gifts for two

I hope everyone had an awesome easter, I spent mine cleaning and sleeping, so it was pretty much like any other Sunday. Devin asked me about two months ago to make a couple of frames for his office, he has a wall of achievements and wanted to add a personal touch from his wifey on it. He made is quite clear that he wanted a couple of layouts that represented his Marine Corp career achievements and to make sure that it looked neat and distinguish, in other words, no ribbon, flowers, fiber, buttons, or any other embellishment that didn't look appropriate. So I had a challenge at hand, I decided, with his approval that I would use the colors of his dress blue uniform, the blue with the red blood stripe which imitates the look of his dress blue trousers. I got the eagle globe and anchor insignia and the 2 stars to symbolize that this photo is his second re-enlistment in the Corps and the number of times he was deployed to Iraq. The background paper has a depiction of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war he served in. The words say, core values, the Marine Corps Core values is made out of Ten words, his favorite is Integrity, the ability to be truthful and do the right thing even when no one is looking. This photo is of him and one of his previous retired commanding officers Major Copeland. He really loved it, I guess it really touched him, he just sat there and stared at it for a long time. On the other hand, I got home to my TRL kit, i was pleasantly surprised, I don't know what is in the cards for these but we will see.. such beautiful papers Last but not least, I got my Studio Classic and puntuation set today also, I have wanted Studio for a while so I just broke down and buy it and I'm very happy to have it. Okay more tomorrow, let me know what you think about Devin's layout for his wall