Sonny and I went to Dad's today. I mowed the grass and Sonny cleared along the waters edge. He put new line and hooks on all the cane poles. He worked on the yard light in the front yard, but we will have to go back to finish that.

Here is another garden card that I finished up this morning.

I really like the way this card turned out.

Sonny and I worked in the yard today. He mowed the grass, while I picked up limbs that have blown down this week and planted some plant clippings that I have been rooting. I grilled ribs for dinner. They were delicious, the meat just about fell off the bone.

I actually got some stamping time this afternoon. Sonny took Catherine on a junk run, and I took that little bit of quiet time to stamp. Since I had been in the garden all day, I decided to pull out some of my garden stamps.

Today flew by. I had to run some errands in town, but I came right back with very little damage to my bank account.

I had a great time at Lynnor's yesterday. It was nice visiting with everyone. Lynnor had a nice little turn out. Besides me, there was Debbie, Bea, Ethel and Patti. To bad the rest of you couldn't make it, because we had a great time.

I promised to stamp and I did. Yesterday I worked on the wedding invitations and today I stamped with the new Fresh Cut Sneak Peak set; I love being a demonstrator, I get early access to all the cool new stuff. This is what I came up with. I used the felt flowers from page 177, called Flower Fusion, they come in a tin of 130 flowers. The center is from page 189, Fire and Ice Rhinestone Brads. (I will be giving both the Fire and Ice Rhinestone brads away as door prizes in July!) How did you like the Rose Red, maybe the Old Olive is more your color. If not how do you like the Pumpkin Pie? Maybe you can decide when you see them all together? Or.....perhaps you would rather see all nine of them?

Well, I promised that I would stamp today and I did. I just don't have anything to share with you. I did complete one card that turned out so stinkin' cute that I sent it in to one of the magazines for a card contest. For those of you that do not know how to use your Crop-a-dile, here is a sight that may help you with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwWtcrQc5Ok I got back from the grocery store just in time today. After the wind, torrential downpour, and hail stopped, I went to my truck to get the rest of my groceries out and put them up. I needed to put some meat in the freezer, which is in the shop/laundry room. I am so glad that I looked down before I entered the laundry room. There was a small (1 1/2') snake right on the other side of the door mat. I backed out and the stare down began. My mind was racing (What kind of snake is he? Where was the hoe? It's in the corner on the other side of him! Oh, c@a$! Don't let him get away....What kind is he? If he goes under the washer, I will never do laundry again! Where is Catherine? She's over by the pond, don't call her. I don't have shoes on! He's going to bite my toe!) I guess he won the stare down. By now my eyes were darting around the yard for something to kill him with. Ah ha! Sonny left the shovel out the other day. I put the meat in my hand on the hood of my truck and ran for the shovel. As I approached him with the shovel he headed under the washer. NO! I almost tore the entire room apart trying to keep him from getting away. Finally, I had his body pinned with the shovel. Now, what the heck am I going to do? I had him pinned, but how long could I hold him. Sure enough, the Calvary showed up.... Sonny pulled up just in time. He came in and killed the snake .... It was a young rattlesnake! It was hard to tell what it was, because it was in the process of molting. I guess all the rain we have had lately has all the animals looking for higher, dryer land. We saw four of the cutiest baby armidillos in the driveway coming in from town. I'am going to stamp, right now! I hope to see you at Lynnor's tomorrow.

I'm back from Daytona Beach. We had a great time with the girls. JP and Tammy came over for Saturday and Sunday. Here are a few pictures from the weekend. I only took the camera on the beach once. I didn't want to get sand and salt in it. I promise to stamp something tomorrow! See you then....

Zack's friend came over today to get me to help her make a card for her grandmother. She wanted something special for her 76th birthday. She wanted to combine southwestern with light blue, two of her grandmothers favorites. This is the first card she has ever made and it turned out beautiful. I may have gently nudged her this way or that, but I think she was really happy with the way the card turned out.

I wanted to give you one more creation for the weekend. I water colored this frog over at Margi's earlier this week. I sprinkled him with glitter and set him up to find a mate. This froggie has gone a courting...... lol

I will be out of town for the weekend. I'll be back Sunday. Have a wonderful, safe weekend.

Today's Splitcoaststampers Challenge is "Way to Use It". They want you to use photos with you stamp projects. I don't have time to create a new project because I should be getting ready for tonights Stampers Ten meeting. Since this is something that I do all the time, I wanted to share a few of my older ones. http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/594495?nocache=1 http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/600007?nocache=1