The One About The Napkins...

yes, i bought the COOLEST napkins...evvv-uhhhhh!





and i have been droning on about them in my usual semi-
obsessive way...but...




never sharing where i got them! mean? surly? simply satanic?
meh...maybe.
the truth is, i just didn't say because they are no longer available...
moot point and all...you feel me? {sorry, i have been watching a
show where every person under 30 uses that phrase...ad nauseum!
and i want to skewer them with fiery darts when they do...but i
suppose changing the channel would be less extreme! ;}




where was i...oh, yes! i have had so many requests and questions
that i figured it wouldn't hurt to tell you that i bought them from
Ruth's THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL shop and maybe if she hears enough
cries in the wilderness...she will restock? well, couldn't hurt to try, right?



meanwhile, if your desperate times are calling for desperate measures...
you can do as Maggie done did and make your own TISSUE !!!
HOW gorgeous is that!

Going Post-al...

such a lovely sentiment, n'est-ce pas?
well, you know...it is that time!
naked cherubs and enough candy to make your teeth hurt!
{i can boil Valentine's Day down to its essence...but i'll never
have a career in the greeting card biz! ;}
so, in the spirit if things i was working on a Valentine-y
project...
{raw footage today...i wasn't feeling the patience needed to edit my shots! ;}



see...here it is...its beginnings, at least. it would have been cute too...
but, when i wasn't paying enough attention,
my glue pen fell over and created a glue mess
the size of the O-hi-o! {i may have been distracted
by the heart-shaped York peppermint patties on my
counter...but i really don't think that's relevant and
i'm taking the 5th!!!} so, like any 2 year old, i had
a tantrum and wadded it all up and threw it away!
{then i ate a peppermint patty...}

after going post-al...i was post-less, so...
i huffed & puffed for a while...did some laundry...
cleaned up an early Valentine's gift from my cat...
{pureed Friskies...she is too good to me!
uh-hem...}then the siren's song of Liquid Laminate
pulled me back to the counter...
OK! OK! i wanted another peppermint patty! but
as i wiped a chocolate bit from my chin...i spied the
LL...so, it was only half a lie! ;}




well, you knew i have that whole stack of cool napkins...
you knew i was going to have to do it sooner or later...
so, i did it!
now, i know there are some purists out there who
cringe when i do all the things i do to starfish...what
would Jacques Cousteau think, and all that...but since
he is actually quite dead...i think i can pretty much get
away with anything! ;}

i LOVE how that little dude turned out!



and since i am an American...




naturally, i had to "go large" too, with this big guy!





in a fit of inspiration {read: peppermint patty high} i even
added a bit of oooommphhhhhh to the back of one of JAMI'S a-dorable tags!





i hope she doesn't mind! ;}





from the cart to the car, somehow this little pot got
cracked and chipped and since it wasn't his fault,
i gave him a makeover instead of pitching him!




not bad! and now he is fit to hold all manner of tchotchkes!




today's moral: with enough peppermint patties...i could run the world!
ok, maybe just a city...a small city...a town then? alright, a mere
hamlet! {what is a hamlet??!! ;}


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the QC inspector was quite lazy and took the day off to lounge!

You're Gonna Get The Wooden Spoon!

did that post title bring a bit of fear and trembling
to your heart? or possibly your posterior? ;}



sorry charlie...didn't mean to give you flashbacks...
or make your derriere twitch...just wanted to show
you my latest bit of pointless madness...in the form
of...well, wooden spoons. {i was turned on to these
little cuties by KASEY ...although she used them for
a much saner purpose! ;}





as i placed my order for them i knew that they would never
be used for any purpose other than craftiness...i had visions
upon visions and truly, they didn't involve any illegal substances...
not even wine!

decoupaging was vision #1.
so, i gave them a nice white base coat to make whatever paper i
used, really pop! {again...trying to sound like i have a plan and
a clue what i am talking about when it's not necessarily the case...
at all...but you have come this far...so hang with me! ;}






are these napkins cool, or what?
shut up!
i know!
and they will never go anywhere near a table...or lips!





i just brushed the painted spoons with a bit of LIQUID LAMINATE
and smoothed down the napkin...let it set for a few minutes ,then pulled
away the excess napkin and smoothed the edges.









i know! i know!
they are useless when that Lucky Charms craving hits...
but, saints preserve us! they sure are cute!





makes a darn fine napkin tchotchke too!






loving that! {if i do say so myself...and i do! ;}




even an easy peasey bit of Lazy Girl art!




but i have many napkins!
so i decided to give some homemade chintz a whirl!










be still my heart!
cute little props for your next teatime table scape!





and just for good measure i used up a scrap of map i had
from the Graphics Fairy...
so now i know i can pretty much adhere anything i want to
these little beauties!!





silly...nonfunctional...





but, oh so fun!
{just like me! ;}

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thank goodness for feline quality control! ;}

Avoidance, Denial & Artistic Slob-bery...

i do have a dining table...really i do!
i use the word "dining" loosely though since not much
dining ever goes on there!
{ June ...this post is for you! semi-full disclosure! ;}
[the flecks you see are tarnished GGG, i swear! that cat hair
you see...well, that's just plain cat hair...sorry!]



it's THE surface that gets the best light in the house
so it's my staging area/photography studio.





to say that it's piled high with "props" would be an understatement...
to say that every visible and invisible square inch is covered...
now that would be the truth! ;}





for whatever reason i decided to embark on the task i have been
avoiding for...well...forever! call it spring cleaning...we don't really
have spring here so spring cleaning in january works just as well
as april!





maybe i simply had a hankering to refresh my memory as to just
exactly what that table looked like? it's been ages...who can
remember these things??!





so, i started weeding...and separating...and sorting...




and along with all of the above, came a lot of asking, too...
asking myself why!in!tarnation! do i have all these things?





seriously! yes, yes, i am a creative sort and i need to let my muse
lead me where she will...{did that make you gag?! i was attempting
to be artsy! ;}




ok, ok, the real deal is that if i put stuff "away"...i forget that i have it!
i am old and frail...ok, not really, but sometimes i think i can actually
feel the grey matter seeping out my right ear, so i can't put too much
stress on my brain!





"stress" would mean making my self remember just exactly where i put
said bit or bob! i just can't do it...thus...it must all remain at my fingertips!
which accounts for the mounds upon mounds of "props"{read:crap! ;}





{sidebar:these peeps appear to have a mosh pit going!}





sound like hoarder denial to you? yah, me too!





so, like i said, i weeded and sorted and trashed for hours on end!
ok...at least one entire hour...





separating...discarding...purging...in the vain attempt to liberate
my table...from, well...me.





and i still ended up with all this mess!
geez!
do i put it in shoe boxes?
zip lock bags?
tupperware?




and for corn sake! i hadn't even started on the other end of the
table! {it's a very long table! ;} what's to be done with me?





i know...the problem is me...and my slobbery!





for now, i am exhausted and in need of carbs and sugar...
and fatty foods! {they clear my head!} i will think about all
this again tomorrow...
at Tara!






{Lorenzo LLama wasn't there to help....just to gloat! look at that smirk!}