happy valenties day :)

57 heart shaped cookies,
3/4's with sprinkles
1/4 with red icing.

57 school valentines
signed and sealed
and waiting
for their moment of glory
in a plastic ziplock bag.

6 hand drawn
beribboned
valentines
for
playschool.

2 paper bag
valentine
mailboxes
constructed.

red ribbons
tied
onto
ponytails.

prerequisite
pink and red
clothing
for all family members.

day documented
and
blogged about.

mission complete.

a bird in the window is worth....

i was looking at an older copy of
my favorite magazine
november 2006 i think...
when i came across
a small picture of a bird...
the one in the magazine was made
from wood,
but i tried cardboard
and this is what i got...
i'm pretty happy with it
even though
the pictures don't really show
how cute
it looks hanging in the window...
it will make dish-doing-duty
a little more pleasant,
i hope.

putting myself out there...

well.

here it is.

illustration friday.

and i thought, for once, i would give it a go.

push myself out onto the limb a bit...

to see if it will hold me.

the prompt was sprout.

it seems no matter
what i do though
i get
dark pictures.
(or maybe its my prehistoric moniter?)

poetry thursday, change.

transition-1. Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another.

i want to grow my hair
long and unkept
with knots
and little sticks wound in
i want to sit in the sun
and daydream
i want to be artistic creative eclectic odd
i want loud music
i want to start using pencil crayons
i want silence
occasionally
i want to be known
yet unknown
i want to be whimsical and dry
sweet and sarcastic
alone and witty
dark but happy.

snap decisions.

swampgrrl is hosting getting to know you this week
at create a connection....here is her prompt and my impromtu answers:


1. You run into a friend who has just chopped off all her long hair (or suddenly has an Afro). What do you say? wow! look at you! what a change! how do you like it?

2. You walk by a well dressed man with manicured hands who smells like a gin martini. He asks you for money. What do you do? tell him the sad truth, i probably don't have any.

3. Your brother or sister or best friend falls madly in love with someone you think is a jerk. What do you do? bear with it, i learned from experience that you won't beleive what others tell you about the one you think you love, you have to find it out the hard way... all someone else can do is be there for support.

4. You get a terrible present from your husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend. Do you let it show? nope. not if it felt like he put thought into it, which he always does. i could never hurt his feelings like that.

5. Who's your favorite Beatle? heh. is it ok if i say none?

6. You walk by a disheveled man wearing soiled & tattered clothes. He politely asks you for money. What do you do? again, sadly, the truth is i probably don't have any...

6. Skinny Elvis or Fat Elvis? neither. i prefer johnny cash.

Good job!

Next, go find an outrageous picture of your Elvis on the net and post it at the bottom of your answers. Be sure to give credit to the photographer. yeah...well...i really never had a thing for elvis but i do like the muppets
this picture is from a cool seller on ebay....

(Give yourself bonus points for velvet).

so...that's me with my off the top of my head answers.
not sure what they say about me,
but i'll leave that open for interpretation
:)