Hello, once again.  I spent a few days this summer by at the beach.  Well, it's really not the beach...I'm not a big fan of sand, but the area where we live has an inlet to get from the lagoon out into the Atlantic.  This inlet has a tide pool and I love to go there.  There are picnic tables, and the tide pool never gets very deep, so it's the perfect place for children.  And as an added bonus, sometimes manatees come to swim. These gentle giants are protected, so you can't actually touch them, but they get pretty close sometimes.  We usually take a lunch and make it a day.

Good afternoon! I hope your weekend is all that you had hoped it would be, and that you are getting to spend some time crafting today.

No, I'm not really relaxing at the beach, just pretending...

Here's what I've been up to:

I tried to follow Michelle Zindorf's tutorial, what do you think? I can't decide which one I like best. I think the bottom one, if the table was brown. What do you think? Post a comment and critique my cards, please. You never know when I might draw a comment out of the hat and send free stamps.

I had some orders from the Virtual Rubber Stamp Convention going on over at Rubber Stamp Chat, so I had to press some rubber this morning. Depending on the weather, that could be a fun thing or it could be a bad thing. There are a lot of variables in pressing rubber, including the weather. But luck was with me this morning and everything pressed beautifully.

It's been a week since I started my diet, and I've lost 10 lbs. Woohoo! I realize it won't all come off that quickly, but what an incentive! Sure does make me want to stick with it.

Talk again soon