Stephanie Vetne

Life, Journaling, Creativity, and Lessons I've Learned

Month: May 2014

  • Great idea, honey!

    In honor of throwback Thursday and my husband who was giving me a hard time this morning, here's one of the first digital scrapbook pages I ever made. Read the journaling. πŸ˜‰ Totally true story!   Journaling: It was truly a simple request on my part. β€œHoney, could you take a picture of the clouds… Read more

  • Project Life 2013 | August

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    I was so inspired by the first few pages that I scrapbooked last week that I decided to sit down yesterday and finish Project Life pages for August 2013. And I did it! Pretty damn proud of myself, too. πŸ™‚ Here they are in all their stripped-down, super-simple style. Photos + words are all that… Read more

  • Scrapbooking Again

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    I haven't scrapbooked at all since leaving Designer Digitals in February. They needed more from me than I could commit to and so I left. It was an abrupt end to what had been almost ten years working in the scrapbooking industry.  And when it ended, my desire to scrapbook left. I didn't even want… Read more

  • Getting some answers

    I so appreciate everyone's support and thought I'd update Libby's situation one more time before updating the blog with the other kids' activities. Libby had another difficult week but it gave us some answers. She set out for school on Monday, only to start having a seizure/migraine just as the bus came. It seemed fairly… Read more

  • Looking on the bright side.

    Exactly six months ago, I went back to work outside of the house. Most of the scrapbooking companies that I'd worked for over the years either no longer existed or had regrouped and they were no longer a good fit for me. And I needed that "something for me" part of life that comes with… Read more

  • The definition of courage

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    The Oxford English Dictionary defines courage as: The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery; strength in the face of pain or grief. I define bravery as this girl: About six months ago, Libby started having daily migraines. She's had migraines for years and years – she was diagnosed with them at the same… Read more