21 Secret Givaway

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!!

21 Secrets is still going strong!! There are so many amazing teachers and students there! I can't believe I'm part of this amazing group.
To celebrate this amazing group of people, I'm giving away Creative Paperclay along with some stamps and textured items EXCLUSIVE to 21 Secrets participants!! These things are part of my supply list for my class at 21 Secrets!! One of the other teachers from 21 Secrets is having a giveaway as well!!

Lisa Dieken of Wild Creative Heart is giving away some goodies on her blog too!! She teaches The Fragrant Art Journal in the 21 Secrets playground. One of her THREE goodies is A journal from her 21 Secrets class, with a few tea bags and dried lavender flowers as well as an oracle card reading through email! Hop over to HER blog and get some goodies there!!

This giveaway is for one day only and exclusively to 21 Secrets participants!! Enter today for your chance to win by leaving me a comment here, with your 21 Secrets user name. Not signed up for 21 Secrets yet? GET TO IT!!
Remember, 21 Secrets is an on line playground with TWENTY ONE workshops in it!! That's 21 classes for ONE price. One GOOD price. PLUS, we added an instructor, so now there's TWENTY TWO workshops!! You can read more about it HERE. So GO!! (click the image below) Get signed up, and leave me a comment!! I'd love to supply you with the goods to take MY class!!

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21 Secrets visitor?

If you're here from 21 Secrets looking for the special post Connie emailed you about, it's coming!!
The giveaway is happening tomorrow, Aug. 31st.
My post will be up at 7:00 am Pacific time.
For those of you that have left a comment already on my previous post, I'll add you to the giveaway!! Otherwise, please come back tomorrow and join in the giveaway FUN!!
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Variety in the Aboundance

The garden is starting to become full and overflowing with produce. Mainly cucumbers, tomatoes and zucchini at this point... I've been trying to use things in a way that doesn't cause us to be sick to death of any one thing.
I shredded zucchini and froze it for future batches of zucchini bread.
We eat them in salads when I get to them before they are the size of small cars.
Tonight, we'll be trying THIS only instead of the sauce they share, I'm using some of my tomatoes and making my version of a marinara sauce.

We've been eating a lot of cucumbers fresh. Last night, I made a cucumber salad with dinner.
The cherry tomatoes as especially going nuts, and I have been drying those...
I slice them in 1/2, and douse them with garlic salt and dried basil before I put them into the dehydrator.

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Messy

It feels like I haven't created anything in ages... It's nice to get my hands dirty... Work on a new doll is back in progress!

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Dog Days of Summer

Hash has always shown an interest in the little animals around the house... he's nearly beside himself with baby chicks,
(here he is watching last spring's chicks in their brooder)

and always respectful of kitten claws... so it's been really cool to see him play with Spooks... So gentle, and a little wary of those claws... but ever so patient and interested in playing. They have become a pretty inseparable pair, those two... I love catching the two of them resting together... Spooks has a special spot among Hash's legs that he curls into for cat naps in the day...


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Just keep Growing...

I have blogged about growing my hair out a few times before... but each time, I have ended up cutting it, and going back to my short spikey cut. At the start of this year, I started growing out my hair again... and THIS time, I have made it past the point I cut it in previous grow out tries.
The last photo I have of me before I started growing it all out...

And my hair now...

Now if it will keep growing so quickly, I'll have my long hair in no time!!
I feel like Dory...
Just keep growing!
Just keep growing!!
What do we do, we gro oh oh OH! lol
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Summer Snippets

It seems like Summer never really came for us weather wise... it got such a late start, and now we're registering for school already... But I do have photos. Proof that we have been busy and taking advantage of our break this season.
Time spent on the river...

We watched fireworks at the end of July for a local park festival...

Christi came for a visit, and got to see an ocean and a sunset at the very edge of the sea...

Our Fair had a contest where people dress up a vegetable and bring it with them to the gate on a certain day of the week, during certain hours, and you get into the fair for free. We took two first place ribbons, a second place ribbon and three third place ribbons!!

Macs' Spee Ider.

I made jack o lanterns out of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes!!

Key Limes as the middle part of the body of this butterfly...

Ian used one of my crook neck squash to make his scorpion.

And Christi made a robot.

We ate just the perfect amount of fair food


and Macs took a ton of photos with Christi's camera.

I found some wolf hats to wear to games

The blackberries are starting to get ripe

Christi and I got caught off guard during our photo shoot, lol

but Ian did a pretty good job of getting some good shots for us!

Yesterday, I harvested my first batch of corn!!

The garden is growing and growing and GROWING!!

Last but not least, Spooks, our newest addition to the family, has settled in well... I caught this photo last night. :)

What's been keeping you from your computer screen this year?
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