Laura Vegas

thanks to all of you for playing along with my blog-iversary party game! it has been fun reading all your comments, and i really appreciate how sweet everyone is. i printed them all out, cut them into strips, took out a few that posted more than once (yep, caught you!), and then finally found a use for this awesome red collander! 

although, i did think that guessing the thing that is different about my blog would have been easier. lol! i had one thing specifically in mind. something that has been different now for about 2 weeks. but when you get down to it, there are some other things that have changed around this joint. so before getting to the winners, bear with me while i think outloud about some of your guesses.

"you havn't been showing project 365 photos". this is true. i was doing good, and was even a week ahead. then i got behind. really behind. but i'm working on catching up. i just took a ton of photos over the last week, had about 30 photos printed, and am working on filling in the holes. will post the spreads when i get a few done.

"you've been using your blog for more scrappy related projects". this is true. i guess i always think you all come here for the projects first and foremost. maybe that's wrong of me to assume. and i think it's easier to post a layout, with simple thoughts on the process and a supply list. rather than type up meaningful or random thoughts, where i can never figure out where to stop talking. will have to remember that it's not all about the projects 😉

"you're not sharing the daycare kids photos as much". this is probably true. but not intentional in any way. in all honestly, i had something happen ages ago. and even though it was silly and childish and not even true, it did make me a little more cautious. i don't like that it made me that way. but it did. so maybe, without really meaning too, i stopped sharing quite so much about these little kiddos that mean the world to me. i do know that i got in the habit this year, of making one big post each month with photos of them. sadly, i had NO photos in the month of may. so maybe that's why it seems like it's been a while since i shared them. lol! but i have a ton to share from june tomorrow. they're already typed up in a post and ready to go.

"you're keeping it more scrap-related and less personal". this is probably true too. i know when i read my posts from a year or two ago, they're a lot different. i would literally type any thought that popped into my head. and my thoughts are VERY random, so i might have said some crazy things. i guess i really have made it less personal around here. just typing more of the facts and straight to the point things. which i shouldn't be doing. i don't want to be. will work on that.

"you've been scrapping your kids and not the daycare kids". this is true. and i'm ok with that. i certainly don't mean that to sound bad. but for a while there, i was scrapping the daycare kids more than my own girls. i wanted to get the focus back on my own family for the most part. but i still do plenty of layouts about the other kiddos in our life. i have the albums to prove it. lol! and they're still just as important to me 🙂

"you've been re-doing lots of pages and albums". so true. but not something i really planned or realized i was doing. lol! i think i've just been coming across some old projects or older photos. and it's just been so much fun to go back to them. it may also have something to do with the fact that i've been really slacking on taking any new photos around here. really need to work on that. in the meantime, i'm grabbing any photos i can find. lol!

"the sides of your blog are green, the links are different colors, the font is smaller, etc". yes, the green is pretty new. did that about a month or so ago. and believe me, it took me about 87 different greens to find one that i liked. i'm planning a new blog banner too. just havn't gotten to that part yet. lol! the links are all different colors. i just do them to match whatever layout or photos i'm posting. not anything too planned, but i do change that myself when i post. i have no idea what my default color is even set too. and sometimes i do change the color of some text, even if it's not a link. like on these quotes for this post. just my way of making it stand out. maybe that's wrong though. should i be keeping everything the same color? lol! and is my font smaller? no idea. i know i change my font from time to time, just to check out the options. maybe the font i have it on just appears smaller 😉

"you type everything in lowercase now". extremely true. i started doing that ages ago. it's how i type now. no upper case. i have no time for that extra step of hitting the shift key. lol! here's what i find funny. when i write by hand, i only write in capitals. comes from the days of my working in grocery. when i had to make signs with these huge markers. and we had to do them in all caps. just a quirk of mine.

"the twitter updates and fun links". well, i used to twitter. and then i quit. but i started back up again a few months back. i also facebook. and i just got around to learning how to link up my twitter updates with my facebook updates. so that i'm not trying to think of twice as many cool updates all the time. and then those of you NOT on facebook, can still see my random and ever-so-important updates on the twitter feeds. lol! and i've been trying to keep the "fun links" updated when i find great places to visit. and i've updated a lot of my blog lists on the side.

so we gave it a really good toss. all the girls took turns tossing. it needed a good mixing, since the girls had been actually drawing names for the past hour just for fun. lol! first up, we have the one main winner.

congrats valerie!!! you have a box of goodies coming your way. just email me your address. and now for what is actually different about my blog. the thing i was thinking people would pick up on. you ever notice that i use the "…" a lot when i type? saying something … saying something else … and maybe even something else. i stopped doing that. and stopped using the "…" in my titles. probably a small detail. or maybe it is a big detail, and you're all slapping your foreheads right now for not thinking of it. lol! it was a very concious decision to stop doing that when i type. although, if you email me, i will still do it a ton. now we have the lucky two ladies who picked up on this. and an extra one that made a pretty good guess too, about how i don't do bullet journaling anymore. that's somthing i have purposely not done too. 

yep, threw in an extra winner "just because". so congrats to fabienne, cathy, and cheryl. you all have a nice envelope of goodies coming your way. just email me your address. and thanks again to all of you for playing along with my self-declared special day!