Here's a close up view so that you can see this sweet little girl better. This stamp set always makes me think of my nieces. I wish we lived closer to each other so that we could visit more often.
Blessings
The water in the pool has a coat of Aleene's Paper Glaze on it. It makes the water look fairly real. I made the card for a challenge called "Something Shiny". I think my pool qualifies for the shiny part. :)
To go along with my summer theme cards I've been sharing I thought I'd show you a picture of my grand dog, Caesar, wearing his sunglasses and his Gators bandana. Isn't he quite the dude?
My dog, Princess became very jealous when Caesar received his new sunglasses. She started whining for me to give her something to wear. So I got out her bling bling, which is a blue rhinestone dog necklace that Lydia bought for her. She was thrilled to have something on also. Then she came and started barking for me to take her picture, because I had taken Caesar's picture in his sunglasses. You have no idea how odd this is. Princess normally hates having her picture taken and refuses to look at the camera. As you can see in her photo, she laid down in front of me and looked right into the camera. Those two remind me so much of little kids sometimes.
We get huge wood spiders in our house. I've known that we had one, because I have walked through a web that they make several times lately. One night recently at 2:51 a.m. I got up to use the bathroom. I bent to get a new roll of toilet paper out of the cupboard and felt a spider web. While I was bent over I saw several nasty spider legs curled around the edge of the bathroom vanity. It was time to wake Mark. There was a huge spider hiding in the vanity!!! So I woke him from a sound sleep and explained the problem. He went in and looked and proceeded to explain very nicely to me that those were big staples that hold the vanity front on, not big spider legs. Note to self: Wear glasses when I get up at night. (Insert sheepish smile here.) Fast forward to the next evening. I was sitting at the computer in my craft room and I saw something large move. It was not a huge spider, it was an enormous spider, the grand daddy of them all. So I scurried into the living room and informed Mark that the spider truly was in my craft room. He went in and slew the spider for me. My hero!!! Now if he can just catch the nasty skink that is in my laundry room. But that's another story.
Blessings
Here is a close up view so that you can see the detail of the stamps better. The sunglasses refelect two palm trees and a hammock stretched between them. I put Crystal Lacquer on the lenses of the sunglasses stamp and also on the lizards sunglasses lenses, but I don't know if you can see it. But you can see the real sand that I put around the lizard on the "beach".
Friday was our 28th wedding anniversary. This is a picture of us after we went out for dinner on Saturday. We were the only ones here so we had to take our own picture. That caused alot of laughter and many terrible pictures. Thank God for digital cameras. :) That also explains the cluttered background. We didn't realize we were getting all of the junk in our picture.
Blessings
Below is a close up view, so that you can read the sentiment. :) The glass and the lady's ring have Crystal Lacquer on them.
I received some very exciting happy mail all the way from Indonesia. It was my blog candy that I won from Dina at Mama Dini's Stamperia!!! If you have never visited Dina's blog, you need to start now. Dina is a very talented artist and I learn so much from following her blog. She's very generous about sharing her knowledge and her blog candy too. :) Dina and her family are missionaries in Indonesia. I really enjoy hearing bits and pieces about their life there.
Below is a printed paper showing the sheet of stamps I won from Dina. You can see a glimpse of the sheet of rubber underneath the paper. It's deeply etched, great quality rubber. Isn't it a wonderful sheet of stamps for making cards for our soldiers and their families? I'm looking forward to working with these stamps and hopefully being a blessing to some members of our military. Thanks so very much for the fabulous blog candy, Dina.
However, when it came time to send the card out I still just didn't like it. So I went to work with my handy dandy old guillotine cutter and chopped the card down. Then I added some ink around the edges of the green cardstock and I had a card that I liked much better. It was something I could feel good about sending. Do you think this was an improvement or should I have left it like it was?
Here is a close up view of the hedge hog image. I think it's a Penney Black image, but I'm not positive. I added a touch of glitter in the very center of the flowers and highlighted the hedge hog's tummy and cheeks with chalk.
Supplies:Have a terrific day!!!
Inky hugs!
Shelly
I apologize for taking such a long break without letting you know I was going to be away. I've been battling a serious eye problem that kept me off the computer for several weeks due to light sensitivity. Then we went on vacation. While we were away I realized I should have left a note on here, but it was too late. We were without computer access.
This photo was taken through the car window in the early morning. Isn't the mist rising off the mountains awesome?
I took the photo of this humming bird while sitting in a rocker on the cabin porch. It's not as clear as I'd like it to be, because my camera doesn't take very good long distance shots when I need to use the zoom. Unfortunately the humming birds wouldn't come to the feeder if I got any closer.
These gorgeous lilies were just growing in the wild in the woods. 
Mark took this photo of these baby robins the second day we were there.
This is the babies six days later. Isn't it amazing how much they grew and changed in that short amount of time? Their nest is becoming a tight fit.
