Tilda's Beach House & Its Donkey Day!

Card first.. then donkeys -

Today I have a card for Friday's Sketchers Challenge Blog. And this weeks sketch is by Claudia! Fun sketch and a long card! You know I use to only make rectangle cards. And then... at some point I switched over to square, love them. Stinks that they charge more to mail them here in the US, but I do love them! But I really enjoyed this size today. It also gave me a chance to use a stamp that I purchase at a sale last year, as soon as I saw Claudia's sketch I thought of this stamp. I had to move things over a bit, and I hope that is ok with the "rules" of the challenge. But I wanted to include Tilda on this card and I had to place her all the way to the left or she would cover the wording on the image.

I colored both the beach house, by Stamps Happen Inc., and Tilda with my Koh-I-Nor pencils and Mineral Spirits (except for Tilda's skin colors I used Copics there). I cut Tilda out with my Fiskar's Fingertip Craft Knife. I rounded the corners of the beach house image and then picked out an orange and blue card stock follow the sketch and rounded the corners of them as well. I inked the edges of all three with a dark brown ink. The ribbon is American crafts, love how it has all the shades in it. Tilda was pop dotted onto the front. I gel pen stitched the edges of the orange card stock and then used three baubles on the right corner. Now if only Tilda would invite me to visit her beach house... wouldn't that be a great peaceful place to vacation!

Now it is Saturday and that means Donkey Day! I took my camera out this morning and everyone was enjoying breakfast. We hauled in large round bales last night. Wanted to get them in place just in case we get lots of rain from Hurricane Gustav and won't be able to drive into the pens. The donkeys just get so excited when Hubby drives in the truck with the bale dolly. You would think that they would run from the truck... not my friendly donkeys. It actually stresses the tar out of me until we have the bale unloaded and the truck out of the pen. Diego and Raffie actually try and catch the truck and bite at the tires, yes while they are rolling! I need to get photos of this... but usually I am trying to corral them and move them around. Then there are some that just see fresh food and won't even wait until it is unloaded to try and start eating off of it. I age a year or two during this process... and a bale only last 3-4 weeks! Whew!

This photo is pretty funny. You see they hadn't quite finished their last bale, but we needed to get one in anyway, so we left it wrapped and explained to them that until they finish the first one... no new bale. Like good children they are all eating the old bale... yea right... I saw them grabbing off the side of the new one as well! Oh well they are too cute to get upset at them. =)

This is one of the other pens, and this is Victoria and Ellie Mae. Ellie Mae is one of Hubby's favorites... she has that loud high pitch scream that just cracks us up! Sadly she has had a problem getting pregnant. We are hoping this is her year and will get pregnant this season, as she is already 5 and hasn't had a baby yet. Victoria is our spot that lost her baby this last spring. We think she is already bred again.

Lola and Lina... what can I say this is two half sisters that will probably always be together, they are buddies and really do have fun. You can almost see the trouble in Lola's eyes... like "I am going to jump you!" She hadn't quite jumped on her yet when I snapped this one, but Lina got her back a few minutes later.

Alright this isn't a donkey. And it is a horrible photograph. It was a million miles away and I zoomed as far as I could then again on the computer I cropped out as much as I could. We have tons of birds... and this morning you could hear a woodpecker just working his beak off! Well I spotted him... yep all the trees we have and this one is working the telephone pole!

One more photograph. I know Annie would just never forgive me if I went one more week with out a Gloria photograph. So this one is for you Annie! Gloria was finishing her bite of hay as she was trotting over to me, she is really cute and man you should hear her talk! She is going to be a chatter box, she hee's and haw's more than any little one we have had! And yes she is still tiny! Growing but she is gonna be a small jenny.

Well that was a lot today - hope you enjoyed and have a great Saturday planned!

HUGS and-