Jan 9th and 10th photos

hi hi!
here with pics 9 and 10.

today's are some of my little outside xmas guys waiting to be put away. they are oh so sad!!



Yesterday I loaded my boys, mom and dad into the car and we went to old downtown. Had a little walk around and got some pics. woohoooo!

here is a fave I got today,lol. they just make me laugh....and that is a split chin on hayden....was walking the railing of brother's bunk bed and fell off and hit it on the ladder. sighhhhhh



silly imps!

(and just to show you...they are NOT always that amused with each other...here was a mere 5 mins later)


andddd guess what? (this will work for you pj 365 players or other.

Have you been toying with the idea of playing in project 365....but you petered out last year? or you just don't want the commitment? Or do you just want another way to showcase some of those awesome pics you are taking?

Well...guess what. Val and I are running We bring to you the Project 52!!!

It is less commitment with the same amount of fun.

Each Monday you will get a new template from me (and sometimes another FPD designer). You then take your pic, and use the template to scrap it.

Sounds good? Want moreeee?

Well... Every week we will do a random draw and one weekly winner will be chosen for a $5 GC to a FPD designer.

And every third month, we will pick a random LO and the creator will win a $10 GC of a FPD designer.

and at the very end....there will be a grand prize drawing....for ppl who don't miss one week. a bag of coupons! woohooo

wanna see the template I will be giving out Monday to the players?



here is mine for this week.



come on over and sign up! it will be funnnnnnnn! click here to go to the challenge

and did you guys SEEEEEE the W&W PJ 365 collection. I am soooo drooling over this. sighhhh. on my list,lol.

Jan6-8th

Hi there. Got a little behind in posting, but still taking the pics! woohooooo so here are the last few days.

Jan 8th

We love to go camping at Fort Bragg CA. The ocean centers us. My hubby is a big diver...and loves to cook us up some yummy Abalone. We have a few of his shells lined up on the fence of our side yard.



Jan 7th

My son Chase loves to "work in his lab" cracking open rocks and looking for interesting formations and such. here is part of his little set up.



and another shot of it :)


Jan 6th.

a doorstop my MIL made for hubby with beach glass. She is very eco friendly and loves to do crafty things. And we love the beach. Thought it had some great texture and color.



ok...off to check ya'lls pics! ;)

jan 5th.

this one is so fun,lol. My chandelier over my dining table. My girlie Missy gave it to me many moons ago. I still adore it. The colors, the warm glow it lends to my house, the way it makes me think of the Strands, the way my kiddos love it. Just perfect. I am looking for some sconces to match it for my wall in the living room (I have one of those houses where I have no dining room...just a dining spot situated between the kitchen and living room (hate that, but it is what it is).

and guess whattttt?? I am on the mend. I feel it! yay for antibiotics,lol. thanks for all the loving and praying for me. mawahhh.

jan 4th picture

I had to make sure today's wasn't any nature pic (lol...though I took a lot of them today). It was a sunny beautiful day. Still sick. Boys still gone (wahhhh, I miss them. But with my bad cold, throat and double pink eye....probably not the best place for them to be) I sat out there and soaked up some vitamin D and tried to get some fresh air. and then I took some pics.

I picked this one as my "ONE" for today because it represents a lot to me.

My continuing search for spirituality is a biggie for me. I wasn't brought up in a religious family. I was 8 when I first starting searching. I rode a bike to the church down the street every Sunday for a couple month's...trying to figure it all out. All my adult life I have searched for some "answer". Churches. Bible study. Friends who have faith. I STILL don't know exactly what I believe. It drives me crazy..especially now that I have sweet boys who want to know who God is? Who is Jesus? What is all this about momma?". But...as three personality tests have shown about me. I am kind of split down the middle....seriously. They show I am rooted strongly in academia. What I can prove. What I can touch. Practical. Rational. This, to me in this instance, is science. And then I have the dreamer. The believer. The artist. The trier. This is my search for how, why, faith, reasons??? Why am I here?

So. The sun hit my angel just right...and made the most beautiful picture.

And I snapped it.

And it makes me happy.

Please, if you are a true believer. Don't judge me. I am a good person. I am trying to figure out what I believe and how to believe in things you feel but cannot prove. It took a lot to post this To share. to hope. Be kind.

~*~*~*~*~day 3~*~*~*~*~

so today we have the trees in my backyard. these trees....oh they drive me crazyyyyy.

don't know what they are....but in the summer they give me the greatest shade. they are beautiful. But. they attract the white flies like NO ONE's business! That makes this sticky residue to get all over anything underneath them. hte ground. the toys, the flowers...anything. gross. yuck. grrrrr.

but. they are pretty. even on a gray early morning against the sky.



ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

ok. the girls who said no theme....she seems to be on a nature/backyard theme, eh?

keep in mind. sick as a dog....(I now have flippin PINK EYE in both eyes. WTH, sigh) keeps me stuck at home. Hopefully soon I will get some pics of out and about!

hugs and kisses

Jan 2nd photo

Still ucky weather and I feel like crud...still sick. so pics around the house still,lol.

Here is today's. My fountain and maple tree.



I really like the gray today. Made the colors really pop (with help from a little sharpening and edge burn,lol). and I love my tree and fountain....give's me such peace. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

thanks for looking.

January 1st

Happy New Years! Hope you had a great one! Here is my first pic! woohoooo





I took a lot of pics around the house today....and this was my fave for several reasons.

It instantly hit me as what I needed for today...for my first pic....for inspiration for the New Year.

1. A beautiful rose is fighting the odds and flourishing in this gray cold ugly day.
Means to me....no matter the circumstance you find yourself in...you can come through it. With grace. With Beauty. Despite it all. You CAN survive.

2. New growth. The bud represents that the New Year holds the chance for great growth...spiritually. Physically. New chances. New life. I love it.

3. The color red. Represents to me Passion. For life. For love. I want to feel that intensity again. I want the passion.

4. The crispness of that front bud while the back is blurred signifies me putting behind me my mistakes and feelings of last year. Focus on the importance of here and now and I will find what is important.

5. The bits of dew on the bud...represent sweat to me. That all things worthwhile take work. Make you sweat a bit. And that sweat is gorgeous. And it is all worth the sweat.

so. yeah. that is my first pic.

and I have a little goodie for you.....a template I made for a week of pics!


Hope someone can use it!!

click here to download (send your friends....don't just give them the link....make them look at my pics too, hehehe)

Leave me a howdy, if you will. thanks