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SORRY ABOUT THE GLARE, IT IS BECAUSE THAT IS A PICTURE OUT OF A MAGAZINE AND IT IS GLOSSY. ALSO DEPENDS ON WHAT TIME OF DAY I TAKE THE PICTURE. I AM SURE YOU WILL HAVE TO CLICK TO READ THE SMALLER WRITING. THE PICTURE OF HONEY AND I ON THE LEFT WAS TAKEN IN FRONT OF AN OLD HOUSE WHERE WE HAD AN APARTMENT IN ILLINOIS BACK IN THE 60'S (CAN YOU TELL BY THE HAIR)? THE OTHER PICTURE ON THE RIGHT IS MY MOTHER WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG. THESE FLOWERS WERE SOME OF HER FAVORITES AS SHE SAID SHE KNEW WINTER WAS ALMOST OVER WHEN THEY CAME UP.
HOPE EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING AND THAT ALL OF YOUR LEFT OVERS GET USED ! OURS WAS NICE AND QUIET, HOME ALONE WITH JUST THE CATS,THEY EVEN HAD TURKEY.

Romance

Not to much in the way of painting on these pages, I painted a brown background and left the top of the pages with the sky showing. The picture of us at the table took three different pictures, now is when I need my new program, Photo shop Elements #7. I have it installed HOWEVER it is going to take awhile to figure it out. The main thing I want to do is make a photo transparent so I can drop it onto another photo. So anyone out there that knows how to do this I sure could use some tips.

Hope everyone has a very BLESSED and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye, and above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye THANKFUL. Colossians 3:12, 15.

Follow The Yellow Brick Road

This is probably my lest favorite of all the pages I have done. You can not see much without enlarging it.
Guess what? My photo shop program came today and I installed it but I will not open it or try to do anything until after church tomorrow. Now how is that for discipline? I can hardly wait, I have also joined a group at Digital Whisper and I'm very excited and anxious to learn from those that have been doing this for awhile.

So I will keep this short and maybe be back to post something tomorrow.
BE BLESSED and have a great day of rest.

One I forgot I had done.

Now I remember why I did not post this, it is not done....I wanted to add some journaling on the left hand side, oh well at least you can see the art part of it. Well I must get busy, I hear the yard calling me. Check out the last post for that.

After checking with Webster I have found there is no such word as "journaling" what a shame, I like it......so I guess to be correct I'm to say journalizing, hmmm, well you know what I mean, right?

Before and After Yard

The big tree on the left in the first picture is the same big tree in the second picture. This is our yard out behind the house. Our three acers has a lot of woods on it and if you are not careful the grape vines and the thorny vines will take over. The water oaks drop nuts and start new trees so we had a "forest" of small trees all tangled up in vines, what a mess, it was almost impossible to walk through. The best way to deal with it is down on your knees with hand cutters as you see honey doing here. We hand cut the ones that are to big for the weed eater. So there you have it, this is what I've been doing instead of ART!

And which do you think I would rather be doing ?

Church in the country

These pages were finished last week, not sure how I missed posting them. Honey has been laid off from his job and he has decided it would be a good time to catch up on "clearing the woods" so that is what we did Saturday and today. He worked Sunday, but I went to church. So needless to say I will not be spending much time in the craft room. I took a few before pictures this morning and by the end of the week I should be able to show you what we are doing. I did not have the heart to cover up the church on the right so I worked around it. Me in the pink dress was down in the Keys, gray suit, up here at a conference.
Me at the well, was taken a few years back at the "Holy Land" in Orlando. Next best thing to going there. If you live anywhere close and have not gone I would recommend it. The song on the left is my favorite praise song.

Sitting in the sun on Sunday

The black and white cat is Buddy, he really is to big for this basket but don't tell him. The gray cat under the table is Salu, she is deaf and so she sticks real close to her "Buddy". All three of our outdoor cats are adopted strays that came wondering up out of the woods, scared and hungry. Sweetie, our Manx is not pictured here but she has been on previous posts.
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The following two pictures are from the altered book I have been working on, I will keep the "junk yard" and the "sky" pictures and cover the rest.

On these two pages I had planned to keep the very top showing the sky and the tops of the mountains. I plan to paint over the other 3/4 of the picture. I am finally running out of pages, the book is almost done. Perhaps I will go back and add some thoughts to some of the pages.

Something a little different

I decided to try a different technique with my pages. I don't think I will stop here, this is just a foundation, just not sure what I want to do to it next. I really do not want to cover the pictures up, anyone have any suggestions for me?
This one the only thing I might do is paint around the edges of the eyes...I have no clue why there is a white spot, it is really another picture of eyes. The book is really getting full. I think there are about three more double pages left to do.

Monday Morning

This is the last two pages, this one has writing you can not see unless you click on it.

I am very partial to these colors right now for some reason.

After clicking on this image I see that the right hand page looks fuzzy, the page is not like that so it must have been the angle that I used in taking the picture.

Keeping this short and sweet today as I need to get it together and go shopping......not my favorite thing to do but as I remember growing up it was always wash day.

Do you have certain things you do on Mondays ?

Pages and what is it?

I do not have a digital program that I can work with so putting myself on this bench and behind this wall of stone was done the hard way with copies and cutting and layering. This picture was taken before I added the journaling (is that a word) anyway I included the scripture in Luke where it says, " I go to prepare a place for you, etc. " That's where I want to live, my mansion.
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This is a picture I took in my yard this morning, these flowers were some more that came up on their own, I do not even know what they are called.

And this.....what is it? It must have been made by a spider, most unusual I thought. Has anyone seen one of these before?

The 50's

I had a lot of fun doing these pages....in 1950 I was seven years old. The two girls on the left page are Janet on the right and me on the left. It was our 5th grade school picture. It was 1956 and I was thirteen in the picture at the top of right had page.

My first husband had a ford like the one on the page and that is what I learned to drive in. He was a very good and patient teacher. I was just a teenager, sixteen when we got married. The best part of that relationship was the three beautiful children that we had.

So what were you doing in the 50's?

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p.s. some words got added to the last post, the Gone With the Wind pages. My daughter Laura reminded me that I had not included Rhett's famous last line to Scarlet, also when she said, "oh Rhett, won't they be just pea green with envy?" Well fiddly de, I can't think of everything......

Gone With the Wind

If you know anything about me at all, you would have known it was just a matter of time till I got around to doing a "GONE WITH THE WIND " page for the altered book that I have been making. Of course you will see a few different faces in some of Scarlett's dresses.....the main star being Laura, who also shares a passion for this movie.
This was so much fun to do and I tried to show as much painted area as possible, using a dark color is not good to journal on. I had a lot of other favorite pictures but there just was no more room. Oh fiddly de ! I think I'm heading to the 50's next and some good ole ROCK & ROLL
oh well I'll think about that tomorrow.

Sunday's Saving Grace

His oath, his covenant, his blood,

support me in the raging flood.

When every earthly prop gives way,

This still is all my strength and stay.

If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that he would give me

to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of his soul; then, my soul, till God

himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe.

When David danced before the ark, he told Michal that election made him do so. Come, my soul, exult before the God of grace and leap for joy of heart.

A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE........

There is GREAT JOY in serving the Lord.

Do you have anything to rejoice and dance about?