Some artwork...

Apparently, my camera decided to just reset itself to take huge pictures, which means I can't post them on my ATC site without going to a photo editor and resizing them. Instead, I'm just going to post them here and put a link at the ATC site. SO, that's all that's going on here at the moment!:)

These are for the Whimsical Faces swap...

 And these are for an APC (Artist Playing Cards) swap. These are made using a playing card as the background. The number and suite are left exposed, but you can collage or paint over as much of the rest as you want to.

Here are a bunch of playing cards I picked up cheap at the thrift store because I loved the vintage art on them. I planned to make cards like those above with them, or just give them as extra gifts to other ATC players, but I found out that they are BRIDGE cards; not POKER cards, so they can't be used. They are 1/4 inch too narrow! I'm thinking that rule needs to be changed since we make ATCs in all sorts of shapes and sizes these days. But I can still give them away as collage materials. I did "accidentally" pick up one pack of Poker cards, which I used for the above APCs.

 This is the cool old case those cards came in, along with some Canasta score sheets. (More good collage materials!) A lot of these cards are in really bad shape, so I don't feel so bad about breaking up the sets.

 I'm sure I'll hang onto some of these for actually playing cards with the grands.(Probably not the sexy swimsuit girls, ha ha.)

On the house constructing scene, here's a pic of the yard which Adam and his dad have dug up to lay pipes for sewer, water and heat (which comes from an outdoor woodstove, which you can see next to the barn). It takes a lot of huge digging in our sandy soil so trenches don't collapse before you can get the pipe laid. Most of this has already been back-filled. This was a while ago. Glenn, I'll try to get some updated photos. ;)

Jordan and Brooke have also been doing "housework" on their 1950's ranch house in Fort Worth. Here are some pics they posted after refinishing floors. There was a video touring the whole house, because they've actually finished all of the floors, but I didn't know how to put that here. The picture here is one of the bedrooms, I think, where the floors and painting are finished. The others show how damaged the floors were.

 Actually, I'm not sure if the walls have been painted here or not. I can't see them that well. But the floor is done! :) They're having fun.

Well, I'm going to call that good. Typing from the library. Micah had new tires put on her van this morning, so I met her in town and we took the babies to breakfast while we waited. Now I'm doing a few errands on my own. Hope everyone's enjoying their autumnal weather. It's pretty nice here today!

God bless us, every one!
Shalom.