Sandy Community Action Center Brochure

Trifold brochure for our wonderful center, serving families in the Sandy area. The notebook was one I had hanging around here, scanned in and then worked over in photoshop. I took out a busy background on the santa photo and enjoyed seeing it become a central happy item for this inside page.

clear thinking

Is there a better place in life to be? 

where have all the mousies gone?

Did you know that the way to identify a Douglas Fir cone was to identify the little mousies that are running to hide and disappearing under the layers of the cone? ( see their tails and hind legs?) Now you do.

lost in the woods

Did you ever play "lost in the woods" when you were little. I did and it's amazing how different your own backyard or the familiar park would actually look when pretending it was the deep and dark unknown.  Of course it was no fun to play unless you had a good friend to cower, hide, bravely fight and eventually triumph with. My friend was Annette.

the survivor cat

Years ago the newspaper ran a story about a cat that had been thrown off a bridge in Portland and had survived. This was the cat. The photo stuck with me. Scornful, but needing a home, needing someone to trust again. I originally painted her in water color and now here she is color enhanced with Photoshop, but still just as accusing as ever. I like to think of her finally in a home that brought out the purr in her.

Carpe diem

Seize the moment, idea, inspiration, head picture, dream,
fleeting thought. . .
and to be prepared to do this, carry a notebook, put it by your bedside, in your bag, and keep it with you. There are times in life when ideas are bursting all around, keeping you up at night and it's exhausting, BUT, there are dry times too. So my notebooks and little scraps of paper are my pantry of tomorrow.