Two more scrap page layouts...

Here are two more layouts that I completed this weekend- both highlighting Teagan and some of the thoughts I've entertained since she was killed, back in July 2001. I'm finding out that scrapping is a good way for me to get my memories down on page that, in the future, will probably benefit my kids. I think it will help them to know how much Teagan was a big part of my life and how her death shapes the way I live my life today.
I won't go into all the details of the products I used on them- but if you see something and you really must know what it is or where I got it, email me and I'll be happy to tell you more. Also, I am hoping to get enough layouts completed and printed out somehow so that I can submit them for a contest. Therefore, I probably won't be sharing too many more layouts; the contest asks that the majority of the pages should not have been posted on any online forum. I don't know if a blog is a forum- but I might as well not do something stupid to get disqualified.
Hope you all had a good weekend remembering and enjoying too- as you can see- my thoughts were of Teagan and that's always a good thing for me.
You should be able to click on the pictures to enlarge them, but I still don't think the journaling is "readable". So here it is typed out for all to read:
"Coke floats & Pinky Promises"
One month after I took this picture, I curled my littlest finger around Teagan's and promised to love her forever. [~for the very last time~]
This picture is now among my treasures. I wouldn't trade the moment depicted in my life here- for anything.
It taught me that it's okay to bend the rules sometimes. It taught me to savor and enjoy every little moment...because you never know when it may be the last.
I find it interesting that life's biggest lessons can be learned in the simplest things. Like Coke floats and pinky promises. (Under the picture says, "Teagan and Daddy enjoying a Coke float at 11:00 pm~ just a month before she died.)
The next page is titled, "because of you" and reads:
because of you...
I have laughed my loudest, cried my hardest and searched the deepest part of me. I have realized my weaknesses and discovered new strengths. I have shared my soul with others.
because of you...
I have learned to live in the moment and appreciate the present. I have learned to be quiet and to reflect on the past. I have gained new insights & sought new purpose in life. I have learned when to hold on and learned to let go. I have learned to embrace what I cannot see and have deepened my faith in the future.
because of you...
I am more grateful, more humble, more sensitive and more forgiving. I am more open, more joyful, more confident and more hopeful. Although you only physically touched me for four short years, your spirit still inspires me each and everyday.
Dear Teagan~
My life is enriched beyond measure...
because of you.
I don't claim to be the best scrapbooker in the world; I'm still figuring out the whole page process and trying to find out what "works" for me. I am enjoying the final product and I love seeing my first album fill up with pages. And you already know I can write and journal about anything as proof from reading this blog- so I'll never have a shortage of scrap ideas. If my pages do more than I expect (which is for me to enjoy making and looking at them), they might even inspire you too! Happy "back to your regular schedule" Tuesday.