Makin' Hay...

...while the sun shines. Being the daughter of a farmer, I know what that means. As a very small child, I can remember living with mom and sister Sue on my grandmother's and uncle's farm while dad was overseas in Greenland with the Air Force. I remember when Uncle Norman and the hands would 'make hay' a couple times a year. It was a big deal, with all the men working from sunup to sundown, and grandma and mom cooking huge amounts of food all day long. I wanted to go out to the fields and help, but as a two-year old, that just wasn't going to happen. They barely let me in the barn, when all I wanted to do was find the kittens...The farmhouse was small by today's standards. A decent sized kitchen, a living room, three bedrooms, and an enclosed front porch. Notice I didn't "bathroom...." Nope, the only indoor plumbing was a pump at the kitchen sink. And there was an wood cook stove. Wood burning furnace too. Mom split wood for both cooking and heating, among her other jobs; Uncle Norman had cows and fields to take care of, so splitting wood was mom's responsibility so long as we lived there. In 1960, when Uncle Norman married (my beloved Aunt Eve), they added indoor plumbing to the kitchen and created a bathroom. What a treat! By then we were gone, living together as a military family in another state. You'll be interested to know that one of my babysitters on the farm was the cow-dog, Corky. If I got to close to the road or barn, he'd 'herd' me back to where I was supposed to be. I imagine that I wore that poor dog down...But for me, in this day and age, "making hay" means doing things that I either need to get done, or want to get done in-between migraines. So that's what I did this morning!

Sorry for the ramble, but it was nice to chat without pain or medications getting in the way of my thinking.. I've been wanting to create a tag for Jackie Rockwell's new Tag You're It! Challenge since she announced its inception. And I've made several tags, or tag-cards. None what-so-ever to my liking. Until today! Our inspiration is from the ever-fantastic Virginia Lu. Check out her tags:

Aren't they just the sweetest???!!! So much to be inspired by on the bitty beauties. I saw dots and colors.

Starting with a green Bazzill base, I added a tag cut with my Silhouette. It actually has a topper, but chose to use the template left by the cut-out, and stamped in the little dots with MME Hazel ink using a tri-dot from WPlus9. The birds and the sentiment are TT, and some Twinery Twine. The black ink is SU. It looks much sweeter irl.

And one more card to share today. I'm fully and totally in love with the color combination over at The Card Concept Challenge. They just look happy! Got a ping right away, and off I went!

Yum-alicious! Not sure which of the AMAZING DT chose these colors, but kudos to you, and kudos to the DT for their amazing cards. Go play! Seriously, jump in on this! You know you want to....

This makes me happy! POLKA DOTS!! I think they were invented just to make me smile, or am I wrong about that???....Anyway....Neenah white base, a black scrap as a mat, and another Neenah white panel. Stamped some polka dots with TT stamps using red VersaColor ink, Studio G blue, and SU black. Michaels ribbon tied up in a perfect bow (I love it when bows look good), and a PTI sentiment in SU black ink. EZPZ.  And now, since I need to make some other kind of hay, I will wish you all a wonderful Saturday. Happy Dances everyone!

ETA: Sorry...I'd call this "Clean and Layered"...not sure, but I think the bow makes it more than "Clean and Graphic."