november pages

I had a terrible time shooting

this spread

dear reader..

it was almost as if it did not want to be

seen..

it came up shiny...

so I gave it a coat of matte gel medium...

then the rain came 

and I was forced to use the flash...

which made it shinier!

and now with the sun shining

the glare is worse...

I finally took out my phone, shot it

and sent them to iphoto...

to understand this spread I have a little story for you...

I was asked to write a little something that I was grateful for

for Thanksgiving...

This is what I wrote and this is what my pages are about..

Last year on the 4^th of July, we hosted a BBQ for my husband’s brother and wife. They wanted to pick up a load of gravel that we had left over from our garden project. I remember watching the brothers sweating, working to load it up into the pickup truck. It was a hard job but they were both healthy and strong. They were laughing, talking, teasing the way brothers do. It was a joyous day… good food, love and warm weather. But by November, a week after Thanksgiving, my brother in law was dead. Lung cancer had carved his name on his head stone. My thanks and overwhelming gratitude is for our health, for the aliveness that flows through me,  my husband, and is never taken for granted. I give thanks for the contrast, which makes my life sweeter and richer every day, and I know that my brother in law would be glad in it.  

ingredients: collage papers, acrylic paint, Prismacolors, 

the cross, was an important symbol for my BIL, Terry...

for me.. I see it as a plus or a positive 

I cannot believe that it is almost time for

my annual

Buon Natale post...

I will make sure I leave that with you

before I take some

time off for the Holidays...

I am grateful too

for 

YOU!

C4N!