Coming Soon - Notecards!

I'm in the process of creating a line of handmade notecards for my shop. I'm taking an actual 5x5 photograph and adhering it to cardstock. Most will be blank inside although some will have words depending on whether the photograph lends itself to that. I'm also making the envelopes from vintage books, each on will be absolutely one of a kind. I should have some photos of them up this week. I'm excited about it!

Sad Day

Our little bird died yesterday. It turned out that it had something wrong with it's feet, whenever it hopped around, it was basically hopping on it's 'elbows' instead of it's feet. I guess that's a part of natural selection , that only the strong survive. It was still very sad though. I put it in a little box and we're going to put the box in the woods behind our house.


Another bad thing happened yesterday. Our chocolate lab puppy Velvet ran off when we took her out to the yard to use the bathroom. Richard followed after her but she wouldn't come to him. She actually turned around and looked at him but decided to do her own thing. She's not a little puppy, she's probably about 6 or 7 months old. So she wouldn't come and took off down the street with a german shepard that's been hanging around our yard lately. Well, she came back covered with blood. She had apparently been attacked by another dog or a group of dogs. Velvet is very high energy and assertive so we think she probably committed a breach of dog ettiquette and was dealt with by the other dogs.
We were really scared because there was so much blood, it was on the back patio and she was just laying there. Richard cleaned her up though and it wasn't as bad as we thought at first. She had a deep gash in her shoulder and several bites on her legs. We put her in her crate to let her sleep it off. She can't walk very well today but she is getting around some. She was so pitiful yesterday though. We hope this will make her a little more cautious and less strong willed.

A lot of photos this weekend!

I've had a long weekend (4 days woohoo!). I went all over the place with my camera, looking for good angles, beautiful skies, and new blooms. I took lots and lots of photographs. I'm so excited about giving them that vintage feel and listing them! I have several already done and I'll give you a peek here. As usual, click on my Etsy shop to the right and you can see further descriptions, prices, etc. I really love these :):

'Just Be'

'Spring Romance'

'Landing'

'Japanese Spring'

'Growing Happiness'

'Strength'

Some New Photography

I have new art in my Etsy shop that I added this week. There are 3 totally new pieces and some that I've relisted. The relisted ones are my little gnome prints which I absolutely love but no one else seems to lol. No one has given them any hearts on Etsy. They have beautiful yellow daffodils in them and I think they're just fun. The new ones are a mixed bag, 2 signs and a pathway. Here are the brand new ones first :

"No Use Crying Over Spilled Coffee" :)

"Retro Restaurant"

"Walk With Me"

"Who Needs Cracker Barrel"

These are my fun gnome prints.

Cracker Barrel is a popular chain of restaurants in the southern United States for those of you who are unfamiliar with what 'Cracker Barrel' might mean :).

"Don't Forget Your Workout"

"Watch Your Toes!"

So those are all my recent additions. We're having beautiful weather today though and we're having some major budding happening so I'm going out to take a bunch of new photographs. They're going to be very pretty. I've also got some new canvas to do a couple of original paintings on. I'm really looking forward to doing those :). See you soon!