Irish Wit and Wisdom

Rachel beat me to the Friday post, but here's my little quote for the week anyway!

“Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth”


Enjoy your weekend.

Friday Freebie

We hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Day!
Check out these crazy, cool cats! Did you feel like this when you were buying your love a Valentine card? The card shops were packed!
Enjoy this image-freebie. Right click the image to save it to your computer. Let us know what you do with it. We'd love to see your projects.

Today's vintage image is from Belgium.

Birthday Gifts

How lucky I was to receive such great birthday gifts yesterday. Amongst them was cash(yay), play tickets, a dozen roses, wine and garden gnomes. Yes, Garden gnomes. They fascinate me. I don't know why except their incredible kitsch value. So anyway here are the new additions to the family. The weather is a bit cold and windy for them to make it outside just yet.

Malachy

Malachy is a rebel with cause. He turned away from his parents wishes of him going to whittling school. Wagon pushing and duck riding also didn't interest him. Instead he chose accounting. Always in the corner of the garden, counting the acorns, he knew it was the career for him. He's proud of his life choices and we're proud of him too, especially with tax season around the corner.

Seamus

Seamus' look in his jaunty green jacket, says "Call me." He's an Aquarius who likes long walks on the beaches and Pina Coladas in the rain. He's all about adventure and the ladies. Who knows where you'll find him next.

So, please excuse me while I go hang with my gnomies today. Thanks Rachel.

Tell someone how you feel....

Way back in January, our blog-friend Kat told us that we made her day! It was such a nice sentiment. We are thrilled that anyone looks at our blog, much less thinks that what what we have to say contributes to their day. How nice!


We are just now passing along the same good wishes to our blog friends. Kerry and I read some of the same blogs and some different blogs, so we came up with this list together. (If you aren't on the list this time, it doesn't mean we love you any less...) So, these blogs make our day--

Flea Market Studio

Pamela Garrison

Poppy Talk

Sally Jean

Abundant Curiosities

Living Out Loud

Art Junk Girl

Kari & Kijsa - Designing for Life

House on Hill Road

A Very Mary Design

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Thank you for making our day a bit brighter with your creativity!

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If you are on our list, please choose 10 of your own Make My Day recipients and pass along the award.

(and, here is a shameless plug for our friend Mary Ann, check out her blog and then vote for her in this contest. She entered a beautiful collage and needs your support. Good Luck Mary Ann!)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to all the February birthdays I know. There are so many--- you know who you are.

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(This is also a freebie image. Right click the image to save it to your computer. It is from an undated vintage postcard)

Friday Freebie

I got the idea to "give away" an image on our blog from our blog-friend Altered Kat. She has been doing Freebie Friday's for a while. I thought we might join the bandwagon. Here is our first Friday Freebie. To save the image to your computer, right click the image and save. Enjoy for your own use in collage or card projects. We'd love to hear about or see your projects.

Today's image is a vintage love postcard from 1906.

A Little Irish Wit and Wisdom

I am replacing the Friday flower with a little bit of wisdom from the Irish. Because if you are lucky enough to be friends with an Irishman, then you know how wise they can be.

“You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind”

Enjoy your weekend.