Illustration Friday - Drifting

I created this illustration for a birthday card and was happy that it fit for this week's topic - Drifting. I've been away from participating in IF for a while now and miss it. 

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Brilliant!

I am trying desperately to catch up on my Reader list and read all the blogs I love. Today I started and after a few clicks I came across THIS....

How awesomely creative is that!? I love it. It is all baked treats and a great surprise for a dad or for anyone really. Just change the message and you got something special for sure! You have to check out the Bakerella's instruction for this Fast Food Fun. The only thing I would do different is make everything from scratch. I don't like to make things from boxes - I'm not a snob I just need to know exactly what is in my food, ya know?

Also, just roam the Bakerella site - great stuff and fabulous photography.

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Yummy Fruits

Another set I worked on last night that I turned into a stamp set too. The STAMP set and CLIPART set is available at my mygrafico page.

These are the examples I displayed to show what I plan to use them for when we make our next batch of jam. I always send some to the family as holiday gifts so these will be perfect.

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Father's Day Set

Holy wow! I haven't posted in a while. Sorry to be absent for so long. But the yard, work and vacation has been keeping me super busy.  The vacation was wonderful! I will get some pictures ready to share soon.

For now I have my latest set to show you. You can see it and more of my stuff here.

Stay tuned.. I promise to have more to show soon. 

Samples of card ideas with the set.

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Cutie Cupcakes Clip Art

A new set I uploaded this week on my mygrafico page.

I will have pictures of the yard to show soon. We are making amazing progress but there is still a large pile of rocks that we need to use in the front yard. Ugh! Not looking forward to lugging those heavies to the front!

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Hiking Trip Set

A new clip art set I uploaded tonight. Available here.



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OH yah

Look what is waiting for me at home today? Much to do this weekend and the sun came out to make it possible. Yay!

Oh and I think I need to make one of these soon. I bought too much buckwheat hulls for the holidays and I was happy to find a project that I will need and can use up some of them. That really pleases me. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Get Well Bear

I recently did this illustration for a client to be used on a card. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Ooooh, you are so pretty

This is a single bloom that a 3 year old Rhody (or maybe an Azalea) bloomed early. I brought it in and put it in some water and just adored how it looked. Out came the camera!


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Rockin' Pile

Wow! A whole week has gone by since my last post. Life has been getting busy. For you too?

After trying to sell our house last year, April through September, we took it off the market to hunker down and wait out this recession. Some of the feedback we got about our property had to do with the yard - no fenced yard, no obvious property borders - and since we are staying here we decided it was time to get those privacy shrubs up and put some time/money into the yard now - not to mention add some value to the house when we do sell! So after a long rainy winter it is time to come out of the slumber and get back outside and work on our yard!

My main issue is I am no good at this gardening/landscaping business. Well I wouldn't say that I am bad, it is mostly that I don't have confidence due to lack of knowledge. I am reading lots of websites, magazines, books trying to gather as much knowledge about planting a privacy "green" screen in our back yard. It sounds fairly easy, right? On some properties I am sure that is true. But mine is a slope, filled with rocks and fairly neglected since we moved in. Though I prefer to call it "natural" and blending in with the woodsy surroundings, it definitely needs some TLC to become our private shady haven.

After meeting with a landscaper we both felt a bit more confident about our plans and decided to roll up our sleeves and start digging up rocks to make our retaining walls. We both agreed to go "gather up surface rocks for 30 minutes..." and ended up out there for 2.5 hours digging up huge rocks. It was actually kind of fun and felt rewarding see our rock pile growing. Both of us feeling more confident and eventually tired and hungry (break time!) I will try and remember to take pictures as we go. Wish us luck!

Boyfriend's rock pile with a few of my contributions. He is rock extracting machine! I wish this picture was closer to the pile.

This was my station. Cutting back the slope to put a retaining wall. Those two big rocks took me so long to wedge out. Boyfriend is much better at rocking extraction than I.

Any gardeners or none that read landscaping/gardening blogs or websites they could share? I would appreciate it if so. Thanks!

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