Surprise visit!

 Actually, I just surprised myself by hitting the "new post" button. I hadn't really planned to post right now, ha ha. Well, I guess I'm as ready as I've ever been! 

We're cooling down a bit. In the 40's and 50's at night and the 70's during the day. As we say every year, "If only this could last all year!" Micah likes to say we should move somewhere where it's like this all year, to which I routinely reply, "Yeah, where everyone else wants to live. Including SNAKES!" :) The only poisonous thing we have in Minnesota is poison ivy...and the occasional recluse spider that sneaks in via a box of produce.

I've just been decluttering my art supplies and have a nice box full of stuff someone else will enjoy. And I still have plenty left! 

I did go back to the thrift store looking for more old magazines and hit the mother lode! The store owner said to pick out a bunch and she'd give me a good price. She said the magazines are just being abused and getting in worse shape, so she was anxious to get rid of them. I got about 20 pounds worth of magazines for five bucks! Here are some of the cool covers. 

Unfortunately, I don't have a use for the large cover art, but I may send them to other people on my ATC site along with their cards. I'll have to ask if anyone has a use for them. Otherwise, I'll cut out smaller images and ads, etc. that I can use on cards. This is a lifetime worth of material, so I'll probably also be giving some away to other players. My nasal passages don't appreciate the mustiness, but it's still fun to thumb through these!

I also got these two books at the Dollar Tree. Not my usual type of reading material, but they looked kind of interesting. I'm a sucker for anything that's "only a dollar". ;)

I'm reading this one at the moment. Also, The School of Christ by T. Austin Sparks. (I think I may have mentioned it in an earlier post. My mom gave it to me 27 years ago and now I'm reading it!)

A spider decided to make it's home in a peculiar spot...

These cards were made for a swap called Pumpkins and Coffee. 

And these were for a Halloween swap. I don't keep a lot of Halloween art around so I scrounged through an old book and made a few hand-cut rubber stamps. (The pumpkins and coffee cup above, and the bats below.)

Almost forgot. The Cactus and Succulent swap.

Now for scads more starter cards for the Continuous Random Round Robin! Yay! (You shouted.) As I've explained before, my memory card adapter has a bad habit of scrambling my photos, so apologies if I repeat something. This is "just for my records". Hang on, here we go. (Explanation for the newbies: These are starter cards. Two more people will add things to them.)

Whoops. This one wasn't a starter card. I was the second player. I added the vintage doll and passed these along to the third player.

When we got chicks last spring we thought we might have gotten all females, but the little bantam silky decided to start crowing a few weeks ago. He's in mid crow in the photo. He's on the bottom. At first I thought one of Micah's babies had escaped and was crying in the woods. Nope. This guy has a weird crow. It sounds like one of those baby dolls with the pull string. He's getting better. He has the right number of syllables. It just sounds weird!

Well, it feels like lunch time and I always listen to that feeling! I also need to run to the post office and I'll probably walk on the hiking trail while I'm in town. I imagine the grands will be over after they finish school. They already went for a walk on the trail this morning and took school pictures while they were there. (They're homeschooled.) 

Micah posted some pics on Facebook, so I took pictures of her pictures on my laptop screen. It's the best I know how to do, lol.

Enough pictures? I'm even hungrier now! I'll drop by and visit everyone later. Have a great day and trust in the Lord for everything! 

Shalom y'all!