Harvest Memories

So I have been very good at finishing all of the projects I had envisioned for my Christmas Holidays. I wanted to finish my 2011 Calendar. Done. I set out to scrap all my Halloween pictures. Finished. And lastly I wanted to do my Thanksgiving pictures. Just finished! That one was easy because many of my photos from this Thanksgiving didn't turn out well so I only had 4 or 5 decent photos. I was very busy cooking and being a good host!
I had Scrapbookers Bliss specially order in the paper I used. They had a few loose sheets of BasicGrey's line Papyrus and I fell in love with it. They, ever so kindly offered to order the kit in for me. I'm so glad they did because it is PERFECT for Thanksgiving. Such beautiful fall colors and awesome patterns from 60's themed flowers to pears.
Here are a few of the layout I did:

SO cute, right?

Anyways, I was on Scrapbooker's Bliss' website earlier today and they recently posted pictures of the contest kits that we submitted 4 months ago or so. I was looking through them and couldn't help but notice how terrible my layout was compared to everyone elses. Now, I'm not fishing for compliments here or anything. It was horrible. However! I can, with confidence, say that I have much improved. I quite like the layouts I have been churning out the last few months.

Its so nice to be able to scrapbook at least twice a week. I know this won't last for long. The winter semester is fast approaching and I have such courses as Intermediate Qualitative Research Methods to look forward to. Heres the kicker. That one isn't a requirement for my degree. The first research methods class I took was. I am taking this one as an option! I needed a 400 level course because the other one I was registered in was cancelled due to low admission. I suspect that this semester will not be nearly as exciting as last. Last semester was hard, don't get me wrong. I did more work last semester than I ever have in my life. But the courses were fun! Sociology of Violence, Soci of Youth Crime, Criminal Justice System... these are my bag, baby. But this semester I have this to look forward to: Canadian Animation (don't ask me why), Soci of Ethnic Relations, Intermediate Qualitative Research Methods, Western Religions and a seminar in Sociology of Families. I have already taken courses on ethnic relations and on families. So nothing new there. Ah well. After this semester I will have 3 courses left and then I will have a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Yay!

Well I am going to try and finish one more page before bed. Or maybe I will go have a bowl of maple walnut ice cream and read Harry Potter for a bit (my dad bought be the whole set for Christmas and I would like to finish them again before i'm back to school and too busy reading about Canadian Animation). Night!