Description: This isn't the best quality pic, but I wanted it as a companion to the pix I found of me as a tot sitting on the steps. It is a photo that was taken on reg film in color that I already scrapped and then scanned through my roller scanner several years back to post on my fridge as motivation to lose the pds that have accumulated over the past 10 yrs. Didn't work worth squat!

The scrapbook all the grand kids put together for their grandmother's funeral recently got me to thinking about how I will be remembered, and this photo of me communing with my flowers will be a familiar memory to my sons. They will remember me, for better or worse, as an obsessive personality. For much of my life my obsession has been reading and I could never linger for an hour or two over a book, but devoured it all at once. For years I was obsessed with gardening, pouring over catalogs, drawing elaborate flower bed maps, visiting every nursery within a 100 mile radius, gardening in my sleep and waking hours, and then sitting, as pictured, on the steps, watching my flowers grow! While I have always loved photographs and scrap booking, discovering this site turned that hobby into my latest obsession so that now my family looks for me in my scrap room rather than on the steps, though I still love my flowers and a good book. I just realized that scrap booking is the culmination of all 3... I get to arrange flowers on the page of a book that writes my own story!

This page is written with the beautiful BG "porcelain" collection. I saved the outer trim from a layout yet to be posted and used it to form the bracket border. The stems are vinyl cuts from my silhouette and the pink rose buds were purchased from Gabriellep's etsy shop. I also added liquid pearls and stickles.