Craft room, rummage, GD, Etsy, out w/mom 6-6-09

Prepare yourself for a lot of pictures. No really, a ton of pictures. Now not every picture of the 53 new pictures will be posted here. Go to my Photobucket and look in the albums of Blog Pics, Craft Room, RF truck pull, and walks 2009.

Craft Room & rummage sale finds:
As I mentioned last week, I am collecting frames for artwork/photographs that I have from people. I will be posting all of those pictures.

I received this in a swap. I was sooo excited about it:


This I got from Etsy seller jkldesign. I really love her artwork, this is a print:


These are some photographs that my Craftster.org friend mochaxlight (she follows my blog, you should check out her blog, she is taking photos every day, and unlike me, she is good at it):



These next few photographs are from Craftster.org member rlynn that she sent me in a swap. I love vintage carnivals. This was her first attempt at artsy photos and man does she have some talent.





Now for the rummage sale finds. The first one is related to my art framing project:


Now a note on my framing project. I am not a framer. I tried watching YouTube for mat cutting and all videos were from same source using specialized tools. I think since this is for my funky creative craft room, I will make mats out of card stock and/or watercolor paper. It may take some creativity to make it all work. If anyone has any ideas and/or links for me, please let me know. Thanks.

Other rummage treasures:



One of my recent craft projects are granny daughters for a swap. It is the first round of a granny square:


I scored another Etsy treasury. It will expire Tuesday evening and then the link won't work anymore. I actually tried to take a picture of it on my laptop:


My mom and I had lunch at a bar and grill in Cedarburg called Mortons. Fab food and some very interesting atmosphere:

We recommend getting one meal for two people. The food was really really good.

We saw a truck pull in the back parking lot of the fitness center we go to. It was young guys vs the old guys:


The old guys won!!! I was kinda routing for the younger guys. Oh well.

Of course mom and I went on our weekly walk. We saw some birds that we weren't exactly sure what they were, but unfortunately the pictures didn't really come out (not a surprise). Of course I have my tree. There were 25 pictures total today (actually more, but I edited out some).
Tree:


Gorgeous trail:


Some mystery plants, if you can help identify, we would appreciate it (firts two are same plants, different views to help identify):




A rock in driftwood. So super cool:


And because I can't help myself and because this blog isn't just picture heavy enough already, some other favorites:






Believe it or not, there are still more walk pictures.

One link I have not yet shared because I don't use it all the time is my flickr. Some pictures are public, but many are private. Feel free to contact me if you want to become friends so you can see my private pictures. It is helpful though if I kinda know who you are either in personal life or Craftster (or if I happen to know you from wherever, let me know). If you are family, you will definitely want to do this. There are pics of my nieces and other family members. Some of my other internet friends are still welcome to become a friend. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anikaice/

I think that is it for now. Whew!!! I would love to hear from all of you.