Those who visit the forum have seen me sign off with.. off to haul the horses to the buckle run. Well this past Friday was the last night of the buckle run for Ranch Sorting. The first time my hubby has signed up for one of the Buckle series and he came in Second. So very proud of him!! We had a great evening. My son took his new pony in for the first time and she and he did awesome!! She will definitely test his ability to ride and teach him patience and has more potential then our other pony. So it was just an all around great evening!

And this is me and my cutey cowboy. I am exhausted, but totally lovin’ him. My kiddo didn’t do to bad takin’ a picture.
This is Shannon She won the first spot with Todd the guy who runs the show at the arena. Shannon has been working on this buckle for a long time. So she was super happy and excited to win. Interesting how people cross your path again in life. Shannon used to team pen where my hubby did when he and I started dating 11 years ago. Just a fun lady and glad to have run into her again in life.

Well that was our winning Friday night. The next series won’t be for a bit, but we’ll keep going just to hang out with the fun people. And I can get some better pics and video of my guys riding because it is switching to the winter schedule.

Enjoy!

Chris

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on….. Enjoy!

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Here are a few of my weekend do’s that I can show you because the rest I will show the week after Christmas. Can’t show those sneak peaks to0 soon. 🙂 Never know who’s reading.

In our house the socks just seem to lose their mate. They end up thrown in the drawer and lost forever. So I took them all and put those missing mates in this bucket I got at the horse auction for three dollars. The back side of the bucket is flat so I can put it on the shelf and push it all the way back. I used some vinyl scraps and cut it to put this little saying on it to emphasize the purpose of the bucket. kinda fun. We made decorated pumpkins for Grandma and Nana and we are using the left over stickers to mail Grandpa a card. I gave my son the stickers, glue stick, and the circle cut out from something else I had loose in my scrap basket. I have them to my kiddo and this is what he came up with. I was impressed with his balance and deciding to put the words on the brown oval. He wanted to write Happy Halloween. So he asked his Dad for helping spelling Halloween because he already had Happy(which you can see below) It thrills me to see him try and spell and read. Just thrills me.

Well hope you like our little projects. The ones I can share before the holidays!

Enjoy!

Chris

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on….. Enjoy!

And our cutter file “freebies” are kept in the forum. We add to them as we can.

Here is my Nan in her “Bobby hat” , which is the british police or guard as some folks call it, on her birthday. My Mom was born in Liverpool England. So we have an affinity for british items. Luckily my BIL brought this for my son and my Nan thought she would try it on. It was a wonderful evening.

This is my Kiddo helping Nan blow out the candles. Behind that is my Mom and cutey patootey niece.

And on Saturday we went to a versatility horse sale. As you know last week my son’s horse was hurt. It is a long standing injury and my hubby and I are not sure when she will be 100% again for him to ride. Nor are we the type to dope a horse up to make it ride. Basically she faces Suspensory Ligament Dematitis so in laymen’s terms it would be much like your ligaments in the back of your leg fraying and breaking apart and as you stand on the other leg to get relief in one you will cause it to happen in the other. 4 years ago a very told me I would put her down within 6 months because she wouldn’t be able to walk. but thanks to a good shoer and prayers she has been good to us. Last Tuesday she has shown obviously in pain and not doing well. My son is very interested in riding right now and I don’t want to delay that while his injured horse waits to heal. Riding horses on the weekends is what we do. So we came across this little sweety in the arena who was being ridden by an 11 year old and had been trained to ride by him. She has the calmest personality. Because she is a registered quarter horse my son can also compete in some of the quarter horse only events we sometimes go to .

She is about the same height as the other. And did fabulously with my son. He has pronounced her name to be “Tulips” She will require he ride a little better and be a little less heavy handed in her mouth. This is a good thing. She is super cute and just a little brown mare (girl). We were lucky to find her right now and will be riding every night so she can go on Friday night to the sorting. This picture below is a happy little boy and very proud Dad watching him try her out.

And here are the three of us on horseback at the same time. And with our neighbor around to take the picture. I think I need some photoshop techniques to thin that girl out a bit more, but for now. Here we are on horseback. Love my life!

This is my MIL and FIL. They called Saturday and asked us to visit a local nearby town and walk their arts festival. This is right up our alley I love craft fairs. The two of them looked super cute on this rock while they took a break. So I had to get the picture. Yes that is my MIL who was in the hospital. She has the spirt and desire to be active and happy and my FIL is right by her side. She has the “Ganas” which loosely translated in spanish means “the desire to do something” It is inspiring. It was a nice couple hours just to hang out in cooler Patagonia. (and Mr. Lopez my spanish teacher from high school would be happy to hear that word stuck with me from his teachings! He was also the softball coach and pounded that word into us! it stuck)

Lots of neat things at the Patagonia Festival. I actually got a gluten free wrap with goat cheese and sun dried tomatoes, cucumber, veggies in it. It was goooood! And a gluten free spiced sugar cookie. Also yummy! Lots of interesting craft booths! Well worth the quick jaunt and then home to ride horses.

well have a great Monday!!! I better get some work done! Hope you enjoy my picture show.

Enjoy!

Chris

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on….. Enjoy!

And our cutter file “freebies” are kept in the forum. We add to them as we can.

I made a 7″X5″ card and card front and then resized the CD00593 Ladybug to fit. The “Friends” word was exactly right for this friendship card and came from CD00537 – Giggle Words. Both these files were in the 3rd quarter QMC for 2009. Even though I reduced the Ladybug in size, it still cut like a dream and was easy to put together. This QMC is now closed but the 4th and last QMC for 2009 has just opened so get over to the Store and take advantage of this great deal … over 20 files for just $10.00!

Isn’t it cute!!

Thanks or looking,

cheers, caz

Digi-Cutter Files offered in SCUT, GSD, KNK, WPC & AI (SVG) at www.visualdesignsbychris.com

This is a layout I have created using CD00602 – Random Thoughts available in last quarters QMC. Don’t miss out this quarter, hop over to the Store and sign up for the new Quarter, the last one for this year.

I love this photo of my son and have scrapped it several times. I look at it and wonder… what are you thinking ? Chris’s new file “Random Thoughts” went really well with this photo, I had to use it again!

This layout has been created in Photoshop and I have applied a bevel to Chris’s file to lift it off my page.

Thanks for looking,

cheers, caz

Digi-Cutter Files offered in SCUT, GSD, KNK, WPC & AI (SVG) at www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Happy Birthday today to my Nan she is 80 today. I told my 5 year old this this morning and his comment was.. “Is that possible? Maybe she’s 60” Apparently 60 to a 5 year old is a slightly more attainable age. Either way I am glad she is celebrating and we will all be getting together this weekend to see her. This picture below is my Nan on the left with my kiddo and on the right is my mom “Nanna” and my niece.