family, though they are important too!    Angie Pedersen started the Book of Me, and has also wrote the Book of Us and Growing Up Me.  She can be found at http://www.scrapyourstories.com/  if you want to locate her book, or for other challenges she might have.  Some of the challenges I will do is based on her book, others will be from some of the other challenges I have found! ...