Happy 4th of July

Whether you are a U.S. citizen or living in another country, have a wonderful day.

Gift card holders

Back at the beginning of June I had a birthday card sitting on the table for my daughter. I hadn't put the money in it yet and she had stopped over while I was sleeping and snagged the card up. She told me she could give the card back so I could put the cash in and she would pretend like she hadn't read it yet but I declined her offer.
Instead I made a cute little felt sleeve to slide her  cash into. It's actually made to fit a gift card into but since I was giving cash that's what I put in

I liked the way this one turned out so I made some more

There are several more that I did after these and I have a total of 20 of them in all. They'll be going to the craft show with me in the fall.

An artsy background

This has been sitting in the blog picture folder for a while now so it's time to use it and move it out.

A while back while playing with my paints and other assorted materials I came up with this artsy background in the old art journal.

I used and assortment of brushes, sprayed on some red paint and dabbed on the circles with plastic caps and wooden spools. This is as far as this got and now it sits.

Just another finch

I have taken so many pictures of the gold finch this year that they are all starting to look alike but I'm going to push my luck here and post another one.

I probably still have another 101 pictures of these little yellow pretties but I promise I won't show them all