A Birthday Blueprint
October 30th, 2009For today’s blueprint, I wanted to celebrate a birthday. My own! Yep, today at 5:11AM I turned 38 years old. Wow! Time goes by fast.
At the age of 38 I have come to have an appreciation for life. It is short, no matter how long we live. My great grandma lived until days before her 104th birthday and even her life was too short. So rather than say I wish I was younger, or wonder about where the years went, I will embrace my life and be thankful for my family, friends, business, hobbies, and health.
And since I will be getting a call soon from my mom and possibly my dad too saying “I cannot believe you are… (38)” I figured I would share a younger version of me today for the blueprint. Here is a shot taken when I was roughly my twins’ age (around 7).
The color shot is the original and for fun I used Quickie Collection’s Vanilla Ice Cream and then Touch of Light and Touch of Darkness. I decided to leave the noise in the image as it added to the mood.
Thank you to all those of you who posted Happy Birthday Wishes on Facebook! Your thoughtfulness overwhelms my heart. So seriously – “thank you.”
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9:12 amOctober 30th, 2009
[...] 1 votes vote A Birthday Blueprint For today’s blueprint, I wanted to celebrate a birthday. My own! Yep, today at [...]
9:49 amOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday Jodi. Wow, I cannot believe how much your daughters look like you.
Have a wonderful day.
Jeannine
10:13 amOctober 30th, 2009
Oh my word Jodi – I can’t believe how much your daughters look like you. What an adorable photo to share! Happy Birthday from all of us over at I Heart Faces!!
10:28 amOctober 30th, 2009
happy happy birthday jodi! at first glance i thought it was one of the twins…cheers!
10:43 amOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday for the third time! (I swear, I’m not doing this on purpose.)
I can totally see where your girls got their cute from.
10:46 amOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday!!
11:10 amOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday!!! Enjoy your day with your girls and your family. Your girls are like a clone of you!! I can’t believe how much they look like you. Thanks for sharing….adorable picture.
11:11 amOctober 30th, 2009
This is a nice sweet post on getting older, I’ll be sure to keep that in mind for my birthday in the spring. I am going to echo what others have said because when I saw the photos I was thinking it as well- “your girls look just like you” :0)! Happy Birthday!
11:11 amOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday Jodi. Ellie and Jenna look just like you….beautiful!!!!
11:16 amOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday Jodi! As the other people have said, I too thought it was a picture of one of your girls. I love it. Hope you have a wonderful birthday.
12:07 pmOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday! If you didn’t know any better, you would think that picture was one of your girls! I have been wanting to get some of my pictures in the computer. How do u do it? Scan it or negative scan it? Any tips ? I hope you have a wonderful day!
12:07 pmOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday Jodi!!!! It is amazing how much your daughters look like you did at that age! Hope you do something special for yourself today!
12:25 pmOctober 30th, 2009
happy birthday, jodi!!!! WOW – your daughters look identical to you!!! beautiful!
12:27 pmOctober 30th, 2009
WOW! You and your girls could be triplets…LOL HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
12:37 pmOctober 30th, 2009
Happiest of Birthdays to you!!! It is amazing how much your girls look like you when you were young!
I obviously didn’t read the whole commentary before the photo – but was thinking… looks like she used you “Throwback Vintage” action on that first image… to find that it was actually an old photo of you. I thought it was Ellie or Jenna.
12:55 pmOctober 30th, 2009
aw, adorable photo of you jodie!! have a happy, happy b-day and eat lots of cake!!!
12:56 pmOctober 30th, 2009
i spelled your name wrong, i always want to add the ‘e’ on the end??? sorry!!
2:11 pmOctober 30th, 2009
You do realize that the before picture looks like one of your shots that has had your actions applied. Was the photographer also a photographer? Amazing.
Sandy
2:15 pmOctober 30th, 2009
I concur with what everyone else is saying…..your daughters’ resemblance to you as a child is amazing! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!
2:25 pmOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday Jodi!! and Like Angie said, I almost thought it was one of your girls!
3:25 pmOctober 30th, 2009
OMG I can’t believe how much your daughters look like you!!! Happy birthday again!
3:42 pmOctober 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday, Birthday Girl! Thanks for sharing the photo of yourself…I really thought it was one
of you twins at first! You have the right attitude for the ageing process and can never have too many
friends no matter what Facebook says! sending birthday love…xo
4:20 pmOctober 30th, 2009
Too many friends? Is that possible?? Only in cyber-space.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JODI!
9:26 pmOctober 30th, 2009
OMG you guys are triplets!! When I turned 38 I was 7 months pregnant with my surprise child. (God has a sense of humor). When you do talk to your parents…thank them from me for having such a talented child.Enjoy your day!
10:42 pmOctober 30th, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JODI!!! I hope you had a great day today
10:48 pmOctober 30th, 2009
oh my gosh – I love the yarn in your hair! Have a very happy birthday!
10:05 amOctober 31st, 2009
I just wanted to say Happy Birthday! And tell you how much I am loving your actions and storyboards! My mother actually got them for me on my Birthday Oct 7th! I can’t believe how easy the storyboard actions are! They save me soooooo much time and are so fun to customize! And the eye doctor action…….is absolutely my favorite eye action I have! I love the sharp as a tack! It has helped my post processing 100%! I want to thank you for taking time to make such Fabulous time saving actions and thank my mother for getting me the best Bday gift ever!
3:10 pmOctober 31st, 2009
happy birthday, jodi!!! and wishes for many more………..can’t believe how much your daughter looks like you at that age, the pics could be her w/ your vintage action! thanks for all the great tips/tricks/actions!
6:12 pmOctober 31st, 2009
There’s my girl! Seems like yesterday Jodi! SO CUTE!! Happy Birthday!
5:42 pmNovember 1st, 2009
Belated happy birthday wishes,your twins are your double!
4:46 amNovember 2nd, 2009
your girls look like carbon copies of you at that age!!! Sooo cute : )
I love the processing.