Amber McDaniel

Meet Amber McDaniel, a beautiful local young lady with a big voice. You can learn more about Amber and her work on her MySpace page, AMBERMUSIC . In the mean time you might like to hear a couple of her songs... just go down one post and turn off the player for John Nathaniel! It's a tough call I know!



6-16-08 I have disabled the link to ambers player, if you would like to hear ambers music, visit www.myspacae.com/ambermusic in the mean i hope you enjoy the music paying on my bPod

Reason to Live

Ah, John Nathaniel does it again! For a limited time he has posted a new song "Reason to Live" Johns songs are so "real life" it's almost scary! You can find John on MySpace and you can download his CD Shades of Gray from CDBaby and iTunes. Watch for his soon to be released EP

6-16-08 i have removed the link to johns player... if you would like to hear johns music visit www.myspace.com/johnnathanielmusic

Illusion

Just playing with some quote brushes I found on my hard drive! I think the cocaine quote is funny... If you really know me you understand why!!!

Buds

Dan (left) and Craig (right) have been friends since Junior High and I thought it would be fun to do a layout for them but the only picture I had of them together had a lady standing between them. Naturally I had to cut her out. LOL that's just me.. she was distracting from the purpose of the layout, Dan and Craig's friendship.

I admit I didn't do the best job... Because of their height difference I couldn't just slide them together and stitch the photo... I had to rebuild Dans entire side next to Craig (the lady was standing in front of Dan covering his entire shoulder upper arm as well as the edge and top of his ear.)

When I got that done I decided I didn't like the background... it was just white (snow)so I went through some other photos I had from events they were at together and found this one with trees in it. When I extracted the picture of the guys and lay-ed it on the new background, there was a skier doing a jump over Craig's head. No matter how much I tried I just didn't seem to be able to cover him up, So you got it... cloned him out! LOL THEN I noticed the new background was bright and sunny but the boys had snow flakes on them, so I cloned them out too!.

Once I got this made up picture of Dan and Craig it was time to lay it out... I love Doris Castle's Lost Mojo kit, not just because it was inspired MOI but because it's FUN! Can you believe even though I have three ever so slightly different versions here, I'm not really sure I like any of them? LOL!!! maybe I should go back to the original photo.... uh then..... maybe NOT! If you look at the picture long enough you will notice Dans chest is too broad and he has no upper arm, but other than that, maybe it's not so bad! LOL

STAY...

John Nathaniel just posted this "naked" song (his words) on his myspace page.
I think it's beautiful... you might want to scroll down to my bPod and pause it so you can hear John. He says it will only be up for 48 hours... hope you get to hear it. Oh, John also posted the lyrics... i'm not sure why I'm hearing like john's singing rounds... john jacob jinglemeyersmith.... that's my name too...or sorry, I hope it plays correctly for you!


What should I do?
What should I say?
All that I know is that I want you here
The oceans won't flow
When you're not around
The silence won't fade
till I hear your voice

For all the moments that I needed you
For all the pain that you put me through
and for all those reasons you were part of me
I wish you could find a reason to stay

I wish you could feel
I wish you could see
God I wish you'd stay
for just one more day
The bridges will burn
The Angels won't sing
but the broken will see
what it's like to feel

For all the moments that I needed you
For all the pain that you put me through
and for all those reasons you were part of me
I wish you could find a reason to stay

Where are you now?
I just wanna believe
I've got nowhere to go ohhhh
I'm standing on the edge
I've got to nowhere to run
and no reason to stay


EXPIRED

Emotion

Way back sometime last year it seemed everything I scrapped came out DARK and foreboding... I remember trying to do a layout with a beautiful Pink kit that Doris had made and it came out DARK... Then I started another layout and titled it "HAPPY" no matter how hard I tried to lighted it up, it just seemed "SAD" so I put it aside. Well, I came across it last week and played with it a bit... this is what I came up with




BTW new music on the play list... all by Morgan Clamp from his "I NEED YOU/YOU NEED ME" CD. Check out his music at MySpace or iTunes

The Fairy Prince

and his Fairy Mother... not finished but I wanted to share

Facebook Friends

I met this couple from Norway on Facebook when I was playing the game "owned" They are very cute and very fun loving people. I thought they look so in love in this picture I just had to scrap it!



credits:
"dancing Butterflies" by Sylvia Laupitz (Fotosusu) available at Funkyplayground
fonts - ck chemistry, passions conflict, times new roman

Finishing Up

some unfinished layouts on my computer.. This photo was from Rylie's 4th birthday.



I love the rich colors Lori Wiley uses in her work!
In this layout I used elements and paper from
her "Moonlit" kit at Diamante Designs
as well as foliage brushes from Ashalee Wall's
"Swirlies" Brushes at ashaleeandsweet
fonts - Nasty, Passions Confllict, Times New Roman

New From Studio Doris!

One day last month I took an impromptu trip to
DD house for a quick visit... just a couple of hours,
while looking at the pictures I took that day, I
realized why it is that I get so exhausted when I'm
with my grandson. These are just the things I took
pictures of.. he did lots more! I got pictures of him
painting, running through the sprinkler, taking
pictures with mommy's camera, bouncing in his
bounce house and resting... I know he also played
with the dog, played with the cats, ate,
played catch, Frisbee and batted with daddy...

Whew, I get tied just thinking bout it!

I used items From the collab project Chelsea's Garden
by Doris Castle and Diane Rigdon available at SBG
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I also used swirl brushes by Aneta Branch (aka Sweet Made)
available at Ashalee and Sweet
curl template by Marcie Reckinger at funky playground
curl action by Tracy Murphy also at Funky Playground

Fonts: Passions Conflict, Times New Roman



Since his first finger painting, I have been
amazed at Rylie's painting skills, not because
of the realism, but because of his sense of
completion, He has a very minimalist style
to his work. This day he added just a touch
of glitter glue!

I used a close up of his art as the back with
a paper from the kit layer blended over it
to add a bit of color and texture

I used items from the collab project
Chelsea's Garden by Doris Castle and Diane Rigdon
available at SBG

http://tinyurl.com/64fxov
http://tinyurl.com/6hnmvd
http://tinyurl.com/5dkj4j
http://tinyurl.com/5jc7s9
http://tinyurl.com/68fmsy
http://tinyurl.com/6x9q7x
http://tinyurl.com/5cvmwa

font - passions conflict