Journaling a scrapbook

These two top and below.... are in the burgundy journal...

which is so large I'll be working in it when I get to Assisted Living...

But at least I started!

above is my beloved father-in-law that we lost in May...

From last year when he and a lady were King and Queen of Mardi Gras

in their assisted living facility!

These are the kinds of things that I think need to be in my journals!

Now....to my current Remains of the Day journal...

I am using it to save notes from my blogging buddies!

It's filled with notes from all of you!

If you ever sent me something and wrote a note with it...

I most likely have it in here!!!

Love my blogging friends!

Journal Insides

 I showed you a stack of my journals here.

Someone said they would love to see inside.

So.... because I'm desperate for blog fodder at the moment...

I'll show you!

 These are four that aren't toooo private..... and I've been working in them a long time....

These images are from the one with the blue cover - which is my daily journal...

My journals are also my scrapbooks.  I'm not a "scrapbooker".... but I do like to glue things in and keep them.  Things like tickets to events and current events....

 ...and yes, I draw sometimes.... my girls are based on Teesha Moore....

 The page below was obviously written during the winter:

The next pages are from the Day Book that says 2008 on the front...
 pages  from Christy Tomlinson's Three Hearts workshop....

more scrapbooking....

 from Christy's She Art workshop.... I tend to work in my journals instead of on the canvases she suggests. I'll get some of those done eventually...

More to come!

Blogging in the heat....

I have been a bad blogger!

One reason is I can't seem to make myself haul things outside and do photographs!

It's supposed to be 107 today!

But.... I went outside and I think I have enough for two or three posts!

I've been just making little pieces.... like postcard size.  And then I mail them off to people!

I always take a photo or scan them first though, so I can reuse them in my journal or make a little card for someone with the image.

The card just above is my mom and her little sister in the 40's!

I have a sweet friend pregnant with identical twin girls...

she lost one of them this past week....

she's in the hospital on bedrest until

they can take the other one...

sometime in October..

I'm sending her a card and attaching one of the little angels below

(the larger one)

Say a prayer for the sweet mom..

her name is Julie.

Carole's new class

Registration is open for Carole's latest class!

You should go check it out.

Click here....

Thursday and a great video...

It's good to see on a bigger screen than my blog allows... you can go here to do that.

Don't you love this!
It's on several blogs right now!
Henry (my granddog) is coming to spend next week with me...
I hope we don't have quite as much fun as Monkey does!

Pinterest Made My Summer!

Everyone loves this.... I've seen it lots of places. Found this one on Pinterest. Love this version... find it here where you can order the print! I am addicted to Pinterest.

Here is one of the great things I've found various versions of on Pinterest.... this one can be ordered here..... and here is a version of In This House...and a tutorial on how to make it by Laurie... You can visit my "pins" on my "boards here!

Soaker hoses

Henry has been in a bit of trouble lately.

(granddog)

He's been barking during the day and disturbing a neighbor.

Well, the kids are home from school and he wants to play with them....

soon they will return to higher education and he will settle down.

But I sent him a card the other day.... poor baby....

Below is a simple, yet exquisite postcard that Melissa Sabin sent me as a RAK!

I see myself making some of those....

...about the soaker hoses.... don't you just love a soaker hose?

Texas is desperate for rain. I run the sprinklers.... but the big old trees need deep, deep watering.

The tall pine that has been looking like it wanted to die for years.... behind our fence on the greenbelt area....... has finally succumbed. I called TPTB about it. (the powers that be)

Pray for rain for Texas..... not only for our trees.... but for our crops and our herds...

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain”

Exclusion

I realllllllly love the exclusion setting in PSE 8. You saw some of these pieces on my worktable last week. I finally mailed them off to unsuspecting individuals. But before I did so.... I scanned them so that I can use them in my art journal or make cards, etc. I also really like to alter them digitally.... which often makes them so much better than they were! (as in the one above) See the original below: And I made some postcards.... haven't mailed them yet.... The woman on the left has been in my box of clippings for awhile. She seems to have some issues. And the girl on the right is from the Christy Tomlinson's workshop She Art. I'm not finished with Week 2 yet!!! But I do love the class. and below is a crazy postcard using one of my favorite images... It's my mother-in-law as a young girl.

I use it over and over! See.... I am doing SOMETHING!!!