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Lifebook 2016 Week 3 with  Melody Ross "Your Sacred Box of Wisdom" http://willowinglove.blogspot.co.uk/p/life-book-2016.html "My Sacred Box of Love" This week's lesson, with the fabulous Melody Ross, was wonderful.  I love the way she encourages people to be their very best and don't let anything get you down.  Anyway, Her lesson was on creating a sacred box of wisdom.  Everyone has this that they carry around, things that they have learned and earned to make them a better person.  I, however, decided that I needed a box of love to carry around with me right now and so that is the direction I went with this lesson.   

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As I sat in my studio listening to the moaning of our 18 year old do who is in 'hospice' in my studio because she can't get up and down the stairs to the house and has no bodily function control, I painted.  This week's lesson was titled "Reach for the Stars" with Jenny Wentworth.  But all I could do was think about Chi Chi.  I listened to her in pain and thought about all of my memories with her.  I tried not to cry.  I talked to a couple of friends about the grief I was feeling and how to decide when it was time to have her put to sleep or just make her comfortable until she passes.  I painted all of the beautiful flowers thinking about these things.  As a family, we decided that it was time.  The decision, and the thought of loss for our beloved pet of 18 years, weighed heavily in my heart.  But it is time.  For Chichi.  So I dedicate this piece, not to reaching for the stars myself, but to the memory- the life and death- of Chi ...

This month's theme is RESTORE and I love this month's theme as well as the kit!  Well, the second journal prompt is up and here is my take on it:  The Journaling explains the Layout.  I used all kit content from the spray ink, the stencil, the embellishments, and the Project Life Cards.  I had previously made the doll out of paper clay and we used acrylics to paint her up!  Just FYI...... Sharpie Permenant Marker Pens are NOT Permenant!  Boo Sharpie..... I had to repaint her face.... but, oh well.  I hope you enjoy this post as much as I did creating it!

V-Day 2014 was the best of my life.  I shared it with my sweetie ie whom I married this past New Year's Eve in Las Vegas ;-)  One of the reasons that it was the best was because of the gift that he gave to me.  I know that sounds materialistic and shallow but, really, it's not.  You see, he wrote me a poem and read it aloud to me.  In the poem he told me, for the first time, that he was madly in love with me.  I won't be sharing that poem, of course, but what I will share is the painting that I had made for his Valentine's Day gift.  It actually almost did not exist.  Thank goodness for spray fixative!  When I was finished, I left it on my workspace over night.  When I woke up the next morning, it was covered in water!  Standing water!  It was a watercolor painting!  The cat had knocked over my huge jar of paintbrush water trying to steal his favorite wash brush.  Anyway, with a little touch up here and there, it wa...