Another Stampindipity Feature

ok, I promise this is the last enhancement I'm going to make to this blog thing (but it is sort of fun in a sick sort of way!). I don't really have any idea about what I'm doing but when I see something that someone else has on their site, I just have to try it out. Enter the slideshow of some of my work (and some of it is really old!!!). I haven't figured out a cool way to put it where it doesn't take up a lot of room. I'll leave it on here for a few days and see how it goes.

Thanks for visiting! Now, back to the studio....I have 4x4 pages to make!

The Anything Store

I was shopping at Walmart the other night when I overheard a precious little boy tell his mom, "I wish we could go to the Anything Store". Hmmmm, I was thinking to myself, does he mean the dollar store? He continued to explain to her that The Anything Store is where they sell anything anybody would ever want to buy.

I like the way he thinks. I bet he grows up to be a billionaire of some sort. Ü

It's a SNAP

Good Evening. (and as my friend Tess would say, "good evening...think Alfred Hitchcock while you say it).

I learned a little about widgets from Michelle Ward's blog so I thought I would give it a shot. If you hover over a link on my blog, SNAP pops up a little preview of what that site looks like. Then you click like usual to go there, if you like what you saw in the preview.

It's interesting but maybe annoying. I hope if it gets too annoying, I can remember how to take it out of my HTML code! Ü

The Perfect Circle

Man, I wish I could do this.

Sad News on our Lane

My neighbor passed away last week and I was in a quandry about what to do. My mom (who lives across the lane) jumped in a took a fruit basket over. Her neighbor, Deanna, suggested we all get together and combine our donations to buy a tree for Mrs. Verst to plant in her yard in memory of her husband. We are the 'new people' on our little lane and right next door. Inspired by the recipe book I made for Deb Lewis, I decided a memory book might be the right thing. I constructed the base and turned over pages for the neighbors to sign to the collectors, Mom and Deanna. I took a B/W photo of each neighbor's house to use in the book. It was dreary and raining (in fact it has been raining for days and days and days). They ended up collecting $285 and the greenhouse rounded it up to $300. Here's what I ended up with and Mrs. Verst said it's her most cherished gift of sympathy:

Aaahhhhhhchheewwwww!

If I keep sitting here in front of YOUTUBE, I'll never get down to the studio to create anything. Oh well, I'm still feeling like crap - now I have the full blown cold thing going on so it would be hard to work and sneeze at the same time. Check out my new favorite group - Little Big Town. It was on YouTube here but now it's gone. Sorry......:

2007 - Today Your Book Begins

Was watching Medium tonight and "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield was used at the end of the show. I think it's 'blog appropriate' for today's mood. By the way, the picture above was taken in Savannah on our November trip (actually, it's Tybee Island which is next to Whitemarsh Island where Rachael lives).

Unwritten

I am unwritten
can't read my mind,
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning,
the pen's in my hand,
ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else,
no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition,
sometimes my tries,
are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't livethat way
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else,
no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
The rest is still unwritten.

Happy New Year 2007!

I have not really gotten into the blogging thing but maybe 2007 will be the year for journaling for me. I'll give it a shot since I'm up, can't sleep because I feel like crap. I hate scratchy throats and that feeling that I'm in for a great cold or bronchitis or something. I don't have time to be sick and that's not a good way to start off a new year. So, let's get my mind off of this somehow. I haven't been 'tagged' by anyone but I saw an interesting topic on another blog. Here are six wierd things about me:

1. I count steps as I go down them. I don't remember counting them as I go up (maybe that's because I'm usually too lazy to go up them -- when I'm at work, I take the elevator most of the time).
2. If I'm folding laundry, it has to be warm out of the dryer. Can't stand it if it's cold and slightly wrinkled.
3. I can't stand the necks of t-shirts. Have to cut them out, turn them into boat-neck shirts. Sometimes, the sleeves and bottom get wacked, too, if they're too long.
4. I am a pen and pencil freak. Ok, an office supply freak but that's too long of a story. Back to pens - I won't write with black ball point pens......the ink smears 'cause I'm left handed.
5. I love Post Toasties corn flakes (not Kellog's). Put them in a pan, drop a few pats of butter on them and broil them in the oven until they're toasty and buttery. Yummmm.
6. I am a technique junkie. I love collecting new ideas, organizing them in binders with samples. If I spent as much time on my art as I do on collecting and organizing my stuff, I'd be a much better artist!

ok, I'm headed for the Post Toasties. Maybe that would make my throat (and my belly) feel better.