A just-for-fun mood lifting page inspired by Jen's newest papers.

Inspired by a story to tell that worked well with Jen's new papers.

So often you have added comments that made me very happy for that day.Thank you, and you have a joyful season.

On Monday we had breakfast first, then made the loop to the Fall River Road turnaround. We saw elk foraging at the edge of town, but none in RMNP. I loved the continuing displays of fall color, and later the other-worldly look of the ice at Sheep Lakes.

In my daily notebook, I wanted to create a filler with colors to go with my book page https://oscraps.com/community/media/day-7-documented.402180/ and try out some of Joyce Paul's elements. I like how this turned out, so I'm posting it as my welcome to Joyce Paul, Right awy, I was very drawn to...

The elk were feeding on the other side of the valley from the viewing area, so we didn't stay long. At that point, the mountains were bathed in pink light. As we got to our spot to see the ice on the river, Longs Peak was at its best. In town after breakfast, I loved the snow on Mt. Meeker.

It was a good day on Tuesday as soon as we saw the elk. We hadn't seen them at all in November, although we checked all the places we'd found them in other years. It's worrying, so all of that faded away as soon as we saw a small grouping of big beautiful bull elk feeding in the meadow.

On Wednesday we delayed heading out until after sunrise and a later breakfast hoping to see more sun on the river in the places with ice. I would be very tired during each stay at high altitude, so I loved those moments when I was just still and watched the water hurry on its way.

Thanks for the challenge! This helped me actually get those fave photos into my book. :D

On the Saturday after we'd been gone all week, . the feeders had quite a few visitors and great interactions. There were spotted towhees, blue jays, white-crowned sparrows and juncos, but I loved the interactions between visitors most of all, and seeing how well they all got along.

Inspired by Jen's new Holiday Grunge papers

Inspired by Jen's new holiday papers.

Thanks for the challenge, Cindy. Each ATC has a photo, a glitter trim border, and some wordart. One also has a charm. I also made sure they didn't overlap just in case that might not be OK. This got a lot of my photos ready for print. :D

After breakfast at Notchtop, I was enjoying the view from our deck and I saw something very small moving out of the corner of my eye. I watched this little grey squirrel slowly make his way getting closer to me. He was so cute and I could feel his pride as he dug up a pine cone

Thanks for the challenge. I picked a page from ten years ago, and tried to choose photos for a similar theme of documenting a trip with the same type of things I've always loved and things that haven't changed. https://oscraps.com/community/media/back-trails.255315/ I don't worry about the page...

I compared how my pages looked now with those from ten years ago. The professionalism from a career of making books was sanded and smoothed, rigidity was loosened. I had printed more than 30 books by the end of 2024. But I still put the same amount of time into each page.

We drove north of the spot where cars had gathered and one woman was dangerously close to the feeding elk. We saw that they were ready to move on. We didn't have to go far, and then we were the only ones seeing these elk on the move. I loved how the lead elk looked back at his buddy and...

Yay! MARIJKE! I love her work! I lifted her triptych from back in July. Thanks for the challenge!

Thanks for the challenge. I mostly changed the levels.