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baby Robin's.........

Yesterday morning I peeked inside of the nest and  these little guys appeared........they are so small and wiggly but this is the best I could do .........to get the photos we have to open the back door to get the bird off the nest to take the photo through the window really fast  and not to disturb them to much........hopefully they will all survive and more photos to come as they do.

 

It doesn't take long to get back on the nest though........protective!

Hope you all had a great week and looking forward to another beautiful weekend.........stay safe!
 

pink is my favorite color.........

My Christmas Cactus is going crazy since I moved it onto the back patio............

My Hydrangeas are going crazy already.........we have had such a wet winter and spring and these plants love it........so I just had to cut a few to bring in and enjoy!

Hope you all have a great Wednesday..........it's beautiful here in Oklahoma!

Happy Monday Memorial Day........

I have been experimenting with some alcohol inks by Red Lead in St. Louis that I have had for years and used from time to time ........had an idea about doing kind of a resist on some white embossed paper I had purchased and thought I would give it a try and here is the result.........

this is the pad of paper from Hob Lob and you can see the different designs on the front.....it's pure white , but you can see where I had  over sprayed with the alcohol ink ........it's really messy...... but if you do a bunch all at once you it's not so bad........you can put the alcohol ink in spray misters or just drop a few drops on the paper and rub with a paper towel all over and get the same results. I would definitely wear gloves next time , live and learn.......

 this is what's been on my worktable the last several days with more paper dolls coming.........the little romper on the above photo is a piece of the paper in pink....

here are a few pages in journals with the brown colored ink on the white embossed paper........

 

Hope you are having a great holiday weekend and Monday..........enjoy, stay safe and eat some good food!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend........

Last Fall when some of us went down to Waco for the weekend and to teach a couple classes the Paper Crown had just gotten in these wonderful Paper Dolls by " Of Unusual Kind" and of course we all had to buy them.......the ones in these photos are not the ones I bought but these are some  you can download and color yourself.........go on their website and she is offering these for free (for personal use only).......when the pandemic first started she offered these and still is so I jumped on it and downloaded these to color.....they were so much fun to do and used all copic/spectrum markers . 

So if you are looking for something to do with your children or grandchildren this summer download some paper dolls get out your markers or colored pencils and have fun making paper dolls......And Thank You Cindy for introducing these to us and  Of Unusual Kind for designing and giving these to us for our own personal use, love them..........

Hope you all enjoy our first holiday of the summer......be safe and healthy!!!

Happy Friday!!!!!

Summer stitch camp......

Well I did it and signed up for this French General Summer Stitch Camp.........I have never done this before but excited to get started and hopefully  going to camp on line will be a little strange but challenging all at the same time............we will see. This course starts  Friday June 5, 12 and 19.....This package came today in the mail full of all the things we will need and  is brim full of goodies .....the last photo is of the actual book we will be working in. It is already sewn together with all the edges beautifully stitched.  So off to camp we go with no mosquitos.......

 

Happy Thursday! 

Birds.......

Before I even realized we had the bird nest with eggs, the Bird theme was on my brain....these journals all have bird themed content.......always fun to see where something will take you and the birds did........these are small journals with just one signature in each with about 10-12 pages and bound with the wonderful velvet we all love from the Paper Crown Waco....you can really use this velvet for so many things..........

todays close up on the eggs..........

 

hope this week has started off better than the last 8 weeks for everyone.....stay safe and well.......Happy Tuesday!

Robin's Egg Blue............

Last week we looked out one of our bedroom windows and look what was in the crepe myrtle tree........yes, this beautiful perfect birds nest.......after a few days we caught the mama sitting in the nest and boom then these 3 blue eggs appeared.........it's not the best photos but we just click when we can. It usually scares the bird but I am hoping to get better photos as we go along. I read that it takes 12-14 days so we will see. We really don't know exactly how long they have been laid but we will keep an eye out for any changes.  

 

Happy Monday..........

pink house on the hill...........

Finally finished my punch needle of the Pink House on the hill........back in January a dear friend and I headed north to Tulsa Oklahoma to the most amazing needle shop.........this was one of my purchases ...........I loved the design but I changed up the original colors!  This is probably one of the biggest punch needle patterns I have ever punched. Anyway this is another one of those projects I can cross off the list of quarantine things to finish........

Hope you all have had a wonderful week.......Happy Thursday! 

Happy Monday.........

A couple years ago I gave these two pillows to two friends that I love to travel with..........didn't know how long it would take but.......finally finished them this weekend and gave the girls these long forgotten gifts....guessing that being quarantined we can all ay we have gotten many projects completed and I can now cross these off mine!

Looking through some more of my supplies these bracelet got a little floss wrapped in different colors with some gold floss and a little charm to add some interest.  They were so much fun and kind of a trial and error type project.  My two friends who got the pillows also received one of these to match the colors of the pillows......one in neutrals the other in bright colors.

Other than a really relaxed and chilled out weekend it was a good one........hope you all had a great Mother's Day!

 

Happy Monday...........

pale pink beauties........

Early last evening my doorbell rang and opened the door to see my sweet friend  standing there with a bouquet of these beautiful pink peonies from her yard.........she really knows how much I love fresh flowers and especially peonies........these are one of my favorites and the color .....need I say more.  

 

Just had to share these with you this morning and wish all of you Mother's a very special and Happy Mother's Day on Sunday.........

 

And thank you all for the well wishes for my husband.

Have a great weekend...............