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. 

Credit: Here

• 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.

Don't have wrapping paper?

You can just cover the top of a gift box with pretty magazine paper and a paper flower!

The green pipe cleaner, unfortunately, did not stick to the magazine paper with glue so I stuck it to the box with cute piano tape!

Ummm yeahhhh paper flowers

Soooo I guess I didn't really keep my promise, did I? My last post was over...a month ago? This is terrible. What happened to meeee?

Well, here are some paper flowers that I've made now that the weather is getting nicer here in NYC. I ventured to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this past weekend, but there still weren't too many things in bloom outside. I hope the warmer weather we've been getting changes that!

The petals are paper hearts made out of magazine papers. Each flower is comprised of about 8 hearts and they are secured with a brad in the center. The stems are just green pipe cleaners.

My favorite one

Close second? Eh, eh?

In a "vase" on a wall

Happy Valentine's Day!!

My signature stick figure!
It kind of looks like me. Well, except for the fact that I don't really look that much like a watermelon!

Sending some love

Front

Inside
Pop-up mailbox (with a swivel flag!)
Hmm, is that a letter sticking out of the mailbox??

Yes, it is!

The front of the mini envelope

The inside of the mini envelope: hearts!

Office decorations!

Here are some Valentine's decorations that we put up in our office. Aren't they pretty? Everything was so easy to make and we created them bit by bit during our lunch breaks. We are such a creative bunch. I'm so modest.

                             

TA DAH!!!

Origami hearts strung together

Here's a chain of hearts that have been shaped into a heart!!

Valentine's Compilation #2

Part 2!!!

 

Valentine's Compilation #1

I'm just not able to make as many cards this year. It's not even lack of time; I just don't have the inspiration! Oh dear, this is a problem. Here are some oldies.

Leaves.

I'll probably make more fall seasonal greeting cards than I made for the other seasons combined. Thank goodness I don't have to rake my backyard anymore now that I no longer live in a place with a backyard.

Here's a simple autumn greeting card.

  

                                                                                                                The  leaves on the trees outside are still green. 

Friday's Thank You Notes #17 (9/30/11) and CTRL+C and CTRL+V #7

A double feature!!

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 every Friday--Friday's Thank You Notes #17 (9/30/11)

I don't have a thank you card to share, but I do have a flower. 

Have a happy Friday and a nice weekend!!!  

A little flower created from the three checkered rolls of tape below. Maybe I can make a wreath one day.

THANK YOU...
-dollar bills that go into a vending machine on the first try.

-perfectly crisp bills that do not go into a vending machine no matter how many times you try.

-times when a person enjoys something I've recommended. Well, it may be because I undersell most things, but still! It makes me feel like I have good taste.

-acquaintances who give a little too much information about themselves. I just came to get a cup of hot chocolate, but if you want to talk about your  issues...um...okay...I'll just sip my hot cocoa and sympathize uncomfortably.

-funny-sounding laughs, for being funnier than the joke.

-times when you're the one out of bunch of people who can successfully twist open a jar. Sure everyone else helped loosen it, but who opened it?

-for reading! Have a nice weekend. Tomorrow is October.

Autumn Coffee

                  

    

As mentioned almost a year (eep!!) ago I still don't like coffee, but I still like the idea of coffee. Since it's the first day of autumn this Friday (eep again!) I thought I'd start making coffee cards again. This card was actually a lot of fun to make.

Oh, autumn.
-reds, oranges, and yellows
-the crisp air
-apples

-HALLOWEEN (duh)-->my first one in NYC!!!

            -candy, costumes, ghosts

-pumpkins, hay, leaves

-Thanksgiving!           

OHMYGOSH, I am so excited.

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a simple Facebook card

I could create different variations of this.
examples)
-I like pasta.
-I like us.
-I like to paint.
-I like Velociraptors.

Spoons and forks and...

I love inanimate objects with faces.

Life Without You Here =(

In all seriousness, eating a leafy salad with a spoon is so difficult.
In all seriousness, eating a soup with a fork is near impossible.