More Gypsy Cards

Got a few more cards done for the Gypsy swap. I'm glad that I got them done so fast...now I just have to get them mailed!

Two new books I got today

Got these two books today at lunch... I was going to get one or the other and just couldn't decide so I was bad and got both of them... they look really good. Can't wait to try out some of the ideas!

Gypsy cards for a trade

I worked on these this weekend... I have several more to do for the trade. I love this theme... exotic gypsies!

A stroll in German Village

Took a stroll this afternoon through German Village, near downtown. It's a lovely historic area that has been all restored. It's a quite sought after area of town and the houses are lovely and quaint, though most are very small. The area was initially inhabited by German immigrants which gave it its name later on. The Book Loft is my all-time favorite book shop... has loads of character... lots of tiny themed rooms with every type of book imaginable and different music playing in each room. It's quite a treat to visit.

I was busy making ATCs!

I had fun making these. There are several themes and styles going on. I mostly focused on the vintage images. I like the gossip ones, they are funny. I was also searching for good quotes on the internet. It was nice to have a few days off to create and take it easy.

More inchies

More photos of the park

A trip to the park

I was off yesterday and took a nice walk to the park that I live a few blocks from. I took the camera and snapped some photos. I should do this more often!

Flipper

My first ebay purchase arrived last week... a Flipper in the box just like the one I had when I was little. I just love it. It's really neat all that you can find on ebay... almost scary even, but cool. It is exciting to "win" something on there, I can see how it could get addictive for some people.

Enjoy them while they're coming!

More inspiration has struck and I made several more ATCs last night. Enjoy the rush while I'm on a roll. I got several nice comments from yesterday's lot from some people who viewed them on my flickr site. It is so neat and yet bizarre that people from all over the world are viewing my work and commenting to me about it. I know I find a lot of really neat stuff on flickr, and I haven't even scratched the surface! I couldn't tell you where the inspiration for these pieces came from, just grabbed some art to clip up and went with each image as I found it. I really like the "That figures" one... it just seems so like what she is thinking. I liked doing the ship one... something different for a change. Baby Doll is a little creepy but funny. The postage stamps on the one called Leisure Postal are ones I got on one of my trips to England.

The creative streak continues

So again last night I was geared up to make a few more cards, even though I didn't get home from work until nearly 9:30. I'd been waiting all day to work on them though. I got three done and here they are. Maybe with the holiday coming up I will have time to be even more creative, we will see.

Finally more new art!

I finally got around to making some more art, if only a couple so far. I have had a few other distractions going on the last few months, but among all of that, I got the dining room where I craft somewhat cleaned up... so now I can get back to making stuff! Here are the first two attempts at getting back in the swing of it.



And here is the second one... had to get my all-time favorite "Beehive Boy" stamp in there again! I couldn't even tell you why I think he's so cool, just that I guess he's unique and different.