Its been an amazing 2 years of feelings, ups and downs, and of course this time last year shows my emotions at their lowest. As well as my own personal emotions, it will be the 9/11 anniversary tomorrow. Many wonderful things have happened to me which i have enjoyed sharing with you all, i have met many wonderful people while blogging, many talented and amazing artists and have made special friendships, all through blogging that I am extremely grateful for.
And with this all in mind and to keep my spirits up here is my Birthday RAK. Just make a post, feel free to tell me what your highest point has been , and the number generator will pick not one winner, but 2 as its my 2nd birthday!!! Lots of paper, cardstock, embelishments and a magazine on making the most of your chipboard!
Well i have been playing and was desperate to scrap but didn't know what to scrap, what papers to play with, so i grabbed a bag of scraps and ended up with some scrummy Wild Asparagus. I made a layout and 2 cards.
I have been wanting to use this Junkitz flower ever since i bought it, but never found a home on a layout that pleased me, this layout had the perfect spot for it! I am loving my foofala buttons which of course had to make an appearance. Buttons and paper flowers seem to be my thing at the moment, lol.
And here is my Pencil Lines layout in full. Everything i have used was supplied in the I "Heart" Candy kit by SIStv. Thanks Jeanette for your generosity and sponsoring the DT, we have had a ball!!!!.
Hope you all have a great Monday and don't forget to make a post to win my BIRTHDAY RAK :)
hugs
Anna x
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Love your blog. My highest point in the last 2 years is changing from full time to part time work which gives me loads more scrapping time - which I love.
Regards
Janet
I've loved reading your blog for the last year. My highest point has been discovering this whole new blogging world, aswell as scrapbooking. Take card,
Sheila
Congratulations on your two year anniversary. Blogging is awesome. I have been able to meet so many cool people from all over the world, actually. I would love to get in touch with you Anna. Could you send me your e-mail? I am kristen@durbinmedia.com
Cheers!
Congratulations for 2 years! i've been blogging in different ways for 6 years and it's lovely to go back and look at memories that you might have forgotten otherwise. My highpoint of the year is finally taking the plunge to study child psychology after wanting too for many years :)
Well, happy 2nd birthday Anna!
My highlight definitely had to be becoming part of the Rusty Pickle Design Team but also that we'll be celebrating your "BABY"'s 1st borthday next month
ooooh happy 2nd birthday!
Fab site, going to have a little look round now!
Highlight of my year was taking that step in the blogging world a few months ago as I don't have a huge amount of confidence!
xx
9/11 is always hard for me too. Your projects here are beautiful and I what a kind thing for you to do.
congrats on 2 years!!!
my highest point was finally being able to move in with my partner this year after te many ups and downs weve been through
X
Congratulatons on 2 years, doesnt time soon fly by?!?!?
My highlight of the 2 years has been becoming an Auntie to my beautiful neice Hermione... another reason to scrap
Congratulations on your 2nd birthday!
I'm also celebrating a year in my fabby job (getting that was the highlight of my past couple of years!)
Happy blog birthday to you, Happy blog Birthday to you, Happy blog Birthday Dear Anna, Happy Blog Birthday to you!!
Congrats on getting to two years, I don't even think I made two weeks!! hehe... Here's to many more blog years!
Congratulations on 2 years x
My high point of the year is having a neice and nephew born two weeks apart. A baby girl for my SIL and a baby boy for my brother's wife. Hoping that I will have one sometime next year...
My Highlight was giving birth to my twins It was amazing but what has been even more amazing is watching them everyday grow up, how they relate to each other and being part of my family, sob sob!
You are an amazingly strong woman.
Rachel
Congrats on your second birthday. My high point of the last 2 years has been the opportunity (a few times!) to get away for some quality time alone with my dh. Loving that my kiddies have such fantastic grandparents so everyone wins!
What a lovely thing to do to celebrate your birthday. I really should post more often on my blog, or it will be the anniversary of my POSTS that I will be celebrating :)
Congratulations on your 2 year anniversary. I think one of the highlights of the past two years for me was getting our dog Ollie
Congrats and thanks for 2 years of sharing.
My high points....well I have been blessed with many over the past two years ...making Piggy tales DT and of course the Pencil Lines DT...but my highest just had to be when you called and asked me to teach at Scrapping Angels....Im still smiling, thanks to you.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.
Loving your blog, find loads of inspiration here, how do you find the time for it all? Spend too much of my time reading other people's blogs that i neglect my own. Congratulations on your 2nd birthday.
"Highlight of my Year" - getting through the summer hols without going crazy.
OH WOW.. I've never seen that Junkitz flower before. that's just gorgeous and accents your lovely layouts so nicely. I would say my high point in the last two years is starting to scrapbook! I'm so hooked now :)
congrats on 2 years.one high point was my elder son getting his GCSEs after 5 years of worry.the other was when my other son's form tutor told me that if ever he had a success story it was my son.
Happy Birthday!!!!
I guess my up time was when I first found out my daughter was going to make me a grandma. She was 32 and thought she would not be able to have a baby. Now she has one boy 2 and one girl 11 months and is talking about trying for a third. It just shows that you never know.
Great blog and your cards are truely beautiful! I love the layout you have for your scarpbook and the cute baby.
Thank you for the chance.
hi girl, how are you?
thank you for this rak!! you know that i love them!!!
my highest point was to become a mum!!!!!!!!
have a great day and i send you lots of friendship
Those cards and layout are absolutely gorgeous :o)
Congratulations on your second birthday!! xxxx
Happy blog-birthday! This is my first time visiting your blog and...wow... you do some beautiful LOs!!! Hmm... it's impossible to share a high point of my past 2 years... I really have many blessings!
Becca (another brand new "bad girl")
I really enjoy popping in to read your blog and finding lots of inspiration! The high point in the last 2 years for me is finally moving much nearer to my parents/brother/sister after spending over 10 years apart!
Congratulations on 2 years blogging, great blog btw.
Jayne
nice work. Just finding your blog though (you posted on sb.com).
Lynn
wow, 2 years of sharing.. what beautiful work love that baby layout... thanks for doing this rak...
enjoy!
Kim
As I;ve just started blogging this week, that's a pretty high point, but the highest probably has to be the feeling of achievement when I managed to take a photo on manual for the first time during Cheryl's Painting With Light Course and actually managed to show moving water!!!
I now, small thing, but I was on a high for days!!!
My 40th birthday this year pales in comparison, LOL:D
Thanks for your generosity!
Bernie X
Wow, congrats on 2 years of blogging! Thanks for the link from the Bad Girls site! Your work is awesome!
Elizabeth R.
Love reading your blog. My high point has been both my children passing GCSE's and A levels this year despite some very trying home circumstances and son getting to uni and daughter getting to college.
Keep up with the blog - love reading it!
Becky G
Congrats on blogging for so long. I look forward to reading what you get up to in the next two years
Congratulations on your 2 year blogging birthday! My highpoint would be discovering all those great blogs out there! Thanks for a chance to win some neat candy!!!
Such a great new sisters, happy blog birthday, you blog is really gorgeous and pleasant to read...OMG all these beautiful LO, your scrap stuff is awesome!!! i have just started blogging since one year such a marvelous adventure to share our scrap passion with so many people, so much exciting and fascinating!!!
Nice to meet you ANA show must go on...;-) xoxo gwen
Congrats on your blog birthday :)
Absolutely adore that Pretty Little Girl LO, can see why you've been saving that flower, it's gorgeous!
Hi Anna,
I think my high point is stll having my health after a horrible start to this year I am glad to still be here!! I am amazed that I am still mad keen on scrapping even though I have been doing t since 1998!!
Love ya!!
I wasn't sure where you wanted me to post so I'm posting here too. :-p
Thanks!
Happy blogging birthday.Love the fabby layouts.The high point of the last two years was getting my puppy,Poppy. I had wanted a dog for years but dh said he didn't like them.He finally gave in and now he adores her.
Happy second Birthday to you and your blog!
My highest point in this year was finishing my study at university. I'm an engineer now!
Thanks for the chance to win those goodies.
Happy blog birthday! Hope you're feeling better now - and good luck for Sunday!
My high point was qualifying as a nurse last November.
Happy blog birthday. I love your scrap pages!! My highest point this year was finally getting my youngest potty trained. WooHoo no more diapers!!
Happy birthday sweetie... (uhmmm actually happy birthday to your blog LOL)... Gorgeous layouts you did again. And so generous of you to give 2 raks... Cant wait to see who gets them
xoxo
Emine
Inspiring Blog - love your work :-)
Congrats on your two year aniversy! My highest point in the last two years is when I allowed myself to grief over everything I had "lost" and turned a very bad life situation into a postive challengence. Now being ill is no longer everything but its a part of me, in which I try to make as pleasant as possible. I try to turn all the bad things that happend over the last years into positive events and its diffently making a big difference in how I cope and deal with life. Much more pleasant for my friends too. Lol. Also being able to craft again is a high for me:)
Love your card
Interesting post... got me thinking about this past 2 years which has been incredibly emotional and life changing. I've gone from a happily married for (20 yrs), with four grown up children to being divorced - my husband told me (4 yrs ago) that he's transgendered.. long story... didn't tell me b4 we got married..
... to suddenly getting used to being on my own.. I then met the love of my life and he's changed my life completely... I'd known him as a fellow artist, graphic designer that I'd worked with briefly.. anyway, I'm now living with my new husband...my life is a million miles away than what it was before... oh and I had a granddaughter in the past 2 yrs as well... so much in 2 yrs... And I'm so proud of my kids and dil who have had to cope with the divorce, their dad's "issue", me moving away and re-marrying..
Thanks Anna - I enjoy your blog and it was good to reflect on the past 2 yrs... Oh yeah.. and after bringing up 4 kids, no career - just a sahm, I'm now launching my own small business designing craft papers.. it's slow going but I'm going to press...
thanks again
Diane
Happy blogging birthday to you !!!
Im lovin these beautiful layouts and cards you have made.
My high point would be my engagement to my future hubby, we are getting married 12 weeks tomorrow xxx
My highest point was starting my own business and learning the ins and outs of it. It's been a great learning experience and a wonderfully exciting challenge! Thanks for the giveaway!
Happy 2nd blogging birthday! Am enjoying your blog - loads of colour and ideas. x
I love reading your blog, you are an inspiration and a breath of fresh air.
Love your 'Pretty Little Girl' layout, gorgeous.
Highs and Lows here too, but I came out the other end...but my highest point this year was celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary and renewing my vows. Apart from when I had my children it was one of the happiest day so my life :D
Happy 2nd Blog Birthday Anna, heres to many more xx
Happy 2nd blog b-day! I just love looking at your LO's...totally beautiful! Highest point for me in the past year was the birth of my 3rd baby..sometimes lifes best things are unexpected and she sure is the best:) Love your blog.
Melinda
Wow! Two years blogging! I have just managed 8 months thus far! Happy Blogging Birthday Anna!
My highest point is two fold - the first, realising that work is just work which now gives me a new sense of calm and also discovering Digi Scrapping as it has made me more productive craft wise which was always a frustration before!
Claire x
ohhh anna that pic of little lilyloolaa seems like it was taken soooo long ago. She has grown way too fast
Congrats on 2 years! Good luck Saturday on the race. My mum and I both have MS so this is truly a cause near and dear to me. Thank you for all you do.
ooh love your work! great giveaway and congrats on the 2yrs!
My highest point in the past two years has been celebrating my six year wedding anniversary and getting closer and closer to my dh esp. the past year. We have become so close and it is wonderful!
Hello! I started blogging this May and that has been a high point for me!! I love all the new friends I've made, techniques I've learned, and projects I've shared. Thanks!
Cheryl KVD
Congrat on 2 years, I haven't even started but I am a stalker of most scrapbook blogs, here is to anyother 2 years.
Happy 2nd B-day!!!!
Your work ROCKs!
Congrats on year #2! This year we celebrated my baby's 1st b-day! So much fun with her this whole year!! :) (now she's 19 mos)
happy blog b day! I love the scrap pages!
Happy 2nd year Birthday to your very successful blog. I love your cards and your scrapbook pages are simply as good as it gets! Great photography and layouts. Thank you for sharing with us. I love to make cards, visit blogs, and spoil my grandkids. Those are the high points in my days & I thank God for every day He blesses me with:)
Happy 2nd birthday. The best thing about blogging is how small the world becomes, when you are thousands of miles away from loved ones.
Woohoo on keeping the blog going!! I've just started mine, but hopefully I can have one of these little happy celebrations one day, too! :) Awesome stuff to look at here! Congrats!!
Congratulations on your Birthday! I love the LO's and cards you made with your scraps! They are simply stunning!!! Great job on using up that Junkitz flower, it looks perfect on that LO!
Congratulations on 2 years of blogging. To be honest, in the past few weeks I have just been discovering the world of bloggers who stamp and write. I am in awe of all you do. I had seen only a very few on signatures and had no idea there were such great blogs all linked together. Wowzers! I am enjoying seeing all the creations and intend on doing some tutorials too. Can't wait to peek further here. I have not had any highs to speak of, but was so touched by a dear stamping friend's support. I heart rubberstampers :). Have a Happy Day and thank you. Cheers!
Happy Happy!! 2nd Birthday!
My highlight would be a job offer that I am still looking forward to taking...not sure why it hasn't happened, but it will..... :)
Happy Second Blog Birthday and good luck on your run!
Congratulations, two years is alot in type. My biggest acheievement this year so far was having my son early! but all was okay. That also got me blogging as I badly wanted to record our family and my crafting.
Heres to the next two! x
congratulations on two years
thanks for the little bit of fun too
2 years - that's brilliant! There have been a lot of high points in the last two years - and low ones too. Highest point? Maybe realising I am not depressed anymore. But also on a scrapping note, finishing my first album!
Congrats on the two year celebration. My high point over the last 12 months or so has been rediscovering stamping after a very long period away from it all.
Happy 2nd birthday blogging, thats great!! I guess my highest points this year has to be the retreat and meeting you and Annie, and getting my DT place xx
Love reading your blog. Happy second birthday. my high point was realising I can ski if I take it at my pace and quite enjoy it as long as I don't try to keep up with my mad family.
Love Rachel
was just passing by but I just have to comment on that little girl layout as it is so adorable! I love your style at the moment Anna, keep it up!
Highest point for me? Well, I'm just so blessed to be alive after nearly dying in surgery! Congrats on a great blog! Thanks for this chance to win sweet candy!
~Brenda
Happy Birthday! Thank you for being so inspirational and generous.
I visit your blog almost every day. I always have lots of fun reading it.
My highest point is that this year I'm working fulltime again. I'm so happy that I finally have the job I always wanted.
Hugs, Isolde
Happy Birthday, Anna :-) Love the LO of baby Lilly...
It's been a mixed couple of years for me, too, starting Oct 05 when we moved 265 miles- leaving friends and family behind and finding out the night the house was empty that I was pregnant with Emily; her arrival is definitely a high point... I guess the real high point though has come from the lowest... moving to a place I absolutely HATED, but finding here some great friends who I love to chat and scrap with.
Thank you for your friendship x x x
Two years? That make syou a pioneer of the blog world, right? Either way, congratulations on your blog's B-Day!!
Happy bloggins-birthday ;D
Happy anniversary to your blog.
Thought I was seeing things when I noticed yourself and Annie had used the same embellishment on your Pencil Lines layouts this week but it all becomes clear now you mention the kit LOL.
My high point this year has to be finally finding out a cause for my son's behaviour problems. Oh and getting the dog.
happy 2nd birthday to your blog!
found you via badgirls :) cheers!
Congrats on 2 years! In the past 2 years I have had 2 beautiful kids,so life has become very full and exciting for me!
I have just stumbled across your blog, don't know how I got here, but I have bookmarked it now. Great blog....happy birthday :-)
Congrats for your TWO years of blogging!
Well, my high point of the last two years (well, ok three~) are my children... Family is everything to me. (I know you too!) and am just amazed that I have been blessed with two special little people who have taught me to scrapbook everything!
Happy birthday!
xxx
Happy Blog Birthday!
Happy blogging birthday :D Love your Wild Asparagus projecst - yum!
Gonna try and leave a comment again congratulations on the 2 yr b-day well done.
Happy Birthday your pages are GLORIOUS!
Wahoooo!!!! Congrats on your second birthday! I hope you'll spent a lot of more birthdays together with us!
Happy 2nd Birthday. My high point has lasted 22 months. I have been a stay at home mom since my DD was born and I love Every Day. Love the LOs. Thanks for sharing! And thanks for offering this RAK!
I've loved reading your blog for the last year. My highest point so far has been discovering this whole new blogging world. And Im loving it.
thanks
Mara
eternalbeauty1975@yahoo.com
One of the best things from my last 2 years was quitting my full-time management job (went very part time as a staff nurse) and got to stay home with my dd#3 (who was born a little over 2yrs ago.
Just watching my kids grow and be home with them has been the best...thanks to dh!!!!
Happy Brithday to your blog!!!
Congrats on blogging for 2 years!!! I think my high point has been having my 3rd and much wanted 3rd child, doing a job from home that I love and hope to expand!!!
Annie Bellamy
Wow, your work is simply beautiful!Happy Scrapping birthday to you!!
Amy Hadley
here kitty on scrapbook.com
Happy Birthday, and congrats on sticking to that blogging. It gives is us that don't something to read :)
My high point was having the best birthday last month turning 38 (gasp)and am starting to tap into my creativity.
Tiffany
redheadgirl on scrapbook.com
happy 2 yrs of blogging,you do have a awesome blog.have a great day
congratulations on your 2 yrs anniversary! :)
the highlight of my year was turning 30... quietly... :P
My highest point was having my baby who will be one on 9/19.
whoo hoo!
My highest point is learning about so many creative people have blogs!
http://todayscreativeblog.blogspot.com
Hi there fab stuff here. You work so hard. You must really love what you do!
Good luck with it all and remember- it does (well is supposed to) get better.
Take care thinking of you, Andi x
Happy 2nd blog birthday!
I can't think of what my high point might be in the past couple of years - I've had lots of good times (along with my share of lows), but nothing spectacular.
Congratulations, you have a wonderful blog.
Claudia
Hi Anna!
Have a "Happy Birthday"! You do amazing work!
Happy 2nd year Blogger Birthday!!! :-)
Happy birthday to you.....happy birthday to you...happy birthday to Anna...Happy birthday to you....
Alice
well done on two years of blogging
Natalie
Congratulations on 2 years of blogging, have yet to start my own, but yours is an inspiration to me when I do.
Congratulations on 2 years of blogging! My highlight in the last 2 years was discovering scrapping and my first crop.
Wow, great stuff and way to go on the 2 yrs!
I've made great friends this year; lived in my house 5 + years, but for some reason, never really had friends I could just call on at any time until this year. And that effects everything!! LOVE IT!
Amie
Your photography is spectacular and I love your scrapbook pages. My high point has been finding a church that all my family loves to attend and meeting so many nice people there.
Happy Birthday to you! My birthday is on the 5th and September is such a special month for me. I guess it must be for you too. So, I'm hoping that your birthday is filled with many happy memories that you can look back upon in the years to come with a smile on your face.
Wow - 2 years blogging - I just past 200 blogs but not sure when my "birthday " is will have to check. Highlights for me were my little girl - who came 9 weeks early who I thought I would never have (aged 38) and who also due to my illnesses during pg thought might not make it but she is a fighter and wonderful.
Hope I am not too late for an entry!!!! (always a last minute Annie here!)
Hi honey and happy 2nd birthday :) Here's to many more inspirational posts - Nets xoxoxox
i have always wanted to scrapbook, but never new how to start, i just love what u did with these, they are sooo beautiful!!!