here is what was keeping me so busy....

making birthday cards for my mom!!! (with help from my assistant/girlfriend, katie!)

here is what was keeping me so busy....

making winter cards for my mom!!! (with help from my assistant/girlfriend, katie!)

i think i will figure out how to make a slide show for all of these.

time for a challenge

http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2009/10/sketch-37.html

see the top left...

worthy blogs

the only way i will look at a blog is through email or some other message-sender that ends up in my mail box, so i need to keep important places more handy.

http://a-bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/ gentle and cozy; artsy

http://www.agardentoremember.blogspot.com/ antiquing; vintage; flea market

http://a-rbnsnest.blogspot.com/ free images; artsy

http://terisplace.wordpress.com/ fresh, clean cards...minimal elements, elegant results

http://www.wendysueanderson.blogspot.com/

free images

http://www.thevintagemoth.blogspot.com/










http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

challenge

this is a challenge for the cardpatterns blog: http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2009/09/welcome-september.html

killing one bird with two stones...or something like that....

i made this one card for two challenges. the one on the left is for http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2009/08/goodbye-august.html, and the one on the right is for http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/2009/09/color-throwdown-58.html. i am not sure about this color combination.

again, this image is scanned and although it is not the best picture, it will stay. the nest is popped out, and i have had the miniature eggs for awhile.

sketch challenge:stamping 411

forgive the picture...my camera is out of town, so i had to rely on the scanner.... with 3-d elements! i guess it turned out ok. you get the idea.

http://stamping411.blogspot.com/

i have also shared this with "flourishes": http://flourishesnewsletter.blogspot.com/ the challenge requires that images are not to be colored in, but beyond that, anything goes!

i'm old...

of course, i have a birthday every year around this time. so, happy birthday to me! (and, happy birthday to my brother, aaron, who is 14 years younger than i. can you imagine being 14 and getting a new baby brother. i didn't get my birthday cake iced that year. the cake was butter brickle, and the icing was supposed to match. i don't remember eating it. i think it dried up, and someone threw it out. i just wish that i was equally as important at the time. aaron is a super good brother, so i am glad to have him.)

no matter what the date says above, it is august 19th in greenville, nc...all the way up into columbus, ohio, where my brother lives........................

verve challenge: avs201