Today I am finishing up a tribute to my best friend Bertille. She passed over a year ago yesterday and I still miss her laugh, her caustic wit and her keeping me grounded...so many friends and family passing...it certainly lets you know that eat day must be relished with a passion even if it is a bad day....

here I am playing with my blog again...I want the pictures in the centre and the header centered...
I will keep playing until I figure this thing out.....unless I lose patience...which we all know I have a short fuse for this stuff!!!

here is the other journal page with the butterfly stencil and mask

oh dear, I am bent over today. My back/hip doesn't want to co-operate with me....well it can have today but it better no be sore tomorrow....sheesh I hate that..

I worked on journal pages yesterday and had so much fun. I cut my own stencils and masks and created with acrylics, oil pastel sticks, wallpaper, sheet music etc..what fun....

Well I am trying to change things around here and got some help from my good pal Tolegranny....

Let's see if this works...I am going to upload a picture that I created in one of my digital programs and it is being changed from pink to blue...just a learning experiment.

Happy Monday World....

I had a great weekend...Saturday hubby helped with all the heavy housework and then I played on the computer taking a wonderful few tutorials...went to lay on the bed and read and hubby came with his book and we both fell asleep and had a wonderful nap...We made soup for dinner, nothing fancy and then I finished my tutorials...what a wonderfully relaxing day...

Yesterday I played with journal pages and you can see the cat page I put up...I am trying to learn Corel Draw; it frustrates me but I am adament about learning to do digital art also....so I will keep trying.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality....James Allen

have a wonderful Monday....we are getting our share of the rainy weather here in Ontario

Here are some journals pages I finished...

I have been playing this morning...bad me!! I finished journal pages and they are on their way to their new home...but I discovered some things while playing with digital photography on my corel draw...wow so here I sit doing all sorts of things...Echo dog and Cali cat I guess will get to the vet's tomorrow to get weighed and nails clipped....just too much fun learning new stuff!!
Here are a few pics from what I was playing with today...I will put the journal pages up soon....

March 8th, 2010...the first birthday of my best friend in over 50 years that I have missed teasing her.  I am sad but can feel her laughs in the background and I know she is saying she can still tease me from above but I can't her!! I miss you best friend and not pleased that you left this earth a year ago this month. We were supposed to grow old together and laugh and talk about old days and how our kids are doing and still tease because our birthdays were just a month apart and I was the "older" one...I miss you more than I can say. You grounded me when I started to rant and rave...applauded me in my art...you will always be with me.

She understood my wonders,
And listened to my dreams
She listened to how I felt about life and love,
And knew what it all means.

I am working on a new mixed media piece and hope to have it finished within the next couple days to show you..I am excited because it is my first design and my own drawing...yahoo!!!

I have been busy learning Corel Paintshop...yikes I need a book easier than Corel for Dummies that's for sure. Thank goodness for my husband who has the patience (well he is probably screeching inside) to show me over and over while I take notes....hehehehe..

I am putting up a picture today of my granddog Tucker. I just think this is such a good picture that I have to share...he is the sweetest little guy...

Well my birthday has come and gone and I have to tell you that birthdays just mean another day to me....I hate goodbyes to the old years and hello to new..in fact I just hate goodbyes in general...but this birthday caught me in the throws of weapiness. I realized that this year there was no heckling from my best friend of over 54 years. Bertille was a month younger than me so the heckling on my birthday was very apparent and then again on hers...it was just something we did since grade school and took for granted...Bertille will have gone on to her new life one year this March...so I was especially missing her on my birthday. She kept me grounded and while she was the plassid one I was the temper and tempramental one and she wouldn't hesitate to tell me so and put me in my place...God how I miss her...and my youngest brother who will have passed two years this March...we were all best friends and had a great time in teasing each other..

I seem to be losing all those around me lately...hard to keep smiling but I am lucky aren't I? I am still here in good health and rocking and rolling....

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to Unknown

Well I am going to go and make a journal page and hopefull will have some art to post very soon

Saturday morning and I have a horrible cold...Came down with it yesterday and went to bed last night at 8 in the evening. I don't get sick and have no patience for it either...so it had better begone by tomorrow...

I hope to finish up my mixed media of roses today so I can hang it up....and I want to start my crow painting tutorial with Tim Gagnon...he is an amazing artist....

My darling Miss Cali Cat and mind you I use "darling" lightly. She is her daddy's girl and terrorizes me constantly; only loving when she sleeps by me in bed at night and she wants her treats or meals...hehehehe

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. - John Dobbin