Monday ... look out - another week's snuck up on us!

Morning readers, 

We've had the most sociable weekend since this whole Covid-19 malarkey kicked off. First off .... a table booked at a nice local restaurant where, I'm pleased to say, they'd taken lots of sensible precautions and our evening was pleasant and relaxing and the food up to it's usual high standards. Then it was off to the home of my brother and sister-in-law for a socially distanced BBQ in the garden. They were offering Saturday or Sunday and the same to other friends ... FORTUNATELY, we didn't both pick the same day! And we had a lovely visit from surrogate daughter #2 and hubby, they stopped by for a bevy .... soooooo lovely to catch up with family and friends after so long. I hope you all had something lovely to do at the weekend too.

I've a make to share with you today .......

My Artist Trading Coin

Here's how the base ATCoin panel looked with just inking and stencilling

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in white and pearl green
• Nesting dies used to cut the 2½" and 2¼" circles
• Memento rosebud ink applied to my white circle using a makeup brush then again but with my TCW stencil in place (357S)
• Changing the stencil for my Memory Box grid (88517) I nked random patches using Ranger Archival vibrant fuchsia ink
• Craft Emotions foliage (from 130501/1237) stamped using Versafine Clair shady lane ink
• PRS sentiment (from DIY set) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink and splat from the same set stamped using Ranger Archival vibrant fuchsia ink

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Crafty Friends - challenge No. 142 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 139 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Pixie's Crafty Workshop - challenge No. 384 - ANYTHING GOES ... USING SNIPPETS
4. Corrosive Challenge - challenge No. 8 - ANYTHING GOES

There I was, enjoying my evening ... and a cheeky glass of something chilled, when I noticed the spectactular (IMHO) evening sky - thought I'd share it with you this morning - quite dramatic, isn't it?

And yesterday's three miler was the one where I encountered the wild life ...

First family of geese

Second family of what I believe are Canada Geese ... or they could be Hawaiian
they didn't have labels so it could go either way, but I'm sticking with Canada!

The baby ducks are growing well