Happy Easter!

It is a beautiful day outside.

The sun is shining.

The birds are chirping.

The daffodils are blooming

A perfect Easter day.

I'm reminded of past Easter mornings when my children were small. The memory of the girls wearing new Easter dresses, shiny new shoes and fresh haircuts . My son searching for Easter eggs over and over again. It's nice to remember but it makes me sad that I can never recapture those moments. I keep seeing my oldest daughter in a light pink smocked dress with a beautiful white cardigan and her beautiful auburn hair - she must have been about six. That memory has haunted me all day. Holidays are so hard after losing a child....every holiday is filled with memories of my daughter, young and old. I should have made plans today....when I am alone with my thoughts...let's just say I'm not at my best!

Hope you are having a Happy Easter filled with joy and chocolate and peeps.

Be good to yourself!

Karen

Pain Free At Last.....with New Creations

A great big Thank You to those who wished me well during my headache from hell! I'm feeling better now and ready for a weekend of family, relaxation and creation. In other words, naps, seeing my kids and cutting and pasting! The piece above is something I just finished and will be posting in my Etsy shop today. The picture is actually my beloved's Menonite grandmother...the little one. Isn't she just the cutest?

This is from an altered book I've been working on for a while. I bought a box of 80 year old scrapbooks at an estate sale...This is one of them. I took it apart and started an altered book for the Music lover. This page was ruined from glued cards that had been peeled off so I took modeling paste and layered on then painted with a mixture of a soft pink and brown. It still needs to be aged but I love the quote...

This is the second page...the inside cover

The bottom half of the same page

The cover of the scrap book. A scrap of antique lace, a piece of an letter of 1897 and a beautiful pattern of the scrapbook....

The ghostly quality of this lady is just beautiful to me. She was in a 1920 copy of Redbook magazine that I found at the Flea Market. Apparently she was an eligible lady in her 20's....I guess an early version of online dating....

I wish you all a happy and blessed Easter weekend....

Have a great day,

Karen

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Thinking of Easter

Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone....Easter is just around the corner. Check out these eggs I picked up in Michael's this morning.

Aren't they adorable??? The pale colors are perfect cottage style. They come in bags of 15 - I bought one bag of brown eggs and one bag of colored. This bowl was full of vintage valentine cards yesterday, I took them right out and put the eggs in....I think it works what do you think?

Have a great Monday!

Karen