We ran for our lives!

Earlier this morning Bryce and I were having a blast looking for some neat stuff to make a few more crayon rubbings for another GPP Street Team project when an extremely loud noise and a blindingly bright flash of light hit the ground so hard it made the hair on our necks stand straight up on end! I told Bryce we couldn't go near it until we called Grandpa John. But Bryce being the adventurous soul he is he decided we needed to sneak a look before I made the phone call. We found a strange nest in the trees near the back fence that leads to the empty field where the light hit. It was glowing and began to make a noise I can't even begin to describe! I got this photo before we ran for our lives!

Actually, playing around with some Photo Shop layers I made a quick digital picture to capture this shot!

Have a great hair day! Becci

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Actually, I don't really see you... but you knew that! Ha!

Crusade #21 - Gravestone rubbing attempt and a fun outing!

Michelle Wards Green Pepper Press Street Team monthly project is doing wax rubbings. Click the banner below to go to her site if you want to find out more...

The idea of going to a cemetery to get rubbings sounded interesting to me. After all this would be something that's certainly isn't an ordinary thing to do in the course of a day and I get thrilled when out of the ordinary happens! SO Bryce and I set out for the adventure! We gathered paper and couldn't find the crayons so settled on pastels. After getting to the cemetery I discovered I didn't put the paper in the van! But I did have an insert from the newspaper we could use...We have a little old cemetery close by that I thought would be a good one to find older stones to get some good rubbings from. It was such a pretty afternoon and being in the cemetery really was quite relaxing and peaceful. The neat and unexpected thing was that Bryce and I had the opportunity to talk about dieing. This is quite a big subject for a little guy of 4 yrs. But it is a very important thing to talk about at what ever age. Death is made out to be so scary in out society and can be such a paralyzing fear to so many people.

The stone I picked had a deco looking flower design on it. Bryce was my photographer. He's really good at getting the perfect shot too! "Grandma, just sit right here and I'll shoot from over here", were his instructions..He's a natural!

The rubbing turned out to be a dud! But after I fixed it up digitally with borders I think it looks kinda neat! I was disappointed that I didn't get a good rubbing though...I guess pastels aren't the best choice to use for this.

BUT!

That evening I went to the class I started at our local Center for the Arts and guess what technique we played with was!

RUBBINGS! :-)

so I got some good rubbings accomplished that day and I ended up with a neat piece of art!

I also used large bubble wrap and some corrugated card board to print some more texture with acrylics over the crayon rubbings... You can click on the picture to see a larger view if you'd like.
Have a great hair day! Becci

Joint project with my son Brian

Brian is always ready to dress up for an occasion and I'm always ready to help him out ! Actually both my sons Brian and Sean have been willing to let me dress them up in some pretty great costumes over the years for Halloween and for other various parties!

Brian's get-up this time was "old Gregg"!

If you haven't seen Old Gregg then here's a clip to educate you on

the latest British comedy nut-ball:

I had so much fun with Brian designing an Old Gregg costume. This seems a bit silly and yes...it was! We both will remember the fun we had together for this project for a very long time and to me that's priceless! It won't be long at all before he'll be moving out to start his own adult life. I know we will still have fun in the years to come but right now he's still my little boy!

The hair was made of plastic sea weed from the pet supply store for fish tanks. I sewed it to a black cap and added green ribbon and torn scraps for texture. I covered an old sweat shirt with silver fabric and not seen in the photo Brian is wearing a pink Tutu, green tights and white boots! It was so flippin" funny!

I was playing around with Photo Shop and digitally altered the photo of Brian as Old Gregg and this is what I came up with...WOW!!!

Have a great hair day! Becci

The New Earth I have something neat to write to you about today…

There are so many good thoughts in this book... I started underlining the sentences that I connected with but realized I was underlining the entire book!

I had a neat “AH-HA” moment and wanted to share it with one of the artists in “The Artful Blogger”. Her name is Zorana. I just had to e-mail her about a connection I had made after reading her “Artful Blogger” article.

This is a clip of the article. Click on the picture to read it better.

Hi there Zorana! My name is Becci and I wanted to share a thought with you...I finished reading a book this morning (a great book as a matter of fact) called "The New Earth". There was a thought that really really hit me right in my heart and I felt so good after realizing what it meant! Anyway, at lunch I picked up my "The Artful Blogger" magazine to brows through while eating. I opened up to you article on Pg.22 and what you said in the opening paragraph connected with the thought I read this morning! I wanted to share it with you. Since I'm not a very good typer I scanned it in so you could read it. I hope you can read it and I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think...

Have a great hair day! Becci in Kansas

http://beccirenfro.blogspot.com/

Click on the picture to read the excerpt from "The New Earth"

This was her reply…

Dear Becci, I don't even know how to start this email.... With a 'thank you' for taking the time to write me. I LOVE that you scanned the pages with your notes on the side. It has such an charm... something you don't see every day. I had a lot of trouble thinking what to write for Artful Blogger. Nothing I could say seemed as interesting as other articles I read. After several sleepless nights I decided to write the same way I create - from my heart and without censoring it. I feel uncomfortable reading it even now in print.... simply because it is honest and true and maybe not 'cool'.I listened to "The New Earth" as an audio-book and remember those paragraphs... I remember being in my car and thinking "this is ME"... Throughout the book I felt many times that I don't need to 'get it'... it's natural for me.... and it was heart warming to understand why I feel 'different' and that it's mostly a good thing. I am very touched and happily surprised, and very flattered that you understood my words and made the connection. Thank you very, very much. I visited your blog and have it bookmarked now. I couldn't believe that you are a grandmother (of an adorable boy!). I also love you "Have a great hair day!" finish... I had to smile at that, because now at 43 I have better hair than I did when I was young. At least - I think so... I enjoy my completely wild and unruly and suddenly curly hair (why did it turn curly now I have no idea.. but it's a good thing). Thank you once again.

Have a very happy weekend, Zorana http://zoranaland.blogspot.com/

The thrill of this connection that Zorna and I made via “blogging” is something I can’t easily put into words but what I do know is this connecting is what the whole idea of blogging is all about! “The Artful Blogger” magazine is a huge part of these types of connections being able to actually happen! This is a big thought but I believe that because of the beautiful blogs they are helping to educating the public about they are contributing to bringing about world peace. These blogs are from every corner of the Earth! I have personally connected with, gotten to know and understand people from all over the world! It is proven that the more a person gets to know someone the easier it will be to forgive them in turn the less they will be angry with them and want to declare war! Told you it’s a big thought! HA!

Have a great hair day! Becci Renfro in Wichita, Kansas
http://beccirenfro.blogspot.com/