Work Table Wednesday...

Last week my Brave Girl friend Barbe started a feature on her blog called "Work Table Wednesday" to share what is currently on our work tables.

Hannah soldering her first project.

Mine has been undergoing some serious cleaning up and clearing up. I had a little extra motivation because I was expecting a visit from my friend Julee and her daughter for an artsy visit. They arrived yesterday at about lunch time and in the 26 hours or so that they were here, Julee taught us how to solder. She is a whiz at it and has taught many classes and makes all kinds of cool stuff. We were super fortunate to have such a cool, patient, funny, (careful) teacher and we experimented and made all kinds of neat stuff. Hannah had a blast!! Julee was GREAT with her.

So, anyway, that is what was on our work table today:

Hannah cleaning and buffing the soldered edges of our "finished" pieces

Experimenting with soldering bottles.

We still have some hangers and dangles and other things to add so the finished piece reveal will have to come later. The kids got tired and started melting down so Julee decided it was time to hit the road. All in all, very productive and fun visit. We are looking forward to next time and maybe heading up to her neck of the woods.

I you are interested in learning to solder, Julee now has an online class! Its only $55 for four parts and four complete projects. I cannot recommend her style enough, even for "conscientious" kids.

A Fish Tale

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One of the fun things we did in MN was to go fishing on Pam's "new" boat. Before we got there she had signed up for a sunfish tournament and we had decided to take the kids out early they could get the being bored over with and then could go home during the tourney. Uncle Joe had no sooner baited a line for one kid and started on the next when the fish started biting. It was all he and Pam could do to keep up with removing fish and baiting hooks. 

Unfortunately, as you can see in some of the pix above (taken over 2 days) the skies were gray and a storm moved in. We continued fishing even when the rain it but it got worse and worse with much thunder and lightening. The kids were starting to get a bit frightened so we decided it was time to head back. Joe went to start the boat and we discovered the battery was dead! As the thunder and lightening grew nearer and the kids grew more scared, Pam and Joe started trying to paddle the boat back to the dock as we furiously tried to wave another boat down.

I called Vicki from my cell phone and she tried to find someone to come out and get us and ended up calling the Sheriff's Dept. Finally someone spotted us and came to our rescue. After towing us in, we noticed he had a tourney flag in his boat and asked if we had caused him to miss the start. He let us know that due to the weather and another expected storm they had cancelled the tournament. He had been leaving the lake when he spotted us. Thank goodness!

We were finally able to get the boat out. Vicki called off the sheriff and we headed home to dry off and eat the yummy chicken noodle soup Vicki had made for us. Since the rest of the day was wet and dreary I decided to occupy myself by baking bread and Han made a yummy batch of carrot cake cupcakes. 

The next day we spotted sun and head back out for a fishing redo. We KEPT 30 fish that day and tossed back equally as many. I used to think that I wasn't into fishing but I really enjoyed myself and it was so fun to see the little catch her first fish and the excitement in her eyes as she reeled it in. I am already looking forward to next year... just hope Greg goes with us.

Wise Acre

After playing at Simply Jane, we headed next door to Wise Acre on the recommendation of the woman working at the studio.

Wise Acre is the companion cafe to their farm in Northern MN and all the food is fresh and sustainable.

The eatery is housed in an old gas station that had most previously been Liberty Custard. The use of the architecture was very cool. As you can see, the decor is eclectic and interesting. The walls were covered with succulents with funky light fixtures and cool art. Hard to describe it all..

The food was YUMMY. I had the bacon and brie burger pictured above and my SIL had a sandwich which is shown as it was delivered on a cookie sheet with parchment and a ball jar of slaw. She tried the freshly made watermelon cucumber soda as well and enjoyed it. It appears the place is doing well as it was full when we got to the studio and then again when we went to eat lunch later. It always makes me happy to see small businesses thriving. :)

As an added bonus, we befriended the girl and her Mom shown above. They were painting at the table next to us and we ended up sharing a table with them at lunch. "S" is the same age as Han and they had so much in common. After lunch we exchanged addresses so the girls could be pen pals....

Sturgeon Lake

Joleen has been encouraging me to take photographs more. I always love her photo mosaics and the way she documents her life. I decided to follow suit while on my trip out to MN. We got here yesterday and Hannah and I are staying with our good friends Pam & Vicki who moved here last year. So far the weather hasn't been terrible, it is mildly humid and the temperature is about the same as home. A big relief (apparently for them too). Anyway, here is my first mosaic of our first day on the "farm."

new baby • ponies • requisite tire swing
views • the farm • stained glass
L & Mommy • baby S'mores

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hurry scurry

So far its been a whirlwind visit with Joleen. We have already done 3 photo shoots not including the mini shoot she did of me yesterday.

Tuesday, I had arranged to borrow a horse from my friend so we could do the mounted shoot I spoke about in my last post. It turned out amazing!! The light was so beautiful and Gem the horse was super good and H was sooooo pretty. Take a look at a sample of the images. I am SO getting the top left picture as a canvas!! I can't wait to get prints. Joleen's work is amazing and we had the perfect day to work that day. (minus Joleen's crazy shoes in all this dirt...lol)

Yesterday we had a lot of running around to do in addition to a family shoot for some friends of mine ( pop over to Joleen's blog to see) Earlier in the morning she crammed in a session with my BF's baby boy who is about to turn 1. He is soooo cute and such a little ham. She got tons of great shots of him and I am super excited to give my friend a little album for his birthday! Joleen loved that she got to raid my studio and garage for all kinds of fun props to use. :)

Here's a little mosaic J put together of our day. 1. props from my house 2. Hannah crafting 3. Cheesey Hannah 4. me and baby C at lunch 5. our streamers prop 6. golden ground and blue skies 7. succulent garden 8. checking in at GFF 9. boot scootin 10. grilled salmon salad 11. packing product 12. Mom & daughter

Today promises to be another busy day as the Festival starts tomorrow but we hope to squeeze in some fun crafting and friend time.

a message

I am thinking (and hurting) about a special young friend I have who is hurting and struggling with so many things.

Her age, her place in her family, her relationships with her family and how she is struggling to balance all that with discovering WHO she is and feeling the stirrings and emotions that come with becoming a young woman. I feel helpless except to maybe provide a little comfort and counsel when I can. I am thinking of you "J" and I am always here for you...

In other news, I am struggling to choose 3 images to represent my body of work for a publications. Umm HOW???
Argh..
more on that later.... :)

the sweetest gifts

I have this friend Martha. We met at ArtFest a few years ago and we thought each other was pretty cool. It was one of those instances where we didn't really realize how much we clicked at the time but once we got home from all the excitement and things started sinking in, we both had this "Ah ha!" moment that we had met a kindred soul.

The things that sucks is that I live in California and Martha lives in Toronto. I really wish she lived next door. The thing that is so cool is that even though it is a rare thing to see each other (though it does happen from time to time) she is one of those people who I feel like I have known forever and it also works out that when we do see each other, we just pick up wherever we left off. I love that we have that relationship, the bond of true friendship that is always comfortably there when it is needed.

Recently, Martha participated in the Card Swap I hosted, (and am SADLY LATE in returning.. I'm sorry!) and as always she sent me some sweet little things and a note saying that another package was following. She had promised to make me one of her kewl quilted iPad covers. It came on a day when I really needed a pick me up, along with a cute little "I Love You" banner. Pictured above is my very sweet iPad cover and I am so smitten. Its green, which is my favorite color and its so cool and fun and funky and delicious. It makes me so happy and reminds me everyday of Martha's sweetest gift.. her friendship. Thank You Martha :)

a whole lotta craftiness going on...

In keeping with the Buy Handmade pledge, I am trying to shop and make many of my Christmas gifts this year. I actually started early but of course so many ideas are coming at the last minute. LOL

Some of the things I have been creating this week are these cute crayon rolls for some of Hannah's friends. I made one for her, of course, and she uses it a lot. She likes having a way to tote around her crayons and a little notebook with her. These are super fun and I hope that her friends love them as much as she does. The design prompted me to to make a larger one for knitting needles and I will be making a couple of pens/ pencils for journaling kits. I am excited to work on those.



Today, my pal Shosh came down for a little girly art time. She had a swap thing to finish and I had intended to work on my design team project but got inspired by her journal making and decided to play with ephemera. I won't share much because I worked on some other pressies but here is a sneak peek of some artsy bits.

All in all, we had a good day. Coffee, yummy lunch, art and laughter. We need to do it much more often. I am back to work on trying to figure out whast to get the Mom that has everything. Ideas??

I'm back!

Hey Gang, thanks for the support. Things were pretty stressful with the little's school when I left for my trip. I had hoped that when I returned things would have calmed down but I walked back into a hornets nest of problems and upset parents. We are really trying to fix everything and mend any hurt feelings that may be floating around but it is frustrating.. this is not the environment I signed up for. On top of that, the first day I was back I learned that one of my best blog friends, Karin of Creative Chaos, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is scheduled to have surgery November 7. I know that the doctors always want to move quickly in these cases but it caught me off guard. I am comforted by the knowledge that breast cancer is very treatable and survivable but I feel bad and scared for Karin and family.
The other thing that really struck me is that Karin is just a bit older than I am. This was her first mammogram and maybe I am being overly sensitive because I am rapidly approaching my 40th birthday and the mammograms that will be in my future. So, all in all, not a great bunch of stuff to return home to. From now, I am going to try to keep my mind full of good thoughts for Karin, support her any way I can and remember all that I gathered at ArtFiberFest...

(pix from WA.. Pt Townsend and Bainbridge Island.)

vignettes

I have been continuing on, although sometimes slower than I would like, with the purging and rearranging of our home. I have so many dreams and plans and I really am trying to get them to fruition. And, although things are slowly leaving this small, cluttered space and I have more room I have not been making much effort at displaying the things that I love and want to keep. Sometimes I feel like it is pointless when it so readily gets overtaken by the myriad kindergarten papers that come into our home, or barbies, their wardrobes and tiny shoes strewn from one end of the living room to the other. But recently I have realized that it might be a little important (a least to me) to take a little time and effort to arrange these things in a pleasing manner.
I think it was when Brian and I were hired by Adair of Alice Adair and 2nd Street Interiors.

Initially intimidated by her requests, I talked with her some more and we hit it off immediately. I'd say not a day has gone by in the last week when we haven't talked to each other. Its so awesome and I feel so blessed when that happens. Anyway, as part of the inspiration for her website, I asked Adair to send me some pictures of things that inspire her.. this is one of my common requests with clients, but have to say that I was just stunned when I received two emails loaded with pictures from her accessories shop within a shop. Her sense of style resonates with me and also confirmed to me that its ok to mix quirky combinations of things. I cannot wait until her shop is live so you all can see for yourselves what an amazing sense of style she has. I have already purchased things from her sample pictures. I think I am wandering again...

Lamenting the fact that my shelves with cluttered with stuff and looked jumky, Adair convinced me to share photos of what I had to work with as embarassing as that was for me. She has offered up some fun, and cheap solutions and most importantly has gotten me thining in "vignettes" instead of this whole room and the piles of toys and magazines. Also, I have learned to accept that its ok that I don't have stacks of vintage books laying around purely for decoration, that my "every day inspiration" art books make a fine foundation for the whimical and ecclectic things I like to surround myself with. I am still working on it but I am off to a good start. Thanks Adair!

catching up...

Sometimes when faced with that empty white box, do you feel like you have nothing to say? I seem to be in a blogging rut, I'm just not feelin' it and not feelin' like anyone cares. This here will probably just be a bunch of rambling...

So, its Sept 2... ArtFest registration day! Today is the day that all hopeful Artfesters will rush out to post offices around the country to procure that magical postmark to gain a spot in the oft sold out creative event hosted by Teesha & Tracy Moore. I am planning to go again and am excited to be sharing a room with my wonderful friend Martha who I met at ArtFest 2007 when we both attended. We will be in a house with none other than Ruth Rae! Ruth and I had "met" before AF 2007 through swaps and emails and blogs and we had planned to meet in person at AF. It was 2 days in when I finally ran into her. Of course we were both running late for our classes so we only had time to give each other a quick hug. I am looking forward to spending more time with her at AFF in October and then the whole week next year in April. Yes, I am excited already. If anyone else is going to either of these events, please let me know!

In other news, Hannah was pleased that the toothfairy left her $3 and Littlest Pet Shop toy for the loss of her first tooth. Yesterday we discovered that her other lower tooth is quite loose so we are anticipating another fairy visit by the end of the week. I still have not made her a toothfairy pouch or pillow. Friday is a big day for the wee one. She will be 5!! I am still in utter disbelief that 5 years have passed. I mean, I JUST brought her home from the hospital!! Wow, you Mom's are right, the time certainly does fly.. and I know she will be leaving for college in the blink of an eye. She is doing MUCH better in school, has made some friends and the tears have stopped. I can't say so much for her chattering but her teacher will work on that with her. Thanks to those of you who have offered support and memories of your own.

In the coincidence report... I was reading my dear friend Tracie Lyn's blog today. She spent part of the weekend flea market shopping and scored a darling vintage sewing basket which happens to be the SAME basket I found when I was in OK thrifting with my girls, Donna & Holly. Talk about your small world. I am showing mine here since I had not shared it before and you can see Tracie's on her blog.
Incidentally, I am looking very much forward to seeing Tracie and her lovely MIL, Marylin at both AFF and AF too!

My sewing basket is filled with a few of the vintage linens I have dug up lately. I may have mentioned in passing that my Mom salvaged a bunch of stuff from her fiance's family farm a few months ago. Among the things we unearthed (and I mean that literally in some cases) were a lot of linens which got tossed in a box and buried in a pallet. I found the box before the rummage sale a couple of weeks ago but just got around to soaking and sorting them. Although many of the items are ripped, stained and chewed (mice) there are some beautiful pieces and lots to work with in art. I need to press them but I am excited to start sewing again. I have lots of ideas for ways to use these.

tell us about the kittens...

One of the high points to our trip to Oklahoma was that Donna's family has 4 kittens living with them. They are at that funny, cuddly, playful age that meshes so well with 5 year old (or close to) children. As Donna shared in an earlier post, we spent a fair share of time constructing cat condos for the kittens to play in. The condo in Donna's picture met with an untimely squishing by the garage door so I had to build a new condo out of a microwave oven box and three more of her shipping boxes. It was either a 4 story "cat high rise" or a long tunnel depending on which way is was situated. In addition to the hottest hours being spend indoors playing with kittens and napping with kittens, Jackson and Hannah took the kitties on to the play structure in the back where they played "kitten pirate ship" and performed a "kitten circus". Mostly, their favorite game was "Kitten Ranch" which included leather gloves, lassos and miniature fencing. All in all, I think all of them (the kittens and kids) had a grand week. Hannah was very disappointed that she could not bring her favorite kitten, "Alvin", home with her on the plane, but agreed it would not be nice to make Jackson cry by taking one of his kittens. She has since begun a campaign for a kitten of her own.. I guess we'll see.

CA here we come

right back where we started from...

Hi Gang,

Tomorrow is the day we return home from our week long adventure to Oklahoma to visit with Donna and her family and Holly and hers. It is so beautiful here, very different from CA and very HOT. Apparently this week was breaking all kinds of heat records.. figures. At least it wasn't so humid. The kids stayed up late most nights and ventured out to play in the evenings when they could run around and not pass out of heat exhaustion.

I have been VERY bad at taking pictures and the three of us have been so lame and busy talking, sharing and visiting that we failed to get any pictures of the three of us together that Donna will let us share. Shown is proof that Holly & I did in fact meet and to my left is Donna's shoulder. I haven't got internet access out here so I am having to use images stolen from Donna. The pictures that I did take are largely of random weird things like kittens (they have 4), 5 year olds (there are 2) and Donna's wallpaper (she has lots) . I will be sure to share what I do have and what I have picked up in our shopping excurions when I get home and unpacked. I was not very good about "buying light" and picked up some bulky things. I was fretting about how to get them home but we put out heads together and managed to get most of it packed up to carry home with one box to be picked up by Fed Ex + my tube of wallpaper from Holly & Donna to be mailed, just because it was unwieldy. Donna has been so generous sharing her wallpapers and old ephemera. Her collection is simply unbelievable. I brought gifts that I feel pale in comparison to hers so I did soem comp work for her while I was here and designed a handful of labels for her as well as an enclosure for her orders which will be professionally printed on card stock when I return home.

Speaking of Donna's generosity and amazing stash.. I finally was able to weedle her into letting me assemble a "Heather's Picks" collection of wallpapers. I chose 12 papers and gave Donna a fit by mixing flocked and non flocked papers. I gave her even MORE of a fit when she saw that one of the papers is amongst her (and my) most coveted. There are only 4 packs and several of the papers and retired from her sale pile and in her permanent hoard stash. They measure approx 8 x 10" depending on wide the roll was and my lame wallpaper cutting skills. I imagine they will appear in her Etsy shop in the next day or so, so keep your eyes peeled because there will be NO MORE of some of these papers. Once we get pix uploaded I will update this post with sneak peeks.

More on my trip, once I get home. Hope everyone is well. I am really going to miss Donna and her family but it sure will be nice to sleep in my owen bed tomorrow and Hannah is MORE than ready to see Daddy.

smoke & fire

Thanks to everyone for their positive thoughts and prayers for my friend Taryn over the last couple of days. The Trabing Fire (pictured) which affected her is now 100% contained and she is back in her HOME although with no power or water. The fire came to 40 feet from their house. I spoke to her this morning and although she sounds exhausted, they are relived to have their home and everyone safe.

Yesterday was a very strange weather day here in central CA. It started out with high temps and strange clouds. My friend commented how it reminded her of the weather she used to experience when she lived on OH before a thunder storm and Greg agreed. We had brunch and did some quick shopping and then exited to thunder and lightning. We drove home watching the show in the sky and got some rain by the time we got home. The temps had dropped by about 20 degrees but slowly climbed back up to 90 or so. It was pretty muggy and we were relieved that there had been some rain but that relief was short lived when we discovered that lightning strikes were responsible for a handful of new fires. Greg saw one of them on his way to San Jose this morning and when I got in my car it was literally coated with ash. I noted that at one point today the sky above us was clear but we were completely surrounded by smoke. That didn't last long though as the wind picked up bring more smoke into the area.

I just downloaded the most current map from CAL Fire which shows the fires in relation to us...
we are indicated by the blue "X".. you can click on the image to see a larger version on my Flickr.

Looks like its going to be another week full of inhalers and stinging eyes. My thoughts and prayers are going out to those directly affected and the the many, many firefighters who are risking their lives to keep everyone safe.

prayers please

For those of you that pray, or send out positive thoughts, please send some prayers this way. My oldest BFF lives in the immediate area of the most current big CA fire which called the Trabing Fire. I imagine she has been evacuated but I have not been able to contact her to see if she is ok and if they have gotten their pets out. The temperatures are 100+ here and expected thru the weekend and we are having terrible winds so the situation is terrible. I hope everyone will remember my friend and her husband and the others affected by these fires in their prayers tonight.

(update: I finally got hold of Taryn and she is safe. She abandoned her car and hiked to the house to get her dog and cat. She was safe at her sister in laws with her husband but her car has been impounded and the fire had come up to their property line. Still no word if the house made it or not. Still waiting for news. )
Thank you!!
xoxo
Heather

the one about the Chaos

I know, I suck.. I went off on Saturday excited to meet up with Ms Chaos herself and had the best of intentions to rush back and report on what a wonderful time we had meeting up, talking and eating pizza and meeting the demands of the CEO and his peeps. Things got a little nutty here and I am barely uploading my pix tonight, meanwhile Karin is already home, unpacked, has posted and is making journals! I feel like kind of a loser.
Anyway, Karin rocks, I love her and I wish she lived next door to me. I think I DID run straight home and tell Holly that. Why do I have to meet all these kindred spirits that live so far from me?? I mean a 7 hour drive might as well be Oklahoma, especially when you have littles.
Despite my better judgment I will even post a picture here.. please keep in mind that these were taken by short people. I think we were lucky to get even one we are willing to share publicly. Well, ok, me.. and my extra chin. eeeeew. Ok, I am depressed. Karin is so teeny and fit... yeah don't even try denying that Karin.

All in all, we had a blast. I am sure, given the chance, we could have talked and laughed and joked for HOURS or even days. I hope that we can get together again soon, maybe even without that little CEO trying to gnaw off someone's hand in frustration that we wanted to take pictures to prove we actually met.

OK, in other news and totally off topic, I just wanted everyone to take a look at Jennifer's website that Brian & I just completed. She is still loading up her shop with goodies but her blog and everything else is functional. All of a sudden Brian & have lots of work piling up. We are beginning work next on the website for Hannah's school which I am excited about. Its nice to have a project that is near and dear to your heart and that the faculty feels so excited about. I'll keep everyone informed as to our progress.

'nite!

smoke gets in your eye

Oh my, we are kind of surrounded by big fires and its been very windy today. A little while ago I went outside and the sky was a weird orangey-brown color. No wonder my throat is constricted and sore and my eyes burning. I took some pictures of the weird sky color and semi-obscured sun from our back yard. Now would you want to breathing that?? We have been using our inhalers regularly!

In other news, I talked to Karin today. I think we could have talked for hours and just chatted, and gossiped and laughed. We are meeting up for lunch tomorrow with the kidlets. I am really looking forward to it and to meeting her SIL the CEO of Chaos Industries himself. I will take along my camera and try to get at least a couple of pix of us together.. just Karin & Jed, 2gether 4ever.

Finally, I meant to post these pix the other day. Sweet Donna of Under the Red Roof sent me some fabulous treats from her studio and etsy shop as a little pick me up. Donna is more of a vintage hoarder collector thank I am. Her taste is fabulous and I was delighted to see all these treats waiting for me when we got home from LA. Check out the adorable notebook she made for me with vintage ephemera and wallpaper. She also sent a bunch of vintage labels of various kinds, a bag of the FAB vintage Swarovski flatbacks she sells and a packet of her amazing flocked wallpapers. These will be fun to use in projects.

losing my mind

Ack, I feel like I am in the midst of an Alzheimers moment. (or week) There is so much going on around here that I feel like I am be pulled in many directions.

The kindergarten situation around here has been very stressful to me. We thought we were all set and everything would be good to go with Hannah attending the same school she goes to now which is a private parochial school. I worked the open enrollment day and turn out was great, for all classes BUT kindergarten so currently there is very low enrollment. Whether or not there will be a kinder class there is still unknown so rather than wait until so late in the summer and the possibility of scrambling around (more than now) we decided we had better enroll her in the public schools as a safety net.

Well, last week I learned that where we live is zoned to the worst school in the district. It is also an under performing school and not in the best part of town. Needless to say, there is NO WAY she is going there. H is very bright, she is reading, spelling and socially advanced. She needs to be in a class where she will be challenged and she can learn. We have been all set to go do battle with the district to get her transferred to a better school but of course, I, in all my spaciness have misplaced her birth certificate and immunization records. Enter world's most patient husband who has been running all over obtaining copies. I feel so bad.. I feel like a flake. I am so worried about all of this it is practically all I can think of.
(update: another phone call to one of our CHOSEN schools and it looks like the girl I talked to at the district gave me mis-information.. ok I feel a little better.. we still need to get over there and sign her up)

In other news, I have been BUSY. Brian (aka MrDoodle) and I have finished up Cerri's website. She will be busy with it and says she plans to have the Grand Opening by the end of the month. Its so cute, I hope you will all check it out. We are waiting for some feedback on the final draft of Jenn's site and then on to two more. I have been doing some behind the scenes work with a couple of wonderful girls, Jennifer & Natasha, and I can't wait to reveal the things we have been cooking up. I can share this new banner I squeezed in for my pal Kim's blog though. She is so much fun to work for because she just says, "Hey Heather, I am ready for a new banner" and let's me do whatever my heart desires. I know she loves fairies and collects Kirk's Folly so I went with this for this time. She LOVED it so that makes me very happy.
Hope everyone is doing well. I haven't been blog hopping much lately. I am afraid to open up my Google reader.. I bet there are 100's of posts to catch up on. I keep missing my OK friends on chat and so wanted to wish Holly a Happy Birthday in "person" yesterday. I guess I got the next best thing though, by having Brian tell her. Happy Birthday Sweetie!! And Donna, I miss you!!!

pretty, pretty

Oh my life has been filled with pretty things this week. Sweet Karla at Sugar Bear Designs send me several lovely images to choose from in the creation of her new business cards. She wanted something simple so I created this for her. I think it will be very eye catching and stick around in a lot of card files.

Some other goodness came in the form of a small box from my dear friend, Holly of Holly Doodle Designs. She heard I was working on a blue project so she sent me these gorgeous, vintage velvet periwinkle violets and some yummy millinery feathers too. I had to take a picture of them together, the colors are so wonderful and just looking at them makes me happy. In addition to these floral lovelies she also returned my charm bracelet to me. We decided to each made a friendship bracelet and add charms to the others. I am still waiting for hers but have several treasures ready to add on it. Here is a picture of mine.

short n sweet

I borrowed my Mom's camera today for some "work" stuff and since I had it I updated the 12 Days blog and took some other pictures of things I wanted to share. With a migraine looming I am only sharing this today. Its a darling little wall hanging m friend Karin sent me. I love it!!! Thank you sweet friend!!