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I'll tell you in a couple of days why I made this Layout!

"One"

Have you ever gotten a song stuck in your head and all you want to do is play it over and over? Well, I'm listening to Joe Cocker in my head and on my web! I'm thinking the lyrics might serve as inspiration for something....

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One life

One...

I had forgotten what a genius this guy is! (my opinion) Yea, I suppose I should give U-2 some credit here too....

Darkness

I started a layout yesterday.... I was going to use a new pink kit from Doris to make a new page for my art therapy book... started and was going are key phrases here... This layout quickly got dark and right in the middle, I lost all focus, so here it is... unfinished... I guess I will have to come back to it another day... maybe one when I really feel pink!

Hello darkness... is that a song?

Hmmm... the other day, I was feelin' pretty good, thought I would buy myself a treat... It wasn't what I was looking for, but at Gottschalks I found this beautiful gold chain and they were haveing a great sale.. $1000.00 came down to about $380.00. I was using my debit card to pay for it. When I showed my drivers license to the clerk, she looked at the photo and said "Wow! That must have been about 100 pounds ago." Great... just what I need right now... another reminder.... I think I'll take the chain back today.....
Oh yea, I remember now!

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

New Project

The 2008 Cottage Arts CD Case Calendar Templates have arrived! you can find them here. All other papers and elements used on this adorable calendar of Rye are also available at Cottage arts. The specifics for each are posted in my gallery here

Back At It

sort of.. it's been about a month since I scrapped anything... and I'm not happy with anything I do.... argh! This is Rye last month when he caught the frogs. The entire quote is, "I catched him on the ground and I had him and he pee'ed on me. He was hungry but he wanted his mommy and his daddy and I like him! Is that not just the cutest thing!

Smile

Have a good time, make life cheerful and bright, dance if you want to, sing if you can, play as long as you live and leave the world with a smile. - Lemuel K. Washburn

Disconnected Thoughts

without cohesive words (A to Z) version 1 A Message, Alone, Another Brick in the Wall, Apology, As Time Goes By, Back Where We Started, Breakdown, Can't Fight This Feeling, Childhood Dreams, Collide, Comfortably Numb, Complicated, Constant Craving, Control, Crush, Crying, Dancing With Myself, Darkness, Darkness, Dazed And Confused, Deliver Me, Dirty Little Secret, Dream, Eyes Without a Face, Far Away Blues, Forever Blue, Free Fallin', Full Circle, Gloomy Sunday, Going out of My Head, Hanging On, Harden My Heart, Head Games, Heart of Stone, How Long, How You Gonna See Me Now, Hysteria , I Grieve, I Keep Forgettin', I Try, In Too Deep, Isn't It a Pity?, Its Not Easy To Be Me, Just a Dream, Killing Me Softly, Lines on My Face, Little Drop of Poison, Lonely People, Losing My Touch, Manic Monday, Midnight Confessions, Misery, Misunderstood, My Destiny, Nasty Habits, Never Know, Numbness for Sound, Obsession, Ocean Of Sorrows, Only Fooling Myself, Out of Touch, Paint It Black, Panic-Stricken, Paralyzed, Precious Illusions, Ramble On, Reflections of My Life, Refugee, Rumors, Sad Eyes, Same Old Situation, Shattered, Silent Running , Strung Out, Stuck in a Moment, Tainted Love, Tears On My Pillow, Tempted, The Compromise, Time After Time, Too Many Voices, Torn & Tattered, Us and Them, Use Me Up, Vacation's Over, Waiting, Walk Over Me, Warning Sign, White Rabbit, Who Am I, Wicked Game, Yes Or No, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, ~J

Hanging On

by a thread.... Several years ago I suffered a huge emotional trauma that I am still trying to recover from. One of the many "issues" I am left with is the inability to cope in social situations. They just drain me and for years I avoided them all together. These past couple of months have just been full of them for me. I can't remember them all, but in the past two weeks, I have attended a birthday party for a family friend, had visitors from church on two occassions, took missionaries to dinner, picked up a hitch hiker, spent the day at the gun range with family (yes that counts), and hosted a birthday lucheon for my mother (today)... I have way over done... I am soo frazzled.... I sit here now in my home town at my mothers house knowing tommarrow only brings more and wondering how long I will be able to hold it together. 12:42 omgosh... i need to go to bed... moms dialup is too slow to do anything with anyway... I even canceled my incomming mail because it was too slow... LOL i picked it up on my blackberry zippy quick!
Night All!

Happy Birthday

to my dear friend Dan, whom I met when I was 10 years old... Todays play list is for you!

Prices

Am I the only one who thinks the pricing is way out of line on this product (as beautiful as it may be)

You're Worst Nightmare!

I'm finally up and running! Oh no.. it's not MY worst nightmare... it's YOUR worst nightmare! hehe
I have updated the playlist with three songs!
I have my data all moved and the wireless going.. well sort of... I can access the laptop from the PC and the Internet from the PC and all the externals from the PC and I can access the Internet with the laptop... but the PC doesn't seem to want to let it in... I have checked everything I can think of from file sharing to the firewall and just can't figure it out... alas... oh and the router I switched out for the one I gave my mom... I don't think it's as powerful... The only time I seem to be able to get the laptop to connect to it is when it's sitting on the desk next to the PC... LOL a lot of good that does eh?

So, this is a long weekend for many... and Wednesday is my moms 70th... Hopefully I'll have some photos to share next week.. heck.. I haven't even shared the photos from the peach festival last month. I have lots of catching up to do!

If you don't hear from me before then... Have a SUPER weekend!

Lost

It's one thing not to have my computer, it's a totally different thing to have my computer but none of my data.... that's where I have found myself now and for most of the past week... Remember that 1.5 terebyte external I bought? Well, I had some difficulty formatting it then once I finally got it formatted I started moving the data... v e r y slowly because my pc is rather antiquated and has gen 1 usb... aka: s l o w ! Needless to say, I was getting frustrated... So I took all three externals to a place in town to transfer the data. $60.00 seemed reasonable. I was told it would probably take a day... that was Friday morning. I'm still waiting for the call that they are finished. I don't think they're open on week ends... I know they're closed on Sundays. (the owners are LDS)So, can you imagine how lost I am with out my photos, scrapping supplies, brushes, textures, actions etc!

With that said, Rye is spending the week with us as DD and SIL are on a cruise. He's so darned cute! On Friday night he caught this frog in our front yard. I can't wait to scrap it!

FRIDAY!

Wow where does the time go!?
My poor computer is huffing and puffing... I'm trying to format my new 1.5 terabyte external storage! Oh yes I said terabyte... yes I know that 1 terabyte = about 1000 gigabytes.... I'm tired of adding storage!Unfortunately I think my computer has stalled at 73% and it has been going for about 20 hours... YIKES!
I am off to Napa today to help my mom with her yard sale.... DH has gone fishing... or should I say he went with the office boys who are fishing... her went drinking I think! LOL
OK yes it WAS time to change the music... don't you just love the oldies! Always makes me want to dance... It's a good thing I don't drink, I would probably be a Karaoke queen! LOL I bet my mom was glad when we got off our road trip and she didn't have to listen to me sing anymore! I honestly think she took some extra long turns at the wheel just for that reason!
Have a great weekend y'all!

Deep Inside

One of the other participants in the Transformations program this year at the Center for Health in ST Helena was a beautiful vibrant 17 year old, Christina. For the most part Christina was a fun happy person, always smiling and chatting. I noticed when Christina didn't think anybody was looking, I could see a deep sadness with in her. I knew this sadness, this was the same sadness I had last year while attending the program and I can so relate to her. My heart was breaking for her. While I was looking through the photos I took I happened upon one that I think really captured that look... Christina, if you are reading this... you are BEAUTIFUL inside AND out! you have embarked on a wonderful journey, your mom, as the rest of us are here to lend support, if you will let us.... we love you sweetie... be strong! Your life depends on it!
Oh my.. I added the word art to buy me time to think about journaling and I think I just wrote it!

credits
Papers - Venetian Verdigris by Lauren Bavin
available at DSP
Under Moonlite Skies by Lauren Bavin
also available at DSP
Butterfly: Midnight Rose by Lauren Bavin
available at DSP
Word Art- Special You (Autism Awareness)
by Tina Chambers available at DSP
in Freebie section

Will It Blend? - iPhone

Marketing Mavericks!

You might want to scroll down to the ipod on the right and click pause so you can give this video your full attention!

Just a Couple

Layouts I did yesterday. The first I did quickly yesterday after I was told Cottage Arts needed layouts zippy quick for todays ezine release... this is my friend Thom's youngest child, Owen watching his sisters boating at the lake in Wyoming. no journaling because my friend sends photos and no explanation... and my requests go unanswered...LOL So I'm happy to have the pictures!


credits:
I used the masking technique to blend the photo and layer
blending on the flying creatures
kit: Butterfly Wings2 from Cottage Arts http://tinyurl.com/33uwao

Owen and his Mommy....

credits:
Rustic Floral elements http://tinyurl.com/2ztzzh and paper http://tinyurl.com/2jb5xy by Jackie Eckles available at Little Dreamer Designs
stamped frame:
Dragon Fly Dreams also by Jackie Eckles at Little Dreamer http://tinyurl.com/ypadzn
action:
Peeled and Revealed by Marcie Reckinger at Funky Playground http://tinyurl.com/3d6efj
template:
Peeled and Revealed set 5 by Marcie Reckinger also at Funky Playground http://tinyurl.com/3bugaw
font: thenaughtygrl

Fun, Interesting or Just Plain Stupid?

Do you like to be in the know on all the bizzar happenings in our society? If so you should read this blog..... News of The Wierd Daily... Breaking News Culled for Your Eyebrow-lifting, Sanity-gauging Pleasure by America's Weird-News Anchorman, Chuck Shepherd

Here's a sample of todays post
Civilization in Decline
One place we might be headed, the Safety Police say, is standard equipment in cars (the technology is done) to remind you, when you park, to take your urchin (in the back seat) with you [Ed.: and, let’s see, what else from the News of the Weird’s archive, oh, yes, standard equipment to detect whether there’s a pedestrian that you’ve hit, embedded in your windshield] . . . . .

Can you see me rolling my eyes? Oh yes!

Evolution

I keep trying to do a particular layout and I keep
getting something totally different... I think this is
number 6... ack

Culture

This is another of those photos I took last November. I love the native dress worn in the parade by the Hmong youth... so intricate and so beautiful!



credits:

Punch Love by Doris Castle
available at Scrapbook Graphics...
(some parts recolored)

font - times new roman

Just Some

of my latest work that I have failed to share... betcha thought I wasn't working didn't cha?!