new kittens!

someone dumped these two cuties out in front of our land across the street a few weeks ago – neighbor dogs were trying to “play” with them – lucky we were home to rescue them.

I do so wish people would get their animals neutered – so many unwanted pets – most of the dumped ones end up dead – very few lucky ones find new homes.

anyways they are fun – sure didn’t need two new ones as this puts me back up to six cats but such is life. These are the lastest pictures of them – they have grown quite a bit since we first found them.

Blondie 1994-2009

kind of out of it a bit – woke up last night at 1:30 am to little dogs making noise but it was strange noise – took me a few min to wake up enough to get up to see what was going on – I went out and hubby was in the kitchen and told me that our chihuahua – Blondie had just died. She was 15 years old and was acting funny yesterday (like she was just worn out) she didn’t act like she was in pain – just that is was too much work to move around – but she was still eating good so thought maybe she was just a bit under the weather.

Hubby said she cried out (what woke me up) and when he went to her she calmed down and died. It was over quickly – She was always such a happy little dog – loved everyone – mothered more than one dumped kitten. She will be missed by our family.

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Pippins felted page

This is a felted mixed media page – printed out a picture of her cat on cotton – then needle felted sections of it – learned I have to careful not to needlefelt too much in a small area – her cat nearly lost a eye!
backed it with felt, added ribbons and button and it’s ready to hit the mail

Been so busy lately getting ready for the AFA get together that I’ve been very bad about updating the blog – for some reason I feel each new post needs a picture but it’s a hassel to load pictures so I don’t post – round and round we go

this is one of the cards I drew for a whimsy hairdo swap at atcsforall.com – it’s my fav of the group.

new chunky pages

really quite happy with this bunch! I’ve been wanting to do a tea chunky forever and finally a swap was posted over at atcsforall.com

watercolor backgrounds, rubberstamped text,  teacup images,  accented with prismacolor pencils.

old spelling book

I got in a paper swap – finally starting to use a bit of it – it’s aged so nicely and it’s just cool! Made three atc’s with it as a background back during our Collage a thon over at atcsforall.com

finally posting something

I’ve been so busy lately I’ve not kept up with my blog like I should
here are some fabric atc’s for a pick a theme swap over at atcsforall.com

art space

http://on-my-desk.blogspot.com/

what a great blog – everyone shares their work spaces and it’s fab – was looking for more ideas as I really want to redo my craft room soon and want to be sure it’s the way I want it this time – it’s not working what I have now – the bins are too large and stuff gets lost all the time in the bottom of them and I have stuff everywhere – so it’s time for something new

fabric 4×4 chunkies

got two done – three to go – for some reason I wanted to paint these and then take the sewing machine to them – turned out pretty good but not what was in my head – think I need puffy batting for that

cards I sent in for the look of water swap

I was watching hgtv – about the only craft show they have left “that’s clever” anyways this lady made this orange wrap and it just looked cool and I thought that would so work for water!

all it is is layers of plasic wrap – lay down a layer and spead some paint (in my case some pretty blue and turq. lumiere paints) lay down another with more paint and bit of sparkle (in my case extra fine glitter) and just keep layering till you are happy – I did about 8-9 layers. Then take a non stick sheet and use your iron to fuse the only thing together – alum. foil DOES not work for this but parchment paper or one of those non stick craft sheets work great.

Then I cheated and used rub ons for the fish and more lumiere paints for the floor and seaweed.

on hgtv – she cut her sheet into a thousand circles and sewed them back togeather to make her wrap. so there is a lot that you could do with this.