Happy Mother's Day

My Mother kept a garden,

a garden of the heart.

She planted all the good things

that gave my life it's start.

She turned me to the sunshine

and encouraged me to dream.

Fostering and nurturing
the seeds of self-esteem...

And when the winds and rain came,

she protected me enough--

But not too much because she knew

I'd need to stand up strong and tough.

Her constant good example

always taught me right from wrong--

Markers for my pathway

that will last a lifetime long.

I am my Mother's garden.

I am her legacy.

And I hope today she feels the love

reflected back from me.

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Happy Mother's Day to all of you who "mother" in any way.  
Whether it be to your own children, family members, 
siblings, nieces, nephews, godchildren, friend's children, etc. 


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The Always Changing Picture Frame

I have certainly gotten tons of mileage out of this old picture frame.

I haven't changed it's place on the wall, or it's color.  

I've just been changing the inside content to reflect the holiday/season 

by popping out the old and replacing it with something new.

It was first introduced back at Christmas framing out some festive 

pattern paper covered chipboard letters.

After Christmas, it exuded a bit of love.  

This time with painted chipboard letters mounted to music sheet collage paper

Now, it's alive with springy, Eastery colors.  

This picture was actually a page from a past year's calendar.  

Mmmm . . . wonder what I'll come up with next?

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Been MIA

But now I'm back!

And I'm spreadin' some 

LOVE.

Been busy with this and that, especially the last couple weeks.

We had Son No. 1's college grad party back in mid-January.  I went on our annual girl's weekend getaway last weekend at The Swiss Woods B&B in Lititz, PA.  

Sheesh . . . I can tell I'm gettin' older.  Seems it took me nearly most of last week to recover from the late nights of girl-talkin' into the wee hours of the morning, too many second helpings of the delicious home-cooked meals, and a bit too much cocktailing each and every evening . . . okay. . . darn near all day long!

The weekend started six years ago primarily as a scrapbooking weekend.  But it's turned into more of a relaxing getaway with some of us scrapbooking during our spare time, and some relaxing with a book or just hanging out in front of the fire.  I did manage to get some pages done in a new album I started devoted to me and Hubby's vacations together.  

Once I get the finishing touches on the pages, I'll share some of the layouts.  First I have to unpack my supplies.  I haven't even gotten to that yet!

Actually, I have a few things I want to share in upcoming posts.  But for now, I'm sharing some 

V Day love accents from around my house.  

I love these napkins!  

I ordered them several years back from Tracey Buxton at Notes From a Cottage Industry.  

I also want to share my small collection of vintage V Day postcards.  Why don't people send pretty postcards anymore?  

I like displaying all my vintage postcards on this mirror by the kitchen.  Not only V Day, but Christmas, Easter and Halloween.  I've purchased most of them on Ebay.

And I love the handwriting.  

Makes you wonder about the senders and the recipients.  

Oh, and we had our first somewhat substantial snow.  It started flurrying last night, and I thought we were getting just a dusting, but this morning we awoke to a pretty snowfall.  I'd say a couple inches or a bit more.  

Today will be spent getting my scrapbooking supplies unpacked and getting my craft room in some sort of order.  It's a mess! Also, trying to spend some time catching up on some of my favorite blogs.

Hope you all have a Happy Saturday!

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