As June draws to a close...

Wow, so where did June go? 

This means we are that much closer to July 9th right?

We have been amping up production in the workshop and dutifully putting our collective noses to the grindstone.

This is one of my decoupaged bottles...
The bottles are recycled (actually dug up from our back yard when we were doing construction on our house a few years ago ~ presumably from a time when people were still burning and burying their trash in their yard), cleaned, and then covered in colorful tissues and then snippets of my art as well as reproductions of my Grandmother's old letters, and postcards. 

Next we have a mirror, painted, then decoupaged with a selection of my rabbit drawings, and some hand painted vines added... 

This in one of my little clay creations.  I made the mushrooms and the mouse from polymer clay, the husband gets credit for cutting out the wooden circle base.... and my Mum gets credit for eating all the sugar free jam and saving the empty jars for me!  (jar sets down over the scene, thus keeping it dust free!)

More little clay friends ~ the snail has a real shell from a periwinkle, and the rabbit is growing a pepper plant!

  A tiny clay gourd, that my mouse friend has turned into a little home.  Some moss and glass beads for decoration. This is hung on a piece of black cord and can be a necklace, or just a decoration???

Here we have some of the necklaces featuring Scott's carved wooden hearts, and dog bones.  Some earrings also along the top row.  Some are beaded, some just on black cord. 

This is what the little jars look like closed up.  Inside is a little rabbit offering his mouse friend a flower! :))

This is just a sample of our wares of course... There will be cards, and book marks and pretty little wooden boxes, and letter openers.... and some magnets too. 
Should be interesting. 
Can someone pester me until I REALLY do figure it out and open an Etsy shop???

Meanwhile, in the midst of all the crafting... we are getting to know our newest family member Cricket the Wonder Pony (who for technical purpose is actually a miniature horse).... We are learning to walk three dogs and horse at the same time, it's been interesting to say the least. 

The gardens (that weren't dug up for the corral) are blooming nicely.  This rose belonged to my great Grandmother, it was given to her as a Mother's Day gift back in the early 1940's.  The rose bush, and the Grandmother are/were named Agnes.  We dug it up and took it with us when my Mum sold my Grandparents home a few years ago. 
If we move again one day, she will again be coming with us. 

This is just a happy little pansy, cuz it makes me smile.  :)))))

This is the last thing my poor peony saw.... before it.. *gulp* disappeared.

Or perhaps it was this.....

Look at him,  he looks sort of pleased with himself doesn't he?
I think he's smirking.

So there you have it.  That's where we stand at the moment.
Stay tuned,  you just never know what's next.
Signing out from The Funny Farm.
(You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps.)