BEYOND EXCITED!!!

So Treasured Scrapbooking had a Design Team call....I almost didn't apply cause if figured I'd never get it but something kept edging at me to just do it! So.....I did....and....I MADE IT!!!!!!! I am SOOOO excited!!! It's my first application to a DT and I got it! I LOVE Leslie and the board and I still can't believe it!!!

My term lasts 6 months and starts December 1st! the current DT is hosting a Cyber Crop over there this weekend so pop over and check it out!

Oh--AND I'm spotlight member of the month so I'm featured on the home page!!

So, like Mom said...apparently those two years of an art major were worth it!!!

http://www.treasuredscrapbooking.com

GIRL POWER - an essay in Photos

GIRL POWER - an essay in Photos

Over at Fancy word for Simple the challenge is to show where you learned about girl power with a photo.....

I learned about Girl Power from my Mom....she is one of the strongest women I have ever met. She alwayys taught me to be independent and, at times, hard headed ;) Here's a Layout I did of Mom and I--one of the only pictures in existence of us together....along with a layout with some words she had written to me on the eve of my wedding.

http://fancysimple.blogspot.com/2007/10/girl-power-essay-in-photos.html

Here's the topic for today at Fancy Word for Simple blog http://fancysimple.blogspot.com/2007/10/girl-power-questionairre.html

Today's challenge? A Questionairre. Twenty Questions about being a GIRL.

1. Name--JoEllyn
2. Pink - Love it or Hate it?--pretend to hate it but i've been buying it a lot more lately.
3. Signature shade of lipstick, lipgloss, etc.--burts bees chapstick
4. Do you have a best girl friend?--Brenda!!!!
5. Do you have a woman mentor?--MOM!!! and Grandma!!
6. Are you a woman mentor to someone else?--I hope to most of my clients
7. Tomboy or Princess?--Tomboy -- all the way
8. Favorite Girl Band--Evanescence
9. Are you a mom? Do you want to be one?--Nope--eventually yes
10. Do you and your mom have any rituals?--Talking and drinking LOTS of coffee
11. Fashion magazines - yea or nay.--NAY!!!
12. Do you have a feel good outfit?--Not anymore--but kind of...does a bridesmaid's dress count?
13. Have you called your grandma or special aunt, or special older lady lately?--ugh no.
14. Signature Scent?--Calgon Body spray
15. Favorite female tv character--Detective Benson (Law and Order SVU)
16. Favorite place to hang out with gal pals?--in the woods
17. Did you ever ditch your girl friends to be with a guy? Do you still?--Yes cause I'm married. But i also ditch him to be with girlfriends too!
18. Friend you call when you need a laugh?--Brenda
19. Friend you call when you need a shoulder to cry on?--Brenda
20. Have you reminded your friends of how much they mean to you lately?--I hope so...called and vented to her last night

So over at "A Fancy word for Simple Blog" the theme is Girl Power....
This week’s theme: GIRL POWER

What do you love about being a woman? What do you despise?
I love and despise that we tend to be the nurturers. Sometimes I HATE the responsibility of taking care of people, other times I absolutely love it.

What are some of the challenges faced by women?
That's a question answered just by looking at history. We've gone from being expected to be homemakers and housewives alone to now being expected to do it all...So I guess it's always a challenge. I don't even have children but already feel the pressure of working and trying to take care of home life. It's a tough balance and I'm trying very hard to keep a working balance now so I can make sure and keep it when we do choose to have children. I SO admire mothers!!! I don't know how you all do it!!

Where have we been as a gender? Where are we headed?
I kind of answered this above....but I think we're headed in a great direction of being women of power who also are able to be the mothers of children and wives of husbands, or whatever path you choose. I also *hope* that we are going to be respected and get more help with these responsibilities!

New blog I found

Someone over at Treasured Scrapbooking posted about this blog and it looks VERY interesting so I'm going to post some stuff related to that on this blog and over there--but check it out if you want!!!

http://fancysimple.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-hell-really-matters-to-you-anyway.html


So first I will be posting on this:
What are the five things that are at the core RIGHT now of your life. Don't sugar coat. Don't hide from it. Tell us what really matters to you.

1. Work--I don't like it to be the center but lately it is, unfortunately.
2. My husband and dogs
3. My family
4. God
5. Pursuing my hobbies of photography and scrapbooking.

More to come....I was behind on the blog so I'm going to do catch up....

We went hunting a few weeks ago and lo and behold, for the first time when I've been along and we've had both dogs, we got one!!!!! It was Maya's first experience with a grouse on trail so it was pretty exciting!!!!! We sent the dogs in after the bird and we were all looking for it way back in the woods. After about 10 minutes, they came back out and the dogs were CASHED. It was hot outside and they were panting incessantly. Well, Aspen managed to find it -- right in front of where I was standing!!!! He didn't pick it up but did show us where it was...he was panting too hard to pick it up! So we had to then show it to Maya so she would get excited for the next time!!!!












After running around like crazy they both were really hot and we couldn't find any puddles for them to hop in...so we had to head back to the truck. Well, as you can see, we managed to find one!!!! Maya decided that she had to immerse herself in order to feel "better"!!!! They were so excited and it was so fun to see them get one!!!!

We went to our friend's wedding last week up on the Gunflint Trail at Wilderness Canoe Base where I used to work with the Bride. It was a BLAST!!! It was so good to see people we hadn't seen for a long time and to see our friends that we've been all too busy to hang out with this summer! Tim and I got our boats in the water for the FIRST time all year!!!

I took a ton of pics, unfortunately most of them had a lot of noise in them so I'm in the process of editing them which is very tedious because I don't have photoshop--I have to do it with two different free programs......argh.

BUT here are some that I did take!

This spring there was a massive wildfire at the camp and it burned over 30 buildings at the site. The bottom pictures are what USED to be my cabin when I worked there and another one called Listening Point where several of us spent most of the summer because it was too hot in our cabins--this one had electricity and a ceiling fan!