Animal Crackers - Rain, Rain and more Rain

So after two very hard dry years with very little rain... 2012 it started raining and it keeps on. Not that I am complaining, the rain is making things green and will give us grass and hay for the animals this spring. But man it is standing everywhere and is just plain soggy here. I didn't get to go out and photo yesterday like I normally do. It rained all day and it was cold. Good thing I took some photos earlier in the week... otherwise I wouldn't have a thing to show today!

Estella up first -

This girls bangs crack me up! I didn't brush her part in there folks, nope her bangs just fall that way! She has her own unique hairstyle that is for sure!LOL

Got a photo of our original buck Frank -

Now he knows he is a stud, handsome and just stunning, what he doesn't know is that he isn't the brightest... LOL but it is ok, his personality will keep him a member of our family for  a long time to come. Love ya Frankie!

Frank's daughter Lucy -

She was one of our first babies. Part of the set of quads that Paintbrush had. She had her first kids last summer. And she is getting pretty wide again. I think she will be the first to have her babies this year. Can't wait! Her and Peso should give us some really pretty kids!

Gato... a cat in her own world.

She lives in a house with three adult dogs, two puppies and out her window a whole bunch of goats and donkeys... but this cat she lives in her own world. Here she was asleep on her window bed, She always sleeps on this bed upside down..... oops the flash woke her up.

Messy Autie -

My man Autie... he is a mess, and a bit stinky here in this photo. Been rained on and played outside. His gorgeous long hair isn't so pretty more matted and tangled. But this shot shows my little boys "horns" LOL  He has two bunches of hair just over each ear that stand up... we call them his horns, but he isn't a devil, of all three of the dogs this boy is a sweetie a true lover boy.

Took the puppies out to play one evening this week. Normally the puppies would play outside everyday. But with all the cold rain I just can't take this little ones out. But Thursday evening it was a bit warmer and dryer than it had been. So we had some fun! They had a blast running around the yard. Chasing the adult dogs, and running up to the goats and barking then running to hide behind us when the goats would approach them.

I tried to get some photos with my camera phone and honestly they were just blurs in the photos. Between them running and me laughing so hard.

Here Hubby slowed them down for some petting -

And here they are following him when he was leaving the yard to feed the screaming donkeys that you can see in the background.

They are just too cute for words! Only have one more week with Ammo ... next Saturday he will leave and move to his new home. We are gonna miss him, but going to my best buddy Tracey I'll get to see him lots I am sure :0)

ok.. now I have to show you a present I got from Hubby a couple of weeks ago.  Do you know what this is?

ok, other than a Donkey do you know what it is?  Now we don't smoke, hate it. (Sorry Mom you know we do) But this Donkey is a cigarette dispenser!! Seriously he is. The red box is for the matches, the green box is where you load up the cigarettes. Those long ears... well you pull forward the front ear, the tail lifts up and well... I guess you can figure out the rest. I just love that it is a very old metal donkey! He goes in my donkey collection, love when I get something totally different for my collection! :0)

Well... hope you have something fun planned for this weekend. Me. I have to work, and then do some house cleaning. Blah.. I know but much needed. All though with all this mud outside I think I am going to just scratch mopping the floors from my list - no point until it dries up a bit.

Have a great weekend!
HUGS and-

New Releases - Tina Wenke - A Bird House -

Hello - Today I wanted to show you a bird house I made for CHA. You know I love bird houses. Well I found  a bird house with lots of sides to hold lots of different images! So I colored up a bunch of the new Tina Wenke Stampavie images and had some fun.

 So I started with a blank wood bird house - painted it brown and white. Then I took my colored images and cut them out and glued them down. The roof... I punched out a million Fiskars Medium heart punches and inked the edges. I then glued them down (upside down) added a border punch around the bottom, I then modge podged the entire piece. Then I added the metal frame around the opening, quickutz leaf border, flowers and buttons.

The new image I used are Bunny with Butterflies, Mouse  and Poppy Seeds, Fairy on Resting on a Mushroom, Fairy Hug and A Fairy Baby - adore them all! 

I hope you liked my bird house. It ended up in a good home, I gave it after the show to my new friend Suzan as a Thank You for take me to Disney and a shopping trip :0) Gotta totally love a person that takes you to the happiest place on earth and Shopping! Thank you so much Suzan she is a total sweetie, and oh she has a great Husband and Doggy "Woody" that also deserves a big thank you for a grand time!

Have a great day!
HUGS and

We've been married for 25 years- My best Friend and I

Happy Valentines Day to each of you - This is a special day in our house. You see Hubby and I were married on this day 25 years ago - Seriously, I can hardly believe it myself. I was very young when we married... no really I was! LOL I was 19. Horrible blurry photo, I have showed it before, but I cannot find any better ones to scan in...

He is my best friend, my heart and soul. I have been very blessed to have such a wonderful man love me as much as I love him - But this day is even more special because it is the romantic holiday, our anniversary and it is Hubby's Birthday! What can I say he is really bad remembering dates so I made sure he would never forget our anniversary.. wink wink.

Here are a few of my favorite photos of my guy -

 Love how peaceful this photo is, and he would say this is one of his happiest places on earth - The end of the Jetties jumping large Tarpon.

This is one of my favorite "fishing" photos of him, but he would say "Don't show that one it has such a little Tarpon in it"... ok so for him is the next photo -

 Not nearly his largest Tarpon but a good photo -

But my favorite photos of him are with our babies - Love these -

So Happy Birthday Sweetie - and Happy Anniversary - I love you - 

Hope each of you have a wonderful Valentines day -
HUGS and-

New Sarah Kay - Another Scrapbook page - Tea Please

Hello- today I wanted to show you another scrapbook page I made for CHA - this page is showing off a New Stampavie Sarah Kay image, "Tea Please" As soon as I saw this image my brain was going nuts thinking of my little niece a few years back in her absolutely adorable dance costume! They were meant to use together.. seriously... LOOK

 This page was so much fun to put together! It felt like it just went together all on its own. The image is totally wonderful I love it, but with my nieces photo I really love it!

I used Black cardstock, Pink cardstock, A piece of Tim Holtz Core'dinations embossed card stock that I sanded. The lace is a piece of vintage lace that I adore - It is pretty large for using on cards, but perfect for scrapbook pages, don't you think? Then a large black rhinestone flourish. The title is one of my very old Thickers - black glittered of course.

Here is a close up of the Sarah Kay image, you know you are going to have to have this Sarah Kay aren't you?

She is colored with my Promarkers. Cut out and then inked around the edges.

Hope you like my scrapbook page, it was really a ton of fun to put together.
Have a great Monday -
HUGS and

Dust it off Sunday - Door to Door - Papertrey Ink

All right I will fess up - I didn't dust this image off... it is a brand new set from Papertrey Ink that I got right before I left for CHA.  I just love all the "pieces" that come with this set, and they have the coordinating set of dies to punch out all those fun pieces. This is truly like making the doll house for our paper dolls.  But I did Dust off a few of the things I used with this new set of stamps...

This set of stamps is just so fun! I comes tons of stamps to make the front door to lots of styles of houses. And tons of fun things to dress up your front porch! I pop dotted the planters and the banner across the top of the door. And then a piece of wooden fence was just too perfect to run across the front right?

Here is my easel card in full -

 I used some new My Minds Eye papers from the Miss Caroline Dilly Dally set. Sewing down all the pretty patterns with a zig zag stitch.

The pieces I dusted off...

 Some really OLD Making Memories stickers and then a old time looking skeleton key. Both were really deep in my stash of stuff, and I love them with this card.

This card was inspired by my Best Buddy and her Husbands new home they just purchased - I am so excited for them, Congrats to you guys!

Have a wonderful Sunday-
HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Photo Shoot Cute

Hello - ok, so I told you the puppies have grown a ton while I was away... I tried to get a couple of shots last week to show you. Well for some fun I decided the boys needed to have a professional photo shoot. Sort of Glamour shots for the boys... LOL  So I scooped them up and placed them one at a time in my photo tent with a mirror and lights - Love how they photos came out! Even if the entire time I was in a panic that they would have an "accident"... LOL

Tuco  -

 Hubby is totally thrilled, it looks like Tuco is going to have one blue eye and one brown. And Look at all the color he has!

 Now Ammo - He is such a handsome dude - more adorable that handsome now, but I can see that he is going to be really a handsome man when all grown up :0)

Now some donkeys - This is a FABULOUS site. GREEN... With all the rain we have been having, we have lots of green around here and lots of mud too, ha! Green is a color we haven't had in more than two years. And despite it being "winter" with all the rain, grass is growing like crazy! And the donkeys are loving it! 

Now in one of the storms while I was at CHA a dead tree in one of the donkey pens ( dead due to the drought ) anyway one of the dead trees fell over during a bad storm. Hubby has it all cut up and ready to load up and get out of the pen, but until it dries out he can't get in to load it up... The baby donkeys are climbing all over it and playing :0)  Here Bella and Yolanda are taking a look at what was left of their tree... Good thing Hubby has new trees planted on the other end of the pen -

Headed over to the Girls pen next, Again will all the rain I haven't had a lot of chances to go out and love on everyone since home. But there was a nice afternoon this week so I took advantage and said hello to each and everyone of my babies.

Cali, Lydia and Marissa - all three are really pretty girls don't you think?

Ok, so they need baths they have been rolling in the mud a bit, but still pretty -

Juliet -

This girl nearly crawls through the gate trying to get you to love on her - Super sweet... and Love her eyes. They are always so big with excitement.

Then I went over to the goat pen. A little bit about Goats.... they HATE the rain, I think they believe they are going to melt if they get rained on. Totally freak out when it starts to even drizzle. And with that they hate Mud... no rolling in mud for them! But when the sun comes out they are all up on top of everything to enjoy with warmth... Here is Annie and her daughter Chloe. Both are pregnant again... Can't wait to see what the babies will look like with Peso as the Daddy....

And then I saw Jill - up on top of one of the wooden spools... gotta a itch? No problem...

So that is why they have the horns! Very useful! LOL  Jill is also pregnant... we are gonna have lots of kids this spring!

Hope todays photos made you smile. It was great to be back to my babies.
Have a great Saturday!
HUGS and

Another Sneak Peek from CHA - Tina Wenke - Fairy Hugs

hi - ok, now I can't compare to all those gorgeous pages I showed yesterday, but I did a scrapbook page before I left for CHA. I did a few actually - Here is one.... and I used the new Stampavie - Tina Wenke image A Fairy Hugs!

 I colored the image with Promarkers, LOTS of sticklers and then cut it out. It was perfect for my nieces dance recital photo... and a scrapbook page.

I kept it simple. But the background paper was a little bold, so I used a Lattice mask and white washed it. Then added some flourishes, and flowers. The words are Thickers - I have TONS of these from my days way back when I did scrapbook a lot. It was nice to actually use them again, they have felt so forgotten.

The photo is an older one - my niece is now a "teenager" ... hope she is ok with me sharing her photo. Little late though cuz it hung at CHA already... LOL

It was fun to actually scrap again. And the new inspiration is really starting to kick my MOJO up and I hope to get a chance to do some crafting this weekend.

OH Internet is up and working again... whew! Funny how we can't live with out the net isn't it. At least I had my phone so I wasn't totally cut off, but feels good to be back to normal again.

Have a wonderful Wednesday. HUGS and