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[MJG017]

@Former-Member 

Amazing colours!  I'm sure Hopeandlove would have loved it!  Somewhere out there, she's smiling a little more.

[avant-garde]

So I start a new 2 week project tomorrow... and I have this idea I want opinions on...

I want to do a mini beach board like last time... I have a fair amount of child loss anniversaries coming up (from Saturday)...

I want to do a large heart shaped mandala and to do the painting bit tomorrow... then within each section I want to write using paint markers each of their names...

I don't think they're beach boards anymore... they feel more like memory boards...

@MJG017 @Oaktree @Former-Member @Jynx @tyme 

Thoughts?

[Former-Member]

@avant-garde i love this idea. 

I know it's going to be a tough time for you, but I hope doing something like this can help you to get through ♥️. 

Sending you lots of love ❤️ 

[MJG017]

@avant-garde 

From what ive seen, I trust your creative decisions.  Im sure you will make it look beautiful and it seems like such a nice idea to have the names in each section.  The only though i had was with each name, maybe a colour or little picture or shape that feels like it represents each name.  Nothing complicated.  A tiny little bird or cat or something like that.  So just a little extra touch.

[avant-garde]

@MJG017 like the keyrings I have for each of them that are all unique and the colour I've matched to their names to create a rainbow (hex numbers of course, just easier, all in a spreadsheet)

My plan was to paint their section their particular colour 

[MJG017]

@avant-garde 

That sounds so nice to have them the same colour as the keyrings.  For me, it's always important to try and put meaning into all little details like that.  It gives it so much meaning.  It's like giving someone a gift that you've made yourself and is from the heart.  You can look at the details and the meanings involved and feel the love coming through from the thought and effort that has gone into it.

[avant-garde]

@MJG017 

I could've worded that better

Each child has a keyring, the keyrings aren't coloured, the engraving on each keyring is unique to them with their name that I engraved on the back. 

The colours are for the memorial album that has their name, meaning and the keyring quote on it, in an album that I found in an op shop. I created digital images and had them printed as photos with the same background with the colour wash over the background in their particular hex colour, that's where they came in. Each child has their own photo image with the date I remembered they existed.

[Glisten]

Wowzers @Former-Member! Your Flutterby is BEAUTIFUL 😍 

We had a strong Easterly wind Wednesday. The wind stripped the bottom paddock and rolled plant fibres into lengths.

Then late this afternoon, I decided that it would be funny to make a paddock weed version of a snowman.

It’s terrible 🤣  I got dark so fast and I lost my drink bottle. It’s somewhere in the middle of the paddock 🤪

[Former-Member]

Thanks @Glisten ❤️.

That was some strong wind to do that. 

Loving that snowman or weedman? 😂. 

Trying to find your drink bottle could be a challenge, hopefully it's not too hard to find 😂.

[Glisten]

Hope my silliness gave you a smile @Former-Member Big HUGS 🫂