last year at Christmas, my mom got all the guys in the family these REALLY WARM hats with flaps. WITH FLAPS. they are the best and made a great photo op. every year we also do a circle gift, where you bring a gift that is about $20 or so and you can steal, open a new one, etc. so this year i decided to use last year's picture as this year's gift. i found a naked frame, painted it, added lots of STUFF and buttons (yay buttons, how i love thee). the caption reads: HELP WANTED - 3 dwarves, the grumpy need not apply. :)

everyone always brings lovely gifts but i always like to make something really special that people will get a kick out of and hopefully fight over. ;)

A little birdhouse for her soul.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Suzi. She was an amazing princess of a girl but she was only an inch tall. One day she realized that sleeping in the grass all of the time was a bit too dangerous because of all of the scary animals wandering around! Taking advice from a garden gnome, she wandered over to a big red door and knocked her tiny knock. A very kind human answered the door, and Suzi squeakily (or so it seemed to the human) asked for a house. The human said, "come on in, the cats are very nice cats!" and so Suzi went inside and waited for the human to make her a house. The human painted and snipped paper and glued things while Suzi waited patiently, building herself a little nest out of cat fur and dust bunnies. "Should I add some gems?" asked the human. "Oh yes, please!" said Suzi. The human presented Suzi with her new house and Suzi was very pleased. Then the human said, "If you wish, your house can be in my house, and so you won't ever be cold. The kitties can make a loud rumbling noise, but if it won't scare you, please stay!" And so Suzi did and they were very happy!

some days, some weeks, some years....

so Thanksgiving has come and gone and I had had grand plans for the day. i scoped out some Dotted Swiss Bazzill in Caramel, got some fantastic turkey feathers ("normal" colors and hot, bright colors), some pipe cleaners and rhinestones. i even stuck all of the bits into a bag and brought them to my mom's house that morning. i was going to have us all make Hand Turkeys because they absolutely rule and besides, we needed place cards! but as these things go, we were all chatting and either watching or avoiding watching football, mom was cooking up a storm and I was trying to help... and the Hand Turkey project just didn't come together. at first i was quite sad about it, when I realized there wasn't enough time before we were about to eat. then i just let it go and enjoyed our Thanksgiving.

however, i could not let the idea go! and so tonight i made my very own Hand Turkey!

did anyone else make them this year? with your kids? or without? :D

here are some sneak peeks at my new stamp designs! i am going to do two lines - "Cute Fruit" and "Oh Rainbow!"

i have decided to sell my stamps individually!! please visit my etsy shop to buy them!

gettin' digi with it! my first digital layout ever! i think i did a decent job. :D this stuff is so like crack! omg.

like whoah. another AMAZING example of someone brilliantly using my stamps!!!

thank you, michelle. :)

long time no post, batman.

since i'm a livejournal freak, i have a hard time updating this blog as well as my lj.

but cool things are afoot!

1. Category Stories continues to delight people all over the world with its crazy slinkster coolness! i cannot tell you how awesome it is to have a group of such fantastically talented peeps to play with!

2. Sarah is an amazing card creator!! she has done incredible things with my stamps!! i am always knocked back by the things that come fully formed like Athena popping out of people's brains!

this is my favorite:

please click on it to see the freakin' amazing things she has done with them!

i have always been a fan of ScrapHappyKT and this weekend is an awesome online crop!! come and join us!!

whoah. long time no post, batman.

I was tagged by the super crazy hot Martha - as she said, "it's all about fours."

Jobs I've Had:
1. Library Page
2. Media Collection Librarian
3. Assistant Manager at Snot Topic
4. Sales Nerd at Archiver's


Movies I Could Watch Over & Over:
1. Se7en
2. Hannibal
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Zodiac


T.V. Shows I Watch
1. CSI
2. CSI: Miami
3. CSI: New York
4. The Closer


Places I've Lived
1. Boulder, CO
2. Madison, WI
3. Pittsburgh, PA
4. that's it.


Favorite Foods
1. Sweet Potatoes
2. Rhubarb Crisp (esp. Misha's)
3. Steak
4. Sourdough Bread


Favorite Colors
1. Black
2. Bright Pink
3. Turquoise
4. Lime green


Places I'd Love To Be Now
1. Spending Beaucoup Bucks in Japan
2. MoMA in New York
3. Centre Pompidou in Pareeee
4. in bed with snuggly mewers


Names I Like But Would Not Use For My Children
1. Ruth
2. Napoleon
3. Gnomeracialana
4. Frances

I am tagging these 4 girls...

Misha
Cammeron
Heather
Tryn