Here is what I've been up to over the past few weeks:

ONE LITTLE WORD
You may remember my word is BALANCE.

Here is my self portrait. Not the most flattering but for now I wanted a natural make up free one. I'd like one to suit the word more but need to go out somewhere special to capture that shot, so this page will change:

And here is my divided page introducing BALANCE:

MY FIRST PAGE FOR 2011
Although I have created a number of layouts this month I actually file them chronologically. So all photos from 2010 are in a 2010 album, even if they were created this year, or next etc.
But this is the first photo of 2011 I printed at home. I wanted to use the ideas from Scrapbooking from the Inside Out who give great thoughts for deeper pages than the usual document-that-event kind. For January the prompt is REFLECTION. So I used a photo of myself taken in the mirror. As this was a 'start the year' off page I reflected on the past year and how I'd like things to be different this year. I journalled this as a note to self, as if I had written it in the steam of the mirror.  I used my November GoGo kit for this page and wanted the embellishments to have the feel of unlocking my potential and escaping into freedom...

Have a great weekend everyone!



Introducing my One Little Word 2011 - Balance...

Alot of people are joining Ali Edwards on the One Little Word journey this year.
Last year my word was PLAY.  The word chose me and I was excited at the idea and then ... I totally forgot about it!! (Blush! #fail)
This year I am excited to join with Ali and other class mates to embrace my word far more poetically and creatively.
My word 'found' me again this year.  I have a set of word cards.  Printed on each card is a word. Nothing more than that. But the feelings evoked by each word are very very real.  I always pick a card every morning and decided to do that to find my word for the year - or rather for the Fates to guide it to me! And thus BALANCE entered by life for 2011. I'm really excited as its a great word!!

To document by journey with Balance I will be following Ali's monthly prompts for the class over at Big Picture Classes and showing my work on my blog.

As a little extra to the prompts I decided to create something to show my word off! 
I fell in love with the free Christmas printables that the talented SJ gave away on her blog. and so decided to steal the idea and make my own with some free font downloads found for me by my lovely man and PSE!
Here is what I created:

And here it is on the shelf {love}:

Are you also embracing a word for 2011? I'd love to hear what it is...

My One Little Word for 2011...

... is BALANCE!


















I will be blogging how I embrace this in my life throughout the year, so watch this space :0)