Ides of March

There are several important things that happened on this day over the last few years.  Julius Caesar was murdered (not it!). King Charles II enacted the Declaration of Indulgence (I have no idea what that is but I want in on it). The first automatic voting booth was unveiled (hanging chads, anyone?) Bing Crosby won an academy award and Mister and Princess Palmer got hitched. I guess that was more than a few years ago... more like a quarter of a century ago. That's a long time. No wonder I feel so old.

The Fine Print: All the parts 'n stuff by Stampin' Up. 

Mistakes Have Been Made

Have you ever done something that sounded like a really good idea at the time, but later after it was said and done you realize that maybe it wasn't such a good idea?  See, ever since we moved last year I wanted a light in the master bedroom closet. It's sort of a walk-in type job and it is pretty dark and dank in there. I never know what clashing color outfit I'm going to come out with.

Now I have a light in there--as bright as a spotlight--just like I requested. But erm... somewhere along the line I forgot that I have no fashion sense. So even with light I never know clashing color outfit I'm going to come out with.  But at least before I could blame the lack of light. Now everyone is going to know just how clueless I am.

Ah well.

The Fine Print: Flowers by Maya Road, sticky letters by Basic Gray. And purple and brown go together? Don't they?

Spring Break

It's Spring Break week and isn't that cool? Nope, I'm not down in Mazatlan or Daytona Beach or any of those college kid vacation destinations. In fact, I'm right here in my office for now but there aren't many of those pesky kids around to ruin my day (only the usual assortment of pesky coworkers).

The Fine Print: Stamp, designer paper, and flower punch by Stampin' Up, dies by Spellbinders and twine from the Joann's Impulse Aisle. 

Off Size

I made this tri-fold card out of a random card base with pre-cut layers that I had lying around. After I made it I realized that while the card was 5.5" tall it was 4.5" wide instead of the usual 4-and-a-quarter.

Who does that kind of weird stuff anyway?! I suppose that's probably why it sat round unused for so long. I mail stuff in A6 envelopes anyway so finding an envelope wasn't an issue but it still struck me as so wrong.

The Fine Print: Card base and topper from Club Scrap, other stuff from my stash.

Friendship

Last summer I was sitting around with my coworkers eating lunch when one of them got up in a rush and gasped, "Oh my gosh! I FORGOT!" and ran off. She came dashing back with something wrapped in a plastic bag and with a big smile handed it over to another person at the table. Everyone nodded, smiled, and chuckled.

The recipient of the bag opened it up and pulled out one of those fancy hard plastic drinking cups with a straw. Somehow I was expecting something more exciting given everyone's response so I asked about it. It turns out that the first lady dropped and broke the second lady's drinking cup so she went out and bought a replacement cup.

I was really impressed with that. I also immediately thought, "I need a better quality of friend." Seriously, if a friend of mine broke something I'd be out of luck. They certainly wouldn't buy me a replacement. And let's not even talk about relatives; they'd come up with some story about how I needed to pay them for ruining my things.

However, before I got around to sharing that story with you, my friend came to me one day with a sheepish looking on her face and handed me a brand new die still in its package. She proceeded to tell me how she borrowed my die (the same one in the package) and couldn't find it anywhere. She looked and looked and considered it missing. So she bought me a replacement die. I was so touched!

So it's taken me many, many years, but I now have that better quality of friend. It's those little things that make it so meaningful.

The Fine Print: Card stuff from Club Scrap.

Charles Barles

This is Charles. He's kind of nuts, but I like him.

This is not Charles, but it sort of made me think of him. Charles usually isn't that introspective though. I sent this card to my friend and afterward she showed me how she shaded it in with inks. I was really impressed with the results. If I tried that it would have been a hot mess.

Charles tried shading himself in once with blue ink. That was a hot mess too with lots of random pawprints everywhere.

The Fine Print: Cat die by Tattered Lace.

HB 2 U

I haven't made any birthday cards lately and my stash of them is getting dangerously low. People need to stop having birthdays until I catch up!

The Fine Print: Made from a Basic Gray card kit.