Africa

It's been quite a while since I posted. Thank the Lord, we've had some work and many more children are going to be adopted.

Saxon Holt is having a contest this week on the MyMemories Blog. Use any of her kits to make a page. This page has been kicking around my head for the past few weeks, ever since I bought her "At the Museum - Africa" kit. We've helped a lot of families adopt from Africa, Ethiopia especially. Every family comes back with tales of the street children, especially in Addis Ababa. As many orphanages open, they are filled to capacity in less than 24 hours. So many parents dying of AIDS, there just aren't enough relatives left to care for the children. So the kids are forced on the streets. Prey to whomever is bigger or stronger. Some organizations are trying to spread rumors that the children in Africa are being trafficked. Spend a day in Addis Ababa. Worse, spend a night there. There are so many true orphans wandering the streets, who would need to steal any from their parents? Get real! The eyes of these children haunt me. My dream is that organizations like UNICEF would make it easier for these children to be adopted, and stop putting up roadblocks. These kids need to be safe. They need families!
I'll get off my soapbox now...

We had a light snow on Monday. This is after Sunday being 70º! I wasn't sure how long the snow would last, so I hurried and snapped as many photos as I could. The first thing that struck me as I left the house were the spiderwebs. Spiderwebs filled with snow. Just beautiful!!

I used Saxon Holt's "Snowy Day" for the papers and elements and http://www.dafont.com/halloween-spider.font for the spiderweb font.

My side garden was just getting green with all the lily-of-the-valley leaves shooting high in the air. I love the glossy emerald green leaves.
I used "Winterland" by marieh and (see below) http://www.dafont.com/santas-sleigh.font for the font.

I didn't use any kit for this. Just my photos and some free clipart I got off the web for the daffodils. The font is from http://www.dafont.com/kingthings-christmas.font

I've been playing with my Scrapbooking, even though I haven't updated the blog till now. Here's my efforts from two weeks ago when MyMemories had a BlogContest to tell a story with one word.

I misunderstood and did this one first:

And I made this companion page to go with it.
Isn't this a fun idea? My daughter went to a birthday "tea party" for one of her best friends and they had this idea to take pictures with their faces in the frames. I think it is a great idea!

Here are some more pictures from the same tea party.