Same room, with horizontal bands of BenjMoore "Wenge"--love the color, a nice purply brown. Ha, and my laundry all over the room. This is a true to life photo, but I hope you are looking at the fireplace in these photos, look at the changes...Almost one for every year we lived there!
My name is Mom-Me at home. Friends who say my given name correctly are highly valued. Jenni-lyn, two distinct sounding names. Not Jen-all-lyn smushed together. I read every day, date husband at least weekly, watch films, daydream, teach early Daily Seminary-Bible Class to (only 13 this year!), cook extravagant meals, make famous fudge, take walks...but mostly I quilt and paint and parent!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Living Room Fireplace--last one!
Same room, with horizontal bands of BenjMoore "Wenge"--love the color, a nice purply brown. Ha, and my laundry all over the room. This is a true to life photo, but I hope you are looking at the fireplace in these photos, look at the changes...Almost one for every year we lived there!
Same Room Changes Fireplace
To start, imagine a white blank fireplace. White painted bricks, plain mortar. Then I moved in. Anything that stands still will get painted, at least once...
First it was matte greenish blue, for months. Then the silver center you see here.
Then all silvery with bands of matte blue green...
This is transitition painting day.
And it was like this for a long time...
First it was matte greenish blue, for months. Then the silver center you see here.
Then all silvery with bands of matte blue green...
This is transitition painting day.
And it was like this for a long time...
Same Room Changes
Growing up Creative
Roxie Jane is growing. She has been complaining of leg pains.
This was her pink, PINK unicorn bedroom I painted 2 months before we moved from Bailey Road.
I taught her and Sam how to paint when we moved. They worked together cutting in my room, and then did her room light aqua and learned how to roll, too! Then I taught her some mural tricks, and she chose to do a dolphin for her fish room. A grown up big girl room.
This is the collage I did in my creativity class. We were told to rip out magazine pictures as fast as we could, anything that appealed to us, and then make a collage out of them. The last day we had to write a letter to ourselves describing what we saw in the collage.
Dear Jennilyn, You are wonderful because you love stability as seen in these stones rounded and dense. Circles abound, connecting you to nature and mankind. The mother in you sees creation and spring eggs growing and learning, stretching and reaching towards the sky, flowing towards new ideas. Creative overlapping and doing many things at once is your strength. You can make anything more beautiful by paying attention to the small things, and giving them life. Stone foundation with curves moving upwards. Love, me.
My Parents
I don't have an electronic wedding photo of my parents, but as I searched for ones of them together, this was one of my favorites.
This is my dad's happy face. Surprised, delighted, excited for grandchildren news! They are good grandparents. We wish they lived closer to us. SLC is very far away.
My parents taught me to love the outdoors. We hiked a lot growing up. Gardened. Camped.
This is my dad with Grandpa Jack, his dad. You learn how to be parents by watching your parents parent their parents.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
1 temple, 2nd day, 3+ couples!
Billie & Stewart wanted to get married 2 September because HER parents were married 2 September. (John-Dad is the baby in this photo.)
Sandy & John wanted to get married in the SL temple. They chose 2 September, soonest they could get married before John was assigned to FBI work in Oklahoma.
Jane & Ken chose 2 September, Salt Lake Temple. Happy Anniversary to my parents, Johnny's parents, his grandparents and great grandparents! What a great legacy of marriage.
"Successful marriages and families are established and maintatined on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activites." --The Family: A Proclamation to the World
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