Animal Crackers - Quiet Peaceful Morning - and Jilly had her baby!

I just love spending time wandering from pen to pen visiting all my "kids". We normally do it in the evenings when it is cooler and we have time for everyone. But yesterday morning, everyone was out enjoying the nice morning. Hubby had gone to work, and I thought it was a nice time to go out and snap some photos for today. A quiet peaceful morning....

First I want to introduce you to our newest family member! Meet Louisiana "Louie" - Cutie huh? Jill went into labor one day this week... it was SO glad we were home. Hubby was actually out showing off his new Hay barn to the neighbor. When I looked out the back window and saw that Jilly was in labor in the middle of the pen. I flew out to the pen, Jilly's baby was breech. But I got out there, and helped him out a bit, and made sure he was breathing... yep ... he is tiny but healthy! We named him in honor of the neighbor that was here... from Louisiana...

 Totally a cutie! He is just adorable. I know they all are :0) But Louie is so tiny...

His Mom Jilly is small too... that is one reason I was so worried about her first birthing. But after it all.. she has been a wonderful Mom. A bit confused at how to get around the pen and eat and keep her eye on him. But she is starting to figure out that "Mom's Call" and he knows his Moms voice and comes running!

Just as I was taking the photo of Jilly and Louie I noticed that everyone was watching me take the photos -

Lots of Goats.. I know... but all these boys will have to go as soon they are of age. Man won't that be a hard day!!

 

Fric and Frac ... I love them - Real fun boys! They bounce everywhere! I am going to visit a neighbor that raises the same goats. I want to see if she is willing to do a swap for a boy for a boy. Get some new genes in our pool... for all of Frankie's daughters - 

 Bo and Daisy these two are shadows of their older 1/2 brothers Fric and Frac. And yes... they have that bouncing down well too.. Here they had just figured out how to jump and get up on top of the barn. Very proud moment here! The high roof... the sound it makes when they jump all over the roof... over looking the yard... and the jumping off is a total adventure! Then we do it all over again!

How is this for a morning sun photo?

 

Love the morning sun rays, coming through the trees and over the little girls while they eat their breakfast!

 

 Then I looked down the fence line - no need for trimming the trees here! They are trimmed up daily - They love new leaves! LOL

 Then our "Spot" pen - Raffie and his ladies. Here Patti, Lacey and Vickie. Breakfast time here as well... and very important meal of the day for these pregnant ladies.

 I was getting some profile photos of Yolanda - got a couple of great ones for her file. But I thought this one was funny... it was almost as if she said.. hold on Mom.. got to scratch!!! And then she went right back to her profile pose!

Went in for some puppy photos...  Autie just was still a bit tired.....

 Getting photos of the puppies have been a chore! They are not easy to snap, they are always on the move!

 Here is Puppy One... "Precious"  - she is so calm and loving.

 Puppy Two - Sweetie, she is the more active, VERY active one. She is also the loudest of the two. She likes her new found bark, and she adores her little growl. Heck... I think I do too at this stage, it is just so darn cute! Now ask me again in a couple of weeks... and that may change ;0)

Ok, I have too many photos this week. But I had to show you how the barn is coming along. Hubby has really been working hard on our new hay barn. It isn't far from being done. Well this main part done. All it needs now is the two sliding doors, and the metal around the bottom. Then he will start on the attached cover areas. Each of the 4 sides, will have large covered areas for tractors and donkey shade. It is going to be wonderful!

 Now I have taken lots of space and your time with lots of photos. :0) I really enjoyed it - hope you did too! I only took about 60 photos - so this wasn't bad to narrow down too.

Have a great weekend!  HUGS and-

Just Magnolias and Hanglars - A beautiful Sketch!

Happy Friday! Again the week just flew by... maybe cuz Hubby was home most of the week and if we were not working on chores we were on the go... Always on the go! LOL

The Just Magnolias and Hanglars challenge this week is a great sketch - I went through some of  my older Hanglars. And found this cutie that someone sent to me stamped out. Thinner paper than I am use to but I went for it and for some reason I thought this would be a good image to try out coloring black hair... man that is tough!!! I really struggle with it. After about 400 layers of ink I settled on this. It still isn't looking like I want. But it is a better black hair than I have done before.

Ok now someone tell me what she is sitting in? I get the wooden box, but after staring at it for a while I decided cotton.... but why would she be sitting in raw cotton? LOL Oh well... cotton it is here.  I colored with Copics -

For my images I went through my scraps - and found some Graphic 45 and Webster papers, I just love blue and red. Denim and red really - I followed the sketch, and sewed all my layers down. Then added mulberry roses, and Martha Stewart Frond leaf punches. My sentiment is from OH MY Word. - easy peasy! Card went pretty fast, and I just love the dark rich colors -

Make sure to pop over to Just Magnolias and Hanglars to see all the DT's creations with the same sketch. Love how different they all come out! :0)

Lots on the to-do list today! So up early and off running.... chores chores chores! That way I can play a little on the weekend! LOL What is on your weekend list? Hubby has to work Saturday, so I am thinking maybe some crafting for me. Then Sunday we are painting the spare room and building the Ikea bookshelf we got -

HUGS and-

Me and My Space - More Stamp Storage, those that come with CDs.

Hello - ok, so last week I showed my Clear and Unmounted stamp storage, but I do have  another place I keep those Clear stamps that come from companies in CD's. Mainly Papertrey Ink brand. I have gotten so addicted to these stamps, and I especially love those that have matching die cuts!

But first let me show you how I store them.

 This is one of my Walmart CD storage boxes that I have shown before, they line the top of my desk and I keep all kinds of things in them. Copic refills, Stump stamps... and other things. But this one has CD's in it! Just like intended.

 Here the box is open, and you can see the edges have the Papertrey labels on them, with the name of the stamps. I have worn off some of the names, so I had to write in on some of them. This works so well to find each set easily...

So I have pulled out one of my favorites to show you something else...
This is Friendship Jar set -

 All safe inside the CD.... This set has a matching die cut set....

 On the back side of the CD I have attached a strong magnet - and I keep the dies attached to the actual set they match with! Now.. small little dies sometimes will fit in the CD with the stamp set, but these larger ones do not - so because they are safe inside the box, this works out perfectly for me. And I don't have to go and look for the die to match the set!

Oh.. guess I should fess up... I have a second box started since my first one is full :0)

So there is my some of sets in CD's .... works out well for me, and everything is safe. I use to keep all of my unmounted and clear stamps in CD's it is a great system for sets, and when you don't get out of control with stamps. I have a large box on the shelf I have shown in the past with stamps from years ago that I don't use often. Sad.... I just have too many. I need to go through them and have a sale huh? I just don't know if people would want my old stamps I guess... I'll think on it.

Now for my personal item of the week... I looked around my craft room and well most of my favorite things I have shown you, I decided to step out of my room and go down the hallway to show you something really special to me. REALLY special.

I have told you that I lost my Dad to cancer in 2000 - we all miss him terribly. He was a graphic designer. He was an artist that did ads by hand, and then trained himself to the modern world of computer graphics - He was really talented in both, he got really great at the the computer stuff. I have been blessed to have some of his early art from local adds. 

 As you can probably tell these are ads from department stores, I just adore these! These date from his earlier days - late 1960's or early 1970's... Don't you just adore these fashions!

 Just gorgeous! He could draw these up in seconds, and if I know my Dad he would roll his eyes that I framed them and hung them in my house - these were not his "best" work. Just "Ads". But I totally love them! They make me smile and feel closer to my Dad.

Hubby and I always comment how so many of them have that "Jackie O" look to them. If you look at their faces, they do... they all sort of look like her! LOL

Hope you enjoyed seeing them. Maybe I'll branch out into my house and show you more of my favorite things that are special to me from other areas :0)

Have a wonderful Wednesday! HUGS and -

Spoon Full of Sugar - Sewing/Stitching

Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge! And the challenge today is sewing or stitching on your project. Well that is all me :0) For my card I dug deep into my stamps and pulled out an old favorite! Cornish Heritage Farms Friendly Critters. I totally adore this image!

 I love coloring these images, and was so sad to learn they are no longer made. I always wanted to collect all of them, but only got a few. These images have a ton of detail, and all though they look hard to color they are not. I colored with my Copics.

Now for the card.

 

Decided that because I dug deep for the image, I should use one of my older paper stacks as well. Found K&Company's Cut and Paste stack. Really wonderful papers, with that collage feel to them. I took one of the papers, and cut it into pieces, and sewed down in a random pattern. I sewed a pattern into the bottom edge of one of the pieces. Then like a ding dong I covered it up with my punched flowers...duh... but it is popping out just a bit. The flowers are EK Success and the leaves Martha Stewart Frond leaves. The centers are Liquid Pearls.  I also added three more dots to look sort of like buttons or brads on the right side, above the typed words (these are on the pattern paper, but they look like I typed them don't they!) The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

I had fun with this card, and it went so fast... no thinking really - I think it was the paper.... just matched up! Now make sure to head over to Spoon Full of Sugar and see all the other sewn projects!

Today... I think we are going to head up to Ikea... about a 2 hour drive, we need some bookcases and what ever else we happen to find there... wink wink.... 

Have a wonderful Tuesday! HUGS and-

Dust If Off Sunday - Ice Cream Anyone?

As hot as it is, Ice Cream Sure Sounds Good doesn't it? But too many Weight Watcher Points for sure! LOL

I have been working really hard the past few days on some DT projects - and was behind to getting my Dust It Off Sunday Card done, and figured their had to be a card to two that I have made that hasn't been shown off... and then I remembered this card -

 This is a card I did for a magazine submission a while back. Didn't get picked... they did take the Alota image that made the Cover of Card Maker last month... so I am ok about them not taking this one :0) And now I have a nice summer card to show you today... all worked out!

I used one of the cutest Stampavie Tina Wenke images "Mouse holding Ice Cream" ... ok cute for a stamp image, but if this was real life you would have to get me off the table! A mouse hauling off a ice cream sunday that large would freak me totally! But cute here..... I did  a gate folding card for this card. The papers are Doodlebug "Sweet Treats" - really perfect paper don't you think? I matted with the back side - love two sided papers, they make all the thinking easy. It is all sewn together. And the image is colored with Copics.

Here is the inside. I used a portion of the stamp in the corner. Never had done that before, but I like it!

Same papers inside - all sewn as well.... I doodled the edges of the partial image, and then used a Stamps by Judith Happy Birthday -

 The image on the front I wanted to show up close.... I used dimensional glaze on to give it that wet ice cream look.

Hope you enjoyed my ice cream for today! All the enjoyment and none of the calories! Ok.. not all the enjoyment - - - But fun anyway!

Have a great Sunday - maybe get yourself an Ice Cream Sunday and enjoy it cooling off...
HUGS and-

Animal Crackers - Stunning!

Well - The babies are all growing fast - and we are having a ton of fun watching them bounce around.. the puppies are "walking" wobbly but walking, and the puppy pen has now been brought out. But first I wanted to show off our sheared stunning donkeys!

First up Pepita - Holy Cow! She is totally stunning! Shaved off all of her long tangled baby fur.. and this stunning black little girl appeared!  Gorgeous!

Felicia was up next in the girls pen - we thought she was going to be one of the easiest ones... but nope... she put up a bit of a struggle.....

Totally worth it! She had some really long hair, despite that her baby fur was cut last year. I think she is going to be like her Dad Black Jack, and grow out long every winter. REALLY Long!

The boys really look sharp too... 

Jorge... out littlest guy, really shows off how small he actually is now, and totally handsome I might say... Felipe is just as handsome, he put up a bit of a fight with us, I know he is happier now. Paco... he didn't get a hair cut - we didn't cut any of the spotted donkeys, with as hot as it is, way to scary that they would sunburn. But with them being Raffie's kids, they have that very short hair like him, so once we brush off the baby fur, they are cool! In more ways than one - 

Juliet is doing good - she was our standard girl that I showed you us getting sheared last week. She is doing great... much happier, she is also smart... with shorter hair, she stays in the shade more. She doesn't want to sunburn either!

..... She went in for a close up on her own.... love that Juliet!!

While out taking photos, we got 6 inches of rain!!! Ok... the drops fell 6 inches apart and lasted about 3 minutes! But that was all Paintbrush needed to run for cover!

This girl HATES to get wet! LOL She is getting really wide... Can't wait to see what her babies look like - her last litter was gorgeous!

Here is Daisy Duke - I have been really working hard on making sure she is sweet.... here she was enjoying some sweet milk... YOU GOT MILK?

Love those little milk lips! LOL

I know PUPPY PHOTOS...

Here I caught Chica Puppy Sitting... Too Too Adorable!

Not a great photo, had to move quick and used my phone... but still adorable. She really loves the puppies, and she loves to help clean and love on them. If Libbie is on a Mommy break, Chica takes over... Too Too Adorable!

Dad takes a bit of a turn as well.

It amazes me how totally wonderful he is with the puppies. Totally patient and calm with them. They crawl all over him, across him, and under him.... and he just watches them and loves on them.

Such good Animals I have huh? Gotta Love them!

HUGS and -

Just Magnolias and Hanglars - Anything Goes with an option of Shabby Chic!

First of the month ALREADY!!! WOW where the heck did June go so fast! Well if it is the first Friday of the month then that means it is the Anything Goes Challenge at Just Magnolias and Hanglars. This week there is an option of Shabby Chic.. totally love that!

For me I tried something new, I had seen these adorable little handbag or purse cards all over the net while blog surfing - I got my measurements from HERE . Was really easy to follow. And honestly it was a whole lot like my napkin card I did a while back... HERE But this just really has that totally girlie feel to it! WE all love a cute little handbag don't we??

 Now if I could just run out an purchase a life size of this! LOL I used my Magnolia Roses to embellish my little purse. This was so fun to make, I Use LOTS of Tilda papers - gorgeous papers BTW... not to be confused with Magnolias Tilda, this is a different company. I got mine from my good buddie Barbara's store called, Timbroscrapmania. She has all the hard to find stuff! :0)

Now back to my little purse. I used lots of Tilda papers as I said, all inked with Distress ink, matted with Kraft Paper and the purse made with cream colored card stock. A pink Satin Ribbon for the handle. My lace is a EK Success border punch, with vintage buttons as closures. My Magnolia Roses are colored with Copics - R81, R83, R84, YG63, YG99 - and inked with Distress ink as well after cutting them out.

And when you open up the little purse, it unfolds to this....

 Again lots of Tilda papers.... the center square has more Magnolia Roses, an adorable little Magnolia purse, and then a sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Inside and Out set.

I doodled the edges and ink as well. Totally giggling over this one! It is so fun to do cute things! I am saving this little purse for a birthday for someone, I hope she likes it. :0)

Here it is all closed up again... from the side.

What do you think?

Now pop over to the Just Magnolia and Hanglar Challenge and see all the DT's wonderful work, with a Shabby Chic twist. Then join us for our special prize this week!

Better get my groove going... Lunch with my buddy Tracey, then our girlie pedicure and manicure appointment. Wonder if she will like my girlie purse?

See you tomorrow for Animal Crackers!
HUGS and -