Hear, hear! This is so beautifully composed, Susie, and so compelling. Thanks you for sharing your heart with us - so many of us understand this struggle so well. You go, girl! Sometimes cheating isn't a bad thing, it can take us to entirely new places and actually lift us up once we look...

Quite ethereal! That swan is gorgeous. You make story pages look so easy but they require a lot of patient work. Beautifully done!

Wow! I love the repeated circular motif and the gorgeous background!

Hmmm, this puts me in mind of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream"! I love how the stag seems to be looking into that dream.

Oh, I love all your sleeping beauties! Wonderful composition and a GREAT storybook page! Captivating!

Outstanding use of negative space - it makes the photo the absolute star of the page!

Beautiful layering and cluster work. The photos are beautiful!

I would add wonderful use of paint and overlays. I love that cat!

Agreed! I love the pops of color ion opposing corners - very effective!

I quite agree! Its neat that you extracted them and used the photo as OOB. Completely lovely!

Another magical and enchanting page! This is wonderful graphic story-telling and art journaling!

Norma this is so enchanting and magical. The OOB is perfect and I LOVE the background!

Sweet slumber. I love the beach - when it's empty and the waves are crashing in!

@faerywings and @MariJ now you girls have me really intrigued. Gotta get up that way - I have a whole new outlook on NJ now!

We are kindred spirits, Ana! Although the UK is my favorite I would gladly move around. I have gypsy in my soul!

On a lake by the ocean in the mountains. Hmmmm, that sounds like other choice Costa Rica. Such a lovely dream!

That sounds lovely! Do prefer a busy beach, a quiet beach, or a wild rocky beach?

I've not spent much time in New Jersey apart from a month or so at Fort Dix for training. I'm not sure that really qualifies. Another entry for my bucket list to see my many times great grandfather's birth place in Somerset County.

Amazing country and people, good food. I loved it there, too.

That's a nice difference! Except maybe the mosquitoes!