Staff kit c/o Jilly B.

I love doing challenges. Have I mentioned that lately? This is one for the staff board at work. Jill put together a lovely kit with some Hambly rubs, new MK paper, and some Jenni Bowlin goodies. The challenge was to use at least 1 hand cut paper embellishment (I think I have 3).

I took this photo, a long with a bunch more, one night when I was feeling particularly rad looking, which is a rarity in my life! I just don't have enough beauty shots. Unfortunately all the other pics in which my eyeballs have a starring role, the glare on my glasses is enough to blind the man on the moon. garbage...since I don't have a good photo editing program (read: I don't have any photo editing program!)

Speaking of editing photos, my hero Adrienne Looman is running an online course in which she shares some of her well-earned tricks of the trade. And she has some neat-o gorgeous pics! Would one day love to figure it out for myself, but until then I can pine away and visit her site daily for my fix!

P.S. The journaling reads as such: "ladies and gentlemen...Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded...in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagined."

This is from a much longer quote that many of you will recognize by it's starting line: "Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it." It is a rad little quote, and I recommend you look it up if you haven't already! (by Mary Schmich)