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Tea Tuesday: Enjoying the garden
On yet another beautiful morning, I am having a little quiet time on the deck before diving into the day.
Days like today remind me why we put up with the extremes of Minnesota weather.  
We’ve been blessed with an abundant garden once I figured out how to keep the critters at bay. The fencing and the flags along with an occasional sprinkle of blood meal seem to have done the trick.
I’ve picked a couple ice cream buckets full of green beans…  
Enough snow peas for stir-fry and munching…

Several big, yummy cucumbers 
with more on the way…

Very soon I’ll have more tomatoes than I know what to do with…
I can’t wait!
And by the way…
our leaves are starting to turn… 
just a few here and there. 
What a short growing season!

Drop by my friend Kimmie’s blog to see what’s going on with my tea Tuesday pals.
What are you doing today?

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Sweet package and more flowers
Quite a while ago, after posting my Travels handmade book, Margaret asked me if I had an postcards from Switzerland for my collection. 
Since I didn’t, we decided to do a little trade of items from our areas. 
Just look at all the fun items she sent!
I’m really looking forward to using the pretty napkins.
And this postcard is an awesome addition to my collection! 
It’s very Scandinavian looking…love that! 
Have I mentioned that I’m 100% Norwegian!?!
Thank you so much Margaret!

I also wanted to share a couple more bottle cap flowers I made the other day.

They are a fun addition to my garden.


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Fairy door

I saw a fun challenge and decided to go for it since I haven’t worked much with miniatures lately.  I found that I really miss it. 

I love making faux stone. It’s my favorite technique.

Have a magical day!!

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Altered Puzzle piece
Finished another one and popped it in the mailbox yesterday. 
One of the postmen said he gets a kick out of the mail art and postcards I send and receive. 
He asked me about the postcards one day when I was mailing a very boring package.
I had no idea they paid that much attention! 
Fun to know that mail art not only brightens the recipients day but the postal workers day as well.

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Cool Tuesday
I am so happy to say that our weather has made a turn. The humidity and heat have gone.
I awoke to 61°F with a cool NW breeze.
Glorious!
I want to wash all the sheets and blankets to dry them outside for a change.
But first I must show you the flower I made.
I have a couple more sets laid out but the heat and humidity in the garage yesterday was too much and I got very frustrated with the heavy gauge wire. Have to try again today.

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Found text ATC

Sometimes I grab a random page torn from a book to give me inspiration. 

That is when my quirky sense of humor takes over….

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Rocks and friendship

A favorite pastime is searching for fun rocks to add to our collections. Well…it’s mostly our girl and I that can do this for hours on end. 

It was great to walk out from our hotel straight to the shoreline.

The shoreline at this part of the lake is rocky…not sandy. It kills my feet to walk on for any length of time even though the rocks have been worn smooth.

We brought home some treasures…

I don’t think we got any agates…have a book on reserve at the library to help me identify.

We just picked ones that spoke to us. Such as penguin rock,  pyramid rock, a couple with faces and some with a ring slicing through. Others just said take me home like the stick.

My ultimate excitement was when I found sea glass!!! There were all small pieces but genuine sea glass none the less. 

There were several shades of green and clear as well as a blue and a piece of pottery or maybe milk glass?  I want to go back just to sit and sift through to find more. Sad but true.

I spotted this rock while hiking and had to grab a picture.
Such a funny face…

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And now to the friendship part of my post….
My BFF is in town for a convention and we haven’t seen each other in 17yrs!
I’m picking her up in a couple hours so we can spend the evening hanging out at our house until she leaves bright and early in the morning for home. 
I am so excited that I’m giddy!

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