Christmas Cute!

Here's a sneak peek at the Christmas portraits for our furry babies.  I love how they turned out.  It's kind of a miracle because it was like turning 3 gerbils loose in a gym to get them together for a pose.

Come back soon for a new series of posts I'll be sharing.  It's all about types of scrapbooking.  I think you'll enjoy it a lot.  
Have a great day!  

Festival of Trees and Some Puppy Love

Here are the 4 cards we'll be making at my October 25 Christmas Retreat.  I'll be sharing more details about them during this week.

Now, how about some puppy love?
Here's Buster at 10 weeks.  He weighs in now at 5.5 pounds.

Buster with toys, in his pen.

They go for rides a lot and seem to enjoy it.  I have a kennel in the car and one in my bedroom.  They fit in the same one, with room to spare.  I don't think they'd like to be separated at this point.

They love playing in the leaves!  As you can see, we've had a LOT of them fall this week.  It's been too wet to do much with them.

 Lilly in her pen.  She weighs in at 4.4 pounds.  As you can see they are tiny!

They sleep a lot and usually in a pile.  Here they are with Buster on the right, on top of a toy and Lilly using him for a nice pillow.

To get a better idea of how tiny they are, here they are with Toby Joe.  Each one is smaller than his head!  He weighs 62 pounds.  I hope they don't mind if I tell their weights.

They are interacting a lot more with Toby Joe now.  He was actually a little afraid of them at first.  They have no fear of this big boy at all.  They really want to play with him.  I keep a close watch... because of the size difference.

They've both learned to go up and down the 4 steps off the deck.  It took Lilly longer to get the hang of the going down, without turning it into a controlled fall.  It was really a challenge when we had a series of wet days, making the steps a little slippery.

I think they're plotting something.  This is Toby Joe's 'ready to spring up and play' position.

Come on back to get the details on each of the Festival of Trees cards.  Have a beautiful day!

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Meet My New Babies

Let's take a short break from stamping and let you meet my new babies.  I present Lady Lilly Belle and Sir Buster Bo Jangles, 2 of the sweetest and cutest Cocker Spaniel puppies ever.  They are now 9 weeks old and we just brought them home yesterday.  I love them to pieces and, yes, they chose me!

These were taken yesterday after I gave them a bath and they're all ready to fall asleep.

Aren't they the sweetest little guys ever!  Toby Joe doesn't really know what to make of them yet.  We're having a ball.  I'll be back soon with lots more design inspiration to share with you so be sure to come on back.  Have a great day!

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Happy First Day of Autumn and Exciting News

It's the first day of Autumn, my absolute favorite time of the year.  Let's celebrate with a Fall card!  I also have some exciting news, so be sure you read the entire post!

One thing I love about living in Illinois is seeing the beauty of the seasons as they change.  OK, I could do without so much winter, but a little is fine.  Autumn is my absolute favorite season and my favorite seasonal cards to make... because of the rich colors.

I stamped with Cajun Craze and Encore Metallic Gold Inks.  The design in the DSP kind of reminds me of Indian Corn.
If you look very closely, you can see the gold shimmer on my card, for my finishing touch.

I added a little stamping on the inside and on the envelope.  In my future posts, I'll be sharing more Fall cards, using a variety of stamps and papers so be sure to come back and see them all.

And now, before I go, I'd like to share some other exciting news with you.  We are getting ready for some puppy love in our home.  We got to meet the entire family Saturday... the mom, the dad and all 5 babies.  The breeder is keeping 1 of the boys, so I took photos of the other 2 boys and the 2 girls.  How will we ever choose who gets to come home with us on October 6?  Here's a peek at these adorable Cocker Spaniels.

Here are the 2 girls:

Here are the 2 boys:

another shot of the 2 girls:

1 of the boys:

We've been wanting a Cocker Spaniel for several years now and, when it didn't work out to adopt sweet little Sammy, we went back to our original plan of finding Cocker Spaniel puppies.  I'll keep you updated on further puppy love soon.

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