Sending Hugs & Blessings

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I am so, so happy to be past any risk of a freeze, I can't even express it! Finally, warm, sunny days. Makes me want to go lay out in the sunshine with a great book. 

Some of my favorite reading sessions took place outside. I read 100 Days of Solitude on a beach in Santa Barbara. I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle out in my backyard one summer. Something about hearing the birds and feeling the sun make reading infinitely better.

Now, I listen to my books instead of using paper - I put my phone in my back pocket and go about watering the plants, weeding, whatever I'm doing. I love it. 

This week some crazy stuff happened in our yard. Our red wasps went completely insane for two days. COVERED our porch and my neighbor's bush that's by our trash can. It was bizarre - thousands of them buzzing around. And then - poof - they were gone. I haven't seen that much activity from wasps in the 30+ years I've lived here. Those cycles are so strange.

So I had to build in some flowers today, so I chose these two sweet girls holding flowers for my card. I used this border set - it looks like a modern cityscape to me. 

I made this card for a Support Ukraine hop for the Stamping Village today - so you will have lots of inspiration to look through today. I colored everything simply with alcohol markers and added dots of white gel pen. I think these little girls are so sweet. The sentiment is from this set.

My sweet friend Yana is on my mind 24/7. I can't imagine having to run to a bomb shelter multiple times a day. It's just all so horrifying. You can follow her and see her latest update here. 

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