Here are the rules for this award: To pick up the Circle of Friends Blog Award cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog. Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends.Link to your nominees within your blog post. Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post. Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.

My nominees:

Creating Sensations
Life Reflections of the Untamed Scrapper
The Scrappy Side of Me
Bits n' Pieces of Me
Sunshine Memories

Thanks to Linda at A Day in the Life of... for giving me this award; I hope you will go check out her charming blog as well!

I don't think I ever mentioned it here but I took a little move over at If It's Groovy and am now leading up the Faithbooking team! Our challenge this month was to create a layout based on Genesis 1:1. Check out If It's Groovy to see my layout as well as those of my teammates Vanessa and Anna. I would love to see your take on this challenge as well...email me if you do one and I will post it here!

Laura ready for her first day -- EVER -- of going off to school! (Either that or posing for a Sears catalog, still not quite sure.)

Happy September!

Just checkin' in! I am going to take a hiatus from posting challenges while I focus on getting back into the swing of the school routine and preparing for Julia's upcoming wedding, but I will still be scrapping, I'm sure, so I will still be dropping in to share. Hope you will stick around!

Okay, here is my take on the challenge this month, now let's see yours!

Over at If It's Groovy...

There is a new monthly challenge up at If It's Groovy and it is my favorite yet! I won't tell you what the challenge is; click on the link to find out for yourself! But, I will give you a small hint by showing you the layout that I did for it. Any guesses??

AUGUST CHALLENGE

I'm hoping that now you see how easy it is, more of you will want to play along!

I know that by now many of us have taken a vacation of some sort this summer, or are planning one. So I'd like to see vacation layouts!

You are free to use your creativity as to what the word "vacation" means to you. It could be a major trip or a visit to Grandma's house for the weekend, or just a "staycation" right at home. It can be from this summer or anytime past. Maybe you'd prefer to scrap a layout about a dream vacation you hope to take some day. The only requirement besides the vacation theme is that you have at least fifty words of journaling.

You have until the end of the month to complete the challenge, and again I will randomly draw a winner for a small RAK. Just post your layout in any online gallery or email it to me with the link on the right.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!