Sketch 471~Wildflower Path, Hope Box, Stampin Up

We had a lovely Saturday.  The weather 

cooperated and we went to get flowers 

for the yard.   It was so expensive, even

though it didn't make Robb happy to spend

that much money he allowed it because he

knows how much I love it.  Pretty sweet guy.  

The place was just packed, it was like the early

days of covid with the toilet paper shortage.  My gosh the people

were greedy and wanted their plants.  

Something has changed in society, I use to be a people

person, but people aren't so kind lately.  It's a rare 

courtesy.   Any ways we went and got it done, 

then I realized perhaps everyone was trying to 

get plants for their moms.

My mom didn't like flowers or plants, inside or out.

She use to say house plants have bugs and I don't want

them in my house.   Which is somewhat true.  But I 

still like my jungle inside.  haha.. Also mom had 

the funniest rock with an engraved message outside

where a flower garden could go, it said, "I tried but it died"

I don't know where I got my love for plants.

OOh and I have the most amazing story to tell you all.

But first let me mention that I will submit this card

to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is

Stampin Up:  Wildflower Path
Stampin Up:  Paper pumpkin, Hope box

I love this stamp set, it came as a kit in paper pumpkin

which I don't usually purchase but I love the sentiments

so much.  Any ways I made my card a smaller slimline 

so I could hopefully take a better picture.  Even though

I'm having technical difficulties with the iphone SE 2020.  

Apparently I take too many pictures.  sigh. 

The stamping on this card is pretty straight forward. 

I gave a little texture to the one piece of card stock 

behind the circle by using an embossing folder.

The sentiments were a bit bigger then I intended, 

but I suppose I didn't take into consideration I scaled 

down the whole card.  haha.

Here's a picture of the flowers we got for the yard 

this summer.

HP is doing pretty good.  We noticed summer might 

be a bit difficult for him because when dogs breathe

heavy their mouth is open which means his eye stays

sunken in and looks quite uncomfortable, so 

we kept him in the shade and he got quite dirty 

with the gravel driveway, but he loved it.  

This is the little darling resting his chops on

our daughter's leg.  

Now back to the story.  I know this is a super long post.

But I found a treasure in the yard yesterday.  I felt 

like a real  Indiana Jones.  haha.  

I'll try to make this quick.  We live in a very old home.

We have found many treasures over the years, nothing 

of real value just interesting stuff.  Old tavern signs,

necklaces, pictures, old pieces of beds and curtain rods,

lamps, x-rated movies, and of course the rifle in the wall.  

Honestly you never know what would show up here.  

Our home is over 100 years old, we have logs, not beams

in the basement,  an old tree which looks like a telephone

post is the center for support. So just to give you a clue

we live next to the rail road, and on the other side of the tracks

were brothel homes.  I think that is the correct wording.  

anyways.  I'm sure this house if it could talk has much to say.  

I've had 3 experiences in this house that I refer to as guardian

angels, I don't believe in ghosts, but there was for sure something 

here, that scared the life right out of me.  So no I've set the 

scene a little bit.  We had a huge tree removed in our driveway

years ago, and now we refer to that area as the pond, because 

we can never afford to fill it with gravel, so when it rains it's 

a mess.  but now it's dried up and yesterday as I was walking out

to the garage I noticed a shiny silver rock that I just had to have

I'm such a child, so I went to get my hoe to dig it out and when

I did I found that it wasn't a rock it had writing on it.  So I asked my daughter 

to read it to me, she said Chicago princess hat.   So I was looking 

at the little thing and noticed it must come apart, so I got my husband's 

pliers and opened it, and it was all black or so I thought.  

My husband walks by and asks what I found I told him, he says

without missing a beat.  Looks like lipstick.  I was like I bet you are right. 

So I cram it back together put on my gloves to plant flowers and kept 

thinking about it, then I noticed my vinyl gloves were all red,

I'm like drats I cut my fingers again, ( I don't usually feel my cuts,

because of my hands condition)  but I had not.  It was that lipstick.

So at that point I came in the house and started researching it.

FOLKS, it's from the early 1900's made in Chicago, Princess Pat. Red

So fabulous.  Of course I went out to the garage to collect my prize and 

put it with all the other little gems I've collected from the house.  

Guess what?  We couldn't find it.   All of us formed a search party

and nothing.  to which my daughter says maybe you planted it with the new flowers

and you'll find it all over again next year.  Can you believe that. 

Something that we didn't even know existed all these years living here.

I have it for a few short hours and now it's missing again.  Cracks me up.

Anyways dear friends, never a dull moment in our little 945 square foot home

it is always surprising us.  Hope you got a smile out of my silly little story. 

Have a blessed Sunday. 

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ