MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

TWO LITTE DARLINGS...



MERRY CHRISTMAS



FROM OUR TWO LITTLE ELVES

Can You Say UPGRADE

THIS is a major UPGRADE for me. when i did photography VIA a 35mm camera. i had a great cam with a great zoom... I actually had a SLR, make that THREE SLRs. one what fully manual. the college course learner. fully manual for the more artistic photos. the true way to learn is dive right in to MANUAL...

then we all turned to digital, i have to admit i was sceptical. i loved my 35mm and got great pics with it. so the pixels per inch got better and better. and i caved, i bought a 4 mega pixel kodak easy share. a point and shoot. i know i am not a point and shoot girl. but i was tip toeing in the garden of digital camera. besides, an SLR was $1000+ at that time. and i wasnt ready to spend the $$$...

ok so after a while this point and shoot camera has given me grief. i hated it when it would crap out in the middle of something specail. crapping out in the middle of the kiddies FIRST santa claus parade was the final straw. after overcoming the temptation to throw it under the tires of the passing vehicles... i decided it was time to UPGRADE...

THIS is my new model

I am having a ton of fun trying it out. got to LEARN it BEFORE the Christmas morning excitement...

digital pages of daddy

here is a small tribute to brian

great husband



awesome daddy



hard working



my artwork, a pic of my paintings



my artwork, a pic of my painting

College picture Collage

I dug out an old album containing pics from college. putting these pics to use has been fun.

here is my wanna be a cowgirl phase



brian



self portraiting



reflections

A page a day

i have taken up that old pair of scissors again. stepping away from the computer for a moment or two and find myself again captivated by the paper.

here is my little niece Jordan



and of course my sweet Emily. highlighted in watercolor.

It's TOO Easy

to find sex on the internet.

i hit that NEXT BLOG button at the top of the page. the first one that came up was about eating all natural food, and about stopping the use of pesticides and dyes.
next hit was SEXOBOOK, although i could not read the language, the pictures were worth a thousand words. mostly dirty words i guess... it was filled with graphic pictures of sexual positions and women kissing women. some pictues were mild while others made my stomach turn.
next hit was also in a different language. i have no idea what it was about.
next hit was about art, paintings and sculptures. i was very surprised to read a disclaimer at the top that warned content may not be suitable for younger viewers...
while visiting a few groups on a site like facebook, i check out random groups... i read on the WALL, advertisings for other sites, mosty X rated
enter any open chat board, even one rated PG, and you will find dirt.
when googling a recipe... sticky buns... thousands of XXX links come up
dont even try looking up Hot Cross Buns
i kno i kno there is a parental control setting on a computer to limit the sites with XXX rated material. but then i wouldnt have been able to read the newsletter on my fertility doctors webpage, to look up anything realted to breast cancer... u know, caution to the wind... leave my settings alone and brave the world wide web of explicit material. i dread when my children are old enuf to ask to use the computer. sheesh... i guess by then, there will be a virtual woman popping out of the screen asking if you would like her to perform a favor for you...

no such thing as keeping it behind the dark curtain at that back of the video store. now it is upfront for all to see.

JUST MORE tributes to KELSEY BRIGGS

I want to thank everyone for visiting my tribute, for entering pages, for spreading the message. I'm sure her family, her grandmother and her Father will appreciate it all.



thanks from the bottom of my heart.

To see how many lives Kelsey has touched, is amazing.





by Lally28





two by Cindy Conbrett





two by Madzac


by Danic















two by Meddy1965





by Cindee

by Brenda House

ANOTHER Ten tributes to KELSEY BRIGGS

I love to share with you the pages created for KELSEY BRIGGS. please people. we cant let her memory die. THIS should never happen to a child. the only way to spread a message is to SHOUT it.





by Meddy1965





two by scrappin-grammie





two by Dondon


by ScrapbookingMommaOf2





by 1cats202





by nkin_22





by Lavender Passion





by sixelanaej

Ten MORE tributes to KELSEY BRIGGS

I am happy that my idea has reached so many people. Kelsey is such a beautiful girl. she is just infectious. her smile, her eyes, they just touch your heart. Here are ten more pages submitted by my friends. there are more to come.


by faye19



three by pamelaROSE

by Kerri Kitten

by Jensters

by MarilynZ


two by Paob

by lilsky40

IVE GOT HEAT

well the furnace is mostly installed. our renovation is slowly chugging along. finally we have heat. of course it was fairly warm all along, but at night it is nice to get a little heat pumping thru the house. especially with the twins having runny noses. we spent a few days in springdale, visiting my parents. we went to the cabin too. i love the ocean. now i cant wait to do ocean pages for my scrapbook...

in the meantime here is my latest page...

my niece Erica in her dad's flowers...

can u believe september is almost all gone.....

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

I've been tagged by katrina http://katrinanz.blogspot.com/! So I guess that means, I have to tell you 6 interesting facts about myself, and then tag 6 new people! I can't wait to tag YOU!!!

1. i love to paint, draw, sketch, anything artistic.
2. i like to quilt, and have made multiple quilts and even sold a couple.
3. i have had the opportunity to pet a female lion and a tiger too at an animal sanctuary
4. i nearly drowned 3 times, but STILL have a fasination for water
5. i conquered my fear and taught myself to swim at age 15 because a friend's family invited me to florida and i didnt want anyone to know i didnt know how to swim
6. i am my daddy's little girl, and would rather be outside doing yardwork, or in the garage pounding nails and using powertools, than inside the house doing any housework or cleaning.


i am tagging deanne, debby, danielle, pumpkin doodles, ummm thinking of 2 more....


did it... brook and twinsmummy

Ten tributes to KELSEY BRIGGS

since opening the challenge more than thirty pages have been submitted already. i am going to post them 10 at a time. i was considering doing only the top 3 or 5 but to be honest, i cant pick.







the only way to spread a message is to SHOUT it. so i am posting the pages that have been made, so that the memory of KELSEY never dies.








two by Me, Delana, Dee_scraps




two by Lisadee






three by sixelanaej

by treezee


by snug


by Madzac