Love of my life

Today I'm once again joining Gill of Gibby Frogett Craftations this month's host at Art Journal Journey where her theme is Anything With Eyes.  And thanks to my friends Valerie (a design team member) and Tracey, I followed their links to a blog I had not visited before called More Mixed Media.  They have a new monthly theme and this month they want to see something bright.

I call this Love of My Life.



Although this proud beauty neither looks like Bleubeard nor Squiggles, 

s/he represents family.

You can't begin to imagine how many photos I took of this metal plate that were dark like the photo above this one.  When I finally tipped the camera and didn't try to photograph it head on, I got a much better image.

I imagine someone is singing We are family about now.

For this page, I began by spritzing several of my handmade shimmering mists on my 110 lb card stock substrate.   Next, I printed and fussy cut the cat, then attached it to the page.  Finally, I ran a piece of green ribbon rope through the metal plate and affixed it to the back of the page.  I just hope my page is bright enough.

Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me today.  We would love to see you at Art Journal Journey and hope you will check out More Mixed Media, too. 


Several of you asked me to show my Surprise Lilies or Naked Ladies once they bloomed.  They're all the same flower, just go by different names.

Here you can see they have started to bloom on Monday when I went grocery shopping.

Here they are around my rose bush in my flower bed.  I was sure I had cut away all the trees that had shot up over the winter, but it appears I have missed a few.  

They really clash with my Wichita, KS flag.

Here they are as I was leaving.

Tuesday, on my way to vote, I noticed more had bloomed around my flower bed.

They are truly in full bloom now.

Next it was time to head to the voting booth.

I never pass up my right to have my voice heard.  BTW, this is the first time I've used the smudge tool in PhotoShop.

These are our voting booths.  We have to show our IDs, then state and write our name and address after they scan our IDs.  I'm not sure I trust these new voting booths, although we used them in both the primary and general elections in 2016.

I don't know if your U.S. town or city had a primary election this year, since it's an off year (not a year to vote for a president or a congress person), but any time you have the right to vote, you need to exercise that right.  I'm sure we've all seen what happens when apathy sets in.  Let's NOT let that happen to us.