fiddle-dee-dee designs

Re-vamped Build a background by Fiddle-dee-dee Great Outdoors: Enchanted Forest by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

Connect and Create Challenge: May 2026 Pop Culture --- Design along a flowing line

Our 25th anniversary fell on a Tuesday night. We decided to go out to a new-to-us restaurant. It wasn’t our favorite meal but our server was awesome and actually brought us a little dessert plus a candle to celebrate. Every day is a good day when we are together!

Connect and Create May - Nostalgia and Mirror elements or photos - striped paper, butterflies, arrows, leaves

My mom and dad had a huge rose garden when I was a teenager. There were 200 rose bushes around the pool, and they were planted in groups according to their variety. So my mom made up a little story to help us remember what each rose was called. It started with Mr. Lincoln and Queen Elizabeth...

you just have to go through the hard times and come out of it eventually

Leonie through the years from 1 month to 7 years old

during our family photoshoot we spotted a frog in the pond so we had to stop and look

the girls decorating the garden stone fox with chalk

My son and DIL bought a house! Connect and Create: May - The Good Stuff --> Used Arrows to Direct Attention

I tried to recreate the feeling of standing on the prairie, far away from anything else. Just an open expanse of sky, grass, water, and presumed alligators. These days, the trail no longer goes out into the prairie like this (following massive flooding from a hurricane) so I'm extra grateful I...

I decided to build a wood lattice with the paper strips and swapped out some photo spots for more paper bits from the kit. No journaling, no specific story to tell, just a (much needed!) chance to relax and scrap

A day out with a friend

Finn made me a Mother's Day gift at school. He was so excited to see me when I picked him up from school. He immediately gave me his gift. We opened it when we came home from school. He made me heart in beads with his photo. It was so cute. He was so proud. My heart is full.

This one I scrapped with the challenge in mind. What's more of a "flowing line" than a sea of flowers? I wanted a photo in front of the fountain and everything grew from there (pun intended)

Re-vamped template from Fiddle-dee-dee, Grateful for You Papers and elements from Connection Keeping, Outdoor Exploration

Playing cars in the dirt... as always