I love taking photos.
I love telling stories.
I love scrapbooking as it is the perfect combination of my two favourite things to do.
It is through the great community of scrapbookers I've learned many, many things. One of those things is to participate. This includes participating in challenges and in kind and supportive communities. Lain Ehmann's LOAD is a combination of both of those things: a challenge to create a layout a day (LOAD) for the entire month of May (and February and October) and while over on Flickr be a member of the LOAD community.
I've met so many wonderful and talented women over in the Flickr group.
It was a surprise to me one day a few weeks ago when saraintexas - who, I assume, is Sara and she lives in Texas :) - posted on the message board that this layout
was featured on Flickr "Explore". I knew something was up because the layout was being viewed and commented on by all manner of (polite and positive) members of the Flickr community and they mentioned seeing it on Explore. Being a former Windows person, I was very confused.
As it turns out, Explore, in some funky way, figures how to feature any number of photos uploaded on any given day. Neato. It had me smiling all day long to know that someone liked my layout. Many someones. Then I forgot all about it. Until ...
the layout brought another deluge of kind comments, favourites and contact requests. Which resulted in another confidence boost and smiles!
Then one of the brilliant ladies on the LOAD board posted a link which brought me to (as of today) the nineteen, NINETEEN, layouts of mine featured in Explore! Who knew? Well, LisaInRe did and she shared :) How fun is that? Well, kinda weird, but fun, too.
Follow this link and if you key in my screen name LINARstudio you find:
And you know, I think they are some of my most favourite creations over the last year, too.
Validation is a wonderful thing.
Now, if you have a ton of time and want to see some really neat stuff, hang around at Big Huge Labs for a bit. Wow. So many ideas! So many things to create!
