Big Sable Point Lighthouse

The next morning we started off for the state park where the next lighthouse my hubby has been wanting to go to is located. The only way out to the lighthouse is either walking or riding a bike, we saw both, we walked it. It is 1.8 miles one way, now I usually do a mile and half when I go for my walks so this was going to be a challenge for me, doubling the amount I am use to,  thankfully we had a cool morning to walk.  I didn't take much pictures along the way I wanted to get there, but I did stop and take a few once the lighthouse was in site.

You can see in the first pic that there is a bit of water on the path there, I should have taken a picture but there were many places that we had to walk along the edges because it was flooded over.

The dunes were quite high, we only saw two kids on them, everyone else stuck to the path.

The excitement is building, not only because we are seeing more of the lighthouse but I had to go to the bathroom and was getting quite tired, hoping they had some benches when we got there.

This one had a very big house attached to it.
The sign to tell about it.

I was trying to capture just how tall this light was.

There was a bench right at this break wall so I sat and took some pictures of the waves coming over.

Time to head back taking the last pic of the house.

There were a few of these ponds off to the side of the path, there was also a bench not to far down either that I took another break at.  I was pretty wiped out after this walk, by the time you count the walk from the parking lot it was a total of 4 miles.  By the end of the day when I was going to be that night my fitbit read 18,995 steps, and my body could feel everyone of them.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Connie

Birds and Cats

First to share the birds, these printed die cuts from Tim Holtz have a bit of a glare to them so it was hard getting a great picture but I love how they look in person, this is one of the bigger pieces there is also the same image in a smaller size but I decided to fill the whole frame with this one. The flowers off to the side on the frame is also from the same pack, I love them for accenting!

Tim Holtz - Layers, Botanical Pieces
Hero Arts - Wood frame die
Stamps of Life - Minis4circles sentiment stamp

Now on to the cats, as some of you know we had a dog and two cats and they all passed away a few years ago, at first I had a very hard time with it, then as time went on I started thinking that I would like another furbaby, but as often as we like to go out we decided that getting another dog would be hard since they need to be taken out and such, so we decided if we were to get another pet it would have to be a cat, then we decided we would like a kitten again, and watch it grow, we wanted to adopt from a shelter and there just wasn't any kittens until this past Saturday, we were headed into Office depot to get my hubby another mouse for his computer, his old one wasn't working anymore. We saw a sign outside of Petco that the Bond County human society was adopting animals there, so we went in to see what they had and oh my this little guy just stole our hearts, so loving and calm.  Well I think the calm part was so that we would adopt him, because oh my is he a handful at times, but oh so loving and so likes to cuddle up to take his naps, which I love :) He was worth the wait as we have been looking since last December, hubby wanted to surprise me with one for Christmas, but no luck.

I would like to introduce you to our new furbaby Opie. He is thought to be around 11 weeks old.

 We bought him a few toys and look at what he likes to play with, the string to the blinds.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Connie

Ludington Michigan

We headed for Ludington Michigan after leaving Grand Haven and after getting our hotel we headed to the beach, you can see a bit of cloudy skies but it was still clear to see the Ludington North Breakwater Light. As you can see it is out there a ways so you I had to use my zoom to get what I did.

When we got out to the end of the pier we could see the car ferry The Badger coming in to port. The Badger makes trips from Michigan over to Wisconsin over Lake Michigan.  I remember doing the trip as a young kid, the main thing I remembered is I didn't think the ferry was very pretty and I was motion sick the whole way across, my Dad stayed outside with me so that the fresh air would hit me and help me feel a little better. I enjoyed it so much more on dry land this time :)

We are standing just on the other side of the rocks that you see there, so that is how close it comes to you, and then they blow the horn because everyone comes down to watch it come in, that made me jump quite a bit since I wasn't expecting it.

Now the back side as it is going down to anchor in the port.  A few people around us said we really need to go watch it back up into port that it is pretty neat to see but we never did get around to that, maybe next trip :)

After the crowd of people left after watching the ferry come in this little guy ran from the one set of rocks on one side of the pier over to the other, I am not really sure what it was, but googling it may have been a mink.

We turned around shortly after and we saw that what we thought were clouds off in the distance was actually fog rolling in.

I heard a seagull over head and got this picture of the fog over the sun with the seagull

The fog came rushing in pretty quickly at this point. and then it was gone. All you can see is the end of the pier on the left.

We decided to head back to the hotel and we just managed to get inside before the rain came down in sheets, but that gave us time to rest from all the driving and our excitement before we headed out for our supper and evening fun.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Card and Foggy Lighthouse

In the Instant card art collection once you make a card there are always these little extra bits that you don't use, I decided to challenge myself to use those up. Today I am using the tag and sentiment from the pack. I decided to use pieces of paper from my scraps bin to make the flower, shaping it with my stylus and foam pad.

Hot off the press- Cardmakers Instant Card Art - Pretty colors
Spellbinders - Carnation Creations dies
Martha Stewart - border punch
Sequins
Brad

We took off from our home town and headed to Grand Haven Michigan, this is one of my hubby's favorite Lighthouses.  They have been working on the pier for the last year, so it was a little different from the last time I shared pictures.  This time it was a foggy morning too, so that makes it look different also.

We parked in town and walked down the walk along the harbor to the light house, it is a really nice walk and neat to look at the lighthouse as you go along.

Here we are out on the pier, as you can see the lake was pretty rough that morning too, I love hearing the waves crash along the  pier.  We talked to a local person on our way back to the car and they mentioned that they aren't quite sure why they had the pier go down as you got closer to the light house, as you can see the water is going over the pier, they said you can go out at your own risk but we decided to be happy with what we could take from the part that was higher.

Here we are at the edge before it dips down, do you see the life ring at the bottom right.

I just love the splash of the water on the rocks, so had to get that shot, hubby had to get it too :)

No I didn't go out past the barrier to get my pictures like hubby did, I just leaned over the rails to get mine.

After this we headed up to Ludington but I will save that for next time, I had a hard time deciding which pictures to share so I have a lot so that will be a long post next time.

Hope you all enjoy a fun and creative weekend ahead!
Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Baseball

My great nephew was on the baseball team this year so I thought I would go with that theme for his card today. I was given this baseball & mitt stamp and there is no name on it, colored them with markers and cut them out, wanted something small in the other corners to kind of balance it off so I went with some eyelets, haven't used them in some time. The sentiment would not stamp fully for me but after sitting back and deciding what to do I thought well it looks a little grungy and we know that playing ball you can get a bit dirty so I just kept it that way.

Since there was the look of stitching along the other papers and on the mitt I decided to add some faux stitching around the bottom piece.

 Baseball & Mitt and Birthday sentiment stamps - Unknown, colored with markers
October Afternoon - campfire papers
Spellbinders - Labels Eight die
Eyelets
Faux stitching on bottom piece of paper

Wow we had heat index's of 105 yesterday, I had a hard time breathing, thankfully it isn't supposed to be as humid today, hopefully I can get out there and get some weeding done in my garden :)

Hope you all are well, thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie