I Love to Pounce : Elepahants Dance

 Elephant Dancing

Pounce Day ...  and I'm just going to get right to it..... I pounced I founds.... I feel in love....  with

Elephant Dancing ..... A shop just full of curiosity... and Elephants ....

Elephants Dance also has drawings of Children, Rabbits, Dogs and Hearts.... 
What I like about this shop is that every print is a limited edition ... 100 of each
There are plenty to chose from and all are delightful ....

Elephant Dancing

Here is a bit about the owner

I am an illustrator and designer. I work with both traditional and digital mediums and I love to use inks, markers and pastels as well as various graphic and illustration software.

My work was featured in:USA,Canada,
England, Russia, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria

I would like to rejoice with them more children and adults aim World!
Let childhood never leaves us!


I love the last bit... Let childhood never leave us ... I say Amen to that ....

 Pay Elephants Dance a visit

Remember anyone can join in...just link up below... and The pounce button can be found on the Buy page at Etsy
 
♥ Rachel

The ABC :C is for Coffee

 The ABC .....
Its like the ABC for Adults ... and honestly I am having so much fun doing this...

At some point I will produce cards out of the ABC photos.... just have to find the right paper ... paper is an issuse with me... Im not sure why ... I think it may be my anal ways ... yes I am totaly anal over some stuff and other stuff I dont give a dammm about... I guess its a good thing cause to be total anal over everything would make life unbearable for the Hubby and the kids....

But paper yes big hang ups over...

So C is for Coffee .......

This would have been so easy if I hadn't had so many ideas given to me last night when I sat down to do this.

I put it out there to the household... C is for?

Cookie.... Cake..... Cupid.... Crayons..... Cars...... Cats......Candles......Canary Yellow...(what) ..... Castles.....Clowns......Cups.....Clock........Catapult....(no way).....Crown......(you would say that).....Cow......(I am not going out to the fields at this time of night to take photography's of cows)..... OK well then we are out of ideas..... until the hubby said do you fancy a coffee Hun ......

Ye he clinched it....

 

C is for Coffee

Each week I forget to give credit to Paint The Moon... thanks to Paint The Moon the template that I use to show the ABC's is a download from Paint The Moon ... Totally helpful web site with some really cool stuff in it... worth a visit? .....Absolutely 

Did you do an ABC this week.... If so link up in comments... Ill be over shortly to check them out....

♥ Rachel

Sunday Stroll : Including Snow, Snow and More Snow

Oh for the love of snow... that's all my week seems to have consisted of  ..... and with the snow come the melting and the pipes defrosting oh and lets not forget the Ice storm and the loss of power... oh for the love of snow...

Oh a positive note its pretty where the camera is concerned ......

The bottom print was taken around late afternoon after the first Ice storm a few weeks ago ... then I played with it just a little bit.

So what else has been going on this week ...well Ive made a fair few banners for people ..... some of them you can see on my new banner page ....this has kept me busy and out of a fair amount of trouble...

I was featured on To Sew With Love and Maria Palito's blog .... both these sites are worth a visit ... cause you know I would never send you anywhere that wasn't worth your while...

I have been busy turning my prints into cards... and Ive also been working on wooden blocks...
more of that to come at a later date I'm sure.

I said sometime ago that if I reached 100 Likes on my Face Book page I would do a giveaway ... well as we stand we are at 85...And Looky Looky here I have reached 49 on my followers... so that means sooner than later I could be doing a give away ..... so watch this space ...

So that's my week...how was yours.... ?

♥ Rachel

Inspired by Birds

I have had a fair amount of fun this week making Treasuries.....
There are two that come to mind, where I have featured stuff that has greatly inspired me ....

Blue on Black and They Call it Mellow Yellow ....

Both of the above Treasuries are not only song titles they both have birds in them....

 1: Yellow Birds of a Feather by bomobob

 2: Black and White Chicken - Limited Edition Print by unitedthread

 3:  In The Reeds by AmeliaKayPhotography

Have I ever mentioned two of my biggest loves in life are Birds and Trees...after the husband and the kids obviously..... Lets just say the Birds I featured this week inspired me so much that I finally finished a drawing I had been doing for sometime ..... 

I am by no stretch of the imagination a good artist in the sense of how I draw..but it is something that I do with  my children... and it relaxes me when Im uptight and bugging out ...

So you can see what has inspired me this week... but what I would like to know is "whats inspiring you this week"

Have a wonderful weekend folks ...

♥ Rachel

A Little Something For You

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 Friends .....

Do you send them a card on Valentines day just to remind them what they mean to you?

Well if you don't or haven't before you can now...

I spent a few minutes designing something for you to print up and use to send to a friend this Valentines Day if you so wish ....

All you need to do is click the Link (above) and if I have done this correctly it will take you to a page to down load it to print .... fingers crossed... tell you what Ill try it first and let you know its works....
(update it works)

I placed a faint border round it to make cutting it out a bit easier...

And if you do it on photography paper you could even frame it ...it would make a lovely inexpensive gift .... or card

You never know you could make someones day this valentines... or any day come to think of it ...

Here is mine in a card.. excuse the photography it isn't one of my best ....

Note to self...work harder at your product photos

Enjoy

and please feel free to share this is for anyone who wants to make a friend smile 

♥ Rachel

Crazy Day: Including All Things British

It sure has been a crazy day ..... we had another snow storm .... that lasted all day and I mean all day its still going now...
Its funny because snow makes me miss home...

Home being England.. mainly cause we dont get as much snow there as we do here...and I hate snow...

I much prefer rain ... but then I would really I grew up with it ....

In honor of missing home ... I made a crazy Treasury ...





Also yesterday and today I began making some head way on a little project ... there is always one in the pipeline ...

I made a bloggy friend a new banner for her blog ...


I also offered two other people help with a banner for their Etsy shops...

I am trying to build a portfolio up of my graphic work... so if you know anyone out there that could do with some help..then please send them my way ...

I love to help others...and its a great way to get something for free.. for them and for me... here is the one I made yesterday

Sahara just gave me the colors and her two favorite things  Birds and flowers....

I did in fact make her six banners... but she liked the very first one I made... its my favorite to....

I then made her a button to go along with it

I am now working on two Etsy Banners... and really enjoying it ....

To finish this crazy day of my number two man (nine yr old son) left me a little surprise on the floor...

 

Sounds terrible when I put it like that ...but it wasn't ...it was this

He is a total Lego King... 

 

I think he did it so when I walked in his room I didnt flip out at the mess he had left in there.... such a clever boy ..

Enjoy the rest of your evening people... I will see you all tomorrow...

 ♥ Rachel

I Love to Pounce.

JulietsQuill.

    So here it is Tuesday's Pounce .... I did in fact find my pounce via a treasury I was featured in...... The Treasury is called His Kisses are as soft... and it was curated by JulietsQuill.

I went to check this shop out and WOW I'm so glad I did .... I love soft whimsical finds and that's what I found at Juliet's Quill is all about ...  Here is a bit about Juliet's Quill which will help explain this wonderful shop

As a former English teacher and published poet and journalist, as well as a guest speaker reading my own works at many special events such as weddings, funerals and conferences, I am happy to devise for you anything that you desire!


I have won several awards, both in Canada and the U.S.A., incl. the Silver Poet Award by Nat. Library, (Vincent Price awarded this) and Top Author (judged and awarded by Screenwriter Kay Linaker, author of The Blob and many others, as well as actress in 1940's Hollywood). I have also been featured in several newspapers, incl. front page of the Ottawa Citizen, Canada's National newspaper, along with AlanisMorisette and her song-writing team.

JulietsQuill.

I am like catching flies here people this woman is awesome and so talented ... Can you imagine having a poem wrote just for you on your special day or you have one wrote just because your worth it ...and it is all wrote in calligraphy. 

Or you can write one and Juliet will write it out for you in her writing .... calligraphy.... it makes me think of William Shakespeare .... and makes me feel all romantic

I totally find it so wonderful the things you can find on Etsy .... Today I found a poet .....

Go check Juliet out you wont regret it I promise you

Remember anyone can join in...just link up below... and The pounce button can be found on the Buy page at Etsy 

♥ Rachel