I'm freezing from sweating from the gym. I need to go take a shower.

Been kinda quiet around my blog. Sorry!! I haven't had the time or drive to post much on here. I haven't been making anything really. I did buy some new digital kits from Little dreamer designs the other day. They are going out of business. This totally bums me out. You should go check them out for some deals. They are closing their doors on the 15th of March.






























This weekend we went to our first foster pug event. Meet the pugs at the Get Rescued event in Gulfport, Fl. It was a good time. I got to go over to the husky rescue too and buy some magnets and a husky treat cook book.





























Its already almost March. I finished my digital page for this month. Again, this is my only absolute thing I will not slack on. Hope to get more creative energy soon! Thanks for stopping by!

I just ate more steamed green beans than I'd care to admit.

I was excited to see a sketch this week on jinglebelles and that they were joining up with Sketchy Thursdays. They are my two fav challenge blogs. Here was the sketch.



















Here's my card I made.





























The pp are both BG. The winter wonderland rub on is Cosmo cricket. The snowflake punch is martha stewart. I stamped the tree stamp (tim holtz) on a half a circle of white paper and then colored it with blue and antique dress inks. I painted white acrylic ink on it to make it look snowed on and added a few drops of walnut ink splatters.

I love how this card turned out. Its one of my favs I've made this year so far.

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I took the pugs to the vet yesterday. This weekend is our first pug rescue foster event I get to take them to. They are doing wonderfully. The vet check seemed to go good. It was FAR away and poor Daisy is not the best car rider. She makes a loud panting sound the whole way there, while we were there, and all the way home. Poor thing. She's old and very overweight is what the vet said. He said if I get her in shape, she won't do that as much.

Thats what I'm working on now. Walking pugs, feedings being monitored, no Leo food sneaks. (this is the hardest) Leo likes to give them his food.

Hope everyone is having a good week.

I have absolutely no idea what to make for dinner tonight.

I know I've been a total slacker on my blog. I've been in a creative no-go zone and just caught up with so many other things. I did manage to do this UPC art journal page with this month's medium watercolor paints! It turned out neat..

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Yesterday I got my pug fosters! I ended up getting a pair that were surrendered together. Its hard for them to find foster homes that will take 2. This way they get to stay together. Meet Lily and Daisy! Check out your local pug rescue if you want to adopt or foster. There are tons of sweet pugs needing homes at the pug rescue of Florida.













































































They are fitting in wonderfully. They are housebroken, love the boys, and are sweet as can be. I missed the deadline of doing this week's jinglebelles challenge. I totally am bummed about that. I am having a 3 yr old playdate today at my house with Leo's little buddy. Its just his one little friend. Then later I'm going to take the pugs for a walk with Leo, then later tonight take the huskies for run.

This weekend I have to help Logan do a project on Martin Luther King Jr. I have to put something in a bag that represents him??? Logan also wants to make an Orb of confusion out of paper mache for Lewis to take to work. Don't ask me what that is. lol. Something out of a video game I think.

felty goodness

Really quick.. Here's my card for the jinglebelles challenge this week to use felt. I had this felt reindeer from a gift bag Lauren sent me two years ago. I cut the reindeer out of the bag to use in the future. The card turned out adorable. I can't wait to send it out this year. Great challenge this week girls. Gotta go get my car 15k check up today and its cold outside. Coffee is needed.

Goals, I need goals..

1. 12-09 Brown OrgFlwer Cap 1 Full, 2. Katharina Leuzinger, 3. small cat siamese painting, 4. Distant relatives , 5. African Flower blanket, 6. handmade holidays :: playstands, 7. Little Red Riding Hood, 8. Untitled, 9. vintage primitive doll family

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

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Well I have considerably been slacking on making much of anything to my normal amount of production considering I do not have school right now and at the moment I've been non-sickly for all of 5 days or so?

I have been productive in my personal/non arty life. This weekend I put up stuff on craigslist to sell. I sold Leo's old crib and our pop up camper. Now the crib I had no problem getting rid of. I'm a little bit sad about the pop up camper, because it was a pipe dream of mine that we'd be that family. You know the ones. The ones that go on adventures all over camping and spending family time together as much as possible and those would be my boys memories when they got older. But honestly...thats just not us. We had fun with it while we had it, but we just never used it. When we did use it, it was difficult with the dogs. We also could use the money and garage space.

Lewis is very happy to be using the garage as his new gym area. I'm very happy to know when we do eventually move I will have one less thing to worry about. (selling the pop up or moving the thing) So all and all it was a good weekend. With our crib money, I had a sitter and we went and ate a wonderfully calorific lunch at Red Lobster with out kids and then went thrift store shopping. It was fun.

Goals to get done for the blog this week..

1. Jinglebelles felt card Ah.. yeah... Totally doing this.
2. Sketchy Thursday sketch. Get pubbed? or at least try? Sound good!
3. DRAW NEW STAMP DESIGNS at least one
4. 2 more Tim tags from 2010 to do since we are now in Feb.
5. Watercolors must be brought out for UPC (which I'm totally not sticking to as well as HTA)

Off to the gym I go.

I should watch an old Hitchhock movie. I'm in that kinda mood.

This week on jinglebelles challenge blog the great Amy Tsuruta made a sketch for everyone to use this week. Here's the sketch.


















Here's the card I made for the sketch. I am so excited to be getting all these Christmas cards done. I'll be having these puppies out by Nov 30th to send out this year! Oh yeah!

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Pretty tired this morning. Leo decided 5:45 am was a good time to get up this morning. *yawn* Yesterday we took an imprompto trip to the zoo.






























My itouch was not fully charged and I didn't have my camera, so I didn't get many pictures. We had a good time though. Leo liked everything than feeding the birds. They have lorikeets you can feed nectar to and they swarm you. I was holding the cup and I had like 5 or 6 of them on me. Leo freaked. He must have thought it was a scene like out of Hitchcock's "The Birds". I think when my zoo pass expires I'm going to get an aquarium pass again instead. Thanks for stopping by!

Heart-tastic

I am still trying to get caught up from being sick. I'm excited to say that I did make a V-Day card for this year. I carved a new heart stamp to use on it.




















I really wanted something arty and pretty. I used red distress ink to stamp the hearts on BG pp and then I embossed the hearts each in a different color embossing powder. The Sweet is rub ons and the white lettering is SRM stickers. I also used a distress ink dabber to smudge red and pink ink over the card. I sprayed the card with red mister ink and dripped walnut diluated ink on the card also. Last I added the jewels and the pink floss and layered the card on the different papers.






























Thanks for stopping by. Going to try to catch up with all my comments and blogs soon!