My Creative Space-Happy Me

I guess I really miss having a hobby. Got to find a craft store here. Where is a Michael's when you need one?

My Pretty Flowers

Alain surprised me with these flowers the day before he left for this last training. He held them behind the wall while I was cleaning the bathroom. It was really sweet. Totally emotional right now and thinking about it is making me sad. LOL. I really miss him. He will be back soon enough, but even though these separations go okay at first, at some point you hit a breaking point and then they have been gone too long.


Flower
Flower, flower grow for me,
Become a flower from a seed,
Grow your roots and a stem,
Let the water come right in

Flower, flower you are true,
You make me happy when I am blue,
You became a flower from a seed,
You did all that just for me
Olivia Taylor

More pictures from Venice 2/09

Carnevale di Venezia

I will post a little bit at a time about trips to Venice and Florence as they are in the past, but yet I am trying to get this blog caught up to present day without leaving out things. We went to Venice on Valentine's Day, 2009 and they were holding Carnevale at the time. Alain and his buddy Joe went crazy buying masks. They were all very unique and fun. I got a mask too, but after picking glitter out of my eyes I decided it wasn't going to last long. Now these masks help to decorate our living room.

During Carnival in histories past, the streets of Venice are full of people in masks, and no differentiation could be made between nobility and the common people.

Obviously I don't want to Clean

So here is a another scrapbook page. LOL

The Invasion of the Butterflies

Taking my dog outside I noticed a few butterflies flying around the other day. Didn't think too much of it.
Driving to post I kept noticing these flying bugs trying to dodge my speeding car. I thought it was a bit weird, but still...didn't think much of it.

Went to post and was heading to check my mail and I passed by a tree that is in front of the library and HOLY SMOKES!....Like over a hundred monarchs in the tree! I kept trying to take pictures,but all I had was my Iphone and it takes alright pictures but you couldn't really see them. People kept walking past me and I kept saying "look at the butterflies!"
a. because I was in awe and
b. because I'm sure I looked pretty stupid taking pictures of the tree.

But WOW!

I couldn't get any decent pictures of the plethora of butterflies in a single tree but I did get a decent picture of ONE butterfly in the tree. Please use your imagination.

My Creative Space-Been getting into Digital Scrapbooking

Not really into scrapbooking but I started playing around with Digital Scrapbooking not long ago and am actually finding it pretty entertaining.

Here is my most recent page done with a picture of Nolan (my nephew) that my Dad took this past Saturday =)