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August 2007

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Jennifer Wuthrich

Recently on a local radio station they were talking about how we as parents run our kids around from activity to activity…and spend a lot of our time in the car, at the local gym/recreational facility or perhaps at a field or tennis court of some sort. Clearly we love our kids…otherwise why would we be running ourselves in circles all the time? Right?

Well, of course, this was a “radio set up” as they then posed the question: do we really need to do this? Isn’t this insane? The lines started to light up with callers on both sides of this issue starting to talk about how “yes it is our obligation as parents to do this” and “the world is no longer a safe place to allow your children to play in the streets” to “no it’s not our obligation as parents to do this” and “the world is a safe place…and I have proof…my children play outside everyday.”

While I am not going to take a stand on this “issue” either way…It did get me thinking…how many hours do I spend on the go? So this month I kept track by logging my time in the car, I was shocked to learn I spend on average 20-25 hours per week in the car headed somewhere with the kids. The running coupled with all the other daily obligations I have, it is no wonder, I feel like I am running in circles and trying to catch my breath.

To off set all of the running myself in circles I try to reward myself with “me time” each week. When I do finally get “me time” I like to head down to my scrapbook room and play with some of the latest products and trends--including scrapping in circles.

	Design notes: Add a twist to your circular layout…turn it into a clock! Clock kits are inexpensive and easy to do.
Enjoy the moment by Miranda Wedekind. Supplies: Paper: KI, My Minds Eye, Cardstock: Bazill, Flowers: Heidi Swapp, Paint: Ranger, Felt: Prima, letters: American Crafts, Chipboard: Maya Road, Arrow, ricrac: Heidi Swapp, Other: embossed transparent clock.

Journaling: There is really nothing I can say that I haven't said a million times before. After 10 years I am still crazy in love with this man, even if he does drive me crazy now and then!

Design notes: I created my LO as I would any other LO, but once I had all the elements down that I wanted "shaped", I merged them and used the Cookie Cutter Tool to cut the LO into a circle. After that, I just continued placing elements as usual.

This is Love by Robin Blankenship. Supplies: Digital Papers and Elements: Wild Love kit by Shabby Princess.

Journaling: Michael was having one of his rants one day about the sorry state of radio stations in our area. If he was a D.J. he could certainly do a much better job. Then one day he discovered music downloads on the computer and the "If Dad Was A D.J." CD series was born. He gives them away as Christmas gifts every year. Every year the covers become more elaborate. This year he decided he wanted his picture on the cover. He borrowed Ian's jacket and hat and stood in front of the poster of "his boys" and this is what we came up with. December 2005

If Dad Was A D.J. #5 by Diana Burton. Supplies: Background paper from Botanically Speaking One by Diana Burton; Flourish brush from SS_swirls by Stephanie Shimerdla. Fonts: Fine Hand, Times New Roman, Arial Narrow, Elephant, Software: Photoshop CS.

Design notes: I love to tweak my photos with the filters available in Photoshop. Some layouts lend themselves more to this technique than others and this CD cover photo and LO were the perfect canvas for me to try my hand at working some Photoshop magic. TIP: next time you bevel and emboss something in Photoshop, try playing around with the gloss contour settings and the highlight mode--you can come up with some pretty interesting results.

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