Ponytails

Question Mark reads:

Owie!!!   Mommy are you sure Grandma said you have to pull my hair this tight to make a ponytail?  I know I’ll look really pretty when you are done, but not so hard ok?

 Mommy, can I put a ponytail in your hair next?

Supply list can be found on my Gallery page at Cottage Arts

Blissful

Cottage Arts Design Team Challenge -

White on White

Check out my gallery page for a complete list of supplies from Cottage Arts

Dream to Live

Design Team Challenge at Cottage Arts

Photo-less page

Supply list and what I did can be found in my Gallery here.

Who I Am

Journaling Reads:
Sometimes this is how I feel like I’m looking out at the world from the inside and no one sees the real me in here.  My life has evolved to the age of not knowing or sometimes caring what day or hour it is.  Our life is most times uncomplicated and easy, we roll with whatever each day brings and plan little.  My children have grown and the roles shifted to their shoulders instead of mine, I no longer have to worry about school hours, or homework or the agony of growing, a Grandma only has to smile and love.  I can do that.  We hop in the car and travel and see, me with the camera in hand and lens open to seeing the world about me with new vision, seeking beauty in just the everyday.  I cherish all this time I get to create, to play with pixels and paper.   How wonderful to start with a blank screen or bits of paper and bling and end up with something that makes me happy to share my creative side with those I love.

Life, it’s certainly changed, it’s gentler to me now, or perhaps I’m more gentle to myself at this stage of my life.
Here's what I used from the Cottage Arts Store:
Simply Friendship Pak - Paper 2 and 6 blended together, Mat 1 elongated (3 copies), key 2, string

Quirky Back to School Element Pak -  Quirky Tree, Word Art 1, Hanging Chain, Brick

Font - Constantia distressed with Grunge Paints 1 Brushes & Stamp Set

Natures Sketchbook  -Photo Art Blends 2 - Blend 07, placed over photo at multiply blend, added texture Weave 4 over photo and tree

Plum Haze Page Pak- Word Art Personable

As Time Goes By Page Pak- Word Art Glimpse Soul

Note: I posted this on my other blog A Soul's Heartbeat and hadn't realized until this morning the mix up.  Since there are comments there (on the original post) I'm posting it here where it belongs as well.

Made with the new Sunny Skies kit from Cottage Arts along with

bits and pieces from several of their other kits.

Please check my gallery for a complete list of supplies here. 

Living Life

Postcard reads:
Dear Family -
You know how afraid I am of high places and swinging bridges. I didn’t want to walk across this suspension bridge at the Great Falls in Montana. I could hear the water exploding into the river but in order to see it up close I would have to venture across this bridge.
When I approached the half way mark the bridge began to sway and I yelled at Paul to stop, but he swore it was the wind moving it not him. It wasn’t far but if you have a fear sometimes the first step can feel like a mile. I was proud of myself for laying aside my fear. The end result was so worth taking the steps, the beauty from the Island, all that water and power was well worth the sway of the wind and the unsteadiness of my feet. July 8, 2011

All supplies were from Cottage Arts, please check my gallery photo there for a complete list.

An Adventure

Brynnie exploring the wonders of her backyard, 

a whole new world opens up when you can go outside!

All supplies from Cottage Arts

Challenge - Using a Newspaper Clipping

One of the challenges for the Cottage Arts DT this week was to scan an old newspaper clipping and journal about it.  This isn't what I went hunting for but you know I thought it was just perfect considering the conversation Mom and I had shortly before she passed away about Phyllis's death.  Here's what I journaled:


Dear Baby Sister -
I've often wondered what it would have been like had you lived to share your life with us.  I worried for so many years that Momma would have been sad when she found out she was pregnant with me, the time was so soon after you had passed.  Just a short time ago, before Momma came to join you, I asked her about it and she said that she prayed I would be a little girl.  She didn't want me to replace your spot in her heart but she wanted to help heal the emptiness that you leaving caused her.  That made me feel so good and gave me such peace.  Rest happlily now little Phyllis in our Momma's arms.  
The supply list is on my page in the Cottage Arts gallery here.

Angi? relaxed and rested

Angi? relaxed and rested
You have to know my daughter to get the story behind that big question mark.
This girl never sits still long enough to relax, what a great shot captured here!

All supplies from Cottage Arts, please check out my gallery page there for a complete list of supplies.

Part of the photo (Angi's foot) masked to give the out of bounds illusion.

Caught in the Moment

Journaling Reads:     Eddie you were on base at MCRD in San Diego for Derik’s boot camp graduation you wanted me to take pictures of you at each monument and artillery spot.  When I went to snap this pic your head was bowed so reverently.  I wondered what thought prompted this automatic display of respect.  A very proud moment for me.

All supplies from Cottage Arts, check out my gallery page for a complete list.