Brave Girls like to Hip Hop...

Hello bloggin' friends!

{{{PLEASE SCROLL DOWN for my TGF Scrappin' Summer post-there are two girls that are TOO cute to miss on this week's layout ;)  THANK YOU!!!}}}

Thursday has come again so quickly but I'm kind of glad about that because I have been holding in a pretty big project for a while and am SO glad to be able to show it to you little by little over the next week or so...

Most of you know by now from reading my blog lately that I am SUPER amazed with the designs of Melody Ross-beginning with her Brave Girl line and the wonderful sets she has been designing for Unity ever since!  Melody also has a lot of products available that you can create with, aside from her awesome stamps, this adorable (and pink!) mini-album is one of her products (got it at Archiver's the last time I was in Chicago for a day, long time ago and it's been CALLING my name to use it!)

I decided I wanted to make an album that defined ME.  I have to say, beginning the journey was a little unsettling, seeing as how most of the pictures were of ME and it felt...I dont' know, kind of weird to be making this focus on myself when I'm normally scrapping pics of my kids or friends, etc.  Me.  No "holds barred" as they say (and, in the case below, NO makeup...which is really unsettling for me to be showing you this BUT it's ME :)  Take it or leave it, right? ;)  Mostly, I just wanted to embrace that there were little tidbits of my soul that could be transpired onto paper:

However, if you know me, at ALL-you might not be surprised that I really have embraced my ability to be vocal about my sentiments-love life and I have a lot to say.  While it's not for everyone, I WANT to be able to share that and pass it down to my children, especially.  Nothing puts you in touch w/ your own mortality better than them.  I hate to say that-it's my biggest fear in a lot of ways-but a BIGGER fear is that if something were to happen to me tomorrow that I would want them to know that I loved them to the core of my being-that they ARE my very purpose for living and that they are the most amazing people I know.   You'll see more of them as I reveal the pages of my little book here...

That starts with a little about me and the way I choose to see my world...

Well, I'm so glad you stopped by today and be sure to get YOUR Brave Girl on while shopping at UNITY and seeing what the scoop is on the UNITY Blog today!

For now, thanks for letting me share...there's lots more, but for now, my sweet friend Jimmi is waiting for you!

Have an AMAZING Thursday-I will try to pop in on the SCS forum today but my wonderful cousin/BFF Kim is in for the day and I cannot WAIT to hang w/ her!!!