Another garden job

I put in gardens for customers and I ordered about 400 plants for a customer this week. I make sure they know when they ask me to create gardens that I do not maintain them, only create them. This week I worked on a second planting for one customer.

Yesterday and today my daughter was her to help me with some gardens for this lady. She needs money to start Graduate school next week, so I told her to come help me with the planting. She let me know that she definitely did not get the gardening gene, she hated the entire process. I just wanted to make sure that she knows how hard I work for my money. She could not wait to get home to take a shower, and I have to say that is my favorite part of the as well. I have greenhouses, but they are at my house and I can shower when ever and as often as I like. I will post photos once all of the flowers are blooming.

Big Sister/ Scrap Lift challenge Scrap Muse

This is my Scrap lift challenge from the Scrap Muse site. http://www.scrapmuse.com/





















I scrap lifted the poster above me Yazziegirl.http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4742149871871817489

Michaela is the Big Sister, and Bailey headed for her lap when I started taking her photo. What a difference a few years make..... now she is the ultimate poser for America's Top Model. Just love this seeing this moment. Thanks for looking.

Photos from a different view point

I am trying to challenge my self to take photos in a different way, be more aware of my surroundings.. Saw Natka's Scrap Muse Photo challenge http://scrapmuse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8508 challenge from last year, and loved her ideas, this was one photo per day.
As a scrapbook, most of the time we crop out all of the elements in the back ground. IE( cars, cereal boxes, TVs, just general junk). When I look at old photos of my self and my family, I love looking at the old cars, toys I had, schools, churches,my bedroom, etc.) Am I the only one??? So what photos are you leaving out of your scrapbooks? This could even be a summer time project for you and your children. So once a week or (month) take photos of the places you go, the people you meet, what you eat for breakfast, information about your city, state, festivals you have, fashion styles, games they play. So give me your feed back, thoughts and suggestions.

When my son's were little, they each had a journal and I tried to write something in it that they dictated to me. I then added photos to show the ages they were when they were giving me these wonderful bits of knowledge. They actually have drawing in some of the books, and wrote little notes. Blogging has replaced journals for us.

Red Shirt Friday

WhIf the Red shirt thing is new to you, read below...Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together.After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home.'No' he responded.'Heading out' I asked?'No. I'm escorting a soldier home.''Going to pick him up?''No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq, I'm taking him home to his family.'The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conv ersations in so few days.I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, 'Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do.'Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom:'Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight. He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign.'Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American.So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do .Red Fridays.Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the 'silent majority.' We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, Country and Home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing.Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast majority of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that every red-blooded American who supports our men and women afar, will wear something red.By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a home coming football game in the bleachers. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the once 'silent' majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on.The first thing a soldier says when asked 'What can we do to make things better for you?' is 'We need your support and your prayers.' Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something red every Friday.

My father was in the Korean War, My father in law was in 3 wars, retired from the military.

Grow UP/ Pencil Line Sketch #82

This is my take on Sketch #82, I submitted this for their weekly contest.

My sisters daughter is on the left and 2 of my brother 6 are on the right. My parents own alot of property and we always go exploring, and I (as usual)am looking for great photo opportunities. The kids are such willing models as you probably can tell. My own children always hated me taking their photos. Right after I took the bottom photo of the 3, Walker fell in the big tire and hurt him self. I picked him up and carried him over to the barrel to check him out. Look closely at Walker's you can see that he has been drawing on his legs with an ink pen. His older sister told him to draw tattoo's on himself.

Scrap Muse Guest Designer

Scrap Muse is a monthly scrapbook kit club and I have been asked to be a guest designer for May.http://www.scrapmuse.com/
This is a wonderful kit and I am excited to be working with all of the designers at Scrap Muse. The papers and embellishments are beautiful and I am already thinking of projects to work on with this kit. Check out their site, they also have a challenge for pages designed with Pencil Line Sketches that put on their blog. This has been a great way for me to break out of my routines, and you have an entire month to complete the page. GREAT prizes!!!http://www.scrapmuse.com/blog/2008/04/22/scrapmuse-pencil-lines-sketch-april/
Here is my submission for the month of April- The 4 little photos on the bottom were a challenge for me, challenge was 1- 7x5 photo and 4 smaller ones below. This was a fun page, a little too busy, but hey ir's a little girl page. Put together pages today, I think you will beshocked to see how simple they are. I will take photos tomorrow.

Seven Sisters Roses

Took cutting of my moms Old Fashioned Running Roses " Seven Sisters" last year and I have a field full of Roses in bloom this year, all sizes. They are just beautiful, they are vining roses in various shades of pink to purple pink.

Looked up Seven Sister and it says they are commonly found on old homesteads, that would be the case here

Seven Sisters' is a legendary and famous rose in the Old South, whose flowers of include a range of colors from carmine pink through mauve in a single cluster.

http://www.oldheirloomroses.com/Seven_sisters.htm

http://www.ph-rose-gardens.com/00106.htm

http://www.antiqueroseemporium.com/rose-106.html

Priceless/ Pencil Line Sketch Challenge

This was ahard composition for me. The larger photo was from me working on Adobe Color burn for this photo and I did not use it for the layout I planned. (Actually used the phot but without color burn). Decided on the photo and color choice before I figured out the page. Worked off the Scrap Muse Pencil line challenge, bu the small photos were the hang up. It was 2 am and wanted to used what I had on hand. Unfortunately, can't start printing at that time, printer is in the bedroom. Most of the time I may work l ate in to the night and get up and have the inspiration for the one final touch, or decide it is done. Probably by most peoples standards is done well before I get through. Can we say over work...

Had an art teacher in high school that used to tell us not to over work our projects, I obviously did not take his advice or did I???. Think I will have to google him and see if I can find him. Harold Wilder. Lots of randoms scraps here. TFL

Grow Up/ OLW challenge "GROW"/ Pencil Line sketches #82

This is for the ONe Little Word GROW

challenge.http://onelittleword.typepad.com/olw/2008/04/word-up-25-grow.html

I used the pencil Line sketches #82 for this entire layout. Great challenge to work out of your comfort zone with placement and photo sizes. I really like how it came out.

This photo is at my parents farm. Walker fell in to the tire right after we took this photo. I picked him up and set him on the barrel to look at his knee. Look at all of the writing on his leg that he did using an ink pen. LOL

Journaling:

As you grow up I hope the friendship you have now will last a lifetime. Cousins first... friends for ever. TFL

Layout of the week at Bad Girls kits/ Glennon 1951n

Logged on to Bad girls today and was surprised to find that I had won layout of the week ://www.badgirlskits.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3853&ppuser=1402. What a wonderful surprise. Working very agressively to get alot of cutting in for my greenhouses and had not been on the internet alot the last few days. Thanks, Bad Girls!

Their kit last month was great and I enjoyed working with it. I can not wait to see what they put together this month.

I went to West Palm Beach to pick up greenhouse tables that a store was giving away. Woohoo!!! the are galvanized steel and wonderful. The 12 hour trip was exhausting, especially for my husband, he drove all of the way except for my 20 minutes. I was not feeling well, but he had asked if I would go with him. I took my pillow and blanket and slept almost the entire trip. He was very thought ful and even took headphones for his music. I have to say, the trip was still like torture, since all I wanted to do was sleep in my own bed. But what a great score on the tables.

Color Story Challenge #3/ Your Smile

This for the #3 Color Story Challenge http://www.colorstorychallenge.com/

Roxy is such a happy person, always smiling, and bringing excitement to those around her. Just finished round one in braces.

http://www.colorstorychallenge.com/. New site I found Wednesday and of course could not wait until the next challenge when I would actually have time to think it out.I have had this headache for 2 days now, so when I was up not sleeping, decided to go for it. Love the color combination, I am not a pastel person. This is such a fun challenge, to break you out of your mold.

Taught my class this am at the scrapbook store , the 1 hour $5 class. It was with a great group of ladies, the page was with the new Cosmo Cricket papers. Needless to say I have to scale back the embellishment for this class. Stayed a little late to help the ones that wanted more pick out goodies for their pages.


Met my mom for lunch and came home and went to bed.
Had to take the photo inside tonight, I just did not care about getting up to take a photo out side today. Black and white photo is a little off, but did not use the flash ( too much glare on the photo). I will retake it later, but deadline for submission is about 1 hour form now.

What do you think.............I think I may have gone just a little overboard with the color. Most of the other designers started with white or light backgrounds, but hey Red is a neutral color isn't it???
The swirl is the new K and Co paper, but I had to change the pink to red, love the red dimensional paint. It also comes in silver, white, yellow gold and pink. the swirl had red, yellow gold and white. I also used the new pastel writers that are like tinted white out. The page has white and yellow. Will have to get the name for you if you are interested, they are fun to work with.
In case you haven't noticed I love black and white ( or cream) with almost every color. Ithink most of my pages have black in them.

Secrets of Life

Photo is of my DD, while we were visiting the Ichetucknee River. My parents had a home on the river for a few years, and we all loved to visit. A time to slow down and think about life, the outdoors. No cable tv ( rabbit ears antenna, with the alluminum foil for reception). Lots of time to watch the otters, beavers, fish and float down the river in tubes. TFL

Glennon Family 1903

Photo is of the Glennon family 1903, the baby is my maternal grandfather. This is a plate I created for an altered group that I am a part of and meets monthly. My grandfather is the baby. Lawrence Glennon

TFL
vintage photo

$6 tray

$1 lace scarf

handmade velvet flowers

button flowers

Red Truck

My son had a vintage 66 Chev that was parked at my brothers house. tHE 4TH OF jULY weekend we were over and all of the kids piles on , in and on top of his old truck. I was able to get some great photos of all of my nieces and nephews. I think most of the images from that day rate as some of my favorite photos ever. This is one of them. It does not hurt that I think the children are just wonderful.

This is Walker and Casey.

Beautiful In Every Way

This is a photo of Foxglove, a flower that we do not see often in Florida. I love this flower and photo. My computer took a dive and I lost the original file, so I scanned this one from an old copy. I then added a digital frame from French Laundry. The paper is April Bad Girls kit. The title in green in "Beautiful In Every Way". There is a little glare in the upper right corner from a beautiful transparency. The AC green paper was a perfect match for this photo. Decided to give it a vintage feel, with the old scarf. TFL

My Baby

Casey holding Tillman


When I went over to take photos of Tillman the new baby, Casey took over the care of him. She watched over him with a very careful eye. It was so very sweet to see how gentle and careful she was with him. Walker then decided that he wanted to be photographed holding him. Of course she has already had one baby brother.

This layout was completed using paper from the Bad Girls monthly kit. The mesh in the back ground was the only think not in the April kit.

Sisters

This is an older photo of my brothers 3 girls. Casey is the funny face in the middle, Roxy is on the right and Samantha on the left. This was the first time that Casey really paid attention to me when I was photographing her. All I had to do was say smile and I would get these awful contorted face shapes of her attempting to smile. They are each very different and I love them all.

DANCE

This is Casey teaching Walker to dance, she is the older sister and he does what ever she tells him to do. This is so funny to me she is looking him straight in the face and telling him what to do. He is paying such close attention to what she tells him. TFL

Hair Cut

Chris is my oldest son and had long hair for many years. I was at work one night and he and Meghan came to see me. When he walked up he had a sweat shirt with the hood pulled up over his head. He and Meg stood there and talked to me for just a second and then she reached up and pulled the hood of his head. What a shock he had cut off all of his hair . One extreme to the other. TFL

Roxy climbs trees

Roxy spent the day showing the younger children how to climb trees while we were at Tutta's house. At the end of the day she climbed to the very top of the tree. I was standing on the ground and shot up thru the tree limbs and go this photo of her looking doen from the top.

My 2 Brothers

I was taking photos of Casey with Tillman and Walker kept watching us from the corner of the porch. He is used to having his sister all to himself. He finally walked over and laid his head on the chair by Casey. This is one of my favorite photos of them all together, he is just a little jealous!

I Love those Blue eyes

This is a photo of Meghan from about 2004 and she had gorgeous blue eyes.Chong was just a puppy in this photo. Today he is my constant companion, just stick you hand out to your side and he is right there.I call him Scooby.... he make that Huuummmph sound just like Scooby. TFL

Container Garden

The lilies in this container should be bloomimg in the next week or so. The color.... well it will be a surprise. Either Yellow or Burgundy -------->

The customer loved it, and it should be in full bloom in a week or two. Next week we are putting in a huge garden in her front yard, we are meeting on Saturday to discuss her vision. Fortunately, for me I do not maintain the garden once they are in , I only create them and install.

This is the large pot in the back of the garden, the tall plant is Steeds holly, whch has blue black berries. The other plants have colors to compliment the home . The plants on the far left and in the back are new to me, they create a light and airy volume to the arrangement.

My creative ventures last week

These are photos of some of the container gardens that I created for a customer who called and had seen my work at a local shop. Actually my local scrapbook store Scrappy Papers. We were converting a planted garden area in to a container garden. Our first trip was to purchase containers, we found all of them at Home Depot. I loooove the 2 putty colored containers, they compliment her brick wall which has a little pink in it, Beautiful home....gorgeous yard.

You can not see the large pot in the back but the one on the right side of the picture is identical in color ( as much as Italian pot's can be). I like how this garden turned out I usually incorporate more vivid colors. This pallet is pink, blue, purples, with accents of yellow, yellowgreen and white. Of course they will all grow in much more lush and free from. The pot on the left is a contrast in testure, colors and form, there will be no flowers in this

Just Perfect

I am trying to preserve some of my older images that have some damage. This is a photo of my youngest son and my mom. Damian was the baby that liked to be held, give him his blanket , thumb and a book and he was perfectly happy. Damian and his brother Chris were both thumb suckers and hoth carried blankets. Chris carried a yellow blanket with a silk binding, Damian carried a blue blanket with a taffeta edge. As they got older, I started cutting their blankets down, until their was just a corner of the blanket left.

DC Interns 2004

DC Interns 2004, originally uploaded by jgwm166864.

Meghan was and intern in DC for the spring of 2004. While she was there she roomed in a 3 story house just down from the capitol, with about 8 other girls. Her room literally was abou the size of a closet ( in fact i think it was a closet). This page is mostly fabric lace, some paper and a flower .

Easter 1958

This a photo of my mom with my brother John and me ( my brother is still known to my children and me as Bubba). This is some where in Lake City, Florida. My parents built their 1st home on St John St. in Lake City, Fl.

Fly Girl box front

Fly Girl box front, originally uploaded by jgwm166864.

Fly Girl box front

Fly Girl box front, originally uploaded by jgwm166864.