Blessed

Wow! Another month passed us by again. Don't know about you but as the month draws to a close, I find myself pondering a lot of what had happened, what could I have made differently to have made things better? But well, we can only do so much.

 As I was working on Shimelle's next Starting Point challenge, I thought of using 3 photos that I printed on a cardstock that were meant to go into my PL. Unfortunately, I had no more spot for them but I couldn't put them together on this layout so as I turned everything around over and over again, I came up with a theme, "Blessed". Boy didn't that make my choice easier?

I also had this pp stamped with my SC stamp that I was dying to use and everything just fell into the right places as soon as I chose my photo!

I also added some heart cut-outs from a wrapper of chocolates that my honey gave, to remember this day that he took this photo of me... and used a doily from another restaurant we went to on that particular week.

Voila! I love how it turned out. I wanted to show all patterned papers I used up so one photo was perfect. And glad I used a dark background to hide my journaling because it ended up so sentimental as I was writing down my thoughts on life in general....

Lesson I learned? 1. "count your blessings", especially, at times when you feel the emptiness...2. scrapbook it! I find it so therapeutic when you put your thoughts into art, however you want it: paint, draw, journal, etc. Trust me, it helps!