411 About Me...Rachel Juanita

Good Morning World. That pretty much sums up how I am feeling these days. Like when I'm walking I can hear Nina Simone singing "It's a new dawn, its a new day...and I'm feeling good." I've been peeping into everyone else's blogs and decided to get my own. Of course I will have to figure all of this out, but that's what friends are for (so Lu and Keisha, HELP!)

First a little 411 about Me: My full name is Rachel Juanita-Clark Bellamy. Clark is my maiden name and I added it to my middle name on my official records when I got married to my Blessing and Best Friend, Lonnie, aka Jerry six years ago. (Boy does time fly.) I am the proud mother of two little angels Elijah Jayden (3, 11/02) and Isaiah Jeremiah (almost 2, 2/04). I am a corporate Mommie and work for the Federal Government developing the government's leaders. A fact that a lot of people find interesting about me is that I graduated from West Point Military Academy and served in the Army for five years and use to jump out of airplanes.

I have been scrappin for exactly a year now. I found this wonderful artform last year in an attempt to create a family tradition for the boys for New Years Eve and Day. I wanted to print off pictures from the previous year and put them into an album. See we had this situation where we took a lot of pictures but they all stayed on the computer and never got put into an album, let alone printed. And thus began the adventure. I went into Michaels and fell in love...My mother says I was destined for this because I have always loved...okay...been obsessed with paper...not just paper...but beautiful paper...to this day I still think white paper with dark blue lines and no holes is beautiful...for me when I look at a beautiful tablet of white paper with no holes down the side and dark blue lines I see a clear canvas that is waiting for me to write beautiful words on it...which reveals another passion...Writing. Since I could write and read I have been writing fiction and non-fiction.

Somehow over the course of a year I have met some great scrappin Queens on 2 Peas and other sites and picked up my Ace Juliet in Michaels, and amassed a hoard of paper and supplies. Now if I could only buy some time to scrap. But like I said, its a new dawn, its a new day, and this is my year. In the O6, I plan to let my creative Queen free and let her play and create and dance and sing. TO the Queen in you, God Bless.