Ever since I became engaged my mom took up scrap-booking as a hobby. It wasn’t intentional it just sort of happened that scrap-booking started to get popular and my mom who loves to be creative gravitated towards this new craze. Since I lived in a completely different state than my mom I started taking lots of photos and sending them to her. Once a year I would drive from the east coast to Ohio to visit my mom and extended family and she started surprising me with scrapbooks of that year in photos. Through the years her scrapbooks have evolved creatively…from the stickers, colorful paper, typography poetry, picture arrangements and themes…she has done it all and never ceases to amaze me. She is in her 70’s now and always says that this scrapbook will be her last and then she creates another one! It has always been fun to open the new album and see what she has created! Lately, she has been taking pictures of my family or my nature shots and adding in quotes that call out to her. The artistry in her writing really brings it to a new level. It has inspired me! From time to time I am going to share some of my photos and her quotes and pair them up for you on Mindfulness Mondays and maybe you too will be inspired to do the same! Isn’t that the best part about art? Sharing with others and inspiring each other!

**the picture shown here is of my girls about ten years ago…I feel like I blinked and now they are teenagers…I would love to go back in time and see them like this again!