The last two for this issue (I promise):
I'm hoping to get published in JPG magazine. If you're so inclined, I could use a few votes for this image. If not mine, there are a ton of gorgeous images there that should strike your fancy. If nothing else, it's inspiration you can take for FREE.
I've notced lately that there are a few things that consistantly make me happy. Some I just remembered "hey, I really love that" and others I never forgot. In no particular order, these are some things that I always love:
American Typewriter font, Raspberries, Banana flavored anything (not actual bananas), good pizza, birds chirping outside, the sound of water, making something I think is beautiful, chubby beautiful pink babies, sitting outside in the shade on a warm day with nothing to do but breathe the sweet air (and hear the birds and water I mentioned before), watching a really entertaining movie that I can lose myself in, beautifully designed fonts from veer.com, colors that sing to me, processing a good image into a great photograph, my camera, computer and software, vacations with my whole family, coming home, the internet, good rootbeer, creamy peanut butter on toasted english muffins, waffles, ice cream, rainier cherries (best bought from a local family fruit stand), black frames with big white mats, painted white wood moulding/wainscotting/trim with colored walls, black as an accent color, warm homemade fruit muffins, natural fiber yarns, calendars, music, stars, my original-style crocs, mary jane shoes, seeing my daughters happy and healthy, Friends re-runs, laughing so hard with my husband that we're crying and gasping for air, hooded sweatshirts and jeans, books, funny tshirt and bumper sticker sayings, cotton quilts.
OK, enough for now, but I know this is just a start.
Four more this weekend. I am getting a bit of sleep, 4-5 hours each night, and still plugging along with the middle-of-the-night layouts. Love love love how this batch came out. Hopes & Dreams, above and:
[Idaho] Local color (my FAVE!)
Also made the cutest little box of 20 ready-to-go tags for packages or making cards or maybe even on a layout. Housed them in an empty Maya Road mini metal lunch box. Too cute, and maybe even {gasp} useful!
This girl is such a sweetheart. She just made me yummy, buttery warm toast, so I wouldn't have to get up. And you know how adults always cut toast in half either diagonally, making 2 triangles, or in half vertically? She cut it half horizontally, so one half is all the curved top and the other half the rectangular bottom. So sweet, my little mother-er trying to take care of me.
Love you, bub.