Mini Paper Class

 The weather outside is dreich (look it up - it's a good Scottish word to describe foul weather and who knows more about foul weather than Scots?).  Since I can't count on staying dry while trying to dig up unwanted plants, cut limbs and rake - this is a great time to do some more "catch up."

Last month I signed up for a class sponsored by Shannon Allor - She's Crafty Mini Paper Class.  Unfortunately I was doing the class late, by which time almost everyone else had finished, but WTH?  I needed something, anything to get me out of my creative doldrums.  The class consisted of a sketch a week for 10 weeks as well as instructive videos.  We were to do our interpretation of the sketch, using whatever part of it we wanted to use as inspiration - all of it or only a few pieces.  Since I'm fairly OCD where sketches are concerned, my pages pretty much followed the designs with only a few changes.

Jan. 3 sketch:  Since I went into the class late, I did the sketches that appealed to me first.  Trying to match photos with LO concepts can be fun, but not always in the order you need them.  This one ended up serving double duty as a PAO challenge LO.  As I said in the last post, this is my favorite place to be.  It feels like "coming home" and soothes my soul.

 

Jan. 10 sketch:  Our beautiful granddaughter, Maddie.  I think this is the only photo I have of her wearing her glasses!

 Jan. 17 sketch:  George on Christmas day.  It's traditional that we don't open presents until our family is together, which annoys Chris to no end.  😂

Jan. 24 sketch:  Our friends' grandson celebrating his first birthday!  Because of Covid this was the first time I'd been able to see him even though I fell in love with him the first time I saw photos of him.

Jan. 31 sketch:  The gang gathered on Christmas day!  Chris, Adam, George, Maddie and Julie.

Feb. 7 sketch:  Macie and Kelly during their annual visit with Santa.  I "think" Macie was holding a baby goat!

Feb. 14 sketch:  Our Lazy Bums - Ghost and Bugs.  Ghost lives up to his name by disappearing whenever someone new comes into the house.  Bugs is a Manx - a nub for a tail, long back legs, and grey and white.  His full name is Bugs Bunny for obvious reasons.

Feb. 21 sketch:  This year's tree.  Our tree is more of a memory tree as we made a point of picking up ornaments on our trips to various places, and we annually purchase an ornament to represent each family member.  There are also ornaments that my sister artists at PAO made and have a place of honor on the tree.

Feb. 28 sketch:  Back to the birthday party.  Liam definitely enjoyed his cake!

March 7 sketch:  Our great-great niece Macie was treated to a photo shoot by her Aunt Jenn.  She's 5 going on 15 and growing up much too quickly!

It was a fun class and I promptly signed up for another one that starts on May 10!  Now all I need to do is find some photos since I've been a lazy slug with the camera the past few years. 😮  Wish me luck!

Love and light!

 

Catch Up!

Dang, almost a year since I've posted.  Time flies when you're living in what feels like a post-apocalypse world.

I think that I'm going to refrain from making this a "rambling thoughts" sort of post and stick to posting some of what I've been doing.

Unfortunately I don't have photos, but I spent a couple of months this past winter working on cards for servicemen and women to send back home to their friends and families.  Thanks to the beautiful art work created by members of Paper Artists Online (PAO) I managed to complete well over 200 cards.  It was a labor of love and thanks and I'll definitely do it again soon.

The scraplift challenge is on-going at PAO and we're now up to #29.  I skipped several of them for various reasons, but those I did I really enjoyed.  I also took a few classes and will do a separate post for those.

So - onto our scraplift challenge.

#19 - I chose a photo of Adam that I took the day he received his Associates Degree-Criminal Justice in the mail.  His classes switched over to on-line only because of the Chinese virus, and of course there was no ceremony.  Adam maintained Dean's list throughout both years and was President's list once.  Soooo very proud of this young man!  He's since begun classes at UNC-P in CJ-Forensics and is finishing up his first year there.

#20 - Poor Apollo - He can't get out to roam anymore!  I wanted to title this "Don't Fence Me In" for obvious reasons.

#21 - My niece Michelle on a casino cruise.  I think she was actually checking out the guys instead of gambling, but WTH - she's single!

#26 - Our grandson Adam again.  He was around 18 months old in these photos.

And that brings me to:

#28 - These were taken standing on my friend Bonnie's dock at Taw Caw Creek, SC.  This has to be one of my favorite places in the entire State of SC and is a part of the Santee Lakes system.  You can take the girl out of the SC Low-Country but you can't take the Low-Country out of the girl!

And that, my friends, catches me up again with the challenges!

Until next time - love and light!