These are some of our flowers in bloom right now! I am always amazed with the beauty in nature! It is breath taking for sure! :0) Hope you enjoy the view!

Today was a special day for my friend Laura! Her sister Cheryl, and family threw her a surprise BREAST CANCER FREE 10th ANNVIRSARY party! Laura was so surprised! Her family and friends were there to celebrate with her! Her sister Cheryl and husband John are WONDERFUL hostess/hosts! They put out a LOVELY spread of food and drink and shared their beautiful home with everyone on Laura's behalf! I think she will definitely feel the love when it all sinks in! She was sort of in shock! The pictures here are of Laura, Laura and Jessi (her dd who did a sweet cheer for her Mom and kept this BIG SECRET all along the planning......way to go Jessi) and Laura and her Mom! I wish I had gotten more pictures, but it was nice to just take it all in and see the overwhelming love that everyone expressed to Laura today! It was something to behold! CONGRATS LAURA!!!!!! <3

These are 4x8 pages for a deco round robin! There are fabric, paper, cheesecloth and embellishments! Some sewing on the machine too! A vellum cover page for the one side also! We are to incorporate the shape of diamonds somewhere in the pages! Great fun! :0) Happy Sunday all!

This is a little card I made for a contest at the scrapbook store! You needed to use one rubber stamp purchased there! The cirlces on this card are from Memory Box, a clear unmounted set called Scribble Garden, fun set and then many other things are from there too!The paper is Basic Grey, and the birds are rubber stamps from Hero Arts, a little set of four, I love them! :)There is a rub on, ribbon, and the flower and button brad are from Imaginisce. Happy Monday.......grrrrr! Hehehe!

Here is Amber's new car! A beautiful kinda sporty 96 Neon! Amber is thinking it is pretty cool and so do I! I may have to trade her! :0)
She is ready to give it a good cleaning from inside top to bottom and already has her watermelon air freshener up!
Fun stuff!

Finally I got some art in! These are 4x4s for a Pointed Hat themed swap! The fronts and one shot of the front and back! I used lots of stamps on these! The little twig, the circles, the back has a great stamp from PaperBagStudios that I love....and the wording stamp on the bottom of the front too! Who is in the mood for BLUE? Hehehe! Hugs,Patti

Want to know what this is??? Go to

http://www.inmyvintageroom.com/

HINT: Look under "Guest Artist"

and enjoy!

Hugs,Patti

One more deco I am working on! This one, had the image on the page of the young woman! I turned her into a sister to that little sweet one....:0) and followed with a quote;

"The purpose of life is to be useful,to be responsible,to be compassionate, It is, above all to matter, to count,to stand for something,to have made some difference that you lived at all." The next page was just to be another fun quote that we enjoy... and the stamped image is from PaperBagStudios! Some fun material and bits are added there! :) Enjoy!

Getting some art done today! This is a deco/journal for a round robin! The theme is shapes and this shape is basically....SQUARES! So, although we can add other things, the idea is to have some squares in there too! I used fabric, stitching and laces and did some watercolor on a stamped image and even added some little beads (hard to see). Much fun!!!!

Well, it is official, our Amber has graduated high school! :) Here are a bunch of pictures, from her entering at the ceremony, Amber and some friends, Amber and my folks, Amber and Anthony, Amber at the stage where she gave a wwwwwwonderful speech with another gal that were chosen by the class to be the speakers to represent their class of '07! The night was beautiful, the kids glowing, and the parents tear filled and proud! CONGRATULATIONS Class of '07 and our dear AMBER!

LOOK at this beautiful fairy that Nina Owens sent Amber (and I)! She knows our love for fairies and with Amber's health issues and trial lately, Nina's sweet magical gift made us feel special! Isn't she amazing! Nina is a fabulous clay artist and created and painted her from her own creations! She has a special spot here in our home.....so we can remember the magic daily! Thank you Nina!!!!!!!!

This is a deco page I did for a friend, who had vintage children as her theme! How adorable are these little ones! She included the images and I had a hard time picking because they were soooooo dear each one! Anyways, I hope she enjoys the direction I went with them! :0) I had to clean up my art space today, as this week Amber Graduates and I want the house in shape for any Pop Ins! Hehehe! So the art items will have to find a hidding place for a week or so! :0)

This is my finished altered book cover using the transparency that we also altered by painting and adding color from black and white(posted earlier). This is an exchange where we art one for one in return and we altered the top of a book cover using the transparency technique and this was a lot of fun ! I will show what I receive from this swap when it comes! Thanks for looking! :)

I want to wish two friends of mine a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today, Laura and Heather! Have a fairy special birthday! And I want to wish my dear Hubby Earl a Happy 24th Anniversary! I am pretty sure he has earned his crown already.........hehehehe!!!!!!!!!

These are the fabrics rinsed and before the cycle to set in the wash machine and then the fabric all finished, dryed and ironed! PHEW! All done! That was quite the project! But the varying hues are beautiful! :0)