Endless Summer Creations

The beginning of Carl's Sonic Mania Diorama, depicting the Studiopolis World!  An idea that completely happened by chance.  I was down at the Goodwill when I saw two old fish tanks for $10 each.  One of them I'm using for a Christmas Diorama.  But the other one gets this cool life! Color pictures printed from the web Beginning of base with yellow and blue Legos "Kragled" into place 😀 Decorations from a Lego Friends set and pearly pebbles hot-glued into place as well ...and more to come!

Our faerie gardens grew...  

Our very first Big Dipper Halloween Pumpkin!  We love this! Make this or other amazing pumpkins with CountryLiving's 50 Seriously Spooky Pumpkin-Carving Ideas .

Our black pumpkin canvas.  Can't wait until the paint dries all the way so we can go to the next steps! 

Son and I made these gorgeous little gardens today in less than 10 minutes... 

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself – Well, How did I get here? “Once In a Lifetime,” Talking Heads And you may find yourself living in a 1978 Champion motorhome in an RV park in the Washington forest.  And you may find that the family you thought would always be there was gone.  And you may find yourself in a life which makes no sense, in which the train jumped the track long ago and continues to hurtle helter-skelter through the wilderness heading to destinations unknown, leaving behind a family that once was.   Carla used to wish so badly that train could be stopped, turned around and returned to the life that made sense, in which Carla knew who she was and didn’t have to keep adapting herself anew just to survive.. ...

Each day we drove on to these stepping stones on our trip home back across the nation saw places too big to fathom desert which stretched on forever, unchanged for centuries occasional border patrol checkpoints along the highway vast skies over dry mountains then eventually the sand gave way to green the waters drew close again we heard 2013 arrive from our San Antonio room by the next night we walked the streets of the French Quarter observing the spoils of the night before lingered over a meal of Big Easy favorites the promised land was within our reach now we would tarry there until the next chapter began but the highways have never stretched away so vast, free and wild since

Right now my son and I are reading Pax by Sara Pennypacker.  The chapter we read last night got me to thinking, how the character Vola says she didn't remember one single true thing about herself after she had left the military, after going to war and then coming out as a civilian. Has that ever happened to you?  Where you just lost yourself, forgotten when your core values are?  I have.  I've been in the military too but that's not where mine were really waylaid.  That didn't come until much later. Whenever I feel like I've forgotten what my core values are, I think back to my 16-year old self first.  After that would be my college self, where I began to come into my own and make choices as an adult for the first time.  I'm then refreshed as to my core truths, when I am my honest self - some of which are: 1) If you can't count on family and know they will always have your back, that's not a family. 2) So-called "love"...

Or an A-ha! moment as Oprah would say.  And I have my beautiful son to thank for it.  I have been stuck on a project that's very close to my heart but nothing seemed to coming out the way I wanted to say it.  But my son has now, through the strength of his love, given me a breakthrough idea.  I cannot wait to take it for a ride!