This 8×8 layout took a lot of tears, smiles and a little glue to complete. The challenge was to make a layout about yourself and the theme being leaving a note to yourself at an earlier age. Something that you would like to say to yourself that would affect a change.
This layout is a hybrid. I made up the collage part on my computer and printed it out. I also printed the text out.
I had a lot of trouble getting this pic. I need to invest in a tripod.
The journaling reads: This challenge started out as a “NOTE TO SELF” but suddenly became so much more. At first it was like “oh hell yeah, go back and tell yourself to 1. Like yourself! and 2. You are cute, you are sexy dammit! Go for it! I mean that was easy. But it isn’t that easy. Because then it became much more of a “What could I change?” and then “What would I change?”
With a little note could I have stopped this hole in my heart from where Robert no longer kisses me on the back of my neck? Could I have spent one more week with my Dad? Could I have erased one moment of doubt or fear from my children’s lives?
With one little note, with just one little note.
Would I be then who I am now. Would I have that sweet memory of how he felt next to me in the morning? Would I still be the person that my children have called to talk to when times get tough?
I don’t believe so. What I have gone through on a day to day basis is what has made me who I am.
Every turn I have chosen is why I am here now.
And who I am now, is OK. Right now I like myself, I love my children and like whom they have become. I love my memories of Robert.
So I am going to make a “Note to Self” but not to go backwards in time. To look ahead and ENJOY! every day, every breath, every loving moment that I have left. Linda K Metteer August 16, 2009
This is for the challenge on this blog: theprofoundbrunette.blogspot.com/
Posted by Linda aka Oz on 2009-08-18 02:56:39
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