It's stilllll May!

Remember when I showed you this?

Well, my daughter got it for me!

It's her combo Mother's Day/Birthday gift to me!!

 

For now it's on my kitchen bar/counter.

I love being able to see the back and the front!

My sweet daughter-in-law (and son) got me the candle that is in front of it...
along with a bag of other stuff from Anthropologie!
They know they can't go wrong at Anthropologie!

Patty sent me this gorgeous bird cross that is art from Haiti.

(for my birthday)

It's from Three Stone Steps.

 

On the left is an angel that I bought when Rebecca Sower was

helping sell Haiti items....

 

These two are perfect together

and

I am going to have to find a third

to go with them!

(Patty didn't know I had the angel!!!)

 

..... about those previously mentioned classes.....

I just snapped my table top because I'm too lazy to do more than that right now.

So you are getting all iphone pics today....

these are just background pages mostly..
 

I'm taking the 21 Secrets class.
  I'm having trouble giving you a link without my log in page....
so if you are interested in it...
just google it.

 It's a great class...... 21 different artists.
 

The collaged page on the bottom is what I did in

Cathy Bluteau's class.

 

I really enjoyed her lessons!

 

Happy weekend!

Early Morning Thoughts

 

I've been a bad blogger....

I'm still in a creative slump....

 

But I did enter my local library's Altered Book Competition...

I used one of my altered books that is a work in progress...

 

I added some new work to it...

including my old standby scripture nest....

 

 

 



 

I won the Adult Division!!!

 

 

I get a $15 Michael's Gift Card!

 

..and I started taking an online class...

I'll show you what I've done in that soon...

 

 

Happy May!

May you spend some time in your toy box today!

 

 

(all taken with my iphone.....)

Warrenton Treasures

 I bought a couple of sculptures in Warrenton.... actually down the road a bit....

Never did show you......

Happy weekend!

I Love This!

 

Total escapism for me this week.

 

 

 

There is a back view as well, but I never could get it to copy or allow me to save it.

 

It's all here!!

The Birds Found Me!

Remember we moved last June........... just a few miles from our last home

(which we lived in for 27 years)

.....

And one thing I've greatly missed was my birds....

Especially Henry & Louise (the Cardinals)

 

But we gave in and hung a feeder a few weeks ago....

Easter Sunday brought an abundance of new bird friends!

 

This blue bird couple below visit regularly.... mostly tapping on the windows....

...and looked who else showed up! 

 

Louise!!!!

 

It was a great Easter!

 

...and she and Henry are showing up regularly...

haven't seen them in the bird bath yet.....

Pausing.....

Annette

 

My teen idol......... my childhood idol....

 

I grew up in the 50's watching The Mickey Mouse Club 5 days a week....

all because of Annette.

 

Then she grew up, along with me, and did the Beach Party movies.... I saw them all.

She was an American treasure....

God bless her family and comfort them during these days.

 

(I have my childhood scrapbook that I made filled with Annette!)