I love Shimelle's Starting Points. Her latest just fit the scraps I had left from my April GoGo kit so I created this:
I stuck quite closely to Shimelle's final page as I wanted to try scrapping a portrait and landscape photo on the same page (which I hardly ever do). I like the page so may try it more often!
I am completely loving having an indoor craft room! I did love my shed, but now everything is just THERE and I can scrap after dinner and in my PJs if I want to!!!
Here are some pics of my latest creations!
I've also been enjoying some sketching practice and have done the first face I'm actually happy with!!
And now I'm off on the train to visit my best friend in Cilgerran for the week. Hopefully that will involve lots of giggles and lots of photos for me to scrap when I get back!!
Over at the Shutter Sisters website they have a One Word Project forum where they pick a word for the month and invite people to share photos inspired by the word of the month.
This month the word is DISCOVERY...
I took this photo of my Flame of Avalon candle the other night for my brief Blossoming meditation. I find I can discover a lot about myself and how I am feeling just by gazing into a candle flame!
Work on the extension is almost complete. Mom moves in furniture over this weekend and then she should be living in there from Monday.
Currently me, K, and mom are squished in teeny bungalow with all of our furniture.
I cant wait to have my own home again...and my mom safe and happy 'next door'.
So I won't be blogging until this is all sorted. Then my life (which has been on hold for a few years) can start to blossom again. Yay!
See you soon
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Challenge 16 was to use your scraps that were left over from the crop weekend! As I haven't touched my craft space since last weekend (oh the shame!), this was easy for me!
Another Scotland photo! This is a page I could keep adding bits to! That's the beauty of using scraps I guess!!
I thought I'd submit to page for Shimelle's crop as I started it last weekend but didn't finish it.
Challenge 12 was to scrap one photo twice.
I didnt realise Kei was snapping this photo of me and I love it!!
It's my day off, and I have read the next session of My Quest this morning. It is session 8 and is focussed on LIMINALITY...moments of transition, of nothingness and yet totality.
I have been sat here with Saffy on my lap doing NOTHING. Intentionally waiting but not knowing what it is I'm waiting for. I realised that cats do this a lot. They sit, completely aware of everything going on around them, waiting... waiting for the next thing to occur.
From this my mind wandered to my photos as I suddenly was so happy with the clarity of thought I had just had that I wanted to take a photo! I realised that I take photos when I have had a moment of clarity, or am experiencing a moment of joy. I take photos to document a deep thought or story. And then...what do I do with the photos? I scrapbook them. But generally by the time I scrapbook them the TRUE story behind the picture, the clarity, the joy, is lost or diluted. Forgotten.
This photo I took quickly on my phone after the really deep, meaningful thoughts i have had today...when I scrapbook it...it will probably be about how I love to curl up with my kitty! All depth, all clarity will be lost. UNLESS I REMEMBER! So I have decided that when I DO have moments like this, when I DO take a photo that represents some moment of deep reflection, that I will blog. I will add the photo, I will write about my moment of clarity, joy, sorrow even, and I will tag it I will scrapbook this . Then when I do scrapbook that photo, it will be to tell a story that is much deeper, much more honest, and frankly much more interesting and worthy of remembering in years to come!
