Gift Bow Wreath!!

I found a very easy gift bow tutorial and decided to make wreaths!

One for the office door

One for the door to my apartment

Friday's Thank You Notes #25 (12/21/12)

l make a list of serious and silly thank you's (a la Late Night) and post a picture of one of my handmade thank you cards on Fridays. Yay, four weeks in a row! High five!

THANK YOU...

• store coupons that come on the receipt. Thirty percent off my entire purchase?! You know how much cheaper my purchase would have been!? Oh well, maybe I’ll get come back and get those things I put back on the rack. Endless cycle.

• store surveys that boast incredible prizes. I just spent time thinking about whether the lighting in the store was good enough on a scale from 1 to 5. I hope you don’t mind that I don’t really remember. I just want that $300 gift card.

Source: Here

• Adventure Time, for being an animated series that both children and adults can enjoy. I also like the theme song!! Jake the dog and Finn the human...

• for finally talking about certain important issues. 

•  North Pole postmarks! People who still believe in Santa (whoops, sorry for giving it away) can get letters postmarked with a North Pole stamp. I had no idea the USPS offers this kind of service. Too bad it expired December 10th :(

•  doppleganger. I still haven’t found you yet. Wah. 

• for reading this! Have a great weekend (and a great Christmas holiday if you celebrate it!)

Friday's Thank You Notes #24 (12/14/12)

l make a list of serious and silly thank you's (a la Late Night) and post a picture of one of my handmade thank you cards on Fridays. Yay, three weeks in a row! High five!

THANK YOU...

• the saying, ‘a leopard can’t change its spots’. Um, okay...so a cheetah can?

• Autocorrect, for always correcting Hiiiiii to GUI. If I continue to type out i's it thinks I'm trying to write, Nooooo. 

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• lemon meringue pie, for sounding like a dance party for lemons...in a pie.

• Groupon, Living Social, Google Offers, and the like, for sending me so many emails. Useful, but way too many. I know I'll regret unsubscribing from you though.

• Gmail, for allowing me to skip the inbox for the above senders and apply labels. Ingenious idea.

• good books, for making me miss my train stop. Now I have to cross over to the opposite platform and go back downtown like a fool. 

• rain boot purchases. A part of me says what, do you think you live in Seattle?Why would you need them? while another part of me says I told you so when it's raining cats and dogs and hamsters. 

•  for reading this! Have a great weekend :)

Winter is here! part 2

Polar bears are lovable and loving creatures. Sometimes they like a certain carbonated drink, and other times they want to prevent diabetes.

Friday's Thank You Notes #23 (12/07/12)

l make a list of serious and silly thank you's (a la Late Night) and post a picture of one of my handmade thank you cards on Fridays. Yay, two weeks in a row! High five!

THANK YOU...

• growling stomach, for turning attention away from a meeting and bringing attention to my stomach's pleas.

• Boy Meets World creators for...creating a sequel titled Girl Meets World...?

Credit: Here

• three-seater tandem bicycles. Wait, if tandem already means two of something, does that mean there are six seats in a three-seater tandem bicycle?

• baking desserts. Or as I like to call it, realizing how much butter and sugar it takes, giving it to other people to eat, and finding it’s the best way to diet ever.

• movie previews for horror movies. That was not appropriate for all audiences! I covered my eyes for most of it and I still screamed!

• moods, for swinging.

• curtness, for...yeah.

• for reading this. Have a great weekend!!

Other Works of Art: wreaths

Now that the holiday season is upon us, I have an urge to put a wreath on my apartment door. I'd also like to make a paper project out of it, so I decided to Google 'DIY Paper Wreaths' and found these. I'll use one of these as inspiration for my own!!

1.Rolled Paper Wreath
These are just bits of rolled magazine paper and wrapping paper stapled onto a cylindrical wreath base. How easy! By varying the colors I use, I could spin this idea for any holiday - I could use green paper for St. Patrick's Day and oranges and blacks for Halloween!

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2. Star Wreath:

These are paper stars formed into a wreath shape. I love the papers used here! I could also cut paper into the shapes of presents or candy canes, for example, and do the same thing. Hmm. So many possibilities...

Credit: Here

3. Paper Book Wreath:

This is a lovely idea. I'm hesitant to ruin a book by tearing out its pages, but I suppose I could use decorative paper designed to look like book pages. Sheet music may also be a nice idea :)

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