A Wee Pre Warning and a Final Flutter

What is Coming up Over the Next Few Weeks

Hello Everyone 

I hope I find you well and looking forward to a new week and a new month. 

For many of us, June is a particularly busy crafting month, with the start of both the Summer of Color and the Index Card a Day challenges. Also known as SOC and ICAD respectively. 

Wee Man and I are both doing ICAD together and I am also doing SOC. 

Both of these start on June 1st, but don't let that stop you clicking on the links above, or on my sidebar, taking a look around and joining in at any point you like. 

They aren't races or competitions; they are both for fun, stretching your imagination and are all about 'the doing'

Now, as well as the above, I am continuing with T on Tuesday with Elizabeth from Altered Book Lover and the rest of the 'T gang', Tag Tuesday and my fellow Taggers, and also with my weekly sharing of some Anti Journal pages with Carolyn and Karen.

Now the 'Wee Pre Warning' mentioned above, is just to let you know that my intent is to blog about everything as much as possible, some of the posts will be quite long, particularly on a Tuesday, and I'm hoping that you don't get fed up seeing this blog in your email or feed, perhaps, every day (now there's a challenge for myself huh?, Haha). 

Oh, and I'm also here to ask if you will keep your fingers crossed that I don't drive myself demented? Will you? 

Thanks ;-) Lol

Now, the final look, for this year, at our Painted Lady butterflies;

well actually it's just one; the last one of four that made it out into the big wide world to go make more duplicates of themselves, I hope. 

The first three got swept briskly away on the wind, but this final one went on my hand and then I put it onto my wee Lilac bush.

Hope you enjoyed that. Did you see it 'dive in' for a drink? How marvellous and wondrous nature is.

Well, thank you for visiting;

stay well,

and be happy.

See you again soon (very, hehe)

{{Hugs}} Mo :o)) x

Anti Journal and Painted Ladies

Happy Wednesday One and All

I hope this finds you well and enjoying your week so far. I watched Wee Man and the rest of his school doing the first part of their annual sports events yesterday. It was wonderful. Every child took part in about twenty different activities for a specified time at each one, clocking up points for their House, aiming to win the House Cup. The way the children cheer each other on and seeing the older children helping the younger ones, and those less able, to complete the activities, is always so heart warming. 

I am so glad the rain stayed off.

The blue house won the cup, much to Wee Man's dismay, him being in the red house, but I think I successfully convinced him that his enjoyment of the day was far more important. *fingers crossed*

I am sharing two more pages of my Anti Journal with you this week and hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed creating them. 

This one is basically, 'Colour by Number'

And this one is, Voices in a Public Place ~ in other words - eavesdropping, lol. 

I am looking forward to seeing what Carolyn and Karen have done in their Wreck It journals this week.

Here is an update on our second batch of Painted Lady Caterpillars

As you can see, this time we have all five set in the chrysalides stage. 

Fingers crossed they will all successfully emerge as butterflys in about a weeks time.

I've already started to do my sun dancing, (not to be seen in public) lol, so that the weather may be warmer for them at release time. 

Well thank you for looking and for your lovely comments. 

Do take care, and be happy! {{Hugs}} Mo :o) x

Caterpillar Update ~ Day Eight

Hi everyone 

I thought I would do a wee post showing you the latest photo of our second batch of Painted Lady caterpillars.

An amazing difference from Day One wouldn't you agree ;)

I also wanted to share with you, this link that I came across. 

It shows some incredible caterpillars that can be found in China's Yunnan Province. 

It is an immense region of mountains and rainforests and is known for being one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth. 

Caterpillars from China's Rain Forest

I hope you enjoyed looking as much as Wee Man and I did.

Wishing you all a happy weekend.

Bye For Now
{{Hugs}} from Wee Man
Take Care {{Hugs}} Mo :o)) xx

PS - the header card was a gift to Wee Man from Maureen Riley -  a friend we made doing ICAD last year :D