Always, forever, still . . . my love
Hello to you and thanks ever-so-much for stopping in today!
I am 'diverting' from the Christmas Season at hand - as I haven't any finished projects yet to post!
I hope to soon, but I've learned not to promise lately : J *sigh*
Here is a Teeny Mini Album I created a few months back. It is only about 3 or 4 inches tall; and the same wide. It's in a neutral palette and a bit grungy which is my tend (but not really that grungy, since it includes bows!) LOL This was made to hold some very special photo's of my dear late husband, Alan.
The tags are all cut from kraft cardstock. It also includes white corrugated board, cheese cloth, burlap, canvas, ribbon, paper lace, pearls, German glitter glass, and Stickles; and I used Gesso and stencils on some of the tags where you see the raised media.
ABOVE: is a photo from our Wedding Day. We were so young my dear friends~ Many thought we would not 'last.' We celebrated 35 years together in March of 2014. We faced much joy and much adversity; as I'm sure all of us can say~
Here is Alan on Christmas day at 15 Yrs old. That is an 'Ohio State' cap on his head : ) Go Buckeye's!
ABOVE with one of his Dogs. Yes, Alan had very long hair at that time! After all it WAS the 1970's my friends! *sigh*
He was a huge animal lover.
BELOW is a photo of Al and his trusty "Sydney" the 'Cattle Dog'!!! She was an Australian Red Healer; and in his hip pocket ALL the time. You can see how she would 'wrap' herself around him! I had mentioned in an earlier post that when Al passed away she became sick and would not eat. She died one month after him.
My handsome man~
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| Alan with his mother and 3 sisters. They were super close and some of the loveliest people in my life. Genuine beautiful souls. We lost his mother the year before Alan. It has been so difficult. |
I need to say that I do NOT have blogging down very well! I had to add my text to the photo as a 'caption' in order to be able to add text at all on this bottom part! I'm confused...
I can not figure out sometimes, how to post text in between photo's or how to get my 'curser' where I want it so I can add text! (Help blog police help!) I can't get rid of excess wasted space between photos and/or paragraphs...and other issues. I need a class for sure!
SOO If I can't get to the bottom of this photo, PLEASE know I appreciate your visit!! And thank you for looking in today~ Blessings to you, Karen
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| I apologize for the dark photo's, I don't get it! but here is our wonderful family~ | The top photo includes me and Alan with our eldest daughter and her family. Looks SOO dark here. The bottom one our younger girl with her family. We were at Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. Both our daughters/families live in MT. We have 7 grand children and God gave us the 2 BEST son-in-laws in the world~ Thank you God! : ) |
Hi Karen. I hope that you had a great turkey day. Beautiful family and hubby. Love your book. Regarding spacing, this is what I do, though I am no pro by any means. Whenever I do a post, i start it with a few blank lines by tabbing down, and then I load in all my photos first and click on each one to size it to large. I personally no longer like to do the Blogspot caption thing since I like to manually put the description above the photo that's coming. Sometimes when people put the captions under the photo it makes the reader have to scroll back up to the photo again to see what is being described, and I sometimes find that this makes reading the post slower. After my photos are in, I go back to the blank space at the top and add my greeting, then tab down and hit the center button at the top to add my first "caption". Space again (or hit return) if you want a nice space between the caption and photo. To get to the second photo, click on the first one and arrow to the right and hit return again. Hit the center button at top and type in your caption. Repeat for all photos. After you are done with the photos, you can get rid of any unwanted spacing by placing your cursor over the blank lines you wish to delete and back spacing. Hope this helps. If you have any questions, email me! Hugs, Sue
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Sue!! I appreciate your visit and comments! Always do : ) I will try what you said and hope it works for me. I did do the first steps you mentioned. But after loading the photo's I could Not (for the life of me!) get my cursor in between the photo's to put my (caption) description 'above' the photo. It was a mess... but next time I post I will try what you said about 'centering' first. Yikes I wish there was a "community collage" class on the details of blogging!! LOL LOL I would be so happy to have hands on instructors! Sheesh, I'm showing my age here: ) Thanks for the help Sue and have a great week! Karen
Deletelove the tag book mini!! Great gift and BEAUTIFUL!!!
ReplyDeleteAlways appreciate your visits Connie!! Have a great week! ~Karen
DeleteOh Karen, what a sweet and heartfelt post. Your photos greatly touched my heart and my, what a joy your Alan was in your life. I am so glad the two of you were able to celebrate 35 year together - such a sweet blessing, dear one.
ReplyDeleteHis photo from the 70's reminded me of my dad. He didn't have hair quite that long, but it was shoulder-length. I have a picture of him back then and it's one of my favorites {{smiles}}
Thank you for sharing this sweet post. Hugs to you!
Oh Stephanie, thanks so very much for the visit! and taking time to comment and encourage me! OH MY, those 70's pics! (yikes: ) I truly appreciate you~ Karen
DeleteSuch a wonderful little album, filled with such wonderful photo's of your husband and family. We too met when we were 16 and were married at 19, I look back at our wedding photo's now and think wow we were just kids but back then we couldn't wait. My hubby had the same long hair and now that he has retired from the Air Force and had to have short hair for 23 years he is rebelling and growing it long again, LOL.
ReplyDeleteI just love all the great ways you have embellished this and wrote on them, so neat and makes it very interesting to look at. I wish I could help you out with the problems you are having, but I would probably have to be there in person to see what you are doing. You know I really didn't notice until you pointed it out, we would have just thought that is what you intended to do ;)
Hi Connie,
DeleteI want to thank you for blessing me with another visit!! Always happy to see you stopped in. It was therapeutic for me to make this mini album and enjoyed it too~ take care! Karen
So very precious and beautiful, dear Karen. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely week.
Hugs and love,
Marie
Marie you are such a sweetie~ THANK YOU for stopping in to see my mini album! Hope your week is going well. Blessings! Karen
DeleteHello dear Karen,
ReplyDeleteYou created a very beautiful memory album, with such wonderful photoes of your Alan, and his and yours family. The collaged pages are so wonderfully done, and in the lovely neutral tones . The pictures of your young husbond is beautiful, you were truly very young, and beautiful looking both ,dear Karen. It must be wonderful having those memories together in your little album, showing also his family and your kids and grandkids, not to forget the sweet dog, whom loved him so much, too.
I`m sending you warm hugs and love
Dorthe
Thank you for the visit and sweet encouraging comment Dorthe! You are always such an encouragement~ I feel your hugs dear friend : ) Blessings to you, Karen
DeleteHi Karen, your mini album is precious and such a wonderful tribute to your hubby. 35 years is a long time together and I am so sorry for you loss. The pics are special and I love the family pic of your Alan with his mom and sisters. Your wedding day pic is a treasure.
ReplyDeleteYour post with the text looks beautiful to me but if you are trying to line up text between, when you are creating your post. there is a pull down right at the top of the post box with different ways to line up the paragraphs. It can be confusing at first but once you find it, you'll have no problem. Once you choose that per post, it will automatically set up between each pic after you add the picture. Hope this helps a bit.
Thanks for sharing your lovely project with so much meaning. This touched my heart sweet friend. Hugs and Blessings xo
Oh Wow Celeste, I didn't know about that pull down; or at least don't remember! I am pretty pitiful with this stuff and am surprised I've made it this far! LOL Thanks so very much. I will give it a try next post~ And for the visit, THANK YOU! again. You are a busy gal and I appreciate your taking time to visit and support & encourage me! I'm glad you like the little album. It is close to my heart. I hope the rest of your week is wonderful and blessed. ~Karen O
DeleteOHHHH Karen I am so sorry for your loss......it is obvious you had a great love for one another from the beautiful album. I lost my Mamma two months ago, this will be the first holidays without her. They are always in our hearts. It is so hard. hugs, cherry
ReplyDeleteCherry thank you so much for taking time to visit! I absolutely love your work~ I appreciate your words and am so sorry your Mamma is gone : ( The 'firsts' are hard and can seem foreign. I know you will make the best of it and do what you can. Take it easy~ Blessings to you, Karen
DeleteI am very sorry for your loss. You are very creative, everything is beautiful, and I just love your profile pic with the rooster head!
ReplyDeleteWow Linda, Thanks so very much! I am happy you stopped in to see my album today - and thanks for taking time to leave a comment~ Much appreciated! Hope you have a blessed week! Karen
DeleteSuch a beautiful heart warming post in honor of your dear Alan, Karen.
ReplyDeleteI love your creativity with your album, just lovely.
Stephanie is right, your husband looks a bit like her dad back in the 70's. My how time changes us.
How wonderful that you proved people wrong and had a blessed marriage for 35 years together. Yes, marriage has it's bumps in the road for all of us, but that is what makes us stronger and love one another even greater year after year.
It's nice to see that someone else has issues with blogging and I'm not out there on an island isolated alone.
I'm right there with you in that I would love a hands on crash course for blogging.
It was good to visit with you this evening ~~
Joy! Debbie
Thank you so much Debbie! I am blessed with your visit friend~ I think someone should offer an on-line "how To Blog" class! No doubt there is such a thing: ) Have a wonderful week-end ahead. Hugs, Karen
DeleteGorgeous little album. Thank you for sharing these precious memories.
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