{Nancy's Texture Challenge}...

My photo using 2 of Nancy Donaldson's textures.

You can check out the rest of the photo entries here on Nancy's blog.

These are some of the same fall branches I used for

my fall Pumpkin Festival garland wreath.

I really did have a lot of fun playing with these leaves.

When I was a child we lived in Michigan, so unlike

here in Arizona, we had tons of leaves.  And my sisters and neighborhood friends

would rake up mountains of leaves and spend many afternoons jumping in them.

Leaves are given freely

for everyone to enjoy.

Today I still enjoy (and always do) kicking up the piles of leaves that gather at the curbs.

And I love, just love seeing them fall from the blowing tress as I drive under them.

So how do you enjoy them?

{Erosion Bundle Art Journal final part}...

I think it's been about a year since I first created the fabric bundle and buried it.

And after many additional dye attempts and processes

the project is complete.

The cover

 New pages,  This includes the lace pocket.

The lace was also dyed in blueberries.

  I found this specimen jar on a road trip this past summer.

The label really does read 

"Specimen of Painting on Linen"

 Page with hair embellishment

 Page including stitched "sunflower"

And the back cover

{11-11-11}...

11-11-11 -

quite a powerful number

And on this day, its Veteran's Day in the US, I find I need to say Thank You

Thank You for

the freedom I enjoy

for helping keep my family saver and free

to your families for their sacrifices

{"Captivating" - a book review}...

Captivating 

by John & Stasi Eldredge

 I  was just wandering, just looking through the bookstore for nothing in particular when I came

across the title -

Captivating

It caught my attention.  I didn't buy it right then, though

 I kept thinking about it.  So after a week I went back and bought it.  The only problem was I grabbed the wrong Captivating by "accident".  After getting it home and looking though it I realized I'd bought the Captivating Workbook.  And after skimming though it and thinking about some of the questions it posed I went and got the book and read it with these questions in mind.  And I am glad I did.

In my first "Book Review" on one thousand gifts - by Ann Voskamp.

 I said that that book

could change your life and indeed it has changed my way of thinking about my life.  (I'm on 365)

Now

In Captivating

I will tell you

that this book can help HEAL your life.

Possibly in ways you don't even know

need healing.

It will also show you a beauty, Your beauty, the beauty

of all women in a greater and more profoundly real way.  Possible in ways

you may ever have believed true.

These are things every female (and perhaps even as importantly every male) should have been shown and taught about herself. 

You will also begin to see why your beauty is so important to this world.

It will help you remember things about yourself. 

Things you already knew deep inside.

After read Captivating

you will never again look at yourself in the same way.

Anyway -

I think I might go back and re-read it and do the workbook along with it.  After all

I do have it.