Happy Halloween!

I'm going to leave this basket at work today. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Friday's Thank You Notes #20 (10/28/11)

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. Have a happy Friday and a nice Halloween weekend! 

This is more of a Halloween card than a thank you card. So, um, thank you, Halloween?

THANK YOU, HALLOWEEN...


-for pumpkin carving and lit jack-o-lantern trails!

                     

-for CANDY! and cavities, but CANDY!

-for somehow making it okay for women to be scantily clad. It's actually not okay, but if they want to freeze they can.

Other Works of Art: Mail

Today, I received a letter in this "envelope" from City Harvest, an organization that educates individuals to make healthy dietary choices, feeds the hungry, and supports access to affordable nutritious foods in low-income neighborhoods. The top of the bag says, "27 cents fills this bag with 1lb of food for a hungry New Yorker."

What a simple and innovative way to get people to donate!

It's a really great organization. Check them out!

Spiders

The spider webs were created using the tutorial from
Omiyage Blogs

Sushi Halloween costume!

This is the first year that I somewhat "made" a Halloween costume. Here is a sneak peek!

Orange felt covered in white felt stripes
A red belt covered in black duct tape

A round thin cardboard box made to look like a sushi roll that I'll be using as my "purse"

Other Works of Art: bookmarks

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Jennifer Godbey's bookmarks

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Illustrated bookmarks by Felix Doolittle

Friday's Thank You Notes #19 (10/14/11)

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. Have a happy Friday and a nice weekend! I think I'm going to work on my Halloween costume this weekend. 

Thanks for breakfast. It doesn't look like a plate or a piece of toast, though.

THANK YOU...
-artichoke hearts, for your poor attempt at making me eat you. The lovely "hearts" in your name will not fool me, buddy.

-haircuts at a salon, for making my hair look amazing...until I wash it and dry it myself.

-the sound a soda can makes when it's being opened.

-freshly laundered sheets and blankets.

-oysters, for being on the "Top 3 Dangerous Foods to Eat" list along with raw sprouts and raw milk. Too bad I'm going to an OysterFest tomorrow...

-the Halloween costume, Anna Rexia, for poking fun at anorexia. Fantastic, that's a great message to send to people. What's the next costume going to be? Dee Pression? Bully Mia? Petey Esdee? It makes me so angry.

-for reading this. Enjoy your weekend!

Boo.

Have you seen a cuter ghost?

If only ghosts at haunted houses could look like this...

:D

Emoticons can be nice.

Friday's Thank You Notes #18 (10/7/11)

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. Have a happy Friday and a nice weekend! I think I'm going to work on my Halloween costume this weekend. 

Fangs so much. Thanks so much. Har har. I'm such a ball of corn. 

THANK YOU...
-Steve Jobs.


-Ikea on a weekday night, for being a relaxing stroll along beautifully decorated rooms. Weekends can be a nightmare, but weekdays are amazing. It reminds me of (500) Days of Summer.


-cold and dark mornings. My snooze button has been getting a lot of attention these days.


-pleasant surprises, for being pleasant and surprising. Win win.


-for reading! Have a nice weekend!

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. 

Other Works of Art: adorable illustrations and Coca-Cola designs

a)

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Seeing cute elderly people walking slowly with umbrellas has the same effect.

b)

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Sarahjanestudios on Etsy created this beautiful+cute (beaut?cutiful?) illustration.

c)

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Now that it's October...

I think it's safe to put up my Halloween cards.

Peek-a-

Boo!
It would be a delightful surprise if he opened the door.

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.

CTRL+C and CTRL+V #6

"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. 

I added strips of masking tape to a glass jar to make a pencil/pen holder. It's not really a collage, but there was cutting and pasting involved.

It found a  new home.

Other Works of Art--creative videos, wine labels, masking tape

Blogger just came up with Dynamic Views, seven new templates to view blogs. They're all aesthetically pleasing, but the sidebar and most widgets won't work with them so I think I'll keep this format for now. Maybe I'll change it tomorrow as a test run? This is what it could look like. 

Now, on to other works of art...

  

29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo.

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"The solution works on 2 levels, both of which utilize the brand name. As a front label, Back Label appears backwards, however when the bottle is rotated and the label becomes a back label, the brand name appears correctly. As the wine is consumed Back Label becomes clearer as the magnification decreases."

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Masking taped keys. So cute!

Friday's Thank You Notes #16 (9/23/11)

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. Have a happy Friday and a fantastic weekend!!! 

Today is the first day of autumn!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stick figures are my specialty.

THANK YOU...
-Netflix, or should I say Netflix and Qwikster. If anything, shouldn't the red-enveloped DVD delivery service still be named Netflix and the newer-ish streaming service be renamed Qwikster? Why the two separate websites?

-conversation robbers, for always somehow tying any conversation topic to themselves.
"Oh, you went to Antarctica?! That's nice. Speaking of Antarctica, there was one time I was in the grocery store buying ice cream and..."

-random people I've never met who comment on my posts and/or check mark the little boxes. I wonder what it'd be like to meet all of these random people and give a big thanks. I mean, if you took time to read a blog primarily about corny, dorky, cutesy greeting cards you're probably a very pleasant person.

-PKD ("phone, keys, wallet" a mantra my friends and I used to have), for reminding me of the three key items I need to take with me anywhere I go. Too bad I forgot my wallet yesterday (but strangely had my Metro card) and took a subway, realized my stupidity, and took the subway back home. Is work sucking away all of my brain cells?

-forgetfulness, for...never mind. Forget about it.

-for reading!

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Other Works of Art: Ghostly Greetings (die-cut cardstock)

I found the most adorable thing today at Michael's: Halloween-themed designs for card decorating. 

O M G. 

One hundred twenty pieces. 

One hundred twenty pieces of delight.

Frankenstein's monster could never be more adorable.

These are the different types of designs included in each pack.

All of the pieces spread out.

Fiddled with the camera settings to make it more Halloween-like (i.e. I have no life)

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.