Happy mail card for June

 This actually went out quite a while ago but because I've had so much blog material lately I'm just getting to it now.

This is called a rocker card. The bottom part is a circle folded in half. It's supposed to rock back and forth but this one is probably a little too top heavy. It will stand up but tends to lean to one side a bit.

In this picture I did get it to stand up straight. 

But like I said, they tend to lean a bit.

The bottom circle has a small piece of cardstock to hold the two halves together so that it doesn't open up too much. There's room on the back of the card for your message.

Patriotic crafts

 Back when I posted my seasonal shelves I mentioned that I had added two things after I took the pictures. Today I have those two craft projects to show you.

This first one I actually started last year and never finished. This was a plain wood star that I covered in fabric and then I glued it to a wood crate that I painted red and white. I finished it off by adding some patriotic flowers and picks. The star and the crate were both Dollar Tree items and the flowers and picks were from Walmart.

This one used a Dollar Tree chalk board. I painted it black and then on the backside I glued on some scrapbook paper. Then I used the scrabble tiles (can't remember where I found these) and spelled out home of the brave and glued the letter on. I left the chalkboard side alone that way if I wanted to I could turn it around and write a message on the chalkboard as well.

Cartoon customer

A while back I was scrolling through Facebook and came across this cartoon.

When I looked at it my first reaction was that the guy looked just like a customer who comes in every day. I saved it to my phone. The next time I saw him I told him I came across a picture of him on the beach that someone posted on Facebook. He was a bit surprised and I pulled out my phone and showed him He got a big laugh out of it and said that they got it right all the way. Now while the head on this guy looks just like him the body does not. However I totally agreed with him when he said the picture was spot on. 

A few days later he asked if there was any way I could get him that picture because he wanted to show it to someone. He gave me his phone number and I texted him the picture. I was glad that he got as much of a kick out of it as I did.

For the birds.

 I was on my way out one day when I spotted a bird hopping through my flower bed. It was apparently a fledgling. As I was getting in my car I spotted mama bird flying in with a worm. She was looking for the little one to feed it breakfast.

I snapped a picture but against the sidewalk it didn't turn out so well.

Here it is cropped a little so you can see the little guy.

And here are a couple of silly bird drawings I did recently