these two...

these two...

are a pair...

they are best friends

sometimes you just need someone, that is true and faithful...

someone who is always there for you

someone who knows all your secrets, hopes, fears,dream, and goals

someone who will always just listen, just sit, just be with you...

sometimes you just need one to love you...

taylor & charlie...

she does all this for him...she is his human...and he loves her....and I am pretty sure he does all this for her too.    =)

true love at its best

Crate for Thursday...

Let's have a little Crate Paper for Thursday!

Anyone who knows me, knows I will list the manufactures that I LOVE and have followed from the start on one hand.  I am so old school...I can remember when I first discovered them and I thought I had gone to heaven. They had just put out the first line, it was wonderful, I am fairly certain that if we looked hard enough in the studio we just might find a piece. Those were the wonderful days of  the creative and inventive LSS.  Sadly those days are gone from our area, and if only the world around me could support a LSS, I feel the creative women miss out when we don't have a place to be inventive in our areas.  A Big Box just doesn't do it...if I only had the funds!

I will say though, I traveled 2 hours to an Archivers and they didn't quite,  have what I was looking for.  Then this gal asked if she could help.. I told her that I wished, they had this and this and Crate Paper.  She smiled and said we have Crate, we just haven't put it out yet.  "Would you like to see it?"  I'm thinking really at Archivers...she not only offered to show me but she let me have one of everything!!  From unopened packages in the back...She made my day and my trip..That's so some service!  How wonderful.  I think it helped she was just as excited about it as I was.  To my Archivers girl I say "THANKYOU"

Got to love it...

Every once in awhile a layout appears and I am in love.  I am in love....

The flowers are stamped and then white embossed.  From there I love to machine stitch, I feel it is often times "the finish"  to a layout.  The title work is one of my favorite fonts from Sizzix, it is Curly Girlie, and it is cut out of craft foam. 

Thank so much for stopping by and I love to hear from you...

If you didn't have a chance check out yesterday's entry, I am so sure you will agree with me that adhesive is nothing more than toilet paper...hahahaha

Be creative today!~L

sending out the love.....

Sending out the love....

Greetings from the dog. This lazy, full spirited dog could remind us of a thing or two.

1. Never miss a meal
2. Enjoy that meal with an open and grateful heart.
3. Always play, run with joy and release.
4. Greet each person with a hug.
5. Greet them as if you have miss them forever. (Even if it was just a second ago.)
6. Smile with all your heart. Be inside out.
7. Be content with who you are and where you are.
8. Know it's ok to wail your tail, regardless of the size.
9. Give and you will receive more.
10. You are enough, just as you are.

This dog never quit. His legs and have walked a path I will not know. But wherever he has been I am so grateful he has found me. I can only hope and believe that who ever loved him first, knows in their heart, that he is safe and he is so very much loved.
Regardless of the circumstances he came from, I am grateful to them for making choices that brought him to me.

Life chooses for you, if your lucky, you are at times in the right place to feel it choose. You follow the path and it will be good.

This year has been one of the hardest yet, and I know as I climb back up that I begin each day all over again. This life it is ..............................what it is .................but then comes Charlie
and you remember, it is life. One that continues to change and grow.

So today we wish you a pant, a pet, and a pounce. May your weekend be filled with goodness, and maybe a lick or two.

-L.

collections.......

I love my stuff.....

I love to surround myself with the things that make me,

happy and comfy.

When we first started out with our house, everything was a hand-me-down. Of sorts....I would want a new this or that. For awhile we bought new things..

Before long all the new was gone. The things that still remained were the old.Funny how that worked here....Even now people will come to visit our little old house, I watch their eyes. Some will roll. some will wonder, some will admire.

At first it was important to have things....then....not so much.....

I tend to always go back to the old. It is what makes me feel good.

I really love to use things in ways that wasn't its intention.

Years ago we had a gathering for my employees and their significant others.

There was this guy there who was driving me crazy, he went around my house touching

everything!! At the time it irritated me to no end, funny still kinda does. He would come out of a room with something and find me in the group, asking what was it and what was it used for. "That is sooooo cool" If you could only have seen how excited this boy got after a few cocktails..( I am so rolling my eyes)

I haven't forgotten him, but it got me to thinking. Every once in awhile when I find a treasure,

I laugh and think of how this or that would certainly puzzle that poor guy..

I finally got over having to have what everyone else had or was doing.

In our world bigger is always better. It surely must be new new new....

Frankly to me not everything good is bigger and definitely not new.

You just watch in 50 years the house remodels will offer a touch of character to homes and maybe they'll even downsize a little bit. I guess in the end I love my collections. I love how coming home makes me feel. I love how to me everything I am surrounded with has bones. Has its own story, it comes to live here with a history. It all has something to talk about..

I love how my studio comes alive with me. My studio inspires me. The space was storage, and then became a blank slate. My dear sweet husband worked day and night and I got just what I wanted. My space is made of things filled with my passion. It is always changing and growing. At first I wanted to go with all new cupboards, etc.. I love every ones space, but for me it wasn't who I am. To do it over I would have asked to have it bigger. HeHeHe...

Okay so sometimes bigger is better....

Well now I have rambled on about what I love about my space and things.. Take a minute look around you, smile and be grateful. The things that surround you are YOU...if they are not then maybe you change that. Let your things be you..be what you are about...not what the lastest trend is. Why, not you be the trend?

-L.