Royally Born!

Thank you, Mabelle. Where will i NOT go today? OK. I won't go to how beautiful every single piece of this is! I won't go to how i just love to look at it, at the detail and at the big picture of the art itself--it's like going to the Louvre and looking at one of the paintings there: i appreciate the artist by taking in the skill and the artistry, even if i don't know one whit about what got the artist to where he or she came to be when the work was done, because it may not affect how i feel about the art just by knowing the artist's struggles over the work and through the artists living. It might, but it might not deter.... but wait, i wasn't going there! I'm not going to go just how long i did just sit and look and appreciate the art. Let's just say, somethings have gone undone today! But we are not going to any of these places today to thank Mabelle.

Mabelle, you've encouraged us to exhume our princesses, and as i responded earlier today, "I do not, cannot, hide my princess. My princess IS the carrot that keeps me alive. It reminds me that i once was lovable without having to do a thing except be me. ... Thank you for this gift, at which i will sit and stare for hours. But that will not be the end of it, you can be sure. But i do need to let it sink in."

(click to see a larger view: you MAY be glad you did, LOL!)

So here is the result. I stuffed that pocket, but things just KEPT falling out!

In the pics at the bottom, one is of the princess not getting her way (but not yet so obsessed with it that she's in for a spanking!).
One is with her mother and baby uncle (he was only 11).
And one has the princess on a pillow that was made for a throne, i think, don't you? I mean i have never seen anything like that on anybody's real bed!
In the big picture at the top, that's the princess at her 1st birthday, No she could not sit in a chair! why should she when she could get close up and hold a big danged knife while her darling daddy took pictures of her doing it. You know those smiles are JUST for the king and queen!
The journaling at the bottom says 'The woman born in "Leo" begins life as a princess...' All three of us princesses and prince were born under the zodiac sign of Leo!

I did not lose my princess for a very long (well it seemed like that to me then) time. I've already written some thoughts about being a princess here (click) and you can see a remembrance about two princesses and a prince here (click and scroll down).

One final observation about myself (yes, it's all about the princess!): I cannot believe that i couldn't figure out that the leaves go with the flowers. Makes perfect sense, but i am not a nature girl so don't put these nature things together, flowers-leaves. I remember in an Island Girl layout i used flowers and leaves, but i put the flower with i think a staple and the leaves under a PILE of rocks, lol.

Thanks, Mabelle, for continuing to put you out there, while letting us find what WE need in it--not always what you find (as you suspect), but you almost always bring out something deeper in us if we dare to look. I know one thing; i have got to stop looking at your blog on Sunday morning! I have a hard time breaking away to put on my Sunday Best!

Credits:

From kits from Mabelle/mydigiSTYLE.com's Sunday Best line, and from the "Satin Goodness" kit by Ignacio Molina/NiceCrane Designs. Mr. Molina is featured in the Sunday Best line as a "must-have" add-on. Click the MDS blinky on the left to learn more about this exciting new line!