next set of puppy pics

play time

Breakfast on the deck

After breakfast...little bit of play

Day with the g'daughters

what to do with a nine and seven year old when the weather is stinkin hot and no one feels like doing much but staying inside where at this point it is cooler than outside? I have the girls for the day while their dad is working and their mom is playing in florida at cha......(that is why the outfits aren't matching :) It was 10am and they were already bored....so emma decided to make a mask out of some blanket material i cut up for the puppies and had scraps...mask didn't stay on for long so we went on to other things to make


this girl is one after her grums heart...i like to play with fabric too

this is some satiny material that was on the edge of the blanket i cut up....fun times

pochantas type leg stuff

So today was a time for the old brain to kick in and see what could keep the girls occupied for a bit.....i had an aha moment and thot............tent on the play structure...so got torrey to put the blanket up and then armed with some ice water, cups, cherries, book, rugs the girls were up there playing till it got too hot to stay under the tent

funny what a little blanket and a play structure can be made into

torrey cheesin it up

she is such a ham bone

emma coming up into the tent

enjoying the spoils of tenting at grums

pocahantus-emma with her leg bands on

Oh my...so far behind :)

ok....I haven't posted anything in so long on here :) I got these movies taken with a new camcorder...which I don't think I am keeping :)....so the noise is really loud and the movement really fast but.........for those of you getting puppies you can at least see your pups playing...hoping to get some more taken where they are a little bit more contained and I am not trying to capture them with the camera all the time......
Love the quality of the pics but the ease of use is not high up there on the scale....and it doesn't work easily on the mac at all!!!! bummer :)

ps..one more video to upload so stand by for the next one :)

Wings of Eagles

I love that song about soaring on wings like eagles...this guy was flying above the yard today and was lucky enough to have a zoom lens on the camera....cut the pics down so you could see him better

check out that wing span

amd the colors in his feathers

What do you call...????

I am not sure what you would call this structure that Dave built this weekend....not really an arbor or pergola but it is cool whatever you call it. We needed something to block the sun setting in the afternoons on our deck...so I came up with this brilliant idea :) Yep I am the idea man... well idea woman...with no clue how to actually build things :) But bless his little pea pickin heart...my husband did the hard work of building it for me :)
The things you do for love...............

Like the look of sheer determination that that screw is going to go in just right

Here are the slats for the top...even grooved cuz I said that would look nice :)

The slats on

Viola...the finished project with shades down to see if it works....guess what??? It does :) We have a sunsetter awning that goes over the top of the deck to keep the top sun off and now shades on the side to keep the sun out as it sets

Frame ups and special effects

I finally finished my weeks worth of class with Jessica Sprague :) took me almost all week to start but finished yesterday and needed to get these up today so I could say I accomplished something this weekend :)

the first one is of Annie...duh....the effect was to add png's...so the frame is a png but the wording is just plain text as I didn't like the word art ...i mean it didn't suit this picture so put in just text

This is my newest litter of pups...should have lightened it up some but it actually isn't too bad....the effect on this was to use brushes...the frame is a brush but once again i just put the text in normally

First I must apologize to the owner of this beautiful girl...I took this picture...well I took several pictures of this little girl at a homeschool end of school party...she was so stinkin cute that I had to snap a few....
This day was working with adjustment layers...vintagy looks with added hand tint...I erased the adjustment layer on the bow and the straps of her dress. Also found a cool star in the brush pallete and stamped that a couple of times in the photo..oh and we also added a frame to this pic

Day 4 was clipping masks :) I kinda "vintageyed" up this photo and then uncolored the one pansy to give some brightness to one of the flowers

Day 5 was using textures. I did vintage type adjustment on the pic and then added three textures to the photo and added the mask and a png frame to it

Day 6 was a ttv day...(Through the viewfinder) Altho we didn't get another camera and take a picture we added some textures that made that effect on the photo....once again did textures on the photo and some brush stamps along with the adjustment layers to get that vintage type look

Day 7 was just review and a "quiz" and I passed with flying colors ;)