oh MAN, can there BE anything better than this?? OK, well, if you're spin-challenged like me (I didn't used to be!) then what i really relish is getting such a great pic of this (those are my oldest and youngest daughters in silhouette.) Recent quick little summer vaca trip to Denver for my 20th HS reunion (OMG!) and this side trip to 6-Flag Elitch Gardens. love this slice 'o summer pie! what single image captures the closing summer for you?
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I've been focusing on scrapbook so much that I nearly forgot I have other hobbies too! With the recent and sudden death of my computer (and new Dell not arriving until the end of the month) I had just enough time to make the cutest "welcome to fall" sweater for little miss Portia. She will look so damn cute you will just want to pinch her. (no really, this baby is THAT cute...I'll post pics soon!) here's the sweater anyway.
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edit: Here she is, little miss portia in the orange sweater!
Read a quirky, lovely post here, that gave me a little giggle and made me spend a few minutes thinking about the weird little things that really make me just feel good. Cheap thrills I guess you could say.
- love the feeling I get at the airport that all i have to do is step through the door onto the ramp at any of those thousands of gates and in a few hours i could be de-planing at some exotic location. step HERE and I get off in tahiti, HERE and i could be in las vegas, HERE and i go to greece...it's like magic, all those doorways all leading to their own destination.
- the smell and feel of a big batch of white cottons, like t-shirts and socks, coming out of the dryer. the smell so good, feel so good, warm me up to my soul. note this is the only laundry type situation i like!
- getting an unexpected check in the mail. this isn't so much about money for me, but about the promise of unaccounted for cash that has a million options: take my girls out for ice cream, have pizza on a friday night with my family, go crazy in the yarn store, rifle through the paper stacks at my LSS, download groovy tracks for my ipod. i think what i like about it is the possibilities.
- being a secret witness to some kind deed, or word, from one of my children to someone else, or one of their sisters. makes me feel like they're going to turn out ok in the end.
- the crack open of a fresh can of pop and the first fizzy, burn-y sting-y gulp. Coke is a lifetime fave, but i like them all pretty much. now it's Coke zero. awesome taste, if you don't like "diet", try zero, i think you'll be pleasently surprised (Pepsi One is also good.)
- and always, ice cream with my daughters. sitting outside at the rickety, sticky tables at our local baskin & robbins. i relish the weird, goofy conversations that come from this time when no one is expecting anything from anyone except that we all eat our ice cream.
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Finished the "Gracie" collection for scrapgirls and am supremely happy with it. Not the "happy I'm done with it" kinda' happy, but that warm-feeling, content-all-the-way-down-to-my-toes happy. love how it came out, how it honors Gracie Nicole, for whom it was named. and notice I said "love how it came out", because that's how i try to design. the thing itself, the beauty that is the set, is out there, waiting to be, like, unlocked or found or freed. I don't usually start with anything in mind, I push things around, try things out, and those things lead other places and before I know it, I have this thing that has taken on a presence and personality of it's own. it practically breathes. Then, and only then, is it done.
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whisper hello to gracie, a new little soul who has just joined us a week ago. we've had two baby girls born in our office this week, and a boy a few weeks ago. it must be something in the water! and i had the honor of taking little gracie's pics this morning. you can not honestly look at the face of a new born babe and feel anything but love and compassion and a deep-seated peace. welcome gracie.
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edited: a layout with this and a few other Gracie pics can be seen here: Full of Grace