Allen's World

Blue

For Romy's iNSD Minimalist Challenge @ MScraps. Everything from my Colors of Sweet kit, except for the frame from Mother Light @ MScraps. Font: Another Typewriter. Journaling reads: I am complex. And I like blue. =)

Independence

For the iNSD Journaling (be inspired by a piece of Word Art) Challenge @ MScraps. Everything from my "Me Do It" kit. Font: Augie. Journaling reads:

4 years old, and you called yourself “spectacular.” Yes, indeedy!! I think this was the beginning of your sartorial independence!

Death Valley Sunset

For the Over the Edge iNSD Challenge @ MScraps. Everything mine @ MScraps, from the Colors of Sweet and A Little Birdie Told Me kits. Fonts: 1550 and Augie. Journaling reads:

as the sun set
we dropped below the rim of the earth
into an oven of darkness
my breath a river sinking into
the insatiable dust
the salt aglow under our boots
crushing waters long gone

Splash!

For the iNSD Recipe Challenge @ MScraps. Everything mine from MScraps from the A Year of Hope: Kit 1, Me Do It, Little Bits, Playdate, & Wordy Shapes kits. Font: Another Typewriter. Doodling mine. Journaling reads:

You had the best time at the waterpark where we went for Andrew's birthday party. I was really  astounded at how brave you were--even if you did come up with a highly unusual way to keep the water out of your nose!

Gerdemann Garden Wander

The gardens were open today for unlimited wandering, which I adored! All rhododendri, except for a trillium, a narcissus, and a flowering maple tree. =)

And some more

(It's interNational Scrapbooking Day on the 5th, and this is the one day a year I give myself permission to scrap my fool head off... so enjoy, or get out of the way! *laugh*)

For the MScraps iNSD Template Challenge; template by Soco. Texture on background layer by me from my CU Textures 1: Fabrics. Fonts: Bauhaus and Another Typewriter. Journaling reads:

I was SO terrified to see you out there in those big waves, and absolutely stupefied that you clearly were having the time of your life. Now that I'm looking at the pics instead of taking them, I'm delighted that you did something really hard on your own!

[NB: we went to this huge indoors waterpark for Andrew's birthday!]

Some More Layouts

I probably got the dates all wrong on this... do we still own this quilt, Mom?

For the Journaling Challenge @ MScraps. Everything mine from the Home & Hearth kit. Fonts: Mecheria and Poor Richard. Journaling reads:

I remember this quilt quite well--soft, torn at many of the seams,the embroidery a bit ragged, sometimes letting the shapes hint at their meaning with a trail of needle holes only. I had this quilt from the time I was born--my Aunt Bertha made this for me, by hand.  What an incredible gift! I can’t imagine anyone doing this nowadays...

For the Miscellaneous Challenge at MScraps (May; scrap in green and white with only accents of red & black).

Everything mine; template from A Year of Hope: Templates 5, plus elements/papers from Home & Hearth and A Year of Hope kits 1 & 2. Fonts: Mea Culpa and Another Typewriter. Journaling reads:

fog plus light equals mystery

i love it when the light
comes pouring down through the trees
and reveals the water-laden air

i can see the dark better
but a veil swirls between me and the beyond

Wonder Reborn

Everything with my "A Year of Hope: Templates 5" pack @ MScraps. Font: Acoustic Bass.

For the All About Me challenge @ Mscraps (May). Template mine from A Year of Hope: Templates 5. Everything with my Mother Light kit, also @ MScraps. Fonts: Luna & Boulder. Journaling reads:

Mothering is the hardest job I've ever had, and ever will. What do I do best? I so often feel like a failure that I don't know how to answer that question. I can be patient, at times. I can give him all my attention--at times. I can help him learn, and I'm as open to his questions as I can be. Most of all, I think I'm best at loving him--he is so much to me.

I mother this child, and feel very lucky to do so. Hopefully he can take my best, and leave the rest, and carry me in his heart forever.

Stonefield Beach

Fabulous day yesterday...

Hope your afternoon was as glorious as ours!

New Bike

New bike = happy 9 yr old... =)

This was the bike Daddy bought him at Thanksgiving as a surprise, which didn't get given till his birthday. By then, it was too small! *laugh* So they had to build him the next size up, which is actually a small adult bike... But we'd brought Allen's old bike up to the shop to be repaired, and he found this on the floor waiting for him. Took a few seconds to sink in! I don't have any pictures of that moment, though, just from today when we went back for the new one.

He was pretty darn happy to see this one, too. =)

Details of the new bike.

Still a bit of a reach...

Concentration

More relaxed

Whee!!