My Girl

You’re just going to have to forgive me today for being a very, very proud momma…

My beautiful middle daughter graduates from high school this week…

{I love the beautiful capturing of my sweet photographer child who doesn’t like to be photographed herself!}

…and I couldn’t be more pleased with the young lady she’s turned out to be…

{these photographs capture so beautifully her love of photography and reading…and orange sneakers!}

…for the good choices she makes, the friends that she keeps, the talents she has…

…the love that she shares…

{with my youngest daughter, who was along for the photo shoot at the beautiful, old San Juan Bautista Mission}

…the future she’s planning, the values she believes in, her faith, her hope…

…her beauty, her smile…just her. Every little bit of her.

I love you, my Rosie.

Mommy

{And I’m so grateful to our wonderful photographer friend (my “adopted daughter”) who captured her so beautifully & so naturally—Thank-you, Elizabeth.}

LiveJournal Tags: Rosie,graduation,photography,Elizabeth Newby

Jumbled Words

Jumbled words.  That’s kind of what a journal is all about…

 

A throwing-together of thoughts and ideas—all deliciously hodge-podged together with paint & glue, stamps & ink.  And lots & lots of doodling!

With each page, you start to think of things a little differently—see things a little differently as you go throughout your days…

And because it’s all paint & ink & doodling, messy hands & creative fun--you might just be lucky enough to start seeing things again the way you did when you were young…

…and that’s a very wonderful thing!

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: art journal,seeing,creating

Be Yourself

I’m coming to find, as I go along, that time is really quite precious…

…and that some of the things that I thought were so very important—really aren’t.

That the most important thing of all—besides loving others—is just to be yourself.

To have faith, to live your life the way you know it should be led, and to just be…

…to cut out the “noise” of the world—to be who you know you should be.  To come to understand why you are really here—to follow the right path and stay on it.  And just be.

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: art journal,thoughts,unique,be yourself,faith

{“unique” lady image courtesy of Crafty Secrets}