collage play week 7

crowabout wk7, originally uploaded by mainer at heart06.

i missed playing in last week’s challenge, so i sat down & created this digi-piece. the more i practice playing in my photoshop elements, the more comfortable i seem to be. & that is totally a good thing! 🙂

also, i’ve been fiddling around in photoshop lately with creating some backgrounds for my zine project.  this may explain my limited online presence on the blog.  the october 1st release date is coming sooner than i would like, so i am thinking i will have to push back the date a bit.  i won’t bore you with the minutea of my chaotic schedule, but i have to keep reminding myself that i am only one person & that i can only accomplish so much in a given day.  it really is wicked tough being a one-girl operation & i really wish i could take on an assistant (or 2, or 3, hehehe)…but i will muddle my way through this & the zine project will get done when it gets done.   when i set that date back in late spring, i didn’t count on also having to get ready for an antique flea market show later this month…what can i say, i was off on my timing.  i accept that i am human with limitations & i can’t get to everything that i set out initially.  now i can only hope for the best & complete one thing at a time…

but still, i can’t help but keep wishing that i had an assistant, heck a small staff of peeps to keep me on track, ha!

{sigh}…

i digress…but it is true, that saying above in my digi-collage.  all work & no play will leave you a MESS.  just a little reminder to myself that as busy as life gets, i still have to remember to work in some time to PLAY. 

glow baby glow

from drab

to fab

ahhh, the wonders of photoshop! 🙂

remember this

nothing happens unless first we dream

~carl sandburg

collage play with crowabout {week 4}

my digi contribution to nance‘s weekly collage meme on flickr.  we’re to create a collage or journal page using random collage elements of nancy’s choosing.

 then we post our creation to the group pool.  she also gives away a prize to a randomly selected piece that uses all collage elements provided.  to see other fab creations, go here.

my piece came together because i literally had the kt tunstall tune playing in my head, lol.  it is one of my fav tunes to date.  i am a fan of kt’s music.  she totally rocks. 

suddenly i see

 (lyrics & music copyright katie tunstall)

Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she’s a beautiful girl
She’s a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm

Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me

I feel like walking the world
Like walking the world
You can hear she’s a beautiful girl
She’s a beautiful girl
She fills up every corner like she’s born in black and white
Makes you feel warmer when you’re trying to remember
What you heard
She likes to leave you hanging on a wire

Suddenly I see

And she’s taller than most
And she’s looking at me
I can see her eyes looking from a page in a magazine
Oh she makes me feel like I could be a tower
A big strong tower
She got the power to be
The power to give
The power to see

Suddenly I see

kinder grads

to mom & all wonderful mothers

for show & tell this week (hosted by bloggy pals,  analise & cerri),

the theme is fittingly, “mother”. 

we’re to post pix of our mothers and/or with our children. 

 since i don’t have any kids, i will share a couple of pix of my mom. 

i looked through my archives,

and found these posts here & here…they seemed a propos. 

i love you mom, always & forever.

xoxo, your firstborn

found them!

the other day i couldn’t find those valentine posties that i created using my photoshop program in my computer….but by chance, i found them!  the file they were in was embedded in another file, lol. crazy, i know!

 i made & sent the following a week ago & i’ve even had some of my recipients contact me to tell that they received them.  yay!  i have started to receive my batch, but i am going to wait until i get all 10 of them (i had a total of 10 partners in that valentine postie swap that was hosted by tyn over in flickr) before i post them on the blog.  anyway, here are the posties that i sent out. 

 

time is running out for my OWOH giveaway… it ends in a couple of hours.  i think at last count i have close to 160 entries!  tomorrow i will announce the names of 5 lucky winners.  oooh, could it be YOU?  we shall see tomorrow.   

🙂