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I love digital... I love how things don't have to be as they seem..

Oh the things you can do and the places you can go, with a little imagination..

Can you guess which one is original? If you said none of them you are right....

It's raining, it's pouring...I wish I was snoring...

Last night was my yoga night. I have this love, hate relationship with my mat. Me and Mat don't always roll the same direction. Someday he'll just roll and take it. Other days I am sure he is out to get me in some "mat" kinda way. Last night me and my "Mat" had a date. He was very good to me. It was hot, I love it hot. Some people find it to not be their favorite thing. I on the other hand would love it to be 100 degrees in there.

By the time class was to the end my arms felt like each weighed a million pounds. Yet, in the end of class I was alive, ready to face this world and move. You know you worked hard if when you arrive home you can't get out of the car. The next day your arms still feel heavy and your

body feels like you rode bulls. Then you have done good for your body. I think the only thing wrong with my class is that I don't have the class every single day.

That will be added to long lottery winning list. Class everyday!! If that ever happens I am thinking me and "mat" will be the bestest of friends....Maybe then my arms wouldn't feel like they can barely work these keys. If I type any slower it will be sure to be Friday before I am done. I could barely brush my teeth. Heck even my teeth are sore today.

Please don't let there be any laundry today. Today I feel just to good to do it! Feel alive today.

L.

i love pictures....

I love to take photos..especially if they are creative ones. I took these with my tiny little old point and shoot. Then I couldn't wait to play with them in the photoshop program. Everything I have is a relic, but for now it all still works. I created a million versions of this little number. I love each and everyone of them. Then I got to thinking about them and developed every single one of them. I just can't wait to see them in hand. Who says that you have to, have the finished product original.

Your program may be like your old car. It isn't as sleek, fancy or fast as the rest. But, I think that if you get inside you'll be amazed at what that program and little old camera can do for you.
What I love about this is there are no rules...regardless of what others might say. Just here to have with it and maybe find a little something to scrap with.

So that's what I am playing with these days. I'll be the first to admit that I have gotten the book out once I got started. I dusted this book off which is totally foreign to me and I didn't even realize I had. It is in black and white, no color. A book written to talk to me about how to use color and various effects. They were to cheap to print it properly. Obviously a man thought, "That'll do." Dork!! I am more a trial and error person. I hate to follow directions.

I am so that way when it comes to a recipe. I have so often been asked for a recipe or two, I simply say I'll come up with something. Ugghhh....I think I get it from my Grama she would say, "Most times Honeygirl, recipes are for those who can't cook, they just don't want to admit it."
That seems a little tough but then you have to meet Grama. She cooked "farm", nothing fancy solid, thick, stick to the bones meals. Meals to feed an army, and they were the basics she learned from her mother, and so on.

"So, where you going with this?" You ask, I don't know but I scrap the same way. Without a recipe. I see paper, goodies and I just look over the edge and I jump. I don't scrap with a plan. I could never do the same thing twice. Good or bad, that's the way it is and I only wish I could live my life this way. Things would be so much easier.

Life without recipes. It would taste, look and smell different every time. So exciting.

One side note I am saving like crazy for a new program and camera....oh the places I'll go and the things I'll see then.......

-L

yummmmiieee minnniii

keep going there's more to see!!

yummmmmie minnnniiii

2.5 dogz....yes that's our house....this is a new favorite of mine. It is a little mini chipboard tag album. It measures a whopping 3x5 without the goods.

I hope you enjoy it.. It is funny how a mini can be so intimidating. I'll purchase a mini and let it sit for months, no years. Then poof a wild hair, just out and I can't finish it fast enough.

The first step was painting and texturing the back of each board. Then adhering a fabric to each of the front. Once all dried, more paint, texture and ink. Now it is time work with the goods.

Thanks for checking this little dandie out.

Happy creating.-L.

let me walk away....

Let me walk away...away from every day life....away from expectations, time frame, needs, wants and responsibility.

Let me walk away and just be.....

I have decided that I aspire to becoming a dock boy. Only I'd have to mixed it up and be the dock girl. Nothing is better than when life lets you walk away. To have a chance to sit and think or not.

Can you guess where I have been?

Oh the places you can go close to home. This place grabbed my heart many years ago, and has just never let go...For this I am blessed.

We went on vacation. We like to call it holiday. Because for our family that is just it. Holiday.It is as important as any occasion you can throw at us. I think it might be even more. Except maybe Belle's birthday.

Our Holiday was wonderfully, restful and healing. It allows you to just be. We were unplugged, and disconnected from the real world. We were on our own. Every year, the time then arrives that you must return. Every year I cry and am terribly blue afterward.

I have decided that this is good. It was a wonderful time. I have decided this is bad. It tells me my life is ready for change. The change is coming just like the waters moving all around me the change is moving toward me too.

For now I shall gather this place up in my thoughts and heart and hold them close. Never letting go..

Do you have a special place in your heart? Let yourself go there, today and if it is in your thoughts, I'll bet I just got you to smile.

-L

birthday to me...

they say it's a birthday..plan to float...fish and have a parade....Happy birthday to me!!!!

the loons are singing and we are enjoying to sweet music across the water....

this year it is a birthday filled with joy and gratitude for this life.....

happy day to us.....-L

the waters calling....

Today we take a holiday from the studio....but wait until see you what I have created, it's drying and I'm loving it!

Yes, it's that time again, the holiday is upon us and the waters are calling my name.

The water gives us peace and assurance the all things will come to balance with every gentle wave to shore.

It is our time, to just be...

It is our goal to become more relaxed and step out of our lives. Goal is to just breathe.

It is amazing how our little time there, gives us a chance to talk, walk, and think. Time to say nothing, sit well, and clear our heads...

Get back to the basics of our life and be able to go home happy. It is a chance to reserve these days for us. In many ways it is a chance for us to be selfish in a good way.

Plan is to breathe deeply and remind myself of the journey this year has brought to my family. Although it has been difficult and is not over, I will show my gratitude to this earth at the waters edge. In hopes the waters help to wash the pain and grief away. I will do little, I will simply look at the beauty around us, nothing fancy...just peace.

We are all so blessed to be alive and to be able to have this journey on earth. Life isn't perfect by any means and usually it isn't always the way we thought it would be. But life goes on. I plan to be a part of it. I am grateful.

I am having a birthday this weekend and this year I am celebrating. It will not be an ordinary birthday, it will be a birthday, I am healthy for. It will be mine. I am grateful to my body for keeping me here, allowing me to step quietly out of my life and still be able to return.

This weekend just breathe...breathe joy...breathe peace...breathe gratitude...breathe for you...
whatever you need...breathe for you....

-L.