TWEAKING A PHOTOGRAPH

Here is my last tweaking picture of this beautiful rose.

TWEAKING A PHOTOGRAPH

Well here I am still tweaking that rose. Once I get started playing in my photo program time gets away from me. Here is another picture that I just have to share with you.

Cool!

TWEAKING A PHOTOGRAPH

I love to take pictures especially with a digital camera. Then I sometimes like to tweak it a bit on the computer. The Rose that I shared with you, the full rose bloom, well this is what I did with it.

This would make a pretty quilt, to bad it is just a photo.

A ROSE

Now here is this little minature rose in full bloom

A ROSE

I was out the other day taking photographs of what little roses I had left.

A Rose for you continue tomorrow.

THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A FRIEND

"The only way to have a friend is to be one"

Emmerson

The only way to have a friend

Is to be one yourself;

The only way to keep a friend

Is to give from that wealth.

For friendship must be doublefold,

Each one must give his share

Of feelings true if he would reap

The blessing that are there.

If you would say, "He is my friend,"

Then nothing else will do

But you must say, "I am his friend,"

And prove that fact be true.

Author unknown

PRAYER

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to  be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

St. Francis of Assisi

Ring of Angels

Over at Friendship Doll Group there was a swap going on. A swap is where people make a commitment to each other to fulfill their commitment to each other. In this swap we were to make four angels,

we were to take three of these angels send them off to three other members of our swap. Keeping the fourth one for our self. Then each of the other three swappers did the same. We would all end up with four angels each. Once we received our angels we are to attached them together. They can hang or sit in a circle on a table.

Well, this one is mine, now I'm waiting to received three more angels from three different swappers.

Little Books

Little Books are just that little books. Here I made four for a swap I was participating in over at ATCsforALL. We where asked to make a book leaving the pages inside blank. We were to decorate the front and back. Well here you see the front as for the back, well, I just put my name chatty on the back. The inside I make blank pages staple them together then glue the first and last page to the front and back of the book. I was really please how they turn out. At the time I was not feeling well when putting these books together. It was nice to see how nice they came out.

ERASERS

Erasers are the nicest things!

Of that there is no doubt.

We write wrong words. A few quick swipes-

And big mistakes fade out.

And you will find erasers,

Of a very different kind,

Extremely helpful, if you will try

To bear these facts in mind:

When you bump someone in a crowd,

And almost knock her down,

A soft "I'm sorry!" may bring smiles

And a rub out that old frown.

Apologies, invariably,

Obliterate mistakes;

And three small words, "I love you!"

Can erase the worst heartaches.

Author Unknown

Art n 4x6 size

Picture Profile 

card made for 

Irish Rose

A Yellow Rose for You!

A Yellow Rose 

for you!

Hand drawn in Prisma color pencils.

WHO HATH A BOOK

Who hath a book

Has friends at hand,

And gold and gear

At his command;

And rich estates,

If he but look,

Are held by him

Who hath a book.

Who hath a book

Has but to read

And he may be 

A king indeed;

His kingdom is

His inglenook;

All this is his

Who hath a book.

Wilbur D. Nesbit

THE ANVIL-GOD'S WORD

Last Eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door,

And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;

Then, looking in, I saw upon the floor

Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.

"How many anvils have you had," said I

"to wear and batter all these hammers so?"

"just one," said he, and then, with twinkling eye,

"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."

And so, thought I, the anvil of God's Word.

For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;

Yet, thought the noise of falling blows was heard,

The anvil is unharmed-the hammers gone.

Unknown

My Darling Husband

My Darling Husband as I sit here writing this letter my thoughts are on you. I do hope that you are warm not catching a chill. The nights are getting colder I wish you where home with me instead of fighting in this war. I do understand still wish you where home with me, your loving wife.

Shy

 

Shy

When Bertha asked me to draw this picture I thought oh my, I can't do that. But as I study it I decided that I could draw this picture and I did. I title it Shy, to me there stood 2 sisters shyly having their pictures taken.  

Best Friends

 

Best Friends playing with dolls under Mom sewing machine.

Collage 

Little Mr. Mischief

 

Now isn't this funny. When I first drew this picture I was so proud of it. Now as I'm looking at it I see so many flaws. Look at they eyes, now look at the shading around the mouth area. Oh my, what a mess. Hey though that is how we learn by drawing keeping the pictures going back through them then shake our heads asking our selves, what in the world was I thinking? 

Mail Art 4x6

 

ATCsforALL Art Group

Made for Sashibala 

LIFE LESSON

There are times in one's life when all the world seems to turn against us. Our motives are misunderstood, our words misconstrued, and unkind words reveals to us the unfriendly feelings of others.

 The fact is, that it is rare when injustice. or slights, patiently borne, do not leave the heart at the close of the day filled with a marvelous sense of peace-perhaps not at once-but after you've had a chance to reflect a bit. It is  the seed God has sown, springing up and bearing fruit.

We learn, as the years roll onward and we leave the past behind, that much we had counted sorrow, but proved that God is kind; that many a flower we'd longed for had hidden a thorn of pain, and many a rugged by-path led to fields of ripened grain.

 The clouds that cover the sunshine; they cannot bannish the sun. And the earth shines out the brighter when the weary rain is done. We must stand in the deepest shadow to see the clearest light; and often through Wrong's own darkness comes the welcome strength of Right.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox