I like a nice desktop calendar - don't you?

And Ginger Scraps has a desktop challenge.  You get a free template and then you get to enjoy making your next month desktop.  Here is a LINK

I L-O-V-E the desktop I made for August.  I loved the kit I worked with and so enjoyed using photos I had just taken the week before on a hike at Chickamauga National Military Park.  Here is a LINK to the kit I used and a preview of it.

on to my desktop :) -- pretty isn't it?

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

It's a triple!!!

I was working on three layouts in a week period of time and had loads of fun.  I created two layouts with the Funky Christmas Ellies and Papers by Roseytoes Designs and then one layout with the Beautiful Whimsey kit by Roseytoes Designs.  I used her Serendipity templates on all three layouts.

Care to see my layouts?  OH I know you do...

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Spiffing up my facebook timeline cover....

I just finished uploading my new facebook time cover and I really like it!  I used a photo I took from the top of Springer Mountain on the AT Appalachian Trail.  Even though I didn't get to hike on my 50th birthday due to illness in the family.  I did get to hike the first tiny leg of my journey this May. 

The AT means so many things to me.  I've always wanted to hike it but after I had a double fusion in my lower back the AT became even MORE of a goal of mine.  I'll never be fast again, I have to take many breaks and hike with double hiking sticks... the point is I can do it!  It may not BE pretty but it's my PT.  I'm going TODAY to get maps of hiking trail close to home so I can start hiking again... to get back into shape for hopefully at least one more hike this year before the cold sets in... wish me luck.

Here is my new timeline cover....

I used the Beautiful Whimsey kit

 by Roseytoes Designs and her template from the facebook timeline templates #2

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

I miss Mz Poo

yes I do...  She was with me for 14 years and died while I was staying in the hospital with Keith... I guess I'll never get over the guilt of that... I feel like I should have been with her in her last days.... I miss her so much... I dreamed about her the other night. 

I created this next layout so I'd not forget that beautiful face of hers.  It was created with the Girly Girl kit by Roseytoes Designs and I used the template from the Ginger Scraps template challenge July 1 -15

Here's a peak at that kit

and here's my layout featuring my sweet, sweet Mz Poo

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Esther's First Day....

The new addition to our family was delivered early this month.  She's beau-TEA-ful (that's the way I say it when I talk about Esther)!!! 

I created a layout with a photo from her first day.  She wasn't sure about this new home of hers.  There was this other little mini horse that was running around like a crazy boy and then her Mommy left her with her new family.  I felt so sorry for my new girl.  This photo is of her looking around from the edge of the porch you can just see her thinking.... "should I trust these people, or not" in her face.  I'm proud to say she's settled in and Tucker... well he's still running around like a crazy boy but hopefully soon all of that will end and they will be fast friends for life and 11 months and 6 days later... we will have one more addition to our home... a little foal... but that will be for another layout :)

I hope you enjoy my layout of my girl Esther on her first day....

I used Roseytoes Designs Girly Girl kit and her template from the Bionic Girl bundle revamped Collaboration designed by Roseytoes Designs & Jen Yurko

HERE IS A LINK TO THE GIRLY GIRL KIT and HERE IS A LINK TO THE BIONIC GIRL BUNDLE REVAMPED

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Saying my goodbye in a layout

We have our 6 acres up for sale because we need a new roof and their are loads of medicals bills to pay off.  I wanted to keep that beautiful property to save it from everyone else.  I never wanted it to change... it's so pretty but life doesn't always give you what you want so I've done a layout to tell my Turtle Creek goodbye before someone scoops it up

I used the Thankful kit designed by Keep in Touch Designs 

Isn't it lovely.  I love fall colors.  I guess I'm just an earthly girl :)

and the template mix 1 designed by Pretty In Green
I can't wait to work with the other three templates.  I liked the one I used A LOT! 

 

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

What I'm Grateful for....

I took a photo of my Husband yesterday when I found out he had gained from 114 to 128.  I was so grateful he was getting better.  See he went through chemo for cancer that had spread to his lungs but just as he entered remission he experienced a reaction from the chemo medication that he was taking for maintenance.  It was awful!  He almost died many, many times and was in the hospital 60 days.

When I took that photo... I just had to upload it for my facebook timeline photo but I didn't want it to be just the photo (because noone would know how grateful I was to see this photo!) I wanted to scrap it and then upload it.  I used the Grateful for... kit by Keep in touch designs and used a facebook freebie template designed by Peppermint Creative.

I hope you enjoy my layout because it's very special to me.  I'd like to thank Keep in touch designs for allowing me to work with her kit and I'd like to thank Peppermint Creative for that great freebie.  I wished more designers would create and design FB timeline templates.

This is the facebook timeline that I created.....

This is the kit I used to create my timeline

and this is the template I used....

Until I scrap again.....

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.