I'm done!

Making Christmas cards that is! For the last 8 yrs or so, I've made some of my cards. I give them to my special close friends. I've learned a lot over the years. One is to start early. I sometimes am making cards in July and get strange looks from people who come over but adding stress to an already stressful( but fun) time of  year is not good. Two is only make one type of card. The first year I made cards I must have made 10 different designs. It took forever and used up a lot of my ideas in one year! With only one design you can do them production line style and it goes so much faster. Three is don't add embellishments that stick up and require special treatment in the mail. It's costly and the postmaster will start to hide when she sees you coming ;) So there are my tips for cardmaking. You all should try it sometime--it's fun!

More from the smokys

Just a few more from our trip.

Little bug in mountains

I love finding little surprises when you don't expect them!

Cades Cove

We go to the Smoky Mountains quite often, usually in the fall , to enjoy the colors and the mountains. We often spend most of the time driving the motor tours. One of our favorites is Cades Cove Almost to the end of the ride, we noticed a lot of people stopped out of their cars , taking pics and looking. A bear, I hoped! Nope but this buck was  almost as good. In fact there were too, almost the same size. I got a shot of  this one. He is so majestic and regal isn't he? And so unafraid!

Missed it by thattttt much!

We had a bad storm a month ago. Came up suddenly, high winds and rain. The next morning we found this .

 

Knowing my son's car was out there somewhere either near or under that tree, I went out to look. I could hardly believe what I saw! That tree fell just perfect and missed my son's car. It didn't have a scratch on it. But you can see how close it came!

Inspired

by Yolanda's thistle pictures, I hope you don't mind I shot some too. They are such interesting weeds! Have a great weekend peas! And thanks for all the nice comments this week.

 

Another fall picture

I just love fall. The changing colors, the smell of the leaves, the crisp air, the way the sun changes from being so harsh into golden light. I love how the sun shining through the leaves looks. Here is one lone leaf hanging on to the fence.