Dynosaurs and the Titanic

Yesterday was a fun day at the Science museum! We were there to see the Titanic exhibit, which is so fascinating. At first Sabrina was bored, until we got to the part where they started showing the sinking of the ship and then she was drawn in to the stories of the people. When you enter, they give you a boarding pass that shows the name of one of the passengers. Then when you get to the end of the exhibit, you find out whether or not the person survived, it's very moving. Of course, Sabrina had to check out the dinosaurs! She knows all the names and other facts.

We definitely had a blast!
Hope you have a great 4th of July! bye for now!

Ooops, I did it again!

Well, I suppose I have everybody thoroughly confused now! Yes, I did change the name of my blog and Esty shop again! But I had some very good reasons, at least to me. As you may have noticed, my art has changed direction in the last couple of months from grungy collages to a more retro bright and fun style. It started with being inspired by the illustrations from 60's and 70's childrens books, the ones I grew up with. I've been working at it steadily now, and I'm convinced this is the right path for me to take. I know that I will probably lose some customers because of this, and that has caused me a lot of worry. But, I have to be true to myself and my creative yearnings. So, then I realized that my old shop and blog name, "Happy as a Lark" would really fit my new style (plus I really missed it, it always made me feel happy!). So here we are, I even made new headers to match. I hope that it will be excepted by at least some of my old customers, and I hope to make new ones in the future.

Now, let me introduce you to a sneak peek at some new designs in jewelry I have been working very hard on. I will be listing them next Monday, so please check back then! Here is a peak at something I'm working on for Halloween. I know it seems a little early, but I've found that the sooner I start on it, the more I can have ready. It always sneaks up on me with these busy summers.

Speaking of busy, we have been getting acquainted with the newest member of our family, Smoke and that does take a lot of time. I've been in and out of the clinic a couple of times, but he is so worth it! He just tugs at the heartstrings with his cute little ways. Such as squeesing under my cart in my studio, here is the back end:
And here is the front:

Isn't he sweet! Well, guess that's all for now. Please check back on Monday, and thanks for visiting me through all my stages! Bye for now!

Sabrina is back and New Creative Endeavors!

Finally, my little girl is home from her visit with the grandparents! It seems like she's been gone forever! The same day she came home, we went to get the new kitty, Smoke. Check out pix here! Then, yesterday we took her to Barnes to get a new Berenstein Bear book.

This is my frappuccino, not hers! Check out that mug! Sure is good to have her back!

This picture below is a tease, or a clue of something new that you will see soon on Etsy. Stay tuned!

Lastly, if you're a vintage Barbie lover I have listed this vintage case that I used to play with, on Ebay. Bye for now!

New Member of the Family!

Meet the newest member of our family, Smoky. We adopted him from the animal humane society today, and he's already made himself at home! And he's as sweet as can be! The only problem is he doesn't sit still for long, so I had a hard time taking pix!

I got a couple of good one though, esp. when he was playing with Sabrina. Isn't he the cutest! We are so excited! As you can see he is a grey tiger cat and kind of small. He's just 2 years old. What a great day! Bye for now!

WAYBACK Wednesday!

This week I chose to show something other than a book. These are illustrations from a folder that holds paper dolls. Kiddle paper dolls to be specific.

Aren't they just preciouse!
I have all the paper dolls and their outfits, will have to take pix of those too someday! Bye for now!

A Little Respect!

Erasure is one of my favorite bands of all time and I love this song. When I went to view it on You Tube I found this great acoustic version. It's just as wonderful as the techno version.







Then I found a cover done by Wheatus, I have to admit I'd never heard of them. But I love their version, similar enough to the original, but fresh and new. Hope you enjoy both! Bye for now!

14 years!

Hard to believe, but the hubby and I have been married for 14 years! It was actually about a week ago, but we spent a wonderful day yesterday, celebrating.

We headed to our favorite quaint little antiquing town, Stillwater. We start at one end of the street and work our way to the other end. Then we hit the other side. Usually, when we finish the first leg, we stop at the building above that used to be a Starbucks for a frappuccino. But alas, that one closed up. Bummer!

Here are the fun things I found! Everything but the book I found at a great booth in one store that was all mid century modern and 70's kitch! I was in heaven!

Since Sabrina has been away at the Grandparents, I have been doing a few projects that are easier to do when she is not around. She is always trying to make her doorways fancy and special, so I came up with this idea for both doors. I just used a sheet and valance and tacked them up with thumb tacks so there will be no damage to the door way. On the closet door below I added a hat. I really like how they turned out, I hope she is happy too!

Lastly, here is a video of the song we had sung at our wedding, hope you enjoy! Bye for now!

I got a blog award!

Thanks so much to Diane at Saturday's Finds blog for giving me this award, it's my first! She has a great blog so I'm very flattered!

Here are some blogs I think are lovely!

The Gypsy on Adventure

Katydiddys

Goodbloom

viv out on a whim

Gypsy Mermaid Life

Check them out! bye for now!

New gnomes in the garden!

Time to welcome some new friends to the garden! These new gnomes are from a land called Target, and I thought they wanted to live indoors. But, they have expressed a need to be among the plants and flowers, so now they have taken up residence in Sabrina's little garden.

I gave them a little garden hut that I hope the stone crop will eventually creep onto, here is one gnome at the front entrance.

The other gnome it checking out the bird cage I am using to protect my new yarrow plant from the groundhog. The gnome assures me he will keep an eye out for garden pests!

This is a shot of our front door, I know, it needs some plants. But I'm not good at container plants.

Here is the robin's nest that was under our deck. It had fallen down, once the babies left the nest. So I just set it on the shelf by our back door.

In the back garden everything is coming in nicely. Above is the walker's low catmint.



This gnome has a butterfly net.

Below is another invention of mine to try and protect some purple coneflower from bunnies and ground hogs. So far, it's working! Bye for now!

WAYBACK Wednesday!

What shall I put in the hole that I did? What a great title right? But then there are the great illustrations by Aliki.

I just love the bright colors, the big heads,

the simple white background.

And, that button tree rocks!

But my favorite part is her wardrobe, those little dresses are adorable.

And it ends with eating, yay! Bye for now!