Baby Book Page

Just a sneak peak at one of the baby book's I am working on right now.  Having fun with my Cricut and the New Arrival cartridge.  So fun!

Garden Visitors

We've had a few unexpected guests in our back yard recently...

Lucy, the neighbor's cat.  She has been hunting our resident chipmunks and voles.  Go get'em Lucy!  Our cats have also started to notice her, and Lucy now knows that we have cats.  The curiosity continues!  She even almost had a chance encounter with Maggie the Wheaten this past week.

A green heron.  We have been hearing and see him down by the neighborhood ponds.  Just this week, he seems to have noticed that we have fish in our little pond.  We watched him eat two of them today!

Ah, the circle of life!

Love is in the air!

Several of our friends have recently gotten engaged.  We are thrilled for the happy couples!  I made cards for each of them that suited the personalities of their weddings.  Ecco l'amore! (Here's to love)

Birds of a Feather

So, I was getting ready to feed the fish in the back pond the other day when I noticed these two sitting on the adirondack chair that John built.  At first, I thought I should shoo them off of his nice chair (bird poo not good for wood...), however they looked like they were getting friendly with each other.  They were lifting their wings around each other and huddling close.  So, I decided to postpone my trip out to the backyard and watch them for a few minutes...

I am so glad that I did!  I would have missed out on this special moment.  A few minutes later this is what I saw — a momma mourning dove and her babies.  Cute family photo, don't you think?

Creative Provocation

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."  Danny Kaye

Baby Banner

My neighbor (and dear friend), Selina hosted a baby shower for her daughter last weekend.  She had an idea for a banner to go with the selected color theme (pink, green and yellow).

As luck would have it, we designed an adorable onesie banner.  Each onesie had a black and white photos of the father and mother when they were babies.

We kicked out this project in about 1-1/2 hours thanks to my Cricut and the New Arrival cartridge. We made two banners this size.  Selina hung these to ribbon using clothspins.  How cute!

Yummy Desserts

Saw these lovelies (Norman Love Confections) at a dinner with my company.  Don't these look too beautiful to eat?