I have never been a fan of the Lace effects and cutting all those shapes and folding seemed to be just too much work, until now. I guess i have more time and in the end I quite fancied the look here that mimicked the flags on top of the jumps. They form a simple border in the quiet areas on this layout and just added something special. Oh..and the girls at Fridays class had a ball trying to figure out just what i had done, and then loved the effect on their own layouts. I included memory glass with stamped images behind them as some fun accents, again showing that you don't have to use an entire stamped image but bits and pieces are great too.

and yet another puff adder! 2 in 24 hours is ridiculous. we were outside and the 2 small dogs were sniffing and barking at one of the flower beds. then black pulled back his head and we knew. Misha with her injuries barely able to walk ran up to the flower bed and just stood back....she knew that this is BIG trouble

Jayson grabbed the shotgun and minutes later the biggest mother i have ever seen, hidden between the flowers on the ground i couldn't even see it until it moved was dead. these things are so creepy and dodgy. we imagine that we got the mother and father...and now on the lookout for the babies either now or in the new season. scary man...we walk past that flower bed every day!

Misha is doing OK. we were able to bring her home yesterday but she is still in pain and so uncomfortable. she still has the babies for now, but the vet said she may still abort them in the next two weeks.

Come on doc - she just survived 3 puff adder bites, she is stronger than 3 lions. do you really think she will let her puppies go? you can see she wants this so badly!

anyhow, please pray that she will be fine! she is still in the danger zone.

the bastard won this round....

i was here. i was hungry. i was defeated.

i had an idea and a good purpose and

felix gonzalez-torres

supplies: patterned paper Webster's pages & Chatterbox. Other Embroidery thread bobbin, buttons, string, paper flowers, bling, coloured staples & tiny hanger. Grungeboard Tim Holtz. Distress stickles & Distress ink Ranger Industries. Ribbon Hanna Silk.

flying changes your life - and I am not talking about in a helicopter or on a plane...I'm talking flying as in having faith that God will give you wings and that you will fly instead if fall. I think that every person on earth should jump out of a plane at least once. I did several times and let me tell you it changes your life! Something inside of you happens when you deliberately jump (get pushed or fall) out of a plane. I will forever be grateful for the experience. I truly changes my outlook on life, how fragile it all is, how senseless it is and how we as humans crash and burn everyday. So if you are a scrapbooker or crafter...go jump out of a plane and see if you are still the selfish, ego centric b*^&% that you were. Yes I know it's harsh but its a fact. You will change the way you are towards people - all people!

to get back to the flying part...the thrill of strapping up your suit, getting into a plane that is duct taped together, the gages spinning around without stopping and the petrol leak as you head upwards off the run way...let me tell you...you actually wanna jump out of the plane. Then the door opens and you think to yourself...o God what am I doing...no-one knows you are here...and then the arch and the jump and a couple of seconds later you are on mother earth scared to death heading to the office to book your next jump! psychotic to say the least!

Then there's paragliding...where you run off a mountain and sit up in the sky, unstable air shaking you around, for hours....and hours unable to get down....and you have so much time to think about life and death and life and death....and you are in awe at the beauty and you pray for forgiveness and you are scared! and that changes you too...for good i hope....

here's to flying and living on a prayer and a wing!