Puppy for your thoughts...

Today is Toby's 1/2 birthday. He is 6 months old now (or yesterday, by this time). He wants to give you all a high five to celebrate and he gave me the present of cleaning off that bed one more time. WOO HOO! Now, here's an interesting little tid bit from my life... I have a facebook account and I have friends from different times of my life... blah, blah, blah. About months ago, my Mom joined facebook. I don't exactly love her being on there and have definitely found myself censoring what I say more and more (no family members have found this blog... yet). Now this morning I wake up, check my e-mail and find that my MIL has requested me as a friend. UGH! This means much more censorship, so I was already not relishing this new friendship. Then, I go on her page and she has acquired 3 friends and her very first friend is my hubby's ex-girlfriend. Now, I know this shouldn't bother me. We've been together for almost 9 years now... married for 2, but it was just something I really didn't need or want to think about today. Also, now I know this woman's name and see her picture (I knew her first name before ... but now I know the full name and am going to find it hard not to google her... I really have no self control.). If any of you have gotten to the end of this never-ending paragraph... I would like to know, would you be upset? I'm trying to let it roll off my back ... it's working really well as you can see!

Now... here are the cards:

Inspiration:

My interpretation:

This is day 132... the days are really flying by. I used my new wood grain stamp (All Night Media) and I must say that I'm in love! I think my interpretation is pretty obvious... wood for wood, candle for candles, stars for stars.... and I picked up some of the colors.


This sketch is from 2 sketches 4 you.

And here's our inspiration:

Here's my take:

Day 131 ~ the circle is a direct take from the rug in the picture. I used my polka dot stamp from Savvy stamps. The letters are chipboard thickers. The stripes are more from the American Crafts X-mas collection. Also, i went over the jewels (darice?) with my white chalk marker to make them look more like bubbles and less like jewels and I pop dotted (is this a new verb) the fish. Also pop dotted the candle on the previous card and the stars... one of these days, I may even remember to take an angle shot, so you can actually see the levels.

Also submitting this for High Hopes polka dot challenge.

I must say this has been one of the more interesting weeks over at 365! I'm enjoying the diverse challenges!