Mail Call!

Not MALE Call.

No, no, no.

Mail.

As in

USPS

I've been getting lots of mail.

I won two giveaways in

the Fanciful Twist's Tea Party

on June 25th.

Can this really be the end of July?

What happened to JULY?!

This Alice Sachet smells like heaven!

Actually,

It smells like lavender

 but doesn't that 

smell like heaven?!

Betty from The Gossamer Tearoom

http://gossamertearoom.blogspot.com/

made it.

Thank you, Betty!!

This is a fun blog party.

You can still visit here if you like.

Isn't this hat marvelous?!!

This was from Wendy over at

http://blissangels.blogspot.com/

Thank you Wendy!!

I also participated in Karla's Bird Song tag swap.

Karla's tag swaps are

hugely popular (as my friend Susan says)

and just way too much fun!

Here is the tag book I received.

I've created links if you click on the picture.

Seahorse Ranch

 Morrison Mercantile

 http://susannorwood.blogspot.com/

 Crowns and Pearls

 http://cheryl-comfort.blogspot.com/

Thyme to Spare

Karen  (no blog)

Karla

Karla's Cottage

Thank you Miss Karla!!  This has to be TONS of work but I always enjoy them.

I'm off to get a hair cut and color.

Maybe I'll surprise the Mr.

and have it done red

 like the lady in the pirate book.

I'm sure I'll look just like her.

I'll let you know. (wink, wink)

A Fortnight of Carnage

It's been two weeks!

Holy Cow.  How'd that happen?

I could tell you.

But,

then, I'd have to kill ya.

No.  That's not quite right.

You'd want to kill me.

No one really likes to hear

about another person's ailments.

And believe you me,

I could drone on

and on

and on.

You wouldn't like it.

It all started with an innocent enough

root canal.

Yup.

The dreaded word.

r-o-o-t  

c-a-n-a-l

They aren't so bad.

I've had a few.

But this one-

Well, it left me looking like this:

Yeah.

Really.

Suffice it to say,

It wasn't pretty.

or

interesting.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

But I got caught up on my Etsy shop.

Watched my tomatoes grow.

Made some fun jewelry

Recreated some vintage jewelry.

Asked a lot of questions following statements from the dentist

like this one:

Dentist:  No.  You cannot drink an entire bottle of whiskey before the procedure.

Me:  Why Not?

I took fine art

and turned it into

campy earrings.

Does doing this make my jewelry

"fine art?"

...No.

I didn't think so.

I saw this!

I cried at the end.

For a lot of reasons.

It was sad.

And my Advil wore off.

And I made these.

The earrings are called

"It's Raining Men."

Do you remember that song.

Here it is if you don't.

CLICK here.

It makes me smile.

I like it better than

Rene Magritte's title

Golgotha.

My daughter says she thinks the song is creepy.

"Think of the carnage," she says.

I watched the video.

It is kind of creepy.

She's right!!

But

it still makes me smile.

:o)

Magritte.

He had no idea

what he hath wrought.

Flash!

It's pretty toasty outside today, Kids.

So, I'm doing things inside.

One of our library pages is leaving this week.

I made her this book:

Here's the inside.

You write down 50 things you want to do.

Cross them off as you complete them

and continue adding so that

you always have a list of 50 things.

I was doing this for our college library pages

long before the "Bucket List" movie.

It's the same concept.

If I had been thinking I'd have taken pictures as I went along.

You could be reading a tutorial right now.

As it is,

Your own best guess on how to do this is good.

That's pretty much what I did.

I am a "fly by the seat of my pants" kind of girl.

I knew you'd want to know that.

I also made her these:

Gwyneth Paltrow wore a pair similar to these

on the Grammy Awards this year.

And yes.

The bag of Sally Rand feathers is still out.

No.

I'm not taking up fan dancing,

but thanks for asking.

I also was doing research on

the green flash phenomenon.

Are you familiar with this?

When the sun goes down

sometimes

just sometimes

there's a bright green flash right before it 

disappears on the horizon.

I've never seen one.

I've always wanted to.

But it inspired me to make a bracelet.

I'm really happy with it.

It's all sunset oranges and yellows

with a little Caribbean blue thrown in for effect.

It is of course, sitting in my Etsy shop

as we speak.

The green flash beads are flashier in real life.

But then again,

aren't we all?!

Sally Rand The Amazing Fan Dancer

You are probably asking yourself

"Why am I looking at this?"
Well, dear friends,

I'll tell you.

I was working on some tags for 

Karla's Birdsong Swap.

So, far, I've made 4 out of the 7 needed.

I felt they were lacking something.

But what?

I decided to change it up 

and work on some different tags.

Tags, that have nothing to do with song birds.

And,  I made these:

By the way.

I love this one.

Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Read the ticket on the bottom left hand side.

Cracked myself up 

putting this one together.

Then this one caught my eye.

I focused on...

 This torn ticket!

And if you think anything else 

you should probably get your mind out of the gutter.

The Folly Theatre

Kansas City, Missouri

Sally Rand the famous fan dancer came all the way from Chicago

to Kansas City to perform her amazing fan dance.

Much to the delight of the Kansas City

male audience.

Notice the lovely, classical music that is playing.

Sally Rand did not have a stripper pole!

Why I am able to remember this infamous fact

and could not remember that my dentist appointment 

was for NEXT Friday instead of today...

well, I don't have an answer for that.

But,

growing up in Kansas City I heard this story

and it popped right back into my brain

for some much needed inspiration.

Feathers.

It made me think of feathers!

And I finished the tags you see here.

                                                                            

Sing

The Nesting Instinct

On A Wing And A Prayer

The Birdman of Alcatraz As A Youth

The Cat That Swallowed The Canary

All thanks to Sally Rand's inspiration.

I'm sure she inspired a lot of other things!

In her day.

Just saying.

But for me, 

she inspired these tags.

I guess inspiration can come from just about anywhere!

(Tags include art from Tumblefish Studio and Tangie Baxter)

Max Picks A Winner

I bought blueberries yesterday.

I adore blueberries.  I thought I'd have some

for breakfast.

I got up this morning and wandered into the kitchen.

MAX!

What are you doing???

What happened to your fur?

Ugh.  I don't feel very good.

I think ate too many blueberries.

And it's not fur.

It's wool.

You made me.

Remember?

Yeah, yeah.  Right.

Do rabbits eat blueberries?

This one does.

How many did you eat?

Mmmmm.. 

about 40.

Yeah.

40's right.

Say!

I have a great idea.

I need a random number generator

for the Tea Party prize winner.

You are the random number generator!

40 it is.

The winner of the Tea Party prize is

Alisa!!

Alisa said

:) That Max made me chuckle! Thanks for having me!

June 26, 2011 8:04 AM 

Congratulations!

Alisa's blog is:

Life Is a Beautiful Place To Be

I need your contact info

and I'll send this off to you, 

Missy Alisa!

Congratulations!!

How long are you going to 

perpetuate the myth

that I'm a live rabbit?

Oh, hush, Max.

Just go with me on this one.

OK?