AJC 2011 Week 8 - Itinerary: Simply Started: I PLAN

…(when we arrive in Italy) to practice ‘l’arte di non fare niente’ or the Sweet Art of Doing Nothing.
I once read somewhere that Joseph Campbell was giving a talk and at the end of it, a lady came up to him and after shaking his hand, told him rather worriedly that she was going traveling and was hoping that everything would go ‘according to Plan.’
Whereupon Mr Campbell took her hand, and said to her,
”My dear lady, I do hope for your sake, that things do NOT go Exactly as Planned.”

Kits Used:
B.Kerr’s Traveler World elements - clock face,hands, travel journal
Tangie Baxter: AJC Parcel 35 background paper, old books,
Tangie Baxer: Photochrome picture of Roman Coliseum
Coffee Ring: c/r free the net
FONTS: Tangie’s Mock Turtle and my own handwriting

AJC 2011 Week 8 - Itinerary: Verb of the Week: Reinforce-ments

or GLAZED, not GUMMED.

From Sophie's Notebook of Peculiar Suggestions:
For some strange reason, using glazed donuts Does Not work well as reinforcements.
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Kit used: Tangie Baxter: AJC11 Beginning Parcel - notebook and background paper.
Font: Tangie's wonderful Mock Turtle
Glazed donuts: local Timmys
Sophie's Spring Outfit: Her own design

AJC 2011 Adventure Quest: February: Adjective Week 3 - M-R

There Goes That Valentine Week That Was.
I am still finding chocolate wrappers scattered about in Sophie’s room and an empty heart shaped chocolate box. Hmm..so that’s where they went.
Sophie once more took me to see that Wise Woman who is Never Wrong ( I think she just wanted to show off her new Spring Outfit, especially the Tilley Hat!) and wouldn’t you know it! She had baked a heart shaped chocolate angel food cake for us.
I had one cup of tea and that was how long it took Sophie to skoffle it down..

Here are the Cards for the Week
Credits as always to Tangie Baxte for her AJC Parcels and the new QOC4 kit papers, and her Tribalations Mad Hatter Font!
Background photos: mine

13M - I am MARRIED to a MARVELLOUS man who makes a dozen red roses MAGIC-ally appear the Day Before Valentines!

14N – Ms D our Neighbour-Cousin rang our doorbell and dropped off these Valentine Brownies! What a NICE and NEIGHBOURLY thing to do !

15O – Despite the rain and storm outside the window, my pink tulip remains OPEN so that we may enjoy her colour and scent.

16P – 21st C. PARENTING
1 - Laptop (check)
2 – Able to type with the right hand (check)
3 – Rock baby with left hand (check)
4 – Starbucks coffee and cell within reach. (check)

17Q- This QUIRKY Bluejay loves to feed my QUIZZICAL Quail who
are QUICK to take advantage of his largesse!

18R – ROMANTIC and REFLECTIVE vintage roses.
Memories of a Love Lost and Found.

AJC 2011 Week 7 - Itinerary: Verb of the Week: Wonder

"We need a renaissance of wonder.
We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the eternal poetry,
the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."
~E. Merrill Root
This quote really resonated with my love for anything Renaissance - Medieval! It also echoes my word for the Year: Break Through.
I had wanted to use the Universum woodcut for a page on here and I felt this was the perfect fit.
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Coloured woodcut: Universum - C. Flammarion, Holzschnitt, Paris 1888,
Kolorit : Heikenwaelder Hugo, Wien 1998 - (Wikipedia: Common Licence)
Mirror: AJC11 Tangie & Holliwood Parcel 07 Frame 1
Northern Lights photo background: Flikr c/r free
Font: Franciso Luis Briosa

AJC 2011 Week 7 - Itinerary: Simply Started: I KNOW

I KNOW..(what you are thinking...)

"How could she possibly give up 25 years of Corporate Life, go live on an Island, rescue earthworms from rain puddles, wear yellow Gumbers with a skirt to go DownTown shopping and also to garden in, as well as travel with a Sassy Camel named Sophie who Insisted that I buy her 2 pairs of yellow Gumbers as well?”
Answer: Quite Easily.
Credits:
Background paper: Tangie Baxter: AJC11 Beginning Parcel 01
Photos: me in my Gumbers and Skirt taken by Mr Bear
(Nameless) Corporate Building where I served My Time (I'm actually perched on the
16th floor where I spent 10 years: Image: c/r free the net)
Sophie's yellow Gumbers: c/r free the net
Sophie’s Silhouette (now dressed by me): Tangie Baxter