Long Day Ahead

8th grade open house is tonight, so I will be late coming home. Not so bad since tomorrow is a personal day for me and I am going to spend it staying warm in my studio-after sleeping in  first!!!!! Quite looking forward to some time for me.
BUT they are saying SNOW today!!! SNOW!!!!!!!
I want to vomit!!!!!!!!
Let's not think abouth that since I slept so poorly last night and now I am dragging.
Instead...

A few more October photos to regale you with.

Can you make out the seal's face? Back from my Sunday afternoon on Cape Cod.

View down the shore at the Marconi Station on the outer arm of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Not sure if this is an estuary or a river. Eastham, MA on the Cape.

These are photos from Dave and my roadtrip a few Sunday's ago when it was gorgeous, sunny and fairly warm. Not like the raw wet day today is...

Thanks for visiting.

Repeat Performance

Cape Cod light house.

bird prints

Watching seals and gannets.

Cute little sandpiper.

More Cape Cod photos. Although they don't look like summer, they look more summery than my backyard does right now. I have a lot of leaves lying on the ground and the trees are pretty yellow, or getting bare.

And the heat seems to have vanished and now we have normal temperatures.

Like that much better.

So I am in for a couple of nights without Dave around, he has meetings late. I get to play in my studio later into the evening...like that! -Though I should do MORE school work, am feeling inundated. I don't think it'll happen, I need some recharge time.

And now for another Halloween card!

Wanted a spooky foggy night kind of feel with this card.  The tree is a Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut which I have painted, stained, rubbed Viva metallic paint over, stamped the word BOO onto it...you name it, I probably did it to the tree. I ahdn drew in the ground, used a Martha Stewart punch/stamp combo for the tombstones, stamped the witch with an Inkadinkado stamp and then used an embossing folder and cut out the letters for the words fright (TIm Holtz/Sizzix). Then I used white stain a few times over the whole card trying to create a foggy feel. Foggy nights are a bit spooky I think. Have you ever seen that movie The Fog? The original one from the late 1970's.  I heard the remake was a BOMB. Anyhow, not so sure about the witch-it might have been spookier without her, but she is there and so she stays.

That's my post for today. Probably tomorrow I'll once again be original and show you a few more Cape Cod photos from last Sunday.

Or maybe not?

Roadtrips and Halloween....

Here's a couple of photos from my Sunday roadtrip to Cape Cod. I haven't had time to play with any of my snaps, so these are raw. Top photo, Coast Cuard Beach, middle photo, catching the shadow of the lighthouse as I came down from my climb up Nauset Light, and at the bottom, Cape Cod Light, another lighthouse that got moved back from the encroaching erosion of the cliffs in the 1990s. As you can see it was a GORGEOUS day. Dave, I and Harley spent the afternoon exploring some of the National Seashore before Dave had to go to a work related retirement party for a few hours. Harl and I hung out in the car and I did some reading....should have graded papers but was tired and I am a nasty procrastinator...so guess what was on my agenda last night since they didn't get finished Sunday? Anyhow, why was I so tired? We walked on Coast Guard Beach too which was great and saw LOTS of seals. Then when I climbed the lighthouse at Nauset I saw some pilot whales feeding...too far out to get any photos but very EXCITING. I also saw some gannets/birds diving like bombs into the water. That to me that was exciting and made it all worth it, even though we didn't get home until after 10:30 and I needed to be up at 4:45 for work. Think I need to do a mini-album of my day trip to the Cape!

So one more photo for today, here's another one of my Halloween cards.

I stamped the webs (Stampotique) and then stamped the spiders twice each- once directly on the card for the legs and then once on white paper, which I colored and then cut out and attached over the bodies of the spiders I stamped on the card. The man is RubberMoon, stamped and colored, and the saying is River City Rubberworks. It is one long saying I cut into 3 parts. I stippled black in to distress the card and there you go.  Not too difficult but-rather bizzare and not traditional Halloween but that is OK at this season.

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