Birds of a feather

I finished photos of this pair of birds this morning though the wind was not making this an easy task.



I adjusted the groom's head a bit so he looks at the bride and he looks so cute. The teal and white colors on the groom are quite attractive too. The bride's veil is a birdcage veil and I am pretty happy with it. I love the feather and the pearls.

Rainy days, clematis, and a cute little squirrel

We are enjoying our first rainy day after pretty much a month without rain. Everything was turning brown and the asters are flowering early this year due to the drought. My autumn clematis is blooming and looks so beautiful along our fence. So many white blossoms.


I can't help but taking more and more pictures of it. I am so glad I remembered to keep it watered during the drought.



This little squirrel is a custom order gift for bride's maid and will accompany a pair of wedding birds to the wedding. I love the cute little eyes!



We survived the start of school last Thursday but I am missing my youngest now that she is at school all day. She talks so much and it is much too quiet without her. Normally she can drive anyone up the wall with her chatter -- but I love it sometimes. Am I the only mom out there to miss their kids when they finally go off. No one else seems to mind and most are celebrating.

Twenty years!

Today is our twentieth wedding anniversary! I can't believe that that much time has gone by. The years go by so fast. My husband fixed me breakfast in bed this morning (crepe suzette and caramel cappuccino) with a dozen red roses.


This is a photo taken on our wedding day as we walked together out of the church. I was so happy that I just closed my eyes to savor the moment. Whenever I see this photo it brings me back to that moment of pure happiness.

The last days before school starts

We have a few more days before school will start next week. I am really going to miss summer with the girls. The school year always seems much too hectic. But this year I will have more free time with my youngest in school for the full day. It will be an adjustment for me. I know most people can't wait for this but I think I will miss my time with my youngest.

Anyway I did get to photograph two of my wedding bird couples this morning and wanted to share their cuteness.

Holiday!

I gave up the morning to set up our inflatible pool but in the end there were a lot of disappointed faces. The dark blue inflatible ring began loosing air shortly after we inflated it so we abandoned the idea of filling the pool with water. I wonder what we will do for the summer now and I was more than a little disappointed to do all that work and not get any results. It takes a bit of effort to put it away in the fall too and I usually do most of the work for this myself.

I set up a small kiddie pool for the younger kids and while I watched them I finished up this little bird and the veil on my bridal couple.

Beautiful Day!

It so lovely outside but a little too hot to garden. The lilacs are finally starting to open up. They smell heavenly. We enjoyed them while waiting for the school buses.


I did get that dreaded mammogram done and it really wasn't so bad. Not that I would want to do it too often but it was pretty quick after all and the tech doing it was so nice.

I finished up this little family of ducks with two way too cute ducklings.


I also re-photographed my wedding birds because I didn't like the line created by the paper backgrounds. Photographing these things is so hard to get right. But I just happened upon the lace idea and I think it works well.

Tuesday

I have been busy working on a sweet wedding couple based on a request I had on Etsy. The bride is a sweet white bird with a veil and white flowers. The groom is black and white with a tuxedo appearance and a cute felt black top hat. I was going to work on a base for this couple so they would work better as a cake topper. But I am still thinking out how I want to do this so I went ahead and listed the pair in my store on Etsy anyway.


Tommorrow I am going to the local hospital for my first mammogram. I am seriously dreading this but being 43 now means I am definitely overdue. I hope it doesn't turn out to be too bad. Getting older is NOT fun.

Enough whining.... One of my chicken families was included in an Etsy Treasury titled "Family" by ayeyet. It is such a cute treasury.