Soldering is out of hand..

Or maybe it's not..Here is a Large piece I put up on Etsy last week...She's on a base from reclaimed Scrabble game board..and it just gets better from there..A few months ago, our friend in Oklahoma, gave me 2 large bags full of old farm ledgers/receipts his aunt had kept..every day they wrote down what came in and what went out..well that's the next layer.. a page from one of the ledger books...

Real Monarch butterfly wings make this gal rock..we found them in the grass last month..I think they fell off the gril of SIL's truck..so, I didn't hurt anything for the sake of art..ok?? Just giving found objects new life...

Then after more doing and dading..I covered it all in a piece of glass and soldered it all up..I patina'ed the solder, mixed two colors *can you do that????* well, I did and it look all old and grungy or even as my pal Cindy sez: Grotty~

This weekend the #1 grand came over and we all went to the Red River to ride the 4 wheeler and the Razor...Scooby went too..I strapped him on behind me on the 4 wheeler and we just tooled around like old people while hub and grand zoomed and zipped and slung sand on us..They ended up getting extremely muddy and loved every minute of it..

Again, if I can ask for prayers for out son Deke, seems he's having some probs. with all, he's been through..he needs Jesus to give him a hand up and out of this..he's reached some dark spot in his mind and we are unable to reach him..it's breaking our hearts..and we are praying as hard as we can, so I think it's time to send in the warriors..so we'd appreciate it..
thanks so much blog friends!
hugs,t

Kangaroos, Water and Harleys

On Friday we headed out for the day. But first we had to have our breakfast at BJ's, she has been voted best breakfast for several years by the "Ride Texas" magazine, that is read by motorcyclers all over the state.

Down one of the 'sister' roads, there is an exotic game ranch. They have Kangas, Giraffes, Zebras, and such..I always want to stop, but we usually just zoom by. Little did I know that hub had plans for a laid back day...yea!

A bit later down the road, there is a low water crossing we always stop at for a bit..This time we shed our boots and put our tootsies in that chilly water, it was wonderful..then we all went over to the tin horns and put them in the running water for a massage...again, we just set there and didn't feel like leaving, so we stayed! We stayed there at least 45 minutes, it was great, no hurry, no worry..All we had planned was going to Junction for lunch.







Guess the feet~

Another spot I've wanted to stop and get a picture of my bike! This is a tiny place between Junction and no where..
We talked to the lady inside, she had been there since 1963!

We ate lunch at Cooper's in Junction and wondered the tiny downtown. Then headed up to Lover's Leap to look over the town. It was burning hot, Sue and I decided we didn't want to go to the Fort that hub had planned. So we chose to voice our opinions at this time...we all decided to head back to Camp Wood and go swimming! So we did..swimming in the river was great...It was a nice day and we did abit of riding, but most of all we were not feeling rushed to make X number of miles or see X number of things..that was a nice change..

Tomorrow: Meeting New people..

Paper Cowgirl is coming along, we are going to get the info packets made this week. We posted some new stuff over there..and I added a photo of the Charm we are making in my class info post! Go Check it Out!!

I worked on some swap stuff yesterday. It was a good day..got most of it finished and now to pop it all in the mail for my partners.

Happy Monday to you!

t