courage: noun

The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.

It's WOYWW!
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Before I start today's blog I am posting the link to a follow up on last Wednesday's WOYWW where I was packing up to go to a crop in Tenneessee and I also had a half finished layout on my desk then. So if you want to see the finished layout and a couple ( I didn't take too many pictures while I was there, sorry ) of pictures from the place where we went then click here!
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Now back to the scheduled WOYWW post:

hmmmm? I really do need to clean. For some reason, I never think it's THAT bad until I take a picture of it....you think climbing over stuff would give me a clue, but nope, nada!

Let's see what's on the floor, shall we? Submissions for Halloween is abounding around me, LOVE doing Halloween btw, I think it's the colors that get me going!   ( On the floor are paper lines My Little Shoebox and Reminisce. )  I just realized I have both Halloween and Easter going on at the same time, fun life of someone that publishes their cards, you have to think in terms of MONTHS before the actual holiday!       You'll NOT see the wreath that I promised you I would have finished today, nope, it's been abandoned and on the right corner of the picture you will see instead the very large bunny hanging door doo dad I am making instead...can we say ADD? short attention spam? lack of desire to continue the wreath? HA! Under the bunny's head is a box containing all the goodies I have been collecting for my Altered Book class by one of the WOYWW ladies, Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover blog. I'll get to that in a minute :)

The actual desktop..... a Cricut Card Fairy card that needs to be addressed and mailed, ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbon ( I really, really want to be on their DT, this will be my third attempt, it's hard to keep trying for something and fail over and over, this might be my last try. )

Now as to the altered book, ::sigh::...I have settled into the knowledge that I'll be behind everyone else as altering a book is hard for me. lol I am having a hard time tearing out ANY pages to ANY book it seems. I have changed my book several times and that didn't help so I guess I have to wrap my head around the idea that it is better to alter a book than for it to grow dust and die a literary death on some abandoned book shelf. ( oh, I almost waxed poetic there for a moment, lol ) But anyway I regress, I am having a good time collecting ephemera for it and here it is ----------------------------------> I wonder if anyone can guess my theme? I'll give you another clue, if you read my blog, then know the book will be influenced by a certain friend who visited me for my birthday!

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A couple of weeks ago my water fountain got taken from the backyard of where I am living. Now I didn't get overly excited about that as it was placed out in the yard of the apartment complex, but with their permission I might add. Stolen is stolen and I took it with a grain of salt. Then the other day I was out on the balcony and looked down among the other balconies, and guessed what my little eye spied?

The man walking back to his truck is the person who runs our apartment and I had called him to report that I had found my fountain! So here I am hanging off the railing, camera in one hand and phone in the other talking to him! lol

It never ceases to amaze me what the human being thinks. I'll give this person the benefit of the doubt, like maybe he thought it was left behind by a tenant and so .....well....stealing is stealing no matter how you try and write about it. In the end, I just wanted it returned to me. It's old and not in the best of shape but it was one of the last gifts given to me by my mother before she died. So sentimentality reigns supreme here. I have since removed the top tier from it and plan on incorporating it somehow on my porch plants, so in case it gets stolen again at least I will have it remember it by, lol Whenever I figure that out I'll post a picture of it.

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and lastly for my shutterbugs, we are working on motion and ghosting images so here is a shot I took while messing around with a tutorial I was making on ribbon bee wings. Set up on a tripod, shutter speed 1/15 second. I love how you can see the needle and thread through my hand ( ghosting ) which also shows movement. :)

Well the hills of North Carolina are a little damp and overcast today, but I have errands to run ( like getting my latest accepted submission out to the mailbox ) before I can come home and spend the rest of my day going through all the hundreds of WOYWW blogs. I really enjoy them and are making some new friends along the way...all from being nosey, go figure! :) So get comfy and go check them out too, it's addicting and fun!