ONE OF MY FAVORITES

I'VE HAD THIS CARD FOR 20 YEARS OR SO. I DIDN'T WANT TO WASTE IT ON THE PERSON WHO REALLY DESERVED IT.
IT'S TOO FUNNY, AND WHY SHOULD HE GET IT?

Not much to say - too much going on. And since I don't feel like getting into it, I'll just post a happy photo of us 3 years ago, for our party invitation celebrating our wedding. Oh, we're fine, it's just everything else.

alcohol inks. I understand the beauty (think MOMA). I get down with the fun aspect: sorta like a cross between spin art at the carnival and fingerpainting with out the fingers. I don't understand what cardmakers and scrapbookers can do with this. Observe my first effort. My daughter-in-law gave me a set of Tim Holtz inks and a diluter. I just wasn't ready to tackle it last year. Not sure I was ready this year either, but look what I came up with. Any suggestions?


It's actually lovely because it's rather tough and thick. Maybe I should stamp or Cricut some shapes from it and use dimensionals to add unusual elements to my cards. Yeah, then it'll take me even MORE time to decide how to approach a blank card. No thank you. I'll get my baby grandson over here and let him glop around with it - and do my own rohrschach test on the little dude. May not have spelled that correctly. I don't think they were given to kids when I was a kid.
Well, somebody think of something to do with these  and I'll make you a custom piece. Notime limit - I'm pretty sure you'll win. I don't write on these interior blog pages often.



On Getting Older/Being 60 But How Can That Be?

On Getting Older/Being 60 But How Can That Be?

I used to have two patches on my cutoff jeans back in Philadelphia in the late 60's-early 70's. One was "Keep on Truckin'", and the other was "Never trust anyone over 30". I wish I had those jeans today (not that I could shoehorn myself into them)

The oldest article of clothing I of my own that wasn't purchased in a thrift shop is my Woodstock 10th Anniversary tee, bought in 1978 from an ad in the back of Rolling Stone Magazine. I had cut off the sleeves to wear to the gym and it has some stains, but I'm planning to put it in a t-shirt frame.

Gee, what is is today? 43rd anniversary? I think I'm going to throw up.

I wouldn't want to go through the angst of doing things over again, but I sure wish I didn't have my neck thing (not that you'll ever see it on this blog) - my hairdresser, who's probably 5 years older than me, but petite and cute as a button, had her neck done. $2500. Looks great. I'm chicken. I'll just look for the ever-higher turtleneck.

MY FIRST SENIOR DISCOUNT - SHOULD I BE HAPPY OR HOMICIDAL???

Well, it was too much to resist - 20% off all regular and sale-priced stuff at Joann's  - and since I make cards for Operation Write Home, a bargain is a bargain.
I was a little disappointed. The store was curiously empty. Just, here and there, clumps of "women of a certain age" - you know, the Hillary Clinton age group. Which, I realized with that awful "aha moment" was just  around my age.
Hey, I look pretty good - certainly not 60-ish. Shoot me. But when it comes to that discount, I'd borrow a cane and somebody else's granny to get that 20% off.
So, I spent $48, and saved $46, with all the sale prices and the discount on top.

I don't like thinking that 2/3 (at least) of my life is over. It bothers me. It bothers a lot of my friends, too. But, we didn't waste a lot of time thinking about this certainty when we were 25 (unless you were like me, wasting your youth with hypochondraica). I'm not going to sweat it. I don't like the fact that the salesgirl didn't I was trying to pull a fast one by pretending I was a senior. But then, I remembered that anyone 6 months older than the young are OLD. So I'm in a big group!!

Cheer up, babies. Let's just have a lot of wonderful fun. Go to a flea market. Make some homemade dog biscuits. Try that apple crunch pie you made for your husband and have denied yourself (and squirt some caramel sauce over the entire piece). Upload a book from audible.com - I'm listening to a book about Doc Holliday and the Earp Brothers. East candied walnuts. Drive with the top down. Suck back some pizza. And make some cards for our heroes through OWH - Operation Write Home. Get on their site and see how you can help our troops overseas feel good. They're protecting the United States of America - a cheery card is the least we can do for them. Get on the site: http://www.operationwritehome.org/ . AND SMILE - we are so gorgeous - send in your gorgeous-self pictures and win your choice of anything on my Etsy Shop: Princessd09/donnapaperscissors.
Night!!