Happy belated birthday! I LOVE what you did with your song! That pic is gorgeous and the effect that you applied is just fabulous. I really enjoyed reading your story behind the lo. Like you, I'm happy with the age I am and I don't feel old. I'm going to have to do a lo like this. I enjoyed yours so much. Thank you for sharing. :)
I have a theory, that isn't football related, we both have blue eyes and that must be how we managed to use extremely similar color palates! Or ... you're in my head!!!
Seriously though, beautiful LO! And I love the self-reflection to go with the self-portrait of your beautiful eye! (And I agree with the self-reflection!)
This is gorgeous! You do have lovely eyes and this is a fantastic way to feature them in your memory keeping. I love your little story in the description. That's exactly how I feel about age and growing older.
Love all the quotes on the paper. You pretty much describe me, with the exception of sports, I am Not a sports lover, and like you, I am happy most of the time and always try to see the positive side of things. Yes, you have pretty eyes. I am way up there in age, but refuse to act my age.
My September Music Inspiration Challenge entry - AT LAST!
When I saw my song pick for September (using a color in the song title or artist name) was "Still the Same" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, I knew I was going to use the title and a self portrait since September is my birthday month. It just took me All. Dang. Month. to do it! (Really, the afore-posted cards took up most of my month - and motivation!)
Anyway, here's my self-portrait taken just after my birthday on Monday the 18th (following a wild, surprisingly really good birthday weekend)! I'm not much for selfies of just me, but I do like my eyes and they've always been my favorite feature SO I took a close-up and then used my favorite ColorPop app to gray everything else except my eyes. Since I used a filter (also in the app) my eyes look a brighter blue than they are, but I liked the affect so I kept it.
This was supposed to be for September's National Positive Thinking Day on 9/13 and the September Monthly Sketch Challenge, Week 1, but missed them both obviously... So it's going in the Second Chance Challenge. *sigh* My thought process around the title was a little reflection of where I am at the ripe old age bracket of 'late 30s'. I don't 'feel' older or worry overly much about age. I also don't think of myself as a certain age. I suppose sometimes I look in the mirror expecting to see my 18 or 22-year-old self and am surprised when I look the same and yet not the same. I've noted a couple laugh lines and a gray hair or two, but I don't obsess about it. I see myself more that I'm getting better every year. Some things more so than others of course, procrastination and perpetual tardiness being a couple of them. But I'm still the same me - Virgo, book lover, daydreamer, artsy/creative, relentlessly optimistic (with a little realism dashed in there as part of the growth aspect), sports lover and generally happy. Those things haven't changed from when I was a kid. I've added wife, mother, full-time administrator, wine-drinker, soccer coach, taxi driver, scheduler, homework overseer, scrapbooker, blogger, Facebooker, Pinterest-follower among other things to the adjectives that describe me over the years. Its fun to see where I am now and where I'll be in another 10-20 years or so.
Overall, I'm still the same me.
I used my new favorite DCWV paper pad called Zodiac. LOVE the blues and purples and black and silver color combo - and it was perfect since I needed to use silver for the Music Inspiration twist! I got messy, inky, stampy and this came together in less than an hour once I finally just sat down and started playing. Love how it turned out! Including in October Girls Only, October National It's My Party Day and my Indefinite Hoarders challenge.
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