I'm arachnophobic myself but have always been completely enthralled by garden spiders. :D I forgot to add that I saw this one in a childrens book and kinda fixed it up some. ;) Ihad a picture of my neice going a couple of days ago and got sooooo upset cause I had it looking good and my browser closed and it would never come back up. Ugh. :O :P

I'm with you ,Jana. I am not a big fan of them, either..but they do fascinate me. I did one too, a long time back..creeped me out doing it.

my favorite type of spider....nice job