Remember this: It’s my Lifetime Supply of ATC blanks. Do you have any idea how many cards that is? It’s a lot, I know, but do you think you know exactly how many? If you do you might just win a prize. I’ll run this contest until 8pm (Pacific Time) on Monday, April 21, 2008. [...]

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This beauty is a Mourning Dove. We have several of them that visit our yard. You can usually find one sitting on the back wall or in the front yard sitting under the Jacaranda tree. I like the doves. While I was looking at the Dove I heard a lot of bird noise coming from [...]

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A while back I got a Red Hot Idea. I decided to host a “Red Hot” ATC swap. The swap took a little longer than planned (THANK YOU for all your patience!) but the results are well worth the wait. These cards are by Chris Herrmann, Charlotte Fern,  Fefe Leducq and Connie Cook. These cards [...]

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Wendy was asking me about the Agave and if those were blooms or buds in the previous picture. I told her I thought they were buds but wasn’t sure since it had never bloomed  before. I said I’d keep an eye on it and keep her updated. Well, they were buds and they are starting [...]

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I’ve known for quite some time that acrylic medium can be used to make image transfers but my mind never took this to the next logical step… acrylic paint. Recently I was poking around YouTube and found this video of Claudine Hellmuth using Ranger’s paints as a transfer medium. It was another of my “DUH!” [...]

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This is our Spanish Dagger. It has some winter damage and is ready for a springtime cleanup. This little guy doesn’t agree with me. I think he is a Sparrow. He (she?) was gathering plant material and bringing it into the overgrown dead daggers to build a nest. You know, I was thinking that this [...]

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