HONESTY & WISDOM ~ Inspirational ;)

This morning I made another page with 'Inspirational Frames 1' (by LLL Creations). After making the first one last night I continued to look through my War of 1812 re-enactment pics and found these. We see this man Jeff Wakefield (a.k.a. Sutler Cyrus) at all of the re-enactments and have enjoyed talking to him in the past, but I really didn't know much about him. I did a quick search and found a ton of info on him. He's a real Renaissance man with many talents and VERY entertaining, lol. It's because of Lil's frames that I started looking at my old pics with fresh eyes :)

The signs in the bottom pic that I'm "pointing at" (a bit hard to read on this smaller size image) says...
LEAVE A LOONEY
(OR MORE IF YOU WILL)
THE WEASEL WILL DANCE FOR YOU
NOT BAD FOR ROAD KILL

And the one below says...
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH MY WEASEL! :)

Of couse it's not actually roadkill. And if you don't know, a "looney" is the nickname of a Canadian $1 coin.

And just for fun, here's Sutler Cyrus talking about the candy he sells... Cartridge Candy.

IMAGINE ~ Inspirational ;)

I bought these 'Inspirational Frames' (by LLL Creations) today because they reminded me of Motivational posters and I thought they would be fun to play with. I was looking through my photos to see what I could use with one of the frames (there's 12 different ones in the pack) and came across this pic.

Every few years we go to watch one of these 1812 re-enactments at Old Fort Erie (or sometimes to ones in Niagara-on-the-Lake). The battle re-enactments in Fort Erie are quite spectacular with actual musket and cannon fire from both sides (British and American), great special effects, noise and smoke, and they involve about 1000 people in period clothing. I have LOTS of photos from these events, but this one always makes me smile.

This year is the Bicentennial of the War of 1812.

1945 C.W.A.C. Mom

I'm continuing work on my heritage pages. I used one of my sister Lil's beautiful kits 'Vintage Sepia' (LLL Creations) for most of this page about our Mom. The little Memories tag is from 'Clementine' (Rebel Without a Pause). And I made a few things... the Sergeant's patch, the Canadian Women's Army Corps pin and the army button were all extractions from photos and enhanced in PSP. The vintage postcard is a crop from a multi-colour C.W.A.C. poster, which I aged to dull it down to the right tone for the page. And the letter is a real WWII letter from history archives ... I aged it and blurred it.

Surfing the Interweb Thingie

We were at my brother's on Saturday night and he was trying to look up something on the internet. John is not web savvy and has never been on Facebook. He was cracking me up as he was trying "to surf", haha.

I used some of my sister Lil's kits to make this. Most of it is from 'Water Fun' (LLL Creations); the background is one of Lil's 'Stitched Papers', and I also used one of her 'Journaling Clip Boards'.