Summer Time - Clearwater FL

Joey's page. He picked everything and the layout himself. Sweet!

The photo was in '99 at Clearwater Florida. Amazing beaches. That green water behind me is not a photoshop thing. That's what it really looked like!

Not sure about sharing this - but nobody else knows and if something happened to me, Joey would never know the other significance of this photo. A copy of it went into my Mother's casket. She never got to see Joey on the beach in the bathing suit she bought for him.

Time Square

We have a ton of pics from our day trip to New York, but these are the only two Bob has printed for me so far. Not sure why I did the pink doodles, but what the heck right? LOL



Morgan and Joey were fascinated by the living statue guy. I have to admit that he was pretty cool and even better than the one on Monk! heh

Jazz At the Beach

Jacksonville Beach Sea Walk Pavillion is home to the Summer Jazz Concert Series.  The music is awesome.  Our good firend is the stage manager and he does a wonderful job of it!

This layout repeats shapes.  The scalloped circles on the paper, the punched one behind the two step stamped motiff and the metal embellishment follow the rule of three.  

The title block was a bookmark prototype that I'd made a while ago.  I repeated it's matting on the photo and used the ribbon from a bow that was on a gift - because it used colors from the title block and some from the photo.  This tied the two together better.  The ribbon was wired, so I pulled out the sweetest little copper wire and used it to wrap both the title and the embellishment; bringing the color from the photo subtly into the rest of the page.

Till next time,

Sisters

This is my sister, Dianna, and I at our sister Jackie's house.  We were all sharing pictures and swapping stories for hours on end.  We'd not been together like that since my Mom's funeral.  It was a wonderful weekend to be in New Orleans.

I had something else scheduled to go up today... but I was so excited about my doodles on this page that it's all been rearranged to let this one go first.  A while back I said I was going to start turning my doodles into stamps.  I have only done a few of them and none seemed to fit the feeling on this page.  So I got out my Chocolate Chip Stampin Write marker and just started playing.  Doodles start as one shape and then just keep growing.  I colored these in with other Stampin Write markers and then used the Sigmo pen for white outlines and accents.

If you have not tried these markers, you owe it to yourself to do so.  They are juicy and rich in color --- and can be REFILLED!  I'll just say this... Morgan now has a huge set of Marvey markers to play with.

Till next time,

Be Happy

This is Tim. Tim has a way of making you smile, even when you really don't want to. He's just funny in a random kind of way. He's my oldest. Mine by marriage and by heart. For me, the last is all that matters.

The pic was taken in the court house in New Haven CT. We were exploring the campus and the green and ducked in there to check it out. That's Joey and Bumble Bee peeking out on the left and yours truly peeking out on the right. Tim looks oh so happy doesn't he? LOL He didn't know what we were doing behind him but he knew we were up to something cause we couldn't' stop giggling. So you see... that's his "you guys are doing something to make me look weird in this photo" face!

This layout makes use of punches. Gotta love punches! There's a tag, scalloped circle and two sizes of circles. OH oh and the ticket corner punch. Love this one. The ribbon just seemed to work for me. It's 8x8 like all that I've posted on the blog so far.