I really would not travel on my own either. I did it once when I was 20 something but in Croatia, which is just lovely, friendly and safe, and only for a few days in between visiting my sister who was studying in Zagreb. My husband left overseas for a business trip yesterday and already I don't...

:bliss:

They had a tornado very nearby not last Chrsitmas but the one before, which was 10 days before we were due to move here... I was shouting at my husband " I didn't know there'd be tornadoes! why are we moving there?! etc etc" There is a tornado watch in the wider area for today but not anywhere...

We know well at least 2 families across the street (my husband works with the husband from one, and the other family we invite to have both sets of kids playing in our pool), another 2 families a bit less but i baked cookies and gave chocolate truffles at Christmas, so that should count for...

Chris, that sounds like the way it should be! I am not taking it personally though. I think it is more a case of everyone just getting on with their lives and too busy to even notice the other side of the street in the dark. If the shoe is ever on the other side, I'll make sure to knock on the...

Amazing page! I love how you explain (not that i'd be able to repeat any of that :) but it's fascinating to see how those steps explained to achieve such a fantastic result)

Beautiful page all round! The soft colours, the photo, the little cluster at the bottom right of the photo.

Beautiful page! Until last summer my little guy would not go onto sand, so he had a blast when we had a holiday near pebble beaches! I love your color palette.

Tres jolie page. Quelle impression de serenite avec la photo du haut.

I love the texture and dimension. The crumpled photograph too!

Beautiful page and photos! I love the blending too.

Hope your hot water heater gets fixed before the week-end. That was my fear last night that we would not have enough hot water to all rinse off before bed. Once in Egypt we came home to no water at all. We had a very minimal shower using a bottle of water each (bottled water was cheap). In...

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement and advice Faerywings, I will look into it. The power has been back on for a bit more than 1 hour now and hopefully will stay on this time (yesterday it lasted less than 1 hour). I'd like to say that we are on good terms with our neighbours across...

Not like me to be up in the middle of the night but cannot sleep. After Earth hour the other day, here we're doing Earth day or actually just entering Earth day number 2... ok, fine i'll admit it's not not of our own free will. A storm caused power outages and while our neighbours across the...

Beautiful piece! I saw your comment about picking up the living-room and then designing for it. I can really see that you did just that! It is awesome!

I like everything about this. The background obviously but also the photo treatment, the distorted frame, the doodles and scratches on the photo. Nice work!

Beautiful palette! I immediately thought of these photos. https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=368334&title=annacolor&cat=1351

Layout for AnnaColor Challenge 24-Mar to 6-Apr-17 AASPN Products: Collab For Art's Sake paper and elements (paints, fotoblendz), ArtPlay mini palette memento, Fall WA

I'm glad you said yes! I was so enthusiastic about trying it that I went ahead and started before I saw your reply ;) I covered most of my light blue BG paper with various pieces of gesso/texture. I used various masks over and under the gesso (and obviously for the picture too). Added some...

Layout for NBK create your background challenge 27-Mar-2017 NBK products: On the bright side background paper, United-in elements, Every little bit mask, Collab For Art's Sake Out-of-the-box frame masks, Collab Smile texture and paints; Maya deGroot gesso from Flight of the butterflies and...