Spring Beasties...

The beasts are always cute when they are little.

Not always so much when they are bigger.

It's that time of the year, where deer are jumping fences are racing to see if they can make it across the highway before you reach the same point. Yikes!!

This little sweetie won't be racing any cars. We'll just keep it little, and cute. On a card. Or a scrapbook layout :)

Happy Tuesday!

Rhoda

Summertime Lemonade

Happy Tuesday!

I took yesterday off (my last personal day of the year). Now I am trying to put my brain back into school mode.

It's hard.

All I can think about are summer mornings with a cup of coffee. Hot afternoons at the river or lake. Adventures. Places we can go and play. And art. Time for drawing and being creative.

One of my kids' favorite things to do is a lemonade stand at my dad's. He lives on a prime corner (really close to main street). They set up in the shade of a lilac tree and hawk their wares all afternoon.

Looking forward to hot summer days and refreshing beverages.

You can either right click and save this "Lemonade Stand" cutie. Or you can download her "here".

Have a great day!!

Rhoda

Happy Mother's Day

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Filled with fun and activities YOU enjoy.

My brain has officialy moved over to "summer mode" after our weekend of fun. It's unfortunate since we still have 3 weeks of school left. Yikes.

We drove home to Salmon with our bikes in tow. And then we rode like crazy.

A full afternoon on the race tracks and dusty off roads. Sandy (my MIL), even challenged herself and learned to drive the 4-wheeler. Three generations out being motor-heads.

On Mother's Day, we did the same. A longer ride. Some fishing. A hot springs at the end of the day with my dad. A pile of worn out kids and mom on the floor watching a program on bears in Alaska. One of the best Mother's Day adventures so far!

I hope you all had a spectacular weekend!

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms :)

Rhoda

Making the Most of It...

We rode our bikes again this weekend.

Twice!

While we were zipping along a dirt road in the pines, I realized that we are already in summer mode. We still have 4 weeks of school, but we are already acting like it's summer.

Packing food and leaving the house on a moments notice.

Staying out late, sucking up the most of the sunshine.

Not thinking about the responsibilities and chores that we will have the following day.

Heck. We almost forgot about "school night bedtime".

When we were sitting around the table eating pizza last night, we decided that we are going to milk this summer for everything it's worth. And we started this weekend!! :)

Happy May. Bring on wildflowers, warm sunshine, the smell of hot pine, dusty roads, and high mountain lakes. We are so ready!!

Rhoda

A Matching Set...

Good Morning :)

Last week I posted a cute little girl and her bike. There were a few requests for a sweet boy and his bike as well.

So this week, we have Hayden and his bike:

You can either right click and save the image, or you can click "here" to download the image. Whichever works best for you.

Happy Coloring!

Rhoda

How Do You Dress?

Just a quick photo post.

This is how he dresses to have a rubber band war:

#personalstyle #that'smyboy #really?ducklips

:)
Rhoda

Don't Shush Your Voice

I have made a few more changes to the shop. All of my prints are now digital. They will be an instant download when you purchase them. Why?

• You can print them for journals, scrapbook pages, or any other creative project.
• Print them as many times as you wish.
• Send them to your local printer (Walgreen's, Costco, etc.) for any size you want (and it's cheaper too!).
• Print them on art paper and add doodles or journaling.
• Use them for your computer or iPhone wall paper. 
• Anything else you can dream up to use them for!

There will be more new quotes added as well as new art soon. Summer is just around the corner!

Enjoy :)

Rhoda

We Like to Ride Our Bikes!

Good Morning!

There have been a few changes to the shop.
All digital items are now instantly available through Etsy.
No more waiting for me to ship it.

That will change the way I offer free stamps. There isn't a reason to use the digital download service any more...so free stamps should be easier to get now. However, past free downloads will have broken/expired links. I'll try to get them fixed by summer (or as soon as I can this summer).

So, today we try a new way of downloading them. I'm not going to zip the freebies any more, you can either right click and save the file, or you can click the link provided and download it from the site where it is hosted.

Let me know if you have any questions.

You can download Gracie and her bike "here".

Happy Tuesday!

Rhoda

Fun Friday Night

Our Friday night date nights just became a little more interesting.

Actually, they aren't really "date nights" any more. They are now "family fun nights".

A couple of weeks ago we took Chris' bike in to the shop to get it ready for summer. When we stopped to pick it up, there was a new bike outside. A new "used" bike.

We have been to a lot of bike shops together. We have looked at A LOT of bikes.

They all looked like bikes to me. Except this one. This one spoke to me. And it told me that it really, really, REALLY wanted to come home with me.

I listened.

That means that Kyla gets my blue Yamaha. And that Hayden didn't have a bike.

His question: "Does that mean I just have to chase after everyone on my pedal bike?" :(

Well, we couldn't have that. So I took all my hidden money and bought him a bike too. Now, we can all go out and play!!

And we will. Lots and lots of playing!!

Bring on Summer!! :)

Rhoda

Sewing Machines...

I have a love/hate relationship with my sewing machine.

Love:
I can stitch paper like no ones business.
Shabby Chic journals that I make using a sewing machine make me smile.
Straight lines and a few little stitches are easy enough.

Hate:
Untangling the string.
Starting a project and then the bobbin runs out. Never fails.
Thinking I am doing wonderful, and the string isn't even through the needle.
That ball of junk that wads up under my project.
Anything that isn't a straight line ;)

There must be something inherent about a sewing machine though...because even before I knew how to use one, I was drawn to them. I really loved the old pedal one that was in a spare bedroom in my grandmother's house.

Sometimes I walk by mine, and feel it pulling to me. Saying "please come and stitch something".

These new images in my shop are for any of you who feel the same way (or love your sewing machine even more than I could possibly imagine) :)

I set this listing up using the new "Etsy Downloads". Let me know what you think...I'm hoping it makes transactions even smoother than they are now.

Have a great weekend!

Rhoda