Lauren Reid Designs

Yummy Finds of the Day!

Lauren — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:11:03 +0000

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_20&listing_id=10913915
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_12&listing_id=14219163
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_12&listing_id=14336175
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_18&listing_id=14335015

It’s a DAM PARTY!!!!

Lauren — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:04:55 +0000

okay, so saying “DAM” never gets old to me! *giggle*

I COULD say Digital Artist Magazine, but isn’t DAM more fun!?!??!

http://digitalartistmagazine.com/blog/

Come on over for some fun, and this is only day 1!!!

And just wait til you see what exciting stuff DAM has up it’s sleeves!! We’re all busily working to bring you new, exciting inspiration!!!

Have a fab weekend!!!!
oxxoxo
L

Makes you go “hmmmm”, right?!

Lauren — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:42:01 +0000

The “rotating snakes” are a creation of Peripheral Drift…… nothing is actually moving, just an optical illusion….

oooooooh…. aaaaahhhh….

xo

No Excuses

Lauren — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:18:20 +0000

oxoxoxoxooxoxo

Layout Share

Lauren — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:30:08 +0000

from the sporatic blogger!

here are some los i did w/ Fee Jardine’s goodies over at the Sweet Shoppe!
(yay, i was asked to be on her CT, so i’m thrilled to have an excuse to scrap!)

(not sure how that red line down the right side got there… need to fix that…)

hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!
xoox

Happy Birthday Mom xo

Lauren — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:44:10 +0000

You would have celebrated your 58th today, hope you’re eating lots of cake up in the sky! I hear that kind is calorie free! That makes it extra yummy!

Love you!

And here’s a lo of your sweet girl, Jessica (er… Mairead as you always call her by her middle name!)

oxoxo

Thank you xoxooxoxo

Lauren — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:15:37 +0000

Thank you so much for the sweet comments….

I truely appreciate your thoughts!

xoxoox

When did my blog turn into a DOWNER blog!??!?! hahahahha I either post NOTHING or sad stuff! yeesh!

I hope ya’ll go to the team blog where it’s nice and sunny and happy! hahahahhaha
www.laurenreidesigns.com/teamblog

I’m trying to keep up w/ the team blog and our other family blog, so this one doesn’t stand a chance i suppose!

I guess i could try to do a better job here since apparently a couple people actually do stop by!

*mwah* to you

xooxoxooxoxxo
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2 years

Lauren — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:12:49 +0000

2 years ago I woke up to and endless chain of messages on my voicemail…. I can still hear them ringing in my head like it was yesterday…. I can still feel my heart beginning to race faster and faster as I realized what the messages were going to ultimately mean.

You were gone.

No more, “Hi, Laur” heard on the phone…. no more listening to you sing weird oldies songs… no more stories about when I was little… no more complaints about your knees… no more holding onto resentment……………..

I’m not going to spend the day crying….. I need to find a way to turn this day into something uplifting rather than upsetting. I always admire Kellie so much for their “Miles Day” when they celebrate little Miles’s short life….. I need to find a way to do the same.

I think I need to plant flowers….. My mom had the best green thumb, which I unfortunately did NOT inherit.

Love you Mom, no matter what the past was filled with…..

oxoxo
Laur

Mom

Lauren — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:22:48 +0000

I saw you in the grocery store yesterday….

I about started to bawl right there in the frozen isle.

Obviously it wasn’t really you… just some lady who looked so similiar… her hair cut and color were just like yours… she was turned to the side gabbing with a friend.

I just stood frozen staring….and staring. My eyes welled with tears but I couldn’t look away….

I just wanted a few more minutes “with” you……

It’s been almost 2 years since you’ve been gone, but i’m still waiting to pick up the phone and hear you say, “Hi Laur”……

Not one day has gone by that I haven’t thought of you… been mad, sad, upset or regretful…….

I hope that lady is back at Kroger next week.

Love you always
ox
Laur

From one of my heros

Lauren — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:48:17 +0000

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time… We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, sta y up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer,to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ‘I love you’ to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

-George Carlin