Perfect Pilates

I have been studying Pilates for many, many years. It is the perfect exercise for me, since it helps me stay strong and deal with my weak joints. Pilates is one of the best physical rehab systems and I couldn't live with out it. I enjoy it's medium to slow paced and the gracefullness of the exercises. I somehow feel that exercise should be in synch with our internal rhythm. I have tried aerobics and felt it was way too fast. Tai Chi on the other hand drove me crazy due to its excruciating slowness. Here is a photo of Pilates trainer Eric Sutter performing a perfect pike on the pilates chair.

More hand-made cards

The card's main image is a mother bird and her baby bird in a nest. I copied it out of my old elementary school biology book that I found last year in my dad's basement. It is just the perfect image and I used it on this mother's day card for my mom.

Sometimes it takes a while to get the creative juices flowing and I just mess around. So before I made the actual mother's day card, I had pulled out my hand carved flower stamps and stamped them out on card stock. Then I cut out each stamped image and affixed them on the card shown underneath. I use little double sided sticky foam squares to attach them. This lifts the image of the paper and gives the card some dimension.