Life's Hard Sometimes

Pyper you just looked so forlorn in this photo, I wonder if you are sad, or mad because you didn’t get to do something you wanted? I love how you have your little legs crossed and your hands underneath, like you are shielding yourself from the world. Grammy hates to see you without your smile, just remember --- A smile is just a frown turned upside down.

The photo was very small and to enlarge it to work in this page made it very blurry so I used a lot of different filters giving it a 'sketched' look.

The word art (which is my own) and text include the following fonts - Pristina - Porky's - Rage Italic -

I used Glenda Ketcham's An Everyday Princess for this picture of Pyper. You can find it at Digitals. The background is one of Glenda's striped cream papers duplicated and turned 90 degrees. I placed it over a gradient using the color of Pypers shirt and changing the blending modes on each of the layers to achieve this background effect.