ITS VALENTINES DAY!!!

Happy Valentines Day, Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to my Hubby!

I just love this photo... my Man and his manly Dog! I took this on our day trip this last week, just fills me with love to see this photo.

My first Donkey Day photo had to be of my standard Valentine... he isn't named for the day, but actually a Kevin Bacon character...

He is such a sweet big donkey - funny thing is Ted E. Bear just can't stand when you take photos of someone else, he had to walk into the photos. They look like they are squinting, it wasn't that sunny, but a bit breezy.

Then here is one of my gelded boys (the spot) Rico, he is a rescue donkey. Very timid, he will let us love on him, but on his terms and it took us months before he would let us even touch him. The girl next to him is Fanci - She is in with some of the boys, mainly because she won't let any of the girls be bred - that is a problem when you are trying to raise babies. She is a love a real people "person", we think we are gonna have to sell her though, we have a hard time putting her in with others, she needs a home with just a few donkeys where she can be the lead, and a great pet. She is a beautiful shade of reddish brown. We have talked about selling her for almost 2 years... don't know if we will ever be able to do it.

This is the same pen... you can just barely see the only other donkey in this pen Miguel with Rico and Fanci. I just love the huge Oak tree that give shade to this pen - it really doesn't look as big as it is in this photo.

And then a couple more photos of Libbie from the other day. I think she is getting the hang of this posing thing. Of course she was really tired, if she was her normal playful self she probably would not have sit so still.

Man she is cute!





So do you have a romantic dinner planned? We are staying in - to crowded... I think we are going Bar-B-Q... mmmmmmm

Have a great day - give someone a hug!

HUGS and-

A Day Spent Pampering....AND GREAT BLOG CANDY!

Man wouldn't that be a great day! A day spent pampering yourself, doing all the things you love. Well no time for that right now huh?

This is a new image for me, I just love this Gruffie, it is called "Wool Sew for Friends". Isn't it cute... I just love that vintage sewing machine, well and that cute little lamb, shivering waiting for her warm hat.


It is all colored with my Copics, then cut out with my Nestibilities with a petite oval, then a mat with black card stock. I dotted with white gel pen around the edge, and added 5 dew drops.



Now all the yummy papers in pink and black are Making Memories Sabrina collection. As is the black ribbon, wish you could see how pretty it is, all embroidered looking. All of the layers of pattern papers are inked on the edges with black ink. The flower is a EK Success Retro punch of the dotted paper, with a spacer and mini brad. The sentiment is also from the Stampabilities House Mouse collection.


Now I don't know if this totally qualifies, but I am submitting it for this weeks House Mouse Challenge, which is tall and thin as the theme this week. 5x7 is about as tall and thin as I get.. LOL


This also qualifies for a brand new challenge site... The Pink Elephant, looks like a site with lots of fun to come, new techniques and such. But for their first challenge they asked for Pink Black and white... done! Hope they like it.



OH AND NOW TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE BLOG CANDY! You just will not believe it! But Stampavie is sponsoring a HUGE CANDY!!! Ready...

ONE lucky winner will receive the ENTIRE Oooh La La Collection from Leere Aldrich courtesy of Stampavie! That's TEN stamps in all!!! Can you believe it??? The entire collection to one lucky winner... it could be you! To qualify you will find all the details and where's and what's on Jessica's blog, the newest Stampavie DT... plus while there take a look at her stuff - WoW but you probably already know her, The Whimsical Butterfly, her stuff is really awesome.





Well our day at the Vet seemed to go well, Libbie got her third round of shots, didn't even cry. And get this she is a big girl now! 4 whole pounds! She is about double from when we got her. She can even do stairs now.. you should see the look on her face, she is so proud. Gato came home, physically but not mentally. Wow even this morning she is a bit out of it. But is "fixed" now and should feel a lot better this afternoon.


Friday... and tomorrow is Valentines day!!! Yea! I love Valentines Day... my day, Well our Anniversary, Hubby's Birthday and just all around the day of love. Do you have special plans? Romantic Dinner? Us.. I'll make dinner at home, no need to fight the crowds and stand in lines. Then we will celebrate Monday and Tuesday - our traditional days at the local Rodeo, you see it "Donkey Day" and we love to watch all the donkeys big and small compete. Then we walk the grounds and have a late lunch. I love Donkey Days! I am looking so forward to it.....


Alright but in order to play next week I have lots to get done today. Including the grocery store so I can make Hubby a special dinner tomorrow and basically just fill our empty pantry. LOL


Hope you have a great day - and tomorrow is Donkey and Libbie photo day... I have some great photos to share already! Will you come back then?

HUGS and-

Alota - Roses For You

Yes, I have Alota Roses For You today! I love Roses, you may not know that Hubby and I own a plant nursery, I love Antique Roses... we use to have a yard at our last house that was covered in Roses, it was gorgeous! Now... well unless I am planting for extra food for the standard Donkeys.. well lets just say I don't have the fenced in area to have roses at this time. So for now I will have to color my Roses.





Both of the images are from Alota Rubber Stamps, first is from the Roses and the bow are from Pretty Ovals Essentials, and the Cupid is from the Valentine Cuties set
I had a comment on how to find the stamps that I show on my blog... Anytime that I show an Alota Stamp, the different colored words are links straight to that stamp to purchase. Wanna make it simple to help you get more images you know.. wink wink!



Ok, so all my images are colored with copics. I cut the oval with my Spellbinders Nestibilities, then stamped a second time and colored a few extra roses, cut them out with a Fiskars fingertip kraft knife and pop dotted them on top of the oval of roses. Then cut out the Cupid and the bow. Then went to work on my card. Pulled a bone head on the papers.. sewed down the name... oops. They are pretty but I don't know the name. I used a white card stock for the base, and matted a piece with the pink card stock, and inked with green. I then sewed down everything, including a green satin ribbon on the corners. All the images are attached and I covered them with Dimensional Glaze... WOW they really shine!


Don't forget that Alota Rubber Stamps has a Valentine challenge on Paper Craft Planet Alota Group! Just make a Valentine card with an Alota image upload it to the site and tag it ALOTA4 and you are entered to win my 2 favorite Alota images... pop over to see what they are and the details... drawing will be on the 14th!


Little note on our trip yesterday - Libbie was wonderful. She wanted to be held the entire time, and was a bit nervous at times, but really was a good little girl. Hubby says she is the perfect "chick magnet" as anytime he was holding her, he got all the ladies attention... LOL! I got a few really great photos of the two of them, I show them on Saturday.


Now I am going to go and get breakfast and catch up on some blogs. Hope you have a wonderful Thursday -

HUGS and-

My Sugar Bowl of Love

I am soooo happy I got to take part in the third Sugar Bowl challenge. Love and Romance is the theme, and I think a Great Big Hug covers that don't you?



I used one of my favorite Sugars the Bunny... I just love her.





Now all of this is going to have to be really quick as Hubby is gonna be yelling at me really soon that I am holding everyone up. We are going on a field trip... taking MIL to the cemetery and on a few other errands, a day trip which should be a nice day the weather looks wonderful. One thing is we are taking Libbie, this will be her first trip "bye bye" so wish me luck.





Ok the card - I used two scrap papers, sorry I don't know the names just that they are wonderful pink and white papers. I stamped the bunny and the Alota Rubber Stamps heart Circle and colored them with my Copics. I then high lighted with my diamond stickles. Then sentiment in the center of the circle was just perfect for the bunny don't you think?


I punched the bottom of the dark pink pattern paper with Martha's small Valentine Border punch, then ran a piece of American Crafts ribbon across the top of it. I punched a bunch of EK Success Retro flowers out of scrap card stock. So many Valentine Cards the last couple of weeks, lots of scrap pinks card stock! I inked the edges of the petals, and high lighted with white gel pen. Put them together with jewelery spacers and mini brads and added a charm in the center flower. I then used a large metal corner that I found last week, these have been in my stash forever! Really I can't remember not seeing them in the drawer! I love how it all came together, very girlie, pink and white with the touch of brown.


Sorry to blog and run, but Hubby is tapping his foot. I am suppose to be ready to leave at 9AM... it is 8:31 at this moment, and I am sitting here in my robe and slippers and still need to get Libbie's things together - AHHH


HUGS to all of you!

Doodle Doo Tuesday -

Tuesday and that means a Spoon Full of Sugar! And this week is a Doodling Challenge... YEA!

"Our Challenge this week is - Doodle Doo
We would love to see some doodling on your cards. This could be hand drawn or if you have scrolls and swirl stamps you can also use these."

Well I love to doodle on my cards - even if it is just some gel pen stitching!

I started with a new pad of K&Company papers, this line is called "Que SeraSera" and you may need your shades for this line! Wow bright but also very pretty. I will admit I purchased it for one sole reason... there was a page in the set that has a donkey on it! I know weird to buy a whole stack of paper just cuz it has a donkey, but there are some really gorgeous papers in there. Hubby flipped through and found a few really pretty with large fish... he would roll his eyes and tell me what they are in "real life" but hey large fish and you know what I mean. So I have this really vibrant, bright paper - and I decided I needed a fun bright image - I haven't inked up this brand new Stampavie Leere Aldrich image called "Party Girl" and a party girl seemed to be just what I needed for this paper. Hey she could be a Marti Gras party girl, or here in Texas a formal Fiesta party! I colored her with my copics and then gave her some bling with Stickles, a party dress needs to be sparkly don't you think.

My card has lots of bright colored card stock to match the pattern papers. A dark purple, orange are used for the base and the mats. Bright Yellow Michael's Bridal flowers to really pop. I had to add stickles to the flowers as well. The sentiment is also from Stampavie Leere Aldrich and is part of "Sentiments B" collection.

Now for the doodling. I may have gone just a bit over board. I went wild... with the white gel pen, and then my purple and orange Copic Multi-liners. Well it is bright and fun right?

I hope you will click on over and see the other DT cards, they really did doodle some cute cards. And do take part as there is a great prize this week the cute PCS Kiki Kitty stamp set which has been kindly donated by Bryony owner of Silly Monkey Crafts. Silly Monkey Crafts have a fabulous range of Pink Cat Studio stamps in stock including the new Lily and Billy Sweethearts.

And you just must see this weeks Guest DT... We have Heather from Hopefully Heather's stuff ! Pop over and visit heathers blog here.... her work is truly gorgeous!

Me... I am gonna go and get some breakfast and try and catch up on some blogging... missed a couple of days - so lots to read and see! Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday and make sure to get inky!

HUGS and-

A wonderful sketch for this weeks Magnolia Vs. Stampavie Challenge!

Hello and Happy Monday - this week on the Magnolia Vs. Stampavie Challenge we had a bit of delay. I hope that things are up and running now because my post is scheduled, and I don't want to go "live" before the challenge.

I really wanted to do some different things with this sketch. I get in the habit of doing square all the time and love when I get reminded to do 5x7's.... this sketch did just that for me.

The pattern papers are My Minds Eye Laundry Line, yummy and glittery. I found a peach colored card stock for the base and for the band across the middle. I made two or three different bands for the middle and decided I liked this one best. Punched on both sides with one of Martha Stewart's border punches. I dotted the edges of it with white gel pen, and then added a small satin ribbon in the same shades of the papers.

My image is one of the new

Lelo Designs, and is called "Hippo Birthday" isn't that a cute name! Colored with my Copics, and then I added two metal corner brads, they really look pink here... they match better in person.

I distressed the edges of all the layers, I don't do that very often, wowow what a mess... the puppy was rolling in paper fuzz! Had to grab her up quick and clean it up and off of my. Wow messy, but I like the look! LOL

Monday again... the start of another week - I got lots of crafting done yesterday, actually a day or two ahead, that is really rare for me lately! Did you get to craft Sunday to? That seems to be a great day for me to get stuff done, especially in the evening.

Have a great Monday-

HUGS and-

A cute hAnglar for Sunday

Hello and sorry things are a bit late. I know today is suppose to be Magnolia Vs. Stampavie Sunday challenge, but there is a bit of delay today so I thought I would go ahead and post a hAnglar card to fill some time...

I found this hAnglar image is my stamped images from friends last week, and she just called out that she needed to be colored. I love her pose. She is colored with Copics and her hair wreath is colored with Spica Glitter pens.

I wanted to use some bright spring time colors as I am really ready for winter to end... I am tired of seeing the dead brown grass and would love for my Donkeys to have some green fresh grass to graze... sigh, I found this scrap piece of pattern paper and went with those colors. I sewed everything down with a light pink thread. The ribbon is one of my favorites, love it so much I bought two rolls of it, a yummy dark rose satin that matched the solid paper I used behind my cut out girl. The lace trim on the sides is the Martha Stewart small scallop Valentine punch, it really has a dainty look. A sunflower charm is hung from the knot in the ribbon, and a Hero Arts "Hello" is stamped in the corner. A cheerful card I think -

Sometimes I really do wish I could kick myself... I forgot to take my camera out this morning, as after we got back from breakfast with the locals, we had a special treat for the Donkeys. Last night we purchase Alfalfa for them, we don't normally feed them such rich hay - spoils them, makes their hooves grow really fast, and well lets just say I have a few with "big bones" and don't want to help that problem. Things are so dry and dead here, the round bales of coastal are just not enough for them, so we are supplementing them with a bit of Alfalfa.. imagine putting chocolate cupcakes in a herd of 5 year olds... it is really funny to watch. Hubby always kisses me and tells me he loves me before he goes in to each pen, just in case he doesn't make it out alive! LOL ---- we may "treat" them again in a few days I will try and remember my camera, I laugh so hard I cry sometimes and how hard the push, kick and buck trying to be the front of the line and get the biggest pile.

Ok.. on to the rest of my Sunday - Hope you are having a great one yourself!

HUGS and-