Run don't walk....Big Giveaway

This is the "Giveaway of all Giveaway's!" FAVECRAFTSBLOG is giving away Lisa Pavelka Signature Series Polymerclay tools and DVD...

The deadline is April 3, 2009 at 5:00 pm CST.
There are several options to get your name in the hat too!
Don't miss this opportunity to get a set of "Top Notch" tools and Lisa's DVD... :)

Weeping Willow and Ice Storm 2009

Its been a real bad one here in Kentucky...over the past week we got several inches of snow...then a horrible ice event arrived.....couple more inches of snow ending the storm...there are still over 300,000 without power..17 people have lost their lives...I had several family members in the Louisville area without it for 24 or so hours...and close friends in "The Knobs" in Indiana had a tree come through the 3rd story of their home and also no electricity for a few days.....so again I am feeling so Blessed ... I planted a Weeping Willow in memory of my Mom and Dad in our yard years ago...

*We had one in our side yard when we were growing up...we spent a lot of time there...when I was very young I had a play house next to the tree....and we would sit at the picnic table with neighbors and friends and just shoot the breeze!...

That's ME!...and my playhouse...****hhmmm maybe we pulled out a lawn chair to two too!!...that's our weeping willow right there with the chairs leaning on it.....

I planted this weeping willow in our side yard several years ago....as you can see we had a pretty bad ice storm in 2003..and I thought this picture was depicting a true weeping willow! :) It recovered and grew into this massive one pictured below....

You can see the damage the Ice Storm of 2009 has caused this once beauty...:( I will do my best to save it.... I hope you and yours are safe and warm...or cool if you are in a warmer climate!....I will leave you with a few more pictures I snapped from our yard....

View from my Studio window...

The "GateKeeper" I love the icicles hanging from his cheek, nose, and chin... *His expression kills me!!!... Blessings~Melanie:)

Ya Gotta have Faith

I was enjoying my morning coffee.....making my rounds on the net....when I found myself in my 2 basenjis favorites folder....I went here to visit their breeders site..... and thought I would check in on FAITH when I scrolled down to The Latest News and found there will be a new addition to the family....please take some time to read about Faith, her forever family, and see if you aren't just as touched by Faith as I am....God can do anything..."if you don't have Faith you really have nothing" <**that is what my heart says!....and that is what gets me through each day!....now that I found Faith the biped dog she has brought me closer to God and I thank you for that girl!....

I want to share my little friend I named Faith...I found her outside my studio window and captured this photo....

now if this squirrel can hang upside down with her tops of her feet against the feeder and having no tail to balance with and have supper at my bird feeder... then that view of Faith gives me strength ....

I will leave you with....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1CO13:13

Blessings~Melanie:)