Of course, this is my precious Grandson, Tristan...but, it was taken a few years ago when my little polywog was still swimming with floaties! He swims like a little fish now!!!...and has for a long time. Everything from this lo was created using: CryztalRain @ Deviant Scrap: Just Beachy...

No explanation needed here! Our little Mermaid obviously got her land legs at some point in time ....and if you had the choice of Gabriel Aubry or the Merman....who would you pick??? LOL! Everything used to create this lo was created by: CryztalRain @ Deviant Scrap: Just Beachy...

Draw the sea into the deep recesses of my mind, the heaviness that has overtaken my being. As grains of sand return with the ebbing waters, take these tortured thoughts from me. Carry them away, burying them in your depths. Kathi Everything in this layout was created using the kit...

Ugg! How can you work so hard and hate the results sooooooo much? This was a real booger! First just HAD to use the White Swan and make her a mermaid...well, the pic I opted for was cut off below the rib cage, sooo...had to get another one and use her for the rest of the torso...and of course...

Sooooooooooo cool!...and the quote is so .... completely true! Thanks for your kind words on my lo byw! :) Kathi

Pic is of me....dancing about 3 years ago at an ice cream social at work! Doesnt take much to get this girl ready to party! Ahhhh...havent we all wanted ...just for a night...to be on stage singing our heart out, rockin the masses of adoring fans? Now, the late hours, away from home all the...

Each morning when I awake, I go out to the patio and watch for a couple of little squirrels that come by to feed off the nuts I leave for them. When I see them, a smile always brightens my face. The same is true when looking at flowers, watching little humming birds, listening to the...

...that I could dwell behind eyes that perceived the world in muted hues of watercolored grandeur... Me I hope that CryztalRain will forgive the liberty I have taken with her beautiful elements, but I had a vision of seeing nature in watercolors, flowing softly...and her elements have...

...my voice isnt heard. We must all feel this way at times. I do. The city being those who should care enough to listen...and dont. Everything in this lo was created with the urban kit by: CryztalRain @ Deviant Scrap, City Scapez and the coordinating papers, also by: CryztalRain @...

I looked at the opacity of this picture and thought of the soft, misty feeling that envelopes us when we love. It seems that almost always, the mist clears and if were fortunate, when the fog clears, were left with an view more clearly seen, both baring the faults we were blinded to at the...

Just beautiful!!!

Im sure you all know what I was thinking here! First of all, of course, all those familiar songs were firing off in my headI am woman, hear me roar, and I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, cuz Im a W-O-M-A-N!yeah! I was feeling strong, powerfulproud! (And yup, like so many, it...

This is Sophia, the second grandchild in our family and my niece, Megans daughter. Isnt she just sooooo cute? This was taken at a Girls Weekend, last September. When Meg brought her out in her jammies, we all giggled at the sight of her in the ballerina costume-like sleeping attire! With her...

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Ghandi I love that quote, although I dont believe Ms. Ghandi was referring to it in the same way I am in this layout. You have to forgive yourself in order to stop the ever-revolving cycle of self-destructive, remorseregretguilt. I believe that...

This is my depiction of my desire to live near one of my daughters. The photograph at the left is one I took while visiting. To be near at least one of my daughters would be wonderfulbeyond wonderfulindescribable and to be by the ocean has always been one of my dreams. Below is a poem,. some...

Heres a little more traditional layout for today. It was initially much smaller and was a Christmas tag for some of my grandsons gifts. I decided to reconfigure this one into a 12X12 as the original was 6X4 that I down-sized for the tag. Every Christmas I make my grandson, Tristan tags...

If you read the wee poem, read it with a wee bit o the lilting Irish accent, as when I penned it, I could just see a chubby, rosy-cheeked, little old Celtic man speaking the words with that charming Celtic rhythm! Grin! Thought it, as well as the layout, started out in a more serious vein, I...

OMG! I did this lo so many months ago, that Ive lost the credits and what I wrote, but I remember the premise and what I was thinking doing the losooooo. I saw this picture, felt an immediate kinship in the expression, (not the beauty of the model!) and away I went into a fantasy from a...

This is a candid shot of the younger of my two daughters, Jocelyn. Shes wearing a little hat and scarf I crocheted for both her and Stephanie last April. I wish I had a picture of them both, but Steph was frantically getting things ready for Tristans birthday party and Joss and I just ducked...

I know everyone says this, but there is a certain magic at Christmas. The air smells differently, crisp, fresh, happiness and charity seem in abundance. The expectance of the young, the wonderful feeling of makes our hearts a little lighter. We do tend to forget the real meaning of Christmas...