A Few Photos to Share

Thought I'd share a few recent photos.

This weekend Danielle went out to feed her chickens & found a small dove caught in the chicken coop covering. The poor little thing was scared but, fortunately, not injured. Of course, Danielle wanted me to take a picture of her with him & I was happy to ablige. :) After the photos, she let her surprise visitor loose.

Danielle also started spring riding lessons this past week at the Triple R Ranch. She was very excited to be starting lessons again & kept checking the clock to make sure we wouldn't be "late". Her horse this time is T. C. Here are a couple photos I took during the lesson. It was in the 30's & she was freezing.

One last photo to share. This one is of Danielle & our little friend, Sarah. Danielle loves to have Sarah come visit so she can play "big sister". Sarah's one of seven kids so I think she also likes the time to be the center of attention rather than having to share the attention with 6 other brothers & sisters. :) Sarah came over during the holidays & made Christmas cookies and a gingerbread house and wanted to make cookies again during this visit. The girls ended up making chocolate chip cookies - I think they enjoyed the batter as much as the cookies.

Grandpa Builds Dreams

Danielle is very fortunate to have 3 wonderful grandfathers & has many special memories with all 3.

This layout is a tribute to Danielle's clubhouse & all the hard work her grandpa put into it. :)

Journaling: Grandpa is a hero in Dani's eyes. He took her dream - a hand drawn sketch of a clubhouse she desperately wanted - & made it come true. He put her drawing to scale & worked on it for several months on the weekends. She was always close by, helping when she could, bringing Grandpa drinks & just keeping him company. While building her dream, he also built some wonderful memories for the two of them. 2006

TaDa Creative Studios

OK - I can already see that I'm going to have to work hard & making sure I post regularly. :)

Just wanted to take a minute to congratulate Julie on making the TaDa Creative Studios design team. CONGRATULATIONS Julie!!

Here are a couple projects I made using TaDa papers:

I'm busy working today on some projects for the ScrapDango March Kit. Carrie's kits are awesome -- if you haven't checked them out, you're missing some great kits! :)

I'm finally blogging!!

I spent lots of time saying I'd never start a blog. However, after spending so much time reading other blogs, I've become a convert. It's amazing how well you can get to know someone by getting a "glimpse" into their lives and I found a lot of inspiration from the blogs I've read. I finally realized how great it would be to document my journey & share it with family & friends. So, here I am finally starting my own blog. It's been on my "to do" list for a while now & thanks to the encouragement from some of my friends at ScrapDango, it finally became part of my "in progress" list. {I think I even managed to insert a link!} Making the decision to start was only the first obstacle. Then I actually had to "name" my blog. I'm still not sure why I struggled with that aspect so much but I finally decided on "My Creative Journey". It just came to me that my creativity is just that - a journey.

I still have a long way to go with my "blogging" and will be figuring out how it all works, but I wanted to get my first post done. I'll continue to add to & improve my blog and hope you'll keep checking back.

I might as well share a couple new projects I've done. The first was just a random page I did with photos of Danielle playing in rain puddles. I love Inque Boutique stamps & couldn't resist using them as part of my "splashes".

The second was a layout I did for a "bling" challenge at ScrapDango. If you need some inspiration or challenges, come check out what's going on there.