Garden at the Wildflower Seed Farm near Fredericksburg

Ohhh!  A wonderful new freebie showed up while I was on our 40th anniversary weekend away.  Here's a LO using several of the paper elements...love these paper flowers and leaves.  I'm calling it Genesis Falls as it was the "first" water fall we saw in the garden of the Wildflower Seed Farm just outside of Frederickburg that we visited on our little trip.  This floral motifs freebie was given to us as an add on to Time Began In A Garden can be found HERE!  The background papers and row of buckets are also from Time Began In A Garden.

Journaling:  We followed this path in the garden and it lead to a water garden like I have dreamed of having in my backyard for years!  Now I’m dreaming of having this pathway, too.     
I couldn't get all of the pictures on one page at least not with them as large as I would like. I decided to do a 2-page LO.  I hope you can follow my path...it actually starts on the right side of the  page and ends on the left.  Remember to click on the LO to enlarge it... The birds love it when I keep my bird bath full of water.  Imagine how they would love a water garden.  Now, I just need to keep my fingers crossed that the frog doesn't have my butterfly for dinner!

Back Yard Wedding

"Time Began In A Garden"

I love this kit and what a fun QP freebie Helen has posted for us all HERE!

This is the first page of several I have to share using this wonderful QP!  A friend helped me plant the yard and lots of purple flowers for our new house getting ready for our daughter's backyard wedding.  I would have love to have had a Potting Shed during that time and even now, but didn't.  If I had here's one view that would have been seen through the window!

I have more to post but I'm headed to get ready for my grandson's baseball game...so, back later with more!

Glitter Ballerina

 

I was thinking what do I have that I can scrap that the Helen's glitter swirls would be appropriate.  Then, I remembered my little glittered "Princess Ballerina".   For Avery's birthday I bought a number glitter ballerina sticker books from Dover.  I took one of the paper dolls and added Avery's head and created an Avery paper doll that all the glitter stickers also fit.  I put the Avery paper doll on a little tin suitcase with all the other sticker books stored inside.  I love this floral background paper with it's touches of blue and it was perfect to use with my little glitter ballerina.  From cowgirl to glitter ballerina...Helen's "Heart of Gold" kit is so versatile!

You can find a preview of Helen's "Heart of Gold" kit HERE!  You will find the wonderful glitter swirls freebie here, too!

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.