Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Lilies in the Backyard

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I love Lilies in the backyard.

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Especially after a nice summer rain.

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They are so beautiful.

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I love the bright orange color.

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Orange is such a summery color.

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And bright yellow too!

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Hello, Summer!

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It’s nice to see you!

Happy Thursday!

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Eighteen?

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Eighteen?

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When did this happen?

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I remember this…like it was yesterday.

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And this…but…

 

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didn’t I just turn eighteen?

(okay…maybe not…)

 

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But you were just 5!

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And I remember when I held you in my arms for the first time.  And Sarah held you for the first time…

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Happy Birthday, Sweetie!  We love you. 

Have fun…but not too much fun…

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Antique Shopping!

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Tuesday I made my husband take me Antique shopping in Marion, IA. 

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He found a slide rule.  I LOVE it.  Bryan said, “It looks confusing…I’m glad we have calculators.” 

Agreed…but it is still a nice piece of engineering history. 

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A “new” bread box. 

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And a new camera for my collection Smile  At a very good price.

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Love this-it is like a 1/3 printer’s drawer.  Perfect size to hold photos in my kitchen. 

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A set of nesting enamelware bowls (another great find by my husband!)

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Holly Hobbie.  She doesn’t look very vintage.  But it’s okay. I haven’t had a Holly Hobbie doll for years. 

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I found 2 bowls.  This one was $6 and isn’t in very good shape.  The other was identical to this one, but was in perfect condition for $16. I picked up this one.  I set it back down. I felt sorry for it.  So I bought it. I think it fits right into our house…

 

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In their home…I loved this red and white polka dot bowl.  There were 3 different sizes, but I didn’t want to spend that much, so I just bought the largest of the 3.  I have never seen anything like this before though. 

It holds ALL of my Distress Inks too!  (I may even have room to buy a few more…)

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Finally, this bowl/plate (I can’t figure out exactly which one it is)…I actually bought it because of the color.  (Love).  And it works great in my sewing area. 

I had a lot of fun and saw a TON of inspiring things to get my creative juices flowing. 

Too bad I have to go back to work tomorrow Open-mouthed smile

Happy Thursday!

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

CR Kernels Game

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On Saturday night we went to a CR Kernels game compliments of Red Star Yeast.  Yay!

 

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I forgot my camera (gasp, I know!) but luckily I had my Blackberry on hand to capture the moment.

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Our friends Paul and Deborah were there with their son Simon for Deborah’s work party too.

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Simon seemed to be enjoying the game too.  The Kernels won!  Yay!

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And then there were fireworks after the game. 

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I was impressed-I thought the Blackberry camera did a fairly good job of capturing the fireworks in horrible lighting conditions.

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We had a great time.  And enjoyed the free beer…

Happy Tuesday again!

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On Monday morning, I was feeling a little bit like a kid stuck indoors at camp. 

 

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So…what do you do when your stuck indoors at camp?  Make crafts!

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I doodled some designs on a piece of Shrinky dink paper.

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And made this! 

I did some other stuff too, but I don’t have photos of that yet Smile 

Happy Tuesday!

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Weekend Creating

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On Friday, I made these tags using 2 new stamps from Michael’s that I found in the dollar bin.

I <3 $1.00 stamps + butterflies.  

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I stamped the image on a tag using VersaMark ink. 

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Then used Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel to create a resist.  

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Then I used a combination of frayed burlap, brushed corduroy, wild honey, and walnut stain on top of the butterfly image. 

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To get this!  I love the reminder to “Dream Big!”

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I also bought the next installment of Donna Downey’s PanPastels class called  PanPastel 102. 

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I love this color combination.

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This makes an awesome background!

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Playing with different types of mediums and seeing how the pan pastels stick. 

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Don’t forget to Dream big!!!