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One of my favorite shows is Studio 60 on the sunset strip!!!  Its smart, funny and I look forward to watching it every Monday night more than any other show on TV right now! 
If you too are a fan please be sure to stop by and sign the petition to keep it on the air.
 

I have just loved working on this deck of me challenge.  Here are the weeks prompts from Emily Falconridge's blog
 
To update on the weeks past - here are the prompts...
Week 1: January 07, 2007
This weeks prompt is: something you are proud of...
Week 2: January 14, 2007
art journal challenge - week 2
My prompt for the week: what is powerful to you?
Week 3: January 21, 2007
art...

I followed the idea from the father's day calendar in the Designing with calendar for 2007.  I just spent a day looking through the calendar and decided to try some of my favorites.
Here are the results that I used for Joel's birthday


I wished I would have gotten Chelsea's whole body in the picture.  I will be sure to do this in the next project.

Here are my first 3 weeks.  Except I have to fix the date on one of them... ughhh!   I've got one more week in January and then tomorrow February's prompts begin. 

I seen this idea in the Designing with 2007 calendar!
I still have to cut them out and add them to chipboard to make a coupon book or key chain.  But here's Zach

List 5 things you wish to improve upon, in the coming year.
 
1. Clutter - My husband always teases me that it's not the size of the house but the amount of "stuff" which I have accumulated over the years that fills our house. I will reduce the amount of items in my house so that I have more time for other things instead of dusting and cleaning all the "stuff".
2.  Time management - Better...

Need to get going on the latest challenge...
Emily  has a phenomenal challenge on her blog--use a deck of cards, one each week, to keep an art journal. 52 cards/52 weeks in a year.
I've got one card done I need to get my other 3 weeks done.  So far the prompts are:
Week 1:  Something you are proud of...
Week 2:  this week's prompt - what is powerful to you
Week 3:  I am - make an...

Here's a layout I did over the weekend.  This is one of my favorite pictures of Joe.
  

My obsession ...
I have always loved Bono and the band
U2 but recently (probably since Christmas) and receiving my U2 Ipod I have been listening, reading and watching something U2 EVERYDAY!  I just can't seem to get enough! 
I'm reading the book U2 by U2 and its made me love the band even more than I already did. 
 
Things like how Bono got his name:  
As a schoolboy Bono was...

I'm trying to implement this Library of Memories class- (although the class is just in its beginning stages) by not only scrapping chronologically but by changing things up a bit and doing what appeals to me. 
We had such a good time this night - I think it shows in the pictures.