My Gifts, Talents, and Hobbies

I had to journal for a page in my life book about my gifts, talents, and hobbies. It really got me to thinking. I had never given much thought to what my talents or gifts were.

I know I have always loved working with kids and I am good at it. At church I have worked witht he smaller kids, ages 4 - 2nd grade since I started teaching. And I loved working with the kids whne I worked at the schools. I was good with them and loved especially doing the groups. The kids all responded to me really well. I guess those would be some of my gifts-working with kids and teaching.

As far as talents, something you are born with or something you have developed, I love to create-scrapbook pages, bulletin boards, crafty stuff, etc. I supposed I would have to say one of my talents would be my creativity. I am good at making things and really enjoy it.

When I think about hobbies, I use my talent for my hobby of scrapbooking and cardmaking. I never really got into my hobby until just the last few years-after the house burned down. I used to collect lots of things to put into scrapbooks but never actually got around to making them. After the fire, I realized how precious those things are and started making scrapbooks for the kids. I have now made over 20 scrapbooks with so many more to do. It's very relaxing to me and something I really enjoy doing. It's really the only hobby I have.

New cards for sale

I made a couple of cards tonight and hope to sell them either on etsy or at the yard sale we are having next month for the Foster Parent Association. One is a 1st Birthday card in red or blue and the other is a birthday card in pink or blue. I think they both turned out really nice. The ideas just came to me after I made a sympathy card for a dear friend of mine. I've never sold cards before so I hope I have some luck with these.

Kymberly and Becca

It seems so long ago that we took these pictures. Kymberly has grown SOOOO much!

Wagon wheel svg

I made a wagon wheel yesterday for a friend who asked for one. I cut it and it cuts pretty well, a little more detailed than I intended, but not bad. Just click on the title to get to the svg.

I'm going places....baby....

I got this little bling from my friend, Christina, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, HAVE THE LAYOUT!: I'm going places....baby..... She has a most amazing blog! There is a catch though-isn't that always the case. I have to

1. Link back to the person who passed the award on to me........done

2. Post where I'll be in ten years.....Hah! I'm not sure where I'll be tomorrow, but I'll give it a shot! Let's see.....I will only have one kid at home (that hasn't happened in 27 years) and she will be just about 12-going into middle school. Hopefully we will still be fostering so we could be caring for more. My daughters will be 24 and 25 so they should be finished with college and maybe married (more grandchildren??). My grandbabies will be 10 and 12 and will hopefully be spending a lot of time at my house :). My son and his wife should be finished with the Army and have their children as well so I will be spending time with those grandbabies as well. Hmmm.....sounds like my life will still be filled with children. Sounds absolutely perfect to me!

3. Pass this award on to ten friends. Oh, the hard part. Now I have to choose ten friends to pass it along to........and figure out how to do it, too. I lost my list of favorite blogs when my computer crashed so I don't know the addresses of ten friends. The only ones I know are Wanda at http://wandascrafts.blogspot.com/ and, Penny at http://pennyduncancreations.blogspot.com/. And of course, Christina, but since she gave it to me, I obviously can't give it back to her....lol.

Here is the award:

Blake

Here are more pages I did for Blake's scrapbook during my weekend crop at church. I had so much fun making these. I wish the pictures of them turned out better.

Blake's first scrapbook pages

I scrapped Blake's first pictures, taken by Alyssa, and loved the way they turned out. The pictures of the pages aren't that great due to the glare of the page protectors, but you can still see the pages pretty well so I decided to leave them as they are. Alyssa is a phenomenal photographer! She really should do this for a living. I love, love, love the photos she takes!! It makes scrapping so easy-except for the part of deciding which ones to do-I simply cannot afford to scrap everything she takes!! HAHA. Haley already has two big albums full of pages and she is only 2 years old! And baby Blake turned a week only yesterday and I have 8 pages for his album already. One thing is for sure, I will never run out of scrapbook subjects-I just may need to take out a loan for the supplies.......LOL!

My grandson has arrived!!

Blake Isaac Filkins made his arrival April 21, 2010 at 5:08 am weighing in at 8lb 5oz and is absolutely adorable-of course!! Seth called me at 4:48 to tell me they were at the hospital and Alyssa was fully dilated. He called back at 5:30 to tell me that Blake had been born! They said they got to the hospital at 4:00, spent 10 minutes or so registering, got to the room, pushed three times and out he came!! No time for any drug so it was all natural. That's the kind of delivery every mom should have!! Way to go, Alyssa! I am so proud of her! She is living the exact life I always dreamed and prayed she would have. God is so awesome!!

Two new layouts for Haley

I finished these Saturday. Haley turned 6 months old in July 08 and it was the first time she got solid food. At first she wasn't impressed and Alyssa got some great shots. When she tried the peaches, though, she loved them. I loved the pics Alyssa got!

Sugar

I finally got some good pictures of Sugar, my little Sugar Glider. It's been hard to catch her on camera since she is nocturnal and doesn't want to come out of her pouch in the daytime. She's the sweetest little pet I've had since Baxter, the prairie dog my brother gave me years ago. She won't get any bigger and is very social. The only thing I wish I could convince her to change it that she "barks" to me every morning around 4am so I have to get up and get her some raisins. I think she is spoiled already!