Happy Father's Day!

I can't believe it's already June! Time just gets away from me waaaay too quickly.

So here is what I've been up to lately...


I started an Etsy shop! Have you visited Etsy yet? It's an awesome place! Really unique and inspiring things. You really should take a look around! If you are one bit crafty or creative, you will be in awe of some of the things that are offered there.

My M, only 5 years old, who didn't get his first tooth until he was 10 months old... lost his first tooth yesterday! It wasn't even lose -- he was trying to pry two pieces of Legos apart with his teeth and his tooth came out. He wasn't very happy about it, though. He cried for about 10 minutes because he didn't want to lose his tooth! I guess he's pretty emotionally attached to it! LOL

To calm him down, I showed him a picture in A's scrapbook from when she lost her tooth. We also had to reassure him that the tooth fairy would come visit him and leave him MONEY! Truthfully, I was a tiny bit worried about mentioning the tooth fairy to him -- thinking he would be further perplexed that a little tiny woman with wings would be invading his room while he slept. Thankfully, this didn't bother him one bit!




I will post again soon with more updates! I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday and I hope all the dads have a great Father's Day!!

Week One...

A couple days ago I completed week one of my Art Journal Journey that I am joining Emily on! I wrote about it approximately a week ago in my Lady in the Water post, but I won't revisit that again! Just watch the movie, OK? Alrighty then.

Ya know... I thought I had a deck of cards laying around the house. After all, who doesn't have a deck of cards laying around the house? Especially people like us -- whom get together with friends every Saturday night to play board or card games. I looked all over the place for a deck of cards that have been tattered and well worn that I could alter. My thoughts were that a well-used deck of cards would be perfect for this project! Am I right?

The only decks of cards I could find were these KEM playing cards and I don't think my hubby would appreciate me altering those. He got them a couple of years ago for his birthday and I guess after he received them, we threw out the "cheap" cards. Why on Earth we would do that, I don't know. My super-spidey senses should have told me that I would one day need them for this very project! But the world went on and I made a trip to my local Tar-jay to purchase a deck of brand new, not well-used, not tattered cards.

And... Ta-Da... this is my first week's journal card:












I hope that my cards get more creative as I go. I've never worked on a scale this small, but I have had the itch to for a little while now, so this was a lot of fun for me! I am looking forward to next week.

The details: The paper is WRMK, the ribbon is BG; I machine stitched the ribbon on; I hand stitched all the beading on.

Thank you, Emily, for this wonderful Challenge!!

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