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A Time to be Born

07 Friday Dec 2018

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in Painting In Progress

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This piece is #3 in my Ecclesiastes 3 series wrapping up a very emotional year.

Titled “A Time to be Born”

This year has been a roller coaster of emotions for me. If you are a regular reader you know that I lost my big sister on Christmas day last year. So, even though I had planned to paint more paintings this year then ever before, turns out I have painted three. This season of painting has been filled with passion and raw emotion as I worked out the avalanche of emotions that were, and still are, churning around in my very soul as I allowed them to flow through me onto the canvas.

The first two paintings I have done in this series were working out my grief.Remembering tender moments and reliving old regrets. But #3 was going to be different.

In February, We found out that our son and his wife were expecting another baby. Our home was filled with joy again. This would be our 4th grandchild. Soon, though, that joy turned to worry as we got the news that the baby would have a 25% possibility of having Cystic Fibrosis. Months went by, waiting for news as Dr. visits  and check ups were scheduled, We found out the baby was a boy! Helping pick out names, counseling love and hope to our son and his wife as they worried, trying to be strong for them, feeling like a rag that had been rung out once to many times myself. Praise the Lord, the birth went amazingly well, and spirits and hopes were high, but after a few days it was evident that little man Kai was indeed sick with the dreaded disease. The roller coaster ride goes on still.

I decided to go on with my painting series. After all “to everything there is a season”, right? I decided to use my emotions artistically and focus on the positive. So about a month before Kai was born I started this painting. Using a reference photo of his older brother Grey taken by their aunt Naomi, I picked one that had the main focus on the connection of the hands and heart. It would be the companion piece to “The Last Goodbye.” and I wanted the emotional connection of the hands as well as a connection between the two pieces of art.

I started with a sketch up on canvas as I usually do, then quickly blocked in all the elements. In my typical way I adjusted the back ground several times and worked to keep the main focus on the hands not the baby’s face.

 

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As I progressed, I felt something was wrong with the composition but couldn’t put my finger on it. So I walked away from it over night and when I had looked at it with fresh eyes I quickly realized that the mother’s thumb on the head was serving as a stop sign. So, It had to go. I fiddled with that hand and moved it several time before getting the thumb where I wanted it being the support for the head. fbsheet

Also around this point in the painting I switched from Acrylics to oils like I did with “The Last Goodbye” painting to get better blend ability.

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The idea in my head was to make the background for the baby the sheets, like in the companion piece. I was also planning on adding just a touch of the green, like in the hospital gown, for the babies diaper cover. But once it was painted in, I felt it was too cold and void of emotion and warmth. So to fix this problem I decided to switch the green to the background and the white sheet to cover the diaper and lower left hand corner of painting. Once this was done I was so pleased. The painting was now warm and full of life.

To me the green represents the LIFE in these two paintings. I “A Time to be Born” there is so much life to look forward to, and in “Last Goodbye” there is just a remnant of life left. I had accomplished telling the story.

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Part of my creative process is watching what happens as I paint and deciding where to go from there. As I progressed through this painting I was having difficulty with the hand that supports the baby’s head. Things that work ok in photographs do not always translate well into a painting. you see the ye is naturally drawn to the point in the painting with the greatest contrast. The mother’s pale hand against the dark hair and strong shadows of the baby’s head was creating it’s own focal point. This created a problem for me as the story I wanted to tell was to be told through the emotional connection of the hands. So I had to do a delicate dance of lowering the values of the hand and even graying it out some so that it would feel more like a background element, even though in reality it was the thing in the far most foreground. I needed to be there as part of the story, but I didn’t really need it as a main character.

At the same time I was dulling out the left hand, I was increasing the contrast and intensifying the color of the baby’s hand. I did this by adding glazes of a warm shadow color and adding more warm reds to the tips of the fingers, with reflected red light bouncing off of the mother’s fingers. I also added those same reds to the ear to give baby a nice health glow.47391629_218022855766036_7897445495763632128_n

A Time to be Born

11″x 14″ Oil on canvas

#3 of the Ecclesiastes 3 series By Jackie Little Miller

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I wonder what painting the Lord will have me work and FEEL my way though next. It has been therapeutic yet, painful. I love that it is taking my art up a level, but a little apprehensive of what might be next. I’m hoping for some laughter and dancing soon. LOL! But I know my God is faithful. I know that His plans for me are for good, His thoughts are of peace for me and not evil, to give me a future and a hope. And I will keep painting though what ever He brings my way next.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my art process! To see more of my paintings check out jackielittlemiller.com

 

 

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Last Goodbye

17 Wednesday Oct 2018

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in Painting In Progress

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This is my second painting in the Ecclesiastes 3 series, to everything there is a season. I have been a portrait artist for years and love the human expression. Driven by a desire to push myself past faces, I started thinking about doing a series of paintings on hands. Then I thought maybe hands and feet, and I came to the conclusion that I just wanted to be able to paint expressive emotion without the aid of facial expression. So I had all these possible ides running around in my head, day and night. especially at night. I tend to do all my best thinking just before I go off to sleep. After the process of painting “A Time to Mourn” the series was set in my mind. But this painting was of the full body and was a dancer. So then I’m asking myself questions like, if this one is of a dance, does the whole series need to be represented in dance? Do I use the whole body in all the paintings: Or can I still go with just hands, or hands and feet? So many conflicting ideas overwhelmed my thoughts. Then the answer came to me.

In December of last year when my sister was passing away,  I sat in the room with her holding her hand, as she was taking, what I knew were some of, her last breaths, I looked down at my hands holding and caressing hers. The artist in me wanted to capture this moment forever with a photo of our hands touching for the last time this side of heaven.The rational side of me, how ever, talked me out of it saying that it would be crass and insensitive of me. For several months afterword I mourned that decision, as my sister and I were so very close and her hands and my hands worked along side each other so many times. She was like an extension of me and I of her.

One day as I sat visiting a friend who had just recently lost a dear life long friend, she was expressing her feelings as she and another friend sat saying their last goodbyes to their failing friend. She looked at me and said, I have something I want you to see. She then opened photos on her phone and showed me this beautiful photo of the three friends holding hands. She expressed to me how she had apprehensions about taking the photo, and had almost talked herself out of it, but her other friend encouraged her to go ahead and take it. As I looked down on this photo, I was taken back to that precious unforgettable moment with my beloved sister. I instantly asked permission to paint this photo, and was graciously granted permission, with my friend saying, “Maybe it was meant to be shown to you!” And I think she was right.43672923_560139704412003_7099662553256558592_n

So I started with a sketch up. I changed the angle of the hand on the left as I felt it was leading the eye off the page coming in directly from the left. instead I angled it from the bottom left corner to lead the eye in to exactly where I wanted it to land. I also enlarged the drawing to fit the size of canvas I wanted to use. I did a little shading with my pencil to give myself indications of shape and values needed. I then started by blocking in the sheets and hand furthest underneath it all, working myself to the top hand.

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working in acrylics has always given me a challenge full of frustration. It dries so quickly and just doesn’t give me the time I need the for subtle blending needed to paint skin the way I would like. I admit I am a blend-o-maniac! There I said it! Another frustration that was getting the better of me was that acrylics tend to dry darker then the wet paint. sometimes 2 or 3 shades darker. Usually I would be able to press on through and get it done anyway, but this year has been rough when it comes to how much patience and to be honest how much energy and even desire to paint. So any frustration at all will shut me down in minutes. So again progress on this painting stopped for about a month.

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I know it’s normal, as I am grieving, to be frustrated and lose focus easily, but it is also very stressful. I have the creative ideas constantly flooding my mind and I need to be able to express them or I kinds get a little crazy. It’s like therapy to me to paint through my pain and emotions. Anyway, I started entertaining the thought of trying to paint with oils again. I had stopped because the fumes would trigger my migraines, and nobody can be creative with a migraine, right? So i did a bunch of research and purchased oil paints with just pigment and oil, and got an odorless solvent which I use very sparingly. I was so blessed to find that they did not trigger migraines and the blend like butter. I am In love!

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Once I started painting with the oils I felt like a bird set free from her cage. These paints are wonderful. I am in blend heaven. And I can paint for days with the same pile of paints before they dry up on me. This is going to take me a while to get used to as the canvas stays wet for days too. But this is both good and bad. Good because I can continue to blend and get those subtle blends I want, but bad because I can still blend and get those blends I don’t want! LOL!

Back to the painting itself. In the photo my friend is wearing a silver bracelet that she wears all the time as it is very special to her. I really wanted to get that bracelet into the painting. But as I started blocking it in I realized that my eye was being constantly drawn to the bracelet more then to the hands clasping, where I wanted the attention to be. So I made the hard decision for the sake of the composition to remove it.

Once that decision was executed and the arm was finished being painted, I went over my darks with a couple layers of glaze to deepen the wrinkle, in the hands as well as the sheets. added a few age spots, and glazed in some red to the arthritic joins in the main hand. Showing the painting to my friend who took the photo she says “I love the painting but it makes me cry every time I see it.” This is the highest complement ever! and I have to agree, it makes me cry too from my own precious Last goodbye with my sister. But it’s not the ugly cry that it used to be, it is the cry of being blessed by a women I will never fully let go of!

 

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Birch Bark Wall Art Sculpture

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

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So A while back my husband and I came across some birch logs that someone was just going to get rid of. I wanted them immediately to use for pedestals for putting Art pieces on. Well as they started to dry out one of them started to have it’s bark peel. It was just a little at first so I didn’t think anything of it. But then the other day I noticed that it was coming lose big time. So I decided to help it a little. My first thought was that maybe if I socked it in water I could slowly flatten it out and then paint on it. But when it came free it was so beautiful just the way it was.CAM00376So I decided that I was going to make a wall sculpture piece with it. First I let it dry a little in the sun and cleaned it up a bit with a big brush. Making sure to get any decay off of it. Then after it was dry I put a coat of clear none yellowing varnish over it, front and back.

Then I had to think about how I was going to mount this thing on the wall. I tend to do my best creative thinking at night right before I fall asleep. So true to form just as I was ready to dose off the answer came to me. I would cut out wooden shelf like shapes that would be the perfect couture of the bark so that it would hold it’s shape and give me something to nail a backing board to.CAM00382

This was a little tricky but with some cardboard to make templates I eventually got the shapes I needed. Then I just traced those shapes on a piece of wood and cut them out with a jig saw. I then nailed them in place with a nail gun that was powered by an air compressor.

I then cut out a backing panel that I would nail (with nail gun) to the shelf like support boards. Once this was done I needed to drill wholes in the backing board to be able to hang it on the wall.

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Here is where it got a little trickier. Since this piece is a little heavy I wanted to make sure I was nailing into the studs instead of just the sheet rock. So, because I wanted to hang it over the guest bed,  I found the center of my head board with a tape measure and marked my wall. Then I took my stud finder and located the two nearest studs.  I found that they were 15 1/2″ apart.

Next I  measured the sculpture to find it’s center. Then I measured from each center to each stud and found the placement of where I should drill my hanging holes.

Once the nails were in the wall, The piece went up. I looks even more fabulous that I thought it would! Our guest room is painted in a grayed moss green with white trim, so this was the perfect accent pice for the room.

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Poetry Corner ~ “We Need the Rain” By: Jackie Miller

20 Monday Oct 2014

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Children dancing in the rain, enjoying the song it’s singing.

Granny covers up her head, and calls the young ones in.

Papa’s telling momma, as he reads the evening paper.

He knew that it would rain because; he’d washed the family car.

Momma said, we need the rain Darling, we need the rain.

She said, come let the rain fall on your face, let it wash our cares away,

Lord let your rain fall down on me; let it set our spirits free.

 

Mom and Daddy stood there with their faces to the sky,

They must have looked half crazy to the people driving by.

Granny said they would catch their death, if they stayed out there that way.

But they were praising Jesus, when they turned to her to say

We need the rain Granny, we need the rain.

They said, come let the rain fall on your face, let it wash our cares away,

Lord let your rain fall down on me; let it set our spirits free.

 

The years have brought some hard times, Jesus saw us through the pain.

The sky is turning dark again, and I know it’s going to rain

But I’ll remember Daddy, getting up out of his chair,

Joining Momma in the rain, so I’ll praise Jesus there.

I know we need the rain, we need the rain

Sweet Jesus, Come let the rain fall on my face, let it wash my cares away,

Lord let your rain fall down on me; let it set our spirits free.

Fall on me,

Sweet Lord Come let your rain fall on my face, wash my cares away, wash away.

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Treasury List ~ Autumn Color

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in Treasury Lists

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I love just browsing through Etsy and getting great gift and decorating ideas. I can absolutely spend a whole day lost in Pinterest! There are So many creative people out there and so many unique items. I just love getting new ideas for making things, and I would so much rather buy from them then regular retail stores where everyone buys the same exact things, wouldn’t you?

You can find almost anything on Etsy, from earrings to stained glass windows and everything in between. It makes shopping so much fun!

Check out my latest Treasury List on Etsy. These items are not from my shop, but just some of my fun finds! There are so many cool things, It is hard to narrow it down to just 16 items, but these are my picks for the week!

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I Love My Life! ~ Grand Fish

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in I LOVE MY LIFE!

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Last year when my grand kids went on vacation I got the privileged to babysit their pet beta fish. Being the nut that I am, I thought it would be fun to do something special for the kids. So I decided to take pictures of me and the grand fish doing something special together every couple of days and post them for the kids on Facebook. This was such a hit with the grand kids and I have to say I had such a good time coming up with new ideas. Here are just a few of my favorites.

Day 1:

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Day 3

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Next time you get an opportunity to keep an eye on your grand kids pet, remember me and the fun I had giving this special unique gift to my grand kids and the joy it brought to them. In fact the next summer I got to watch Blue the grand fish again and the kids asked me to send them more pics! So you  know they loved it when they ask for more. I Love My Life!

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I Love My Life ~ Where Is The Wire Brush?

15 Friday Aug 2014

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So It’s lovely out side and I decide to barbeque some chicken for supper, right? I head out back, move the Barbeque away from anything flammable and start it up, and head back into the house to prepare some veggies to cook with the chicken. I tell my son “ In a few minutes after the rack is heated and stuff starts burning off of it, I need you to go out and brush it down good with the wire brush.” He says “Ok!” Soon I am finishing up the veggies and tell him “OK, go out now and get it done I am almost ready to start cooking.” He looks out the back door and says’ Wow! It’s really smoking!’ I say “good, that will make your job easier cause it will be mostly burned off before you get there.” He says “So where is the brush?” We start looking around in drawers and on the shelf that it is usually on and my son says, “UM, MOM, That thing is really smoking” So I look and sure enough smoke is rolling out of it.

We run outside and I notice fire is dripping from the bottom of the thing onto our wooden deck and there is a very strong smell of plastic in the air. I reach out and turn it off as quickly as possible.” I wonder, what was in there that burned up?” I open it up and flames shoot everywhere. So I drop the lid again. A little later I open it again with the handle of a broom to keep myself from getting burned. This time I am able to see something about the size of a wallet. Now I am wondering why would someone put their wallet in a barbeque and leave it there. I get a small shovel and try to remove it from the thing so I can put the fire out. That is when I realized it was the brush we couldn’t find. My husband had put it inside the Barbeque to keep it from getting wet when it rained instead of putting it on the shelf where we usually keep it, thinking I would, of course, look inside before lighting the thing up. Insert sheepish grin! So we had fried chicken instead!~~~ I love my life!

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Painting in Progress ~ Mother Hood

15 Wednesday May 2013

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I was inspired by a FaceBook Photo of a dear friend of mine as she posts pictures of the weeks of pregnancy. Expecting moms are so beautiful and I couldn’t resist painting this photo.

Acrylic on canvas 11″x14″

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I started with drawing the outline on the canvas with pencil and then sprayed it with a fixative so the pencil would not smear as I started my under painting. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

I first put in the shadows and highlight areas.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThen  I put  in the darkest dark to get the full contrast.

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From here I filled in a good under painting of every thing, just to give me the full feel for the painting.

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The next day I went over the entire painting again, fine tuning shadows, high lights lines and detail.

Motherhood is So beautiful! Let me know if you like it!

 

 

 

 

 

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Selah ~ Life Guard on Duty

08 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

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Picture a seen where you are on the beach having a great day. The sun is shinning, it’s hot with a cool breeze blowing. People are swimming in the warm water and the sound of laughter is in the air. You see the Life Guard tower manned by a good looking life guard in a bright red swim suit. He is a beautiful bronze color with perfect hair and teeth. All of the sudden you hear cries for help, some one is drowning. The life guard hears the cry but remains seated, unmoved by the seriousness of the moment, apparently numb to the emotions of the people crying out for help. When asked why he doesn’t get up and rush in to help, he simply says, I have no right to impose my will on someone else. It is not my place to get involved. I am in plane sight and everyone knows I am a life guard. If that person needs help, he can ask me and I will be glad to help him, but other wise it’s just not my place.

Is this man really a life guard? He wears the uniform, He sits in the right place? Lets face it he looks great, yet he never moves to save a life! I don’t know about you but I want a life guard that runs into the fray. One who takes all care and precaution yet jumps in to save a life when it is needed. I don’t care what he or she looks like, or that they say they are a Life Guard, I want them to prove it by always being on the watch, always scanning the horizon for those in peril. One who at a moments notice will be down from his perch and into the water before others even realize that someone is in danger. He spots them and  is on the move. How about you.?

With this picture in your mind, I ask you to think about another man. He wears the right cloths, and goes to church on Sundays, maybe regularly, maybe not. A man who calls himself a Christian but is not moved by compassion to tell others about his faith. Not moved to tell others about the God of the universe that cares for them and that has made such a life altering change in their life. But, he has decided not to make waves and just leave people to their own business of living and dying.

To some of you, that might be just what you think he should do. I know that some people get tired of Christians sharing their faith, but I want you to know what our motivation is.

We are not trying to push our religion down your throat as you may think. The Bible tells us that “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God”(Rom 3:23) that “the price for that sin is death”( Rom 6:23) And we also know that ” If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”(! John 1:9) You see “God loves you so very much that He gave His only begotten Son ,that whoever believes in Him shall have everlasting life.”( John 3:16)

So,when Christians take the time to share the gospel with you, it is not because we want to tell you that you are bad and that we are good and that you better be like us or you will die. The Bible says” There is none who do good” (Psalm 53:1) What we are saying is that we see you struggling in the crashing waves of life, struggling with sin. We are concerned for you, because we to have been there and were rescued, pulled out to a place of peace that passes understanding. We  know that Christ died to save you and want you to know that too. It’s because we care for you that we share our faith.

It seems it would be easier to be quiet and not say anything, but we are compelled by God to say something to you , because He cares for you so much. It’s like the life guard jumping in the water and giving you the life preserver.He knows if you will grab onto it you will be saved.

Sometimes the person in peril is so scared and out of control that he will grab onto the rescuer and fight with him and pull him under. So desperate for life and air that he attacks the very person that cares enough to pull him to safety.

I know that many of you want us to shut up and leave you alone. You want us to be that silent life guards on the perch that does nothing but look good. But I ask you, is the “Christian” that sees you in need and is not moved with compassion to give you hope, is he/she a true Christian? Jesus was moved with compassion to die for you, to pay the price for your sin, so that you would not have to be eternally separated from God.

He was not just a good teacher, He lived what he preached. The word Christian means Christ like. We are not Christ like if we can see someone who needs life and we are unmoved to help give it. As a Christian I can not sit ideally by and watch you struggle for breath and not try to pull you from the raging sea. Why , because I love you with the Love of Christ. You may get angry with me, you may grab on and kick and scream at me and pull me to my death with your words or actions. But like a good Life Guard, I am willing to take that chance to save your life (SOUL) even if it means giving up mine. Even if you think I am a quack, or self righteous. Even if you hate me for it and call me names or never speak to me again. I love you and want you to have life and that more abundantly.

Life Guard on duty! Food for thought!

 

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I Love My Life! ~ Christmas Lights

09 Wednesday Jan 2013

Posted by Jackie Little Miller in I LOVE MY LIFE!

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So, My husband gets random days off of work each week and we don’t find out till Thursday or Friday what next weeks schedule is going to be. A bunch of Ladies wanted me to come help them sort some quilt squares into colors that go together well, kinda making up quilt kits to send home with ladies that are willing to sew them together. Well I made plans with these precious ladies to meet on Monday,  and lo and behold Monday ended up being my husbands day off. Usually I cancel anything that falls on that day, because frankly, I would rather hang out with my man than I would with any one else.

He had plans to take down the exterior Christmas lights since it wasn’t raining and was a relatively not freezing day, but he wanted me to go spend time with the girls, thinking he could just do it later.(This is a very rare thing for him, to be flexible and change his plans spur of the moment!) So He drove me into town. We went out to lunch together,  then he took me to the church where everyone was meeting. He hung around and talked to the janitor (his identical Twin brother)  We worked for hours and well, before you know it, it was getting dark. The ladies and I packed up, but we still had errands to do before going home. Though I could tell my husband was frustrated about the Christmas light, he didn’t say a word about it.
Today Is so beautiful outside about 60 degrees and Sunshine. Even I think it is warm! So to bless my husband back, I went out and took down the Christmas lights for him and washed the windows inside and out!. 😀 ~~~ I love you honey~~~ and I love my Life!

 

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