Happy Spring Magnolia

Girl With a Tear

She held her grief behind her eyes like an ocean & when she leaned forward into the day it spilled onto the floor & she wiped at it quickly with her foot & pretended no one had seen.

-Brian Andreas, Story People

Spring Clover Field

One thing I loved to do as a child (and now sometimes too!) is to make a crown for my Mary statue. My grandmother taught me how to do this with either dandelions or clover flowers. We'd sit on the lawn surrounded by the wildflowers, depending on where we were, and play, picking buds not too spent but not too young... a perfect way to spend time with each other :)  Here's a link on how to do, so very easy... 

http://www.craftsuprint.com/projects/crafts/various/how-to-tie-a-clover-flower-chain.cfm

here's the dandelion version link:   https://pioneerkids.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/a-braided-dandelion-chain/

Happy Spring! And as always thanx for stopping by...

peace, 

pam

Still in Creature Mode

Spring this year is late and the lingering chill unforgiving. April and only a few crocus popped up. So, without the tenacity to brave the elements seeking wonders of nature to photograph, I remain in creature mode with my art. Very satisfying, playing this way... guess that's what's important...

       Penny in the Poppies

Young Poodle on Blue

And some note cards, 2 from my travelling series:

 Bunny at Luxor

Bunny at Angkor Wat

As always thanx, for stopping by...

peace, 

pam

and more birds...

Finding that birds can be quite inspirational... not clear why right now but i'm having some fun ascribing various possible personalities to each one as I play with the layout. 

As always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek!

peace,

pam

Morning Constitutional

Credits: stock photo purchased, Holliewood hat, background Deviant Art sternenfee59

Another composition added to my zoo and they make me feel like such a kid, or is it that I really am still a child and this is what comes out...

as always, thanx, for stopping by to take a peek :)

peace, 

pam

Another Oil Change for Valentine's Day 

Take a Word Challenge - "hearts"

Having recently watched "Swing Time", the song "A Fine Romance" seemed like it could surely inspire an interesting layout. I racked my memory for a true situation to inspire a page to go along with the song, of sorts. I decided to not get into the whole story behind this page, but it is a true story: on more than one occasion, I'd been offered an oil change for my car instead of dinner or flowers, or card, or candy for Valentine's Day. Silly boys!  Enjoy the song below, too!  :)

Credits:  Xquizart, Crazychuchu, Heykid, Kajabi

As always, thanx for stopping by...

peace,

pam

Red Birds in Love

Yesterday, it was especially important for me to create, beauty if possible, but definitely create...to counter the evil and destruction seen in the news. So, the fragility of the bird, symbolic love, lightness of heart in a most child-like way, and strong colors of invitation to engage in the purity of heart intended in this piece...

Credits: various kits from Holliewod and Itkupilli, MPop, JMaddox, CrazyChuchu flowers

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Just the way you look tonight.

"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire.  It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. In 2004 the Astaire version finished at #43 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire in character as John "Lucky" Garnett, while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time. 

The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and has become a standard. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful." 
---Wiki

As always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek!

peace, 
pam

Cougar Inside
Take a Word Challenge: Woman

Whether you take this as a woman's desire for younger men or as woman having a deep protective calling of a wild cat, be it lion or cougar or tiger, or any other of the wild beasts we can relate to on this subject, I think we keep these passions well hidden on a daily basis, hence the zipper. It was fun!

Credits: Holliewood Studios, CRenee, BRimmer, Mervilina at Deviant Art, Art by January

As Always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek!

peace,
pam

Hope

 Credits:  Crowabout and Holliewood Studios (various kits), BRimmer, 

JMead overlay, MOlder stock images from DeviantArt, and some stuff from my garden 

Hope is a waking dream, --Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

As Always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek!

peace,

pam

Ask Alice

i must have been hungry...thinking of one of my friend's culinary masterpieces...

Credits: Holliewood Studios and BRimmer multiple kits, Maria Amanda at Deviant Art

As always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek :)

peace, 

pam

Decisions...decisions...

grungier, dream-like version:

Credits: Holliewood Studios, Faestock, maky-orel, Roys-Art, Sophie-Y at deviant art

As always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek :)

peace, 

pam

Thank you, miss you already... 

Gonna try to express how much you having been here with us means to me and accordingly, why i'm so sad that you needed to leave...

Purity

The ATC, an okapi getting some affection:

Credits: Itkupilli and Holliewood Studios, various kits

As always, thanx for stopping by...

peace, 

pam

Traveling Hen

Just playing with my new grunge skills, attempting a water scene and anxious to see what would come out. It's playful, yet not really, but then again...

She just may be a "hanger"...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.          
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Credits: Itkupilli and Holliewood Studios, various kits

and the ATC:

"It is a happy talent to know how to play" –Ralph Waldo Emerson

As always, thanx for stopping by...

peace, 

pam

Maybe Next Year - Take a Word Challenge

This is about as "red and green" as I'm gonna get this year...another holiday orphaned...and though I thought I was a good girl, well, maybe next year...

Credits: Xquizart's Art dolls, various elements and papers from Holliewood Studios, 

Mischief Circus Freebie, Itkupilli, Mr Whiskers, and JMaddox

As always, thanx for stopping by!
peace, 
pam 

Some of my new framed Photo Art

Snowfall

Credits: Xquizart, Holliewood Studios, Krysty Scrap, Eena's Creations

thanx for stopping by :)

peace, pam

The Gift of Christmas

Created for the Mischief Circus December Postcard Challenge. I hesitate to say too much about this layout...it's one of those that speaks to your heart, how you perceive Christmas... I see it as a celebration of divine love, a time when we remind each other of the birth of the divine embodiment of pure love and all it brings. Nature never loses its proximity to God... the inability to maintain it is a frailty owned by humans alone. 

Credits: All elements from Mischief Circus: Krysty Scraps, Cryztal Rain,

 Holliewood Studios, Eena's Creations, Xquizart, BRimmer

As always, thanx for taking apeek!

peace, 

pam

Fortune favors the brave

The idea for this layout is taken from Trudi Sissons aka two dresses studio, a true artist that I've admired for a few years. No one has an eye like hers, that I've seen anyway. Recently she did such an emotive layout that that I could not get out of my mind for several days. Here it is: 

In trying to find why this was striking me, I decided to let the concept run freely in the creative realm to see what came out...

Comparatively, aside from my layout being decidedly amateurish, I was struck by how unable I was to be darker, given the central image in the piece. I interpret this as my personal ordeals being seemingly bolstered with colors of life. How fortunate, I mused, and thus the Latin phrase place on the banner: FORTIS FORTUNA ADIVAT, translated roughly to "fortune favors the brave", or bold. And indeed, bravery has been a frequent companion...

I know that there are many people with personal struggles, and some day my "colors" may fail, and indeed some days it seems they are no where to be found, but they must be there. My wish and hope is for my flora and fauna photography and digital compositions to brighten and lighten hearts making someone's day better... 

Credits: Itkupilli, EmKa, JBrisebois, Holliewood Studios

As always, thanx for stopping by to take a peek :)

peace,

pam