Simplifying -> are you going to forget me?

One week since my last post... and it is May already.. where did April go? (do I say that every month? LOL)

I am going to try and blog once a week, but I have set up routine for myself. Forums twice a week, blogging once a week (but then, maybe I’ll do back posts) galleries when I have new LOs. I don’t know when I am going to be able to visit blogs, it has been over a week and I got overwhelmed by the quantity of new posts, I just had a quick look around but left no comments, I feel bad for that :(

Scrapping... when I am not doing all these other things, my time has to be divided into digital pages for CTs, hybrid projects and challenges. Challenges... oh, I have mentioned here a couple of times I LOVE challenges. I know at least 20 weekly sources of challenges, from designer blogs, to stores and the Digidare. In the very beginning I wanted to do all of them... but I haven't been able to... so my new goal is to get at least one done every week. In my current situation, one a week is plenty.

To further help out the simplifying thing, I left two Creative Teams that I LOVED, oscraps and thedigichick. I am going to miss it, but I honestly am happy to just buy their stuff if I feel I have the time to use it, they do awesome stuff I really don't mind paying for ;)

Flickr, as if I had any spare time I joined flickr and got hooked. So far I haven't joined too many groups for fear of getting even more addicted. I am going to try and update my flickr every week, there is no lack of photos for that ;) Oh, photos, I have controlled myself pretty well I would say, but still went over 1000 last month (not counting the zillions of photos I took of the hybrid stuff)

Talking about photos, I have loads of photos of April to share, and I just noticed I haven’t posted any :( so I am just going to show you a couple of old ones today and hope to catch up with April before May finishes LOL These photos were taken at the lake close to my place:

Mateus didn’t stop for one second, so there are not many sharp pictures of him, just a blur here and there on the pictures LOL


Love the setting, and the light here (and someone was in a serious need of a haircut)


All too happy to have his pictures taken :)


Cheeky :)


Then he got tired and went exploring.

And then I scrapped some of the photos, of course ;)

Back to the start of the post....There is just one thing that I am worried about: am I going to be forgotten?
I do scrapbooking for my family and for myself. But the community, the praise, the awards, the prizes, being published, being in the spotlight, there is no denying, it is all a big incentive for me to create MORE. If I just wanted to record my memories in beautiful scraps I would probably just sit for three months planning a beautiful album with all the best moments of a year. Instead, I create a page at a time so I can share with the community; get some praise, some input, some approval! Now, if I am simplifying, posting less, blogging less, doing less, participating less, what is going to happen? Am I going to be forgotten? Maybe. Probably. I worry about that, but at the same time, I know I have to learn to live without EVERYONE's approval. I don't NEED to show my "stuff" for it to be nice, I have to learn that I am the one that has to like it and that's it! But it is hard, that is not who I am, I want approval, I want praise, and once again I hit that reality wall, you just can't have everything.