You're Welcome

You're Welcome.

Friday's Thank You Notes will be making a return this Friday. I've finally had a bit more time to make cards and try to come up with things/people/times/places to thank.

I can't believe Labor Day weekend is this weekend. Where did the first 9 months of 2011 go? Really. Where did they go?

Another variation...

Lucky

Sprinkling in some luck

This evening I only had about three minutes to catch a bus from my building! I sprinted! My shoe flew off! I caught the bus! I sat down! Relief! The bus made a funny noise. The bus broke down. I had to get off.

Hahahaha, story of my life.

Birthdays should be happy.

Two happy balloons.

Birthdays.

Sigh.

When you get to a certain age, you don't look forward to them anymore.
Turning 1: I'm finally a positive integer!
Turning 2 : I can be as terrible two-ish as I want and people still think I'm cute!
Turning 10: Yeah double digits!
Turning 15: High school!
Turning 20: One more year and then nothing.
This year...I want to curl up and cry a little.

OK, I'm being too dramatic. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts.

CTRL+C and CTRL+V #5

These days I haven't been updating as much as I'd like to and it may continue to be a card a week instead of a day for a little longer. The same goes for the Friday thank you notes segment. Thanks!

"Cut and Paste"

I'm trying to do collage work inspired by photographs, advertisements, themes, and quotes. If based on photos or ads, they won't look identical to the original work (partly mainly because I don't have the skills), but I also kind of want them to be interpretative art pieces instead of just copies. 

GRAH! Making collages of people's faces is really hard. I found a really colorful Lacoste ad (see left) and thought that it would be relatively simple to do because the models wore sunglasses and I wouldn't have to figure out how to do eyes, but I was wrong. The male model looks like he aged twenty years and the woman looks like she is wearing a neck brace. Oh, and the man has no neck. Oops. 

Spoons and forks and...

I love inanimate objects with faces.

Babies, Arthur, and books

Baby shower card

I was just thinking about Arthur, one of my favorite children's book series, and how I recently learned that Arthur is an aardvark. For some reason, I always thought Arthur was a gopher or a bear or something. And he's an aardvark who owns a dog! Wow, the power of imagination. Sigh, the things I learn when I'm an adult. 

I don't know why the thought of babies made me think about Arthur and books, but while I'm on this topic...

The rise of e-book readers and Borders' liquidation sales worry me about the future of paper books. If a giant like Borders can't even make it, I can't even begin to think about the hundreds of small independent bookstores that will be affected. Will we eliminate bookstores and just resort to online sellers (Amazon, half.com), or will paper books get eliminated completely? I understand that books take up space and aren't eco-friendly, but I'd like to think that there are too many paper book advocates out there for them to go completely extinct. So sad.

Wow, I won!!!

I won!! Look!

I just got all of these beautiful goodies today!! I can't wait to use them, but they're all too pretty to use...

THANK YOU:
-Tracy and WeddingInviteLove, for sending everything so quickly!
-The White Aisle
-baci designer stationery + events
-Invitations by Ajalon
-Akimbo
-Flywheel Press