Saturday Donkey Day and a Purple Card

Hello and happy Saturday - yes today is Donkey day! I do have a card to share first though.

This Playful, Smiles card is for this weeks Cute Card Thursday - which asked for lilac. Well that makes me happy as I love all shades of Purple! I pulled out one of my Rachelle Anne Miller's "Lily taking Care" and colored her with my Copic Markers, again I colored the background with a bold bright color.

I then picked a couple of pattern papers from my DCWV Nursery Boy stack, and a scrap of purple card stock. For something different I used the flowers from the Rachelle Anne Miller stamp Oval Frame Set and created my own pattern on the purple with a VersaMark ink pad. After deciding on a layout I sewed down everything with a dark purple thread and a blanket stitch. The sentiments are cut out of one of the DCWV pattern papers. I then stacked three prima flowers with a glitter purple brad for the center, then punched four Martha Stewart Frond leaves punches, highlighted with white gel pen. It really all came together really fast, other than the sewing time, that blanket stitch takes a while to sew out!

Now how about some Donkey Photos? I went out before 7 am this morning - Poor Freddie was just getting up and really wasn't his playful self yet. In fact him and Mom, Bella, both were just stirring around and really didn't want to have their photo taken - maybe next week I can get some better photos of Freddie -

Then I headed over to Darlene's Momma Pen to see her and Pavo - Of course Dad had to get his photo holding the baby. Pavo was really calm and didn't move around at all, he really loves Daddy and seems to trust him completely now.

I got a few cute ones of Pavo with Mom - love this one, doesn't it look like a posed shot of a young kid being forced to give his Mom a kiss for a photo? He is looking at me and the camera but reaching over to Mom ... he is a cutie!

I wanted to show this close up of Pavo and his gorgeous face.... His nose is so handsome, it looks and feels like silk. It is millions of colors when you look really close, very soft and shiny. And I love that one white nostril... yep that is not a glare, that is a spot on the inside of his nostril. He may grow out of it, and it will color in, but I hope not!

This last photo was just too funny... We put round bales in for them this time of year. But this pen is all out, tonight when Hubby gets home from work we will bring one in for this group, but for breakfast they are getting the good stuff! The square bales that the Momma's get. Now in reality this is the exact same hay, cut from the same field at the same time... but to the Donkeys it is super special hay! If you could have only heard them while I snapped this... they were all talking, snorting, braying... they are so funny!

I spent a lot of time in our young pen this morning. Rosie is not feeling 100%... she is getting the same signs of her sickness again. I gave her some meds and will try and track down the Doc. It is always a holiday when I need him. Hopefully we can knock this round out early and she won't be feeling bad for too long. She is my baby and it just kills me to see her not well. And it was just a few days ago she was running and playing with the other young ones.

Well better run - I hope you all have a great Saturday - and a wonderful weekend, with lots of time to get inky!

HUGS and-