creating...

I needed to make a gift tag for my niece for her baby shower

and so I gathered some supplies...

and ended up with this...

(The baby image is on one of the collage sheets available in my Etsy shop, my handmade quilled paper posies are available there too)

My dear hubby gave me a great compliment and said,"I don't know how you come up with these things (tags/cards) so quickly!"

This is on the back of the baby shower tag I made.
It is a vintage flash card. Perfect, don't you think?



Then I made a card for a birthday...

I used more of my paper posies. I printed and cut out one of my colored pencil art birds and attached it with some foam tape to give it some dimension.

(The bird is included on one of the collage sheets available in my Etsy shop)

Lastly, I made small tags to attach to some little giftie bags I gave her...

The Canary is another one of my colored pencil art endeavors.

I am considering offering prints of it in my shop as well. What do you think?

Just hanging out together

My A.

and her old kitty named Cali

(short for Calico)

Are you lookin' at me? -part II

My buddy the squirrel was back at it again while I sat at my computer. He likes to come and visit me. He is a real comic, this one! He has a wonderful mischievous personality. He is convinced he needs to find a way onto the bird feeders. Eating what the birds knock down to the ground is apparently "below" him!! (bad pun)

Maybe he secretly imagines himself as a bird, wanting to fly to the feeder and sit daintily upon the peg at the cylindrical feeder.

Yesterday in the garden outside the big window I had (all at the same time for about 5 minutes) 3 Purple Finches, 2 Wax Wings, 1 Hummingbird (isn't it now waaaay too cold for the hummingbirds in northernmost Ohio??) and another unidentified- until I look in my Ohio bird book- beautiful black with white spots size of a Blue Jay bird. While the birds flitted from the feeders and flowers to the porch roof and back again and again, 2 squirrels played on the fence.

My comic squirrel waited for the birds to eat (nice of him to use his manners) and then climbed the roof. I think he is more like a circus performer than a bird! But we will let him have his little fantasy.

Here are other silly photos of my squirrel buddy.