These are Poppies and Lupine! LOVE them!

Here are some of my beautiful flowers and one little

puppy who looks guilty about something! Heheheh! He did not want to sit still, so I had to usea firm voice and he was sad about that! Look at those eyes!!!!!!!!! :) Good Boy Rufio!!!!!!!

Aren't these just the most fun?
The heads are amazing and the site for them is here........
http://stonefacecreations.homestead.com/HEADGALLERY.html
The troll someone just did in their yard garden and I love it!
Link to the original posting is here........
http://gardendesignpictures.com/
I wish I could MAKE some of the heads to plant in........I think they are FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am in love with them!!!!!!!
Wishing you all a great Tuesday!

 Amber and I made some peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes with peanut butter frosting for her Harry Pottery dress up party!

 These are the finished cupcakes. Amber called them "Divination Cupcakes" because Professor Trelawney tells fortunes. She also included a fortune below each cupcake that is tucked into a secondary cupcake paper to be found when eating the cupcake.

 The REAL Professor Trelawney and below is Amber ready to go for her party! I made the head scarf and we found the rest of the things, including the clothes (at Value Village) and Merchandise Outlet helped with the glasses and ball. :) Such fun!

Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose a Dresser as a Planter

Recylce, reuse, repurpose! Those are the words for this project. Earl and I were at a thrift shop and found a very beat up dresser that really could not be used for clothes any longer for super cheap. We took it home and gave it some TLC until became this planter dresser!!!!!!! I love it and hope you do too.
We sanded, painted and decorated and then used the drawers as a place to add the planter boxes along with the plants. Earl actually screwed the drawers into place on the side so there is no chance of them dropping out or anything. What fun! I hope it lasts a couple of seasons. :) I think this was a great thing to do with dresser to save it from the land fill. HURRAY!
Have a great day everyone.

3 legged squirrel

Here are some sweet finches at our feeder AND our new little pal! We call him/her Gimpy. She/he is missing his right front paw. It has a part of a leg, but the whole foot is not there. So I have been feeding him/her some peanuts. :) It is really cute and walks pretty well on three legs. Anyways, happy peanuts for little Gimpy.

Easter fun! My Dad forwarded me this adorable picture of my two sweet cousins, Pam and Jill's kids! Ohhhhh this was just too cute to leave alone. So I made an Easter card for them. One for Jill, Pam and my wonderful Auntie and Uncle, these are their grand kids! :) Depending on who the card went to, BUNNY EARS are added to the kids appropriately! Heheheh, and some eggs, stamping and a little gold brilliance along the edges. The kids are so darling and they went to Breakfast with the Easter Bunny last weekend at the Milwaukee County Zoo and that is where this picture was taken! Kids at these ages are just so much fun!
My cousins have some cute little bunnies!!!!!!
Happy Easter to all!

Hi everyone! I hope your weekend was fun. It was beautiful weather wise here. Sunshine and not too breezy :)  I went downstairs to continue on my art quilt with the Earth Wind and Fire horses from BigFork Bay! It is really coming along now. I have to add batting, backing fabric and then I will be able to start free motion stitching. It am loving how it looks so far and hope my stitching does it justice! We will see! This will be a wall hanging. It will take me a while to finish, but I am excited about the progress. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and hoping your week goes well!

Hi all! I have been quietly working on my horse quilt from Bigfork Bay every moment I get. I have all three horses completed. And they have come together on the ironing sheet. I am showing you the green horse and then all of them together! I completed the red horse before (see post below) and then the green horse and then the orange horse and now they can all overlap each other! Next I must work on the fabric portion and then these horses will get ironed onto the background. Once that is done, I can start free motion stitching! Phew!!!!!!! The horses are beautiful! This pattern is amazing! :)
Hope you are enjoying seeing it come together! Have a lovely week!

I got a bit farther on my left side horse. :)
It is completed for the moment. I will begin on the horse on the left next! Then after completing that one, I will move to the middle. Eventually all three will come together and it will be wonderful! I am excited to see that!
So far now, here is the result. I am enjoying this process! The post below tells about the class and the process!

Have a happy day!

Hello all,
I wanted to share with you that I took a class this past weekend with Laura Krasinski. Laura teaches the patterns from BigFork Bay! Here is a link to their site and Laura is on the home page with one of her gorgeous quilts.
http://www.bigforkbaycottonco.com/
Laura's quilt is on the right side named Autumn Lady. Wonderful!
Anyways, the class was marvelous and I chose a difficult pattern, but Laura encouraged me that I could do it! :) She has great faith and has always told me that I could do anything! Hehehe! GOOD friend!

I am going slowly at this, but it coming along and I want to share it with you. These patterns are intricut and detailed and quite beautiful. You can look at the pictures closesly and see that we traced the pieces onto the proper fabric onto fusable web that is ironed on, cut them out and then sort of put this together like a big jigsaw puzzle. The patterns are glorious! You can see my pattern below the ironing sheet that I am assembling the first horse head on. It begins to come to life. It is amazing. Anyways, I will continue working on it and share as I move along. It is time consuming, but I enjoy the process very much. It is peaceful and artful and time spent sort of becoming a part of the creation. Neat right? Enjoy the pictures! Have a great day!