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Monday Photo Challenge – Up Close and Personal

I am thoroughly addicted to close-up photography. I love filling the entire frame with the subject, eliminating distracting background and really highlighting my subject matter. Each Monday, I post a challenge that you can choose to do, or you can choose not to do. It is up to you. My hope is that when you do the photo challenges, it is getting you to think outside the box, and obviously to take more photographs. I want you to truly play with your camera, get to know it better. I want you to try out new angles, lighting techniques and more. … Continue reading →

Monday Layout Challenge: 30 Minute Layout

Scrapbooker’s often get into a rut when it comes to specific pictures. They envision this amazing layout, and the inspiration to create it just never comes. My hopes with the Monday challenges are that you get the pictures out of the boxes and onto the pages and not put so much focus on elaborate layouts. Today’s challenge is to create a layout in which you spend no more than 30 minutes on it. In order to create a layout in 30 minutes, it might be easier for you to use a sketch or scraplift from a message board. This is … Continue reading →

Monday Photo Challenge – A Glimpse of a Historic Landmark

I have decided to post a challenge each Monday that you can do, or you can not do. My hopes in the photo challenges are to get you thinking outside the box, and taking more pictures. I want to you to try out new angles, lighting techniques and more. If there is something you would like to see, or something that you are wanting to learn or see examples of, that I might be able to incorporate into a challenge, let me know. Most of the photographs that I show will be recent, with the exception of a few that … Continue reading →

Monday Photo Challenge – View From the Top

I am completely aware that today is not Monday and it is Saturday, but due to the fact that I just decided to start this idea in August and was going to post in on Wednesday but forgot, today is our first photo challenge. The next one will be this coming Monday. I have decided to post a challenge each Monday that you can do, or you can not do. My hopes in the photo challenges are to get you thinking outside the box, and taking more pictures. I want to you to try out new angles, lighting techniques and … Continue reading →

Pantry Challenge: Italian!

It is day two of my personal pantry challenge. Last night, the helper enchiladas went over pretty well. In my pantry challenge, my goal is to use up items in my pantry and freezer for our family meals. To learn more about what I’m doing, see my earlier blog, What is a Pantry Challenge? Here is what we are using up today. Breakfast was english muffins thawed last night from the freezer. I toasted them and topped them with peanut butter, and we had some very ripe strawberries on the side. I’m glad of this challenge, because the strawberries might … Continue reading →

Creating Keepsakes Challenges

Are you looking for some new ways to add a little more excitement to your creative process? I’ve just come across some great challenge ideas at the Creating Keepsakes website that could fill hours of scrapbooking fun. They have two great challenge areas on the site. Both of them will help you generate new ideas and push your creativity to a new level. The Random Challenge Generator is where you get to choose the categories where you would like to be challenged. Some of the categories are number of photos, titles and lettering, shapes, journaling style, number of embellishments and … Continue reading →

Week 2: Fitness Magazine You Can Do It Challenge

Fitness magazine said you can do it, and I’ve been doing it. I signed up and dived into the challenge 10 days ago when I posted the information about the challenge here at the Fitness blog. Now at the end of my second week, I’m more than just a cheerleader for this particular goal-oriented fitness challenge. I need to go in and update my data, but my totals for the last two weeks work out to the following: Cardio – 240 minutes Strength Training – 75 minutes Time To Myself – 600 minutes Pounds Lost – 2 pounds How do … Continue reading →

Revisiting the Fitness Magazine: You Can Do It Challenge

I signed up for the Fitness Magazine You Can Do It challenge. I’ve been following their advised workout and let me tell you, four days in – I’m sore. I am pretty good at following my own regular fitness regimen, but this one targets specific areas with specific exercises to be performed in specific time frames. Including Regular Stretching The challenge recommends that you warm up and cool down, I’m also going to include a regular session of deep stretching every evening before bed. While I enjoy the workout as described in the challenge – I think that I am … Continue reading →

Scrapbook Challenge: Use Some Old Photos

Scrapbook Some Older Photos When I am scrapbooking, I am usually preserving photos of a special time from one of my kids’ lives. But I decided to challenge myself to go back through old photos and choose a few to scrapbook from my own life. Luckily even before I really got into the paper and embellishment fun of scrapbooking, I was interested in taking pictures and organizing them in albums. Since the pictures were already organized, it was easy to go back and choose a few that would be fun to scrapbook. For both of the following layouts, I really … Continue reading →

What is the Body-for-Life Challenge?

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The Body-for-Life Challenge is about personal transformation. It isn’t a contest built around competition with others. It is a contest where you compete against yourself. Who are you today? What do you weigh? How is your overall health? Are you carrying too much bodyfat? Are you happy? These are all questions you should ask yourself before accepting the challenge. Why? Because the people who have completed the 12-week challenge have emerged changed people. They are healthier, happier and more energetic than they have ever been before. The real challenge is in challenging yourself to be the best YOU you can … Continue reading →