ta_merkins MOC LOs

Day 5 clean and simple:

 

day 8 flowers foliage frame

 

day 12: mixed media

 

day 13: shaker pocket

 

day 7 filled template

 

day 16: simple template

 

day 14: Mosaic

 

day 11: where I live

location elements: map paper circle, map marker, compass stamp, arrow circle, road sign, map brad
journaling: 431 words: I never wanted to move to Litchfield. As a kid growing up outside of Cedar Mills, Litchfield was always just there 12 miles away….but we worked and went to school in Hutchinson. Hutch was home…Hutch was familiar. As an adult, I enjoyed living in Hutch…it has Target and Aldi and the Dollar Tree plus Goodwill and Walgreens. It’s a good size (15000ish) and has educational choices for the kids. But when it came time to buy a house, we couldn’t find one in Hutch that met all of our needs, so we did look in LItchfield. We found a couple houses here that worked well for us and were in budget. So, we put an offer on one which was rejected….and then put an offer on another which was accepted. So, we moved to Litchfield. We have lived here a little over 2 years and while the town is still not my favorite, it does have some fabulous perks. One is our house. We have a nice big house where the boys have plenty of room and I have my own office/craft room. We have plenty of space for the doggos….and Cainan has a place to play and hide from us. There is a laundry room and lots of storage. There is the heated garage which means no more scraping windows or removing snow from the car! Seems like a small thing, but I tell you, I love it! We have a nice big yard that we can plant a garden in (although we haven’t yet) and we can sit on the deck to watch the birds play in the feeders or build a fire in the firepit in the evenings of fall or summer. Litchfield also has family. My parents still live outside of Cedar Mills, so they are about 12ish miles…but they come to Litchfield fairly often to run errands so we see them a bunch. Cainan’s parents live outside of Litchfield…so we can see them often and Cindy pops on over each week or every couple of weeks depending on what’s up. I do love when she comes on over and we can just chat for a bit! Zach and Hannah live a few blocks away and can come over or we can stop over there depending. And Sheila and MIke live in town too, so Gavin can go fishing with Cainan pretty much all summer long! So, yeah, Litchfield isn’t my favorite place…there’s not a lot here and the people are pretty much backwoods, but it’s got family and it’s got our home.

 

day 2: Then and Now photo

 

Day 10: 10 related photos

 

day 4: photo blended into background

 

day 9 2021 in review

 

day 3 Dangles

 

day 6 quadrant

 

day 1 Blind Scrap

1. background paper 2. photo 3. frame 4. fishing pole 5. fish 6. tackle box 7. cattails 8. wordart 9. grass 10. star

 

day 17 title bleeding off page

 

1. gesso 2. heart mat 3. snowflake 4. string 5. heart circle 6. flower 7. button 8. square brad 9. leaf 10. circle brad 11. other flower

 

day 19: same but different: 11 frames

 

day 22 make your own bobblehead

 

day 21 combine temps

from NBK: watercolor, torn paper with brads, grunge frame, tape
everything else from Sara Gleason