Bonnie Ballentine

This exercise always challenges me. I would not normally use so many elements. I never like what I create in this challenge but it stretches me and my creative process. The Dogwood and Maple trees are in my backyard. I thought the Maple was going to have a lot of red this year but not so...mostly yellow.

Carole, could you use your computer's history to find that magazine? Or your internet history?

Laurie, I also thought of the idea to run the circles off the page. I didn't but I like the effect. Well done!

They have them in Virginia. Go here to search your area: https://locations.noodles.com/search.html

N = Noodles & Company

Jack In The Box has an amazing chocolate milk shake. There are no JITB near me...closest one is Tennessee, I think. I first tried their milk shake in St. George, Utah.

G = grease...and lots of it!

I reached out to a friend from MSN Forum days: Hi, Kate. This is Bonnie from PSP forums from long ago. An online friend of mine, Carol Asselin, posted this request on The Scrapbook Campus. She is the founded and instructor there. Her message:This is a worldwide community and I am taking a chance. I would love to reconnect with an old pen pal I had in my teens and early twenties. Her name was Sharon Philpott and she was from Tasmania. I had a picture of her with a banner as she was Miss Tasmania Junior, maybe around 1973-74 or so. She had three younger brothers and no sister. When searching a while ago, I had stumbled upon an article in a health magazine or something about a lady with that same name and from the photo, she would be around the right age (about 61-62). It was in Australia, but I cannot find that link anymore. I had sent an email to the magazine/newspaper asking for additional information but never received any reply at all so I am not even sure if they received it. Would anyone be able to help me find and connect with her? Any suggestions you could offer on how to search Australia would be appreciated. Thank you! Hi Bonnie I don't know if I can help but will try. Does Carol know Sharon's birthday? What town/city in Tasmania did she come from? I might be able to search the Births, Deaths and marriages of the town/city in Tasmania Thank you, Kate. I'll ask her. If successful, it may be a start to find her

E = Einstein Brothers Bagels

B = Baskin-Robbins

U = Uncle Julio's

O = onions

G = Godfather's Pizza

B = burgers

Andy, Fran, Judy and I shared a fun filled day recently. We shopped a flea market and thrift store and broke bread in a small, local eatery. We also shopped an old-fashioned General Store. Andy and Fran were high school sweethearts and continue to fall deeper in love with each passing day. For the background I used a photo of leaves; selected about a 2 inch square. Using the pick tool I stretched it to fill my layout, then applied a gaussian blur. I extracted the leaf at the top, duplicated it. I used Selections...select selection borders for the photo. I also inserted a heart for the "o" in love.

Thank you, Jannette! Jo took them.

Template 203 of Lady 22, AKA Bourico Casper, Digital Scrapbooking. Font: Raccoon Cookie Alpha from Creative Fabricia.

My friend, Jo, owns this plant and celebrates every year when it blooms. Template 003: @Sas_templates_wintertime Kit by Saskia Veldhoen at Digital Scrapbooking. Font in rectangle: Raccoon; title font: Kristen ITC The text in the rectangle reads: Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to a large number of flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, bloom only once a year, for a single night, though most put out multiple flowers over a period of several weeks, each of which opens for only a single night.

I'm in!

Day 11 Thank you, Carole, for a fun bootcamp! You rock! A cat will always find an empty box and then...fill it...as Poppy is demonstrating in this photo...in January, 2012. Fonts are Brush Script MT and Monotype Corsiva. Brad in title: Sheila Reid, Furry Friends Kit, elements. Metal pawprint brad. Digital Scrapbooking. Paw print: Christina C, Cattitude Kit, paw print 1. Digital Scrapbooking.

Me too, Michele!

Coming up your way is on my bucket list. I'll let you know...