Circle Journal Madness!

Edit: Ok, so I'm surfing 2peas (as I so frequently do) and I see the Saturday Blogger Challenge is to blog about music..here goes:

I love so many different kinds of music that it is hard for me to talk about any specific favorite at the moment. I suppose Green Day is holding my attention right now, love them sooooo much and Billy Joe is soooo cute! But instead of telling you what are my favorite songs or artists I think I'll tell you a favorite memory that is associated with music..well, really two memories. The first is my grandfather. Like I said before, I have always loved music. I could listen to my "transistor" radio for hours, enjoying every minute. I have a vivid memory of my grandpa telling me that I never stood still..that I never walked, that I was always dancing around to music! It has stuck with me til this day and will always, even now, as I sit here writing this, my foot wiggles to the music I listen to. It's funny, my girlfriend and I were shopping the other day and I was un-knowingly singing and jiggling around the aisles to the music that was playing..she commented to me about it..LOL!

The second memory is my dad. I think I get my love of music from him. He was a musician. Studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, majored in music at Tennessee Temple University, played with the Glenn Miller Band and always played or sung with the church. I can close my eyes and see my dad and I heading out to the library where you could "rent" record albums (yep, the days before cd's) and we would come home, put them onto the stereo and lay on the living room floor in the dark listening to wonderful music..mostly classical! I treasure that memory that I hold of my dad, it was a special time that we shared with each other and as I grew up, and we would butt heads because I was of course a teenage who knew it all (or thought I did), I knew that deep down, my dad and I would have something special that just we shared together. My dad is now gone but my love of music lives on, thank you dad for that!




OMGosh!!! Ok, so I've now got 3 circle journals pending in my craft room..do I say scrap room or studio?? humm...sorry, sidetracked by a 2peas post this week on what we call our "creative spaces"...ok, so I've got 3 circle journals in my craft room and although I am actively working today on one of them, I am feeling a bit of circle journal madness here! Sheesh..I LOVE (can I stress that enough..)LOVE doing circle journals, they are so enriching for me, I receive so much back from them and I am forced by doing them to look deep into areas of "me" that I might not otherwise think about all that often...but....when I procrastinate on doing my layouts for them, I get all be-fuddled and start to feel the madness close in on me!! ARGH!!!

One that I am working on right now is "Why I Enjoy Being A Girl"...it's for my post CKU-A circle journal group and I'm loving doing this, however, for the sake of honesty, I am using a layout I did in a 2peas journal but I so enjoyed the layout I did and the journaling I did (sorry..I know...shameless of me to brag!!) that I wanted it in a journal of my own. I'm using the new line of Chatterbox papers...love, love, love that Chatterbox! I'll post a pic when I finish it this weekend. Got all my journaling done, just need to complete some of the papers for the layout and it's good to go! The other two cj's have me scratching my head! One I know what I want to do, just need the time to actually do it, and the other..well..the topic is so foreign for me that it will be super hard to do. I'll do it, no worries, but I fear it's not going to be one of my better layouts or cj entries!

So that's my life right now...circle journal madness! Why do I do this to myself you ask...because in spite of my b**ching right now, it is the funnest(is that right?) thing to do and I love to do it!

Until next time (or until my madness ends..)

Blessings,
Cricket :)