Little Red Wagon #142- Package It Up

This week Regan is challenging us to reuse some scrappy packaging.

I decided to use some cardboard backing to create a tag which I then attached to a gift:



I used Everyday Button Bits from Papertrey as well as some Thrift Shoppe paper to put it together.

If you can, please join us over at Little Red Wagon, with your repurposed packaging. We love to see what you create!

Taliesin West

We recently returned from a visit to Phoenix,Arizona and while there attended an evening tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home.

Construction started in 1937 with buildings being added until Wright's death in 1959.

The name Taliesin is Welsh and means shining brow which is appropriate to the location of the home which is on the brow of the McDowell range outside of Scottsdale.

I was expecting a house but it is actually a complex of buildings which Wright actually referred to as their Arizona camp.

The buildings are constructed using rock found on site and were built by Wright's apprentices. The ceilings were originally made of canvas to allow the light to filter through.

The camp is still actively used by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

Sunset views.

All the furniture was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with replicas on display for us to actually sit in.

Bougainvillea.

Wright's bedroom - when he was in the bed closest to the left you were not to disturb him.

The sunlight reflecting off the building.Buildings include a drafting room, his office, living areas,music room, cabaret, vault used for all the sketchs and storage room.

Another sunset view.

Pool and fountain view.

A gas powered dragon only lit on the evening tours.

More bougainvillea lining the walkway outside the drafting room.

An evening view.

Some of Wright's original students still live onsite, one of which is a sculptor.

These two faces are the same sculpture.

A running woman sculpture.

The cabaret, one of Wright's best designs.

Built with six sides, out of the standard rock, concrete mixture, in an irregularly hexagonal shape, the theatre provides its occupants with 95% acoustic perfection. One sitting in the back row can hear the lightest whisper from a speaker on stage.

Taliesin West was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1982.

More posts on our desert adventure to come soon!

Blooming in the Garden

Blooming this week:

Shasta Daisies

Annabelle Hydrangea

Hosta

Yucca

Pow Wow Coneflower

Limelight Hydrangea

Bella Anna Hydrangea

What's blooming in  your garden?

Baby Card

Hope you all have had a great day!

I took a bit of time today to create a baby card which fits the challenge to use strips of colour of CAS-ual Fridays:

I cut strips then crimped them to add some texture. Further dimension was created by popping some of the strips up.

And you can't really tell but the stamp does says 'He and She plus Baby Make 3'.

Thanks for looking!



supplies used: Papertrey Ink - spring moss ink,tagged sentiments stamp set,twine,button; Dear Lizzy - Neopolitan

Memory Box Cards

Well between Papertrey Ink, Stampin' Up and Memory Box I'm doomed......I just love so many of their products.

But today I'm sharing a couple of cards I made based on the Memory Box card of the month(I think from April or it might have been May).

It's on a base of kraft cardstock, then uses Memory Box patterned paper, and two dies, a frame and bird, then finished off with some bling:

Isn't the result pretty?

Little Red Wagon # 141 - Christmas in July

Judy selected our Little Red Wagon challenge for this week and it is to create a Christmas card.

Here's mine:



So get an early start on those Christmas cards by linking up your card at Little Red Wagon.

We love to see what you create.

Make and Take Cards

I thought I'd share some make and take cards given to us to create at some recent crops events.

They are all so lovely and each one unique!

Spray Painted Letters

As mentioned in a prior post, here's the second of my recent diy projects that turned out exactly as I had hoped.

While she was in Florida, I asked Mom to find me some letters to spell the word EAT. She came home with some mdf letters with swirly ends, a style that I would have picked myself had I seen them.

I then spray painted them with two coats of black matte paint then hung them above one of the doors in our kitchen where they fit perfectly:

Hmmm, what project shall I do next?

Little Red Wagon #140 - Life's A Beach

This week Tammy has a great Little Red Wagon challenge and that is to create something inspired by the beach.

I dug into my wagon for a little used stamp set and created a vacation themed card that is clearly beach inspired:



So if you can, please join us over at Little Red Wagon with your beach inspired project, we love to see what you create.

The Grand River in the Galt Area

I was in Cambridge recently and took this picture of the Grand River:

It really appeals to me for some reason. I like the reflection in the river water and the boys playing under the bridge.

But my favourite part is the man with a guitar case at his feet, leaning over the railing staring into the river unaware that his photo was taken.

I wonder what he was thinking?

Happy Canada Day!

Image credit: aquaskye, etsy.