I have always been a cat lover and animal lover. When I was little, I had a large poster of a lynx taped up on my closet door and it hung there until it literally fell apart. To create this layout, I started with an artsy paper in white, mint, and blue tones. I added one of the...

For the Day 7 Create a Border Challenge, we were asked to create a border that runs along the enter length of the top of the page and that has at least three dangling elements. I decided that I wanted to use Palvinka Designs' Winter Memories Collection, because it has a gorgeous blue in it that...

It was 7 degrees when I got up at 8 today!! I worked on the computer until it was time to pick up Mark for lunch. We went to Mamma Mia’s and split our usual Chicken Philly Sub combo. It is still a lot of food for me. I usually end up giving Mark half of my fries and today he took about half...

This is a stunning black-and-white photo of a child taking in all the magic of a brightly lit Christmas tree and all the marvel and wonder that comes with that magic. Sometimes less really is more, so I decided to keep all the focus on that photo by adding a simple frame, one piece of word art...

More playing around.

To create this layout, I started with the photo of the pine tree on an outcropping of rocks, near an icy sea. I selected the outside edges of the photo, and made a 55 pixel frame for it, and gave it a drop shadow. Next, I selected a pretty mixed media grunge background paper for it from Rachel...

More playing.

Just playing with this beautiful kit!

For the Day 4 Challenge at Oscraps, we were asked to use one word -- HOLIDAY -- somewhere in our layout. (The plural version is also okay.) I decided to do an irreverent take on the holidays -- because not everyone looks forward to them. They may have lost a loved one, and this is their first...

I am loving playing with this collab!

Done for Day 9 Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/day-9-use-one-of-these-photos-challenge.43201/

It wasn’t much, but I guess you could say we had our first snow of the winter...except, technically, I guess it is still fall. We had a mix of rain and snow showers with temps in the 30’s. You can see a few small flakes of the white stuff on my left shoulder. Let it snow! 12/8/25

Monday is bank deposit day for the church offering from Sunday. While I am out, I run to the grocery store if I need anything. Today Mark needed some things to take to work.....everything pita crackers, everything bagels, a block of mild cheddar cheese and a couple of bananas. While I was in...

Mark was not feeling great this morning, so he stayed home from work. He laid on the couch (after we got up at 9) and watched TV while I “worked” at the OScraps site acknowledging the layouts that had been posted to my One Word - Holiday challenge. Lots of activity on the site! Mark was...

Done for the Day 3 ATC/Journal Card Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/day-3-holiday-winter-atc-or-journal-cards-challenge.43315/

Day 1 Template Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/day-1-template-challenge.43194/ Jessica, almost 5, enjoying the wonders of the snow. Race Rd., Cincinnati, OH 12/84

Tim holding Michael’s hand as they walked up the hill with the sled at the house on Race Road in Western Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. December 1984

In December 1984, I was 3 months pregnant with our 4th child, feeling great, and playing with the kids in the snow! Tim was the photographer in those days. At this time, we lived in Western Hills, a suburb on the outskirts of Cincinnati, OH, above Addyston, where Tim was the assistant to the...

Snowbound Collection by Art Addicts thank you for looking