As the days turn

Hot, Hot, Hot. It must be summer. What a fun day yesterday. I went to meet up with friends and have coffee, or should I say Chai. We visited for a while then we hit the paper craft stores. We are all busy making little camping trailer ATCs. I finished my little trailers and just love them . Today I got an idea from Somerset Magazine, here is another project from the mag. I wanted something "Alice in Wonderlandish" like??? Paper dolls all lined up. I haven't folded the card yet but I have decided to give it as a birthday present to Jan. I hope she likes it.

Walk about

Started out the day walking to the corner and ended up walking around the block......

The plants are beautiful and grow lush.

Some of the neighborhood is very nice. Developers seem to be taking the postwar homes and adding apartments to the backs of the properties.

There are some beautiful gardens and some old delapidated buildings. This is a house my Grandmother lived in back in the 1950's, they have abandoned it to demolish and build condo's.

I was down to Redwood City because my dear Uncle Dick had died. We spent a couple of days at his house trying to sort things out and I walked around his neighborhood and took some pictures. Here is his house.

Trees in and out of the Forest

I have been making little trees for a "Christmas in July" swap. I drew gold swirls all over some olive green card stock and cut out tree shapes with a fancy scissors. I found some paper with writing on it but the writing was too big in scale for the card size so I printed it up smaller and I printed it on glossy paper hoping to add texture. I really liked the colors that I used even if it doesn't look like July colors. Our firewood guy came by today and is bring our 2 cords in a week. So we had a trees every where. Today is the 1st of July and this weekend is the 4th of July already. Next week is our 33rd wedding anniversary. We are going up to Truckee on July 10th to a yearly car show and to celebrate our happy union. I hope to get some great photos.

Postcard in "L" for a Swapbot swap.....This postcard is from a Somerset CD collection

"A lovely lass living on Lilac Lane

is laughing at a love letter from her lad

as she stands by the larder

of her landlord who is singing like a lark."

Today is going to be fun. I have my ATC group coming over for a couple of hours to visit and do a show and tell. We love sitting out on my deck and visiting. Our house is so much in the top of the trees that it feels like a vacation. I also ordered some Godiva Key Lime candy to share with them. I have tried to get the Key Lime candies the last 2 years and messed up the order. These certain candies only come out at a this spring/summer time of the year so they are not always available. I ate one the other day when they arrived and boy are they strong. The Key Lime creme is covered in dark chocolate. A friend told me about Stewart's Key Lime soda so I bought a bottle to share. I am giving everyone a shot of the soda in a shot glass. This will be a very limey green day.

We are all waiting for the heat. It feels like we are down in San Francisco where the breeze is cool off the ocean. It is great for Joe's lettuce and onions and peas. I have been working on a little paper doll that was sent out to everyone in the summer swap, it is to be photographed out and about on my summer adventures. I finished her last night and took this picture of her this morning in the flowers we still need to get planted. I am also working on a Georgia O'Keefe ATC. Since I taught a Georgia class to my students I have wanted to draw a skull picture of my own.

Lettuce Bee

Last night we ate our first lettuce from Joe's garden. The lettuce was so tender and sweet. Joe had planted a french mix of lettuce. (That's what the package said) He has had some troubles with the Robins eating his carrot seed and the weather is so crazy. This morning it was 38 degrees. I have a couple of art projects going but nothing done. I am working on a Town little album. It was started by others with very few pages, I am adding on to flesh the album out. I found an old music album cover to use as the cover of the book. It is a cover for Mexican music and it has a giant sun on it. I am also working on my ATC's for my group swap this month and the theme is Boys of Summer. I am using a similar design to one I saw in a September/Oct. 2007 "Cloth*Paper*Scissors" magazine swap of recipe cards. I am making a Willie Mays ATC. I used to watch him play every Wednesday on ladies day at Candlestick Park when I was a kid. My mom loved baseball and the park was pretty close to where I grew up. We had our bag of peanuts and some water and spent the day in the sun by third base. Then I married a baseball player. I sat through many summer days and nights watching my husband play fast-pitch softball. He was always a fabulous ball player and he has many trophies to show it. I also tried to play softball when I was 27 years old and it was a disaster. I rounded up my friends, started a team and joined a league. I could run and throw great, I just couldn't hit the ball with people watching me. I really suffered the summer I was on that team. I used to hear my friends in the dugout talking about how they dreaded me getting up to bat, funny thing was, I was the one that started a team so we could have some fun. LOL... A little 'B ball" and summer lettuce brings back fond memories.