I recently posted this at my ETSY shop. I think I'll make a couple for my kid's teachers for the first day of school and fill them up with pens, pencils, post-its, etc. Another cute idea is an altered clipboard with the teacher's name on it.

postcard & circus

One more postcard to add to the collection. I missed the postcard challenge this week, but still made one. And, pics from the circus.



Doesn't that tiger look like he wanted to eat me? That is what I was thinking when he looked right at me through the camera lens, and the elephants look cute right? Well that picture was taken right before they all had a big poop fest. I guess if they eat together then they also cr*p together too. It was like a chain reaction. I won't say anymore. Happpy art day. Now, go make art.

Back from a very fun weekend in San Diego. Emma filled in to play on Crush Travel Ball at a Triple Crown Tournament. They took 2nd place. Here is a picture of the score book of just their first inning of their first game. 19 runs.

Also I went to a really cute scrapstore called Paper Tales in San Diego and they have a blog too. I took a cute picture of this house on display there, very cute. Also, I drew a name for the lunchpail RAK.... and the winner is Coral Rose Creations. Please email your snailmail address and I'll get that out to you. If you didn't win, but have to have one of those lunch pails I'll put another in my Etsy Shop. Check it out. Back later with more pics. I have two postcards to upload.

Time for a give away in honor of opening my etsy shop. Leave a comment here and I'll draw a name on Sunday. I altered this cute little lunch pail. I'll even fill it up with some goodies. Getting ready for school to start. We went shopping for school supplies yesterday. OMG! a hundred dollars later! And that was just pencil and paper,(and erasers, pens, rulers, etc.) But still. Just a few more weeks of summer vacation.

Sunday Post Card Challenge

Back with another Sunday Postcard Challenge. If you want to play along, click here. The theme this week is "Ride Yer Bike" which I love to do. The kids and I ride around Orange all the time. We visit the high school and Chapman College and the Orange Circle and the river bed. Here I used a printout of a vintage pic of a girl on her bike, cropped to fit the postcard size of course. Thanks for looking. Let's see your bike postcard....

New Etsy Shop

Well, I took the plung and opened an Etsy shop. I am in the process of uploading some things for sale. If you are interested you can check it out by clicking on the "My Etsy Shop" picture on the right side of this blog. Thanks for looking. We'll see how it goes.

Back from Wisconsin

I've been away from the computer for about 10 days, not able to upload much creativity. I did take some photographs of the kids on Lake 26 though. We had a lovely time. The kids caught fish and frogs(Emma was in heaven), and Henry was too, and well Preston was too. It was so relaxing. Thank you Peggy and Uncle Fred and Aunt Shirley. I did manage a few atcs while we were gone so I'll be sharing those tomorrow. Happy August 1st. Glad to be home. Thanks for looking.