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

Sweet Pea

Once again broke out some of the pretty printed die cuts from a card making magazine for my card today. I also picked up these pretty shaped border dies, I liked the rounded edges. The sentiment sticker was silver so I colored it with my markers before adding to the tag so that it matched the border sticker I used.

Quick cards - Kaisercraft Sweet Pea collection, flowers, tag and papers
Pink Fresh Studio - Classic edgers dies
Star Form - Glitter border stickers
Stamp on it - Sentiment sticker, colored w/marker

Adding another picture so that you can hopefully see the shimmer in the bottom border sticker.

Thanks so much once again for stopping by, Hope your week is going well,

Connie

Back Home

After our family reunion while we were in Michigan we were heading  back to my brothers house where we were staying and we decided to go by our first apartment we had when we first were married. The town is right next to the town we grew up in.  Our first stop was the Dam and there was a big tree that was stuck in it, they had resent flooding there too.

Then we headed to the park in town which just happens to be across the street from our old apartment.  They are in the middle of building a little heritage town with old buildings from the county, these are a few of them.

We have lived all over the world being in the Air Force but we always call the place we grew up as being our home.

We have been away for another week in Minnesota this time, I haven't down loaded the pictures yet but thought I would share the pictures from Michigan first. So I will try to do that in between card postings :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and hope you all are well.

Connie