Annabelle In The Garden

Annabelle is the first hydrangea I planted when I started my garden. To keep her in her white~white colors, I put lots of peat moss under her every year...thanks Melissa! She will sometimes have almost dinner plate size flowers. These dry really nice if I want to have a bouquet all thru the fall. She gets bigger and bigger every year, and is some nice "bones" for the garden!

Sorry I haven't had time to post any cards, I will, I am just trying to get ready for the Holiday!

Butterfly Collage

I made this butterfly collage yesterday for my kitchen. My kitchen colors are black, red, yellow and white. I added the verse as its sure fits me, and was just a "fun" addition to my kitchen wall! I used the Martha Stewart butterfly punch and the paper was perfect from Cosmo Cricket. It has all those colors in one sheet! The shadow box frame I purchased from Target. The second photo is where I hung it!

Happy Sunday~The Garden Gate

My brother-in-law gave me this old vintage garden gate last week. He knows I like primitives and he knows I love to garden. When he had me come over and come into his garage, he had this wonderful Victorian gate sitting in full view, he must of seen my eyes light up, because he said "Don't get too excited, because thats not the gate!" Dang it, but this is a neat old gate, too. We just put it up yesterday in a section of my gardens that I am in the process of redoing! The rabbit I just purchased in Shipshewanna, Indiana (Amish country) at a neat prim shop. My garden is full of rabbits, but none of the "cutsie" ones, I like the Alice In Wonderland type rabbits!

Hope you enjoy visiting my garden, I again used some of my new photo software, that stuff is addicting!

Bouquet From My Garden

Had to share this beautiful bouquet I picked from my garden, but I have to admit, I probably need flower arranging 101 as I am not the best at arranging them in a vase. The purple flowers are larkspur, they are annuals, but I learned that if you spread the seed on the snow in Februrary, they start growing every year, and they multiply fast, though, it took me about 3 years to get the look I wanted. Funny thing about them though, as they spread from their own seed, I never know for sure where they will appear. I forgot to spread the seeds on the snow this year, but I will try to remember to do it in Feb 2009!

I was messing around some more with my new photo software and added the frame, what do you think?? Bubba the cat is also included in the photo!

Another Fresh Cut Card

Another card I made using SU's Fresh Cut set, I wonder if I will ever tire of that one!

It's Probabaly hard to tell, but I stamped on the flower, too, and of course I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, again!

All Dressed Up!

These are a few of the many dress note cards I made a long while back, as usual, they were addicting and I made way too many!

Poppy From My Garden

I bought new software for my new camera. I am still messing with it and trying to figure out how it all works...whew, what a job. But this is a photo I took of a poppy in my garden a few weeks ago, I used a few effects from the software on it...what do you think??

The first photo is the original photo I took.