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hello monday

hello Monday Mugshots. I love the collaboration with A Year in the Life of an Art Journal every 15th and 30th of the month. I have not completed my journal page yet but the prompt asked you to take a picture of a favorite quote with your mug.  This is the quote I doodled. It's been on my mind these days.

hello seester. I sure have missed you something awful. We've both been through so much since we last saw each other. We are both wiser, stronger and both have more children than the last time we were together. =)

 hello cousin time. So glad these awesome kids could get to know each other better.  They are doing a wonderful job of getting along and loving on each other.

hello birthday girl. I'm also glad that I could do a little something special for Abby's birthday. She turns nine tomorrow!  We had her party today because of the holiday and the kids being off school.  It was also our good friends Rick and Emma's birthday today. Great day of celebrating some special people!
hello Costco photo. I'm going to be seeing a lot of you this next week. Going to try to print out some photos in preparation for a scrapbooking retreat I've been planning on attending for months and months now. It's finally coming up. I haven't worked in my albums for so long, but my little guy keeps asking where is baby book is - so I have a bit of catching up to do!
hello new toy. My husband bought me a Cricut for Christmas and I have not had a chance to pull it out and try it yet. I have my tiny Cricut Create that I bought with birthday money years ago and have been using this, but wanted to have time to focus and get started right with the new one. Planning on doing that THIS week. Yay! Finally!
hello more rain and cold. Keep it coming. I love it!

So there you go. hello monday and new beginnings.

Inspired by my friend, Lee at Embrace Life, Hello Monday provides a peek into the coming week - in all its glory. Join us and Lisa for the Hello Monday fun.

“You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it.”

Colors of autumn...thoughts of seasons past

 I made this for a very special person.  

 We have been apart more than we have been together, 

 yet, I love her with all of my heart and soul.

 She is a good person, beautiful inside and out,

 a hard worker and often searching, pining away for truth and understanding.

 She is a free and wild spirit with a vintage, laughing soul.  She loves deeply...

 she hurts quietly, and she keeps on going.  She is a dreamer, 

 a bird freed from it's cage, not knowing which way to fly, 

 but fly she does.  She flies swiftly, fearlessly and completely.  

One day, her wings will light upon the right currents and she will not fly 

against the wind or into the wind - but with the wind. 

She will feel free and know that her Maker gave her these wings

and that He's always wanted to see her fly...

and fly she will.