Cowgirl Poet & Quilter Website

I can say almost with certainty that when Helen designed these lovely background papers and elements for Heart of Gold, she never expected to see them used for a western cowgirl layout!  But they worked perfectly...in fact, I couldn't decide on just one paper to use, so I used four of them.  You can find a preview of Helen's "Heart of Gold" kit HERE!

Since I have been MIA from the blog world for the past 2 weeks, I wanted to share what has had my undivided attention during this time.  I just completed designing a website for this very talented cowgirl poet and quilter.  You will have to check out the website where you can listen to some of her poetry, see some of her quilts, and read about Yvonne and her many accomplishments.  Here's the link:  Yvonne Hollenbeck 

Yvonne and I share a love for windmills, especially wooden ones.  So, I had fun getting to use windmills for a theme.  Since Yvonne lives in the South Dakota Prairie, wind blown grass worked into the theme as well.  I made my first embossed background to use with this website.  I used the large windmill you see that I extracted from a photo I took a week or so ago on the way to pick up my hubby from his current job site...perfectly timing to find a windmill way out in the middle of nowhere that I was able to use in the web design.  I found a tutorial for my Photo Impact program and made the embossed windmill tile for the background.  I couldn't resist adding two tiles to the LO!  I must say this was a fun website to design although I was so engrossed in the project that I found myself working way into the night and one night I never even made it to bed.  So, I am definitely feeling some recovery time needed.   Knowing me, I will be tweaking the website for weeks to come, but is a relief to have it completed and now posted online.  I guess fate brought us together.  Yvonne asked me to do the website months ago.  I agreed to do it but only after I got Avery's quilt done.  Being a quilter herself, she understood the need to finish this special project for my granddaughter.  While I was sewing, I planned the website in my mind and it turned out pretty much as I had imagined it would.  I hope it was worth the wait.