the Life of Olena

We just painted our living room and hallway so I have been thinking about a few ideas of what I want to do with my pictures.  This is what I would like to do down my hall way.  I like the clean straight lines. And I will use black frames too.      For my big wall in our living room, since I have been practicing my mural skills, I think I want to try something like the family tree above.  Couple of big differences though, my walls are "cracked wheat" so I don't want my tree to be as bold.  I am thinking just a few shades darker than my walls and have the tree be more of a background behind the picture collage.  I also plan to have a much more elaborate collage set up with all white frames.  I decided I will lay out the way I want the pictures and then I will paint the tree to flow with my lay out.  Hopefully it will be as easy as I make it sound, and that it looks nice! I also seen this one below with the colored bir...

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This was at Rickies babyshower last weekend.  I edited one that turned out really nice but I am new to using Photoshop and having some issues with getting them from PS to the blog! so you get the raw image.          these are her original skates.  She has been wearing them for 4 years.  They are a size 12.  When we bought them she only wore an 8 but didn't have a problem working with them.  She only wears a 10.5 now so I think I have at least 1 year if not 2 more years left. **she does actually have a newer pair with lighted wheels that she got 2 years ago, but she insists that they are not as fast. 

Sadly, in my family, there has been a bit of a dark cloud hanging over us so I haven't been much in the mind set to blog.  Despite today's overcast, today seemed like a good day to try and find my way back to "normal"so I am hoping that a little blogging will help with that.  We have suffered the loss of our cat, Otis, to a tragic death.  He was 9 years old and he is the one that we have recently found after disappearing for over 4 months.  Then a week later, we quickly and unexpectedly lost my grandfather.   He will be missed dearly.  I have to admit, but it was hard to watch him suffer the loss of my grandma in August.  He had a hard time moving on without her so I have to say I am very comforted knowing he is back with her and finally at peace.   On a light note, Rickie's baby is due in about 4 weeks...I am so excited.  I think this week they may have finally decided on a name but I will keep that secret for now :) She d...