(ahem) LA LA LA LA LA!!

My friend Mina of

Green Witch With Sprinkles

is the guest artist today at

Take A Word

Isn't that great?

She has the PRETTIEST blog.

Her theme is

SONG

and as far as I'm concerned, there must be a bazillion ways to interpret that! 

You have no excuse not to play.

Really.

Elements used are by Dezinaworld, Laurie Anderson, Amanda Sok and The Gilded Bee.

OK, you.

Start singing.

Take A Word

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.

The Challenge today at

The Order of The Opus Gluei is

"A Picture is Worth 1000 Words"

courtesy of Poobah Kristen.

We all know I like to babble, whether with my mouth or my art, so this was a real

CHALLENGE

for me. 

(get it?  Challenge?)

I think you should go over there and see what's the Poobahs have put together for this one, or maybe you don't need that inspiration and you've stopped reading this and are making your piece right now.........................................

Fun Friday

Join in Fun Friday at

Dezinaworld

See more Fun Fridays at

Friday Fill Ins

1. Summer is _finally here_.

2. My belief system_ is unchanged _about this_.

3. Aargh! _Why do I have to go to work???_.

4. _I love my strong black coffee _ in the morning.

5. Seven: _brothers and seven wives_. (who knows where that came from?!?!)

6. _It's a wonderful world_ don't you think?

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _driving to BC with my daughter and her DH_, tomorrow my plans include _the lake, maybe Idaho_ and Sunday, I want to _have a leisurely drive home, stopping to take as many photos as I can_!

 

Have a funny weekend, all!

Nothing to do with Anything

That's what my post is for today.

Just two LO's I made for no reason at all, other than I felt like it.

Images used are by Cajoline, Deviant Art, Amanda Sok and the Land of Nod.

Wordless Wednesday

Images by Dezinaworld

Wordless Wednesday

I love WOYWWED!

Don't you?

I have some in-progress journal pages to show you, that I am working on through a class with Pam Carricker, through Artful Gathering.

They are not exaxtly ON my workdesk, but they were before I took them off the workdesk and propped them on a chair to photograph.

I just decided I am too tired after a late workday to stand up and take photos there.

So please pretend.

Almost done.

Now take a picture of YOUR workdesk and get on over to Julia's

The Stamping Ground

to show the rest of us.

There.

I've shown you mine.

Now you show us yours!

Spicy Foto Gears

I combined two challenges this week

HAH!!

I'm so proud of myself!

1. Friday Foto Collage

and

2. Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge

The challenge at GC is Gears, Cogs and watch bits.

I used gears.

Maybe the gears I used for the wagon wheels are really cogs. 

I need to go find a dictionary...

Elements used are all by Tim Holtz, with the exception of the child in the wagon and his top hat.

The hat is by Dezinaworld and the wagon, child and rooster are courtesy of Peggy Gatto at

Friday Foto Collage

Thanks for visiting!

Look What I won!!

from

Just Jingle and

Unity Stamps!

Isn't it wondeful!!

I'm so excited to start using it.

Thanks Jingle and Unity!

Sepia

Elements used are by Erica Hite,

Dezinaworld, Digikeepsakes

and Laurie Anderson

Take A Word

Grungeboard or Grungepaper

OK, I'll admit it.

I don't know the difference between grungeboard and grungepaper.

For Grungy Monday 16 we get to use either one.

So I did, with whichever one I used.

You know of course that both

Grungepaper and Grungeboard

are created by the talented

Tim Holtz.
You can find his blog here

And where do you find Grungy Monday?

Well, that's here

Linda Ledbetter's StudioL3

Isn't blogland wonderful?

Oh Hole-y Night

This  week at

Jingle Belles 

we have been challenged to make something with an opening in it.

I had all this terrific idea about covered the back of plastic soup spoons with coloured foil and decorating each spoon as an elaborate Christmas ornament...

yeah right.

And when I stopped drinking....

I made THIS instead.

My daughter thinks it's boring.

I think SHE should cover some plastic soup spoons with foil and....

Jingle Belles

"taking back December...one holiday card at a time"

Lord Byron

Jeanette of

Soartful Challenges

has this weeek introduced us to Lord Byron. 

Handsome devil, isn't he?

I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

(oops, did I say that out loud?  I didn't mean to.)

LOOK:

Now what do you suppose the young lady is thinking?  I'll be it's not twenty pounds of laundry every day, nor all those mouths to feed.  NO...SHE is thinking how soulful his eyes are.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, GIRL!!!

(ok,  I ADMIT, I MAY BE A TAD CYNICAL.

 JUST A TAD.)

New MySpace 2.0 Layouts

Elements used are by Dezinaworld, Amanda Sok and The Gilded Bee

Fun Friday

Did I ever tell you I had an afro when I was in my early twenties?

Well, this is not me, but I did.

Why don't you play along with

Fun Friday

at Dezinaworld!

Friday Fill Ins

1. I hold _you dear_.

2. _Kaitlin_ is someone I like to travel with because _she calms me when I have a meltdown_.

3. That day, _that never should have happened_.

4. _I'd like to grow up a little bit_ this year.

5. Trust _your intuition_.

6. _Fishin'____ in the dark.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _visiting friends_, tomorrow my plans include _seeing my girl_ and Sunday, I want to _go to a Pow Wow_!

Friday Fill Ins

If it were later in the year, you could...

Elements used are by Dezinaworld and Laurie Anderson

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Reindeer Games

Have you visited Jingle Belles yet?

Have you played along?

If not, you really should, it's a blast.

PLUS, come December, you'll have a bunch of Christmas cards all ready to address and mail.

How cool is that?

This week's prompt is to use a reindeer or any other holiday animal in your card design.

Penguin?  Ostrich?  Maybe a Yak?

I used a reindeer.

(so boring)

Go to

Jingle Belles

for all the deets.

Not Ladylike

I know I've been blogging a lot this weekend.

Maybe I'm manic.

Maybe I won't blog for a month how.

Maybe I will.

See this picture?

I took it sitting in traffic this evening.

I love our skies.

Which brings me to the REAL reason I am posting...

THIS is my good friend Lisa

This week I did a guest post for  Lisa of

Not Ladylike

all about the province in which we both live.

I like Lisa.

A lot

And I like her blog.

A lot.

And you would too.

EVEN THOUGH I know how busy we all are...you would.  Really.

Anyhoo, if ya like, mosey on over thar and take a gander at

some rootin-tootin redneck photos I took of our homeland.

And say Hi to Lisa.

It'll make her day.

That's what Lisa would say, if she were here

 instead of gallivanting around the country having fun.