after feeling so totally blah yesterday, i decided to spend a little time looking for inspiration this morning. and i found this cool project and this one or even this one. they're actually all from the same very cool crafty blog--bookhou baby. and it looks like they are pretty much all projects that you can do with crafty kids!
i also really love these. i have to go scrounge the second-hand shops and find some old scrabble sets so i can make my own variation of it. maybe painting in tiny format would help me not feel so overwhelmed by the expanse of canvas.
there are lots of people out there making very cool, very small canvases. sabin did a regular production of them when she came to painting class with me the other day. maybe that would be good. the link here uses all kinds of fun stuff...pretty paper, printing, painting--to make a groovy little bitty collage. i think i need to try that. but i might really NEED one of those gocco machines.
Showing posts with label pretty papers. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
totally strange...
so, sometime in the week before you left, i placed an order for yes...you guessed it...scrapping supplies, on ScrapInStyleTV, a scrapbooking community and commercial website, and for all i know, a t.v. show in some market other than the one where i reside. so, finally, today, a rather long time later, i received the package.
in between some of the cellophane envelopes of pretty papers, i found a stack of emails and printouts of orders. the orders themselves were not there, only the things i ordered were in the package. i decided, good-hearted person that i am, that i would send a mail to SiSTV and let them know about these mails, in case it meant that there were half a dozen people out there who hadn't received their orders from a month or more ago.
i stated pretty clearly in my email that i had these mails and order printouts and thought it was clear that the orders themselves weren't in my package. i get back a mail, from the guy whose name was on the outlook printouts in my package, apologizing, but also pointing the finger at his packing people. and asking me to send the stuff back to them, including the mails. now, in my original message, i had provided order numbers on the orders, so i would think that their records would be able to lead them to the correct orders.
i wrote back, stating a bit more clearly that i didn't have the actual orders, just these emails and that i had let them know because i wanted them to be sure their other customers had received their products. i said i'd thought they could probably find them from the order numbers, but that i would scan and send them if they thought that was necessary. i also mentioned to this guy, after he had laid the blame on his packing people, that the name on the printouts was his. incidentally, the email exchange with another customer that was in my package was the same--really accusatory towards the packing people. i found it a little unprofessional.
he emails back, saying that yes, indeed, he could find the orders from the numbers and that i didn't need to scan or send. then he actually said he had detected the "blame finger" pointed at him in my response, but that it couldn't be him as he was in a wheelchair and he'd never packed a thing as long as he'd worked for SiSTV. too much information!
i sent back a message, saying i was sorry it seemed like i was blaming him. what i had been trying to do from the beginning was to go out of my way to provide them with information and that part of the information at my disposal was that his name was the one on the print-outs. if he was looking for who to blame (which he seemed to be), then i was providing him with information for his investigation.
perhaps i should just chalk it up to the weirdness of email, but it got so weird that i'm not sure i'll ever order anything there again....
of course, just today, i decided that i have enough scrapping supplies to do me for a good long while and that i'll just stick with my kits for now. so maybe this just solidifies that.
in between some of the cellophane envelopes of pretty papers, i found a stack of emails and printouts of orders. the orders themselves were not there, only the things i ordered were in the package. i decided, good-hearted person that i am, that i would send a mail to SiSTV and let them know about these mails, in case it meant that there were half a dozen people out there who hadn't received their orders from a month or more ago.
i stated pretty clearly in my email that i had these mails and order printouts and thought it was clear that the orders themselves weren't in my package. i get back a mail, from the guy whose name was on the outlook printouts in my package, apologizing, but also pointing the finger at his packing people. and asking me to send the stuff back to them, including the mails. now, in my original message, i had provided order numbers on the orders, so i would think that their records would be able to lead them to the correct orders.
i wrote back, stating a bit more clearly that i didn't have the actual orders, just these emails and that i had let them know because i wanted them to be sure their other customers had received their products. i said i'd thought they could probably find them from the order numbers, but that i would scan and send them if they thought that was necessary. i also mentioned to this guy, after he had laid the blame on his packing people, that the name on the printouts was his. incidentally, the email exchange with another customer that was in my package was the same--really accusatory towards the packing people. i found it a little unprofessional.
he emails back, saying that yes, indeed, he could find the orders from the numbers and that i didn't need to scan or send. then he actually said he had detected the "blame finger" pointed at him in my response, but that it couldn't be him as he was in a wheelchair and he'd never packed a thing as long as he'd worked for SiSTV. too much information!
i sent back a message, saying i was sorry it seemed like i was blaming him. what i had been trying to do from the beginning was to go out of my way to provide them with information and that part of the information at my disposal was that his name was the one on the print-outs. if he was looking for who to blame (which he seemed to be), then i was providing him with information for his investigation.
perhaps i should just chalk it up to the weirdness of email, but it got so weird that i'm not sure i'll ever order anything there again....
of course, just today, i decided that i have enough scrapping supplies to do me for a good long while and that i'll just stick with my kits for now. so maybe this just solidifies that.
things are looking up
things are looking up a little bit, since the mailman came with my march kit from the dozens.
it has some of the coolest papers i've seen yet..with monkeys and owls and a little deer. so perhaps when i get home from all of the errands, i will manage to make something fun. there's even fabric--pink checked and scattered with really cute green apples. i think i might make a little bag out of it for my pretty sparkly bobby pins that i got in the philippines. traveling in the bottom of my makeup bag is a bit hard them.
it is strange, but i am feeling an urge to sew of late. just what i need, another project out and cluttering the table!!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
good story!
i don't have as good a story as your furniture-buying adventure. i've just been out, checking out the retail scene in oslo. oslo is pretty in its downtown. strangely, tho' it must be smaller, it feels more metropolitan than copenhagen. i has a bit of a feel of glasgow, which i mean as a compliment (tho' it could be interpreted otherwise). i wandered into a small knitting shop and wandered out again WITHOUT BUYING ANYTHING. yes, it was a small miracle. i found a juice bar where i fixed my jonesing withdrawal from my juicer. whew. i wandered into a bookstore where they had the best selection of moleskine journals that i've seen, well, ever. i bought a really cool one that's small like my fave kind, but that is 60 pages all connected, like an accordion. i'm going to make one long, art journal picture, based on what i see on trains and planes. i'm inspired by the jennifer new book on journals. i also bought a small moleskine that you can do storyboards on the pages, because they have the squares for it all built-in. so, oslo passed the moleskine test, for sure.
then, i wandered along and found a store called norway design where they had a fabulous paper section--lots of pretty papers (from which i restrained). and when i say fabulous, i mean FABULOUS!! i bought small red envelopes. i think i'll use them to make invitations to our housewarming party (when it's finally done). i'll say, "small envelope, big party" or something like that. i also bought some cool pens. they're markers, but seem like they will work like paintbrushes. looking forward to trying them out in the art journal.
well, it's time to go to dinner. you still haven't posted any disney stories and pix, so get it on while you wait for your furniture.
then, i wandered along and found a store called norway design where they had a fabulous paper section--lots of pretty papers (from which i restrained). and when i say fabulous, i mean FABULOUS!! i bought small red envelopes. i think i'll use them to make invitations to our housewarming party (when it's finally done). i'll say, "small envelope, big party" or something like that. i also bought some cool pens. they're markers, but seem like they will work like paintbrushes. looking forward to trying them out in the art journal.
well, it's time to go to dinner. you still haven't posted any disney stories and pix, so get it on while you wait for your furniture.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
pretty papers
most of my pretty papers have come. and still my favorite one, the one that aligns all of my molecules and makes them hum in perfect pitch, is the one that's behind our new banner. basic grey's biology. i love that one.
it was a lovely day today. valentine's day, perhaps that's why it just generally feels good. went to the national museum with sabin. although all of the other people there were either aggressively perfect families (2.5 children, bright blue eyes, long lashes, the right clothes) or single moms out with their kids and their new boyfriends (who were trying valiantly to pretend it was ok with the snot-nosed brats who were crawling in among the mummies) or the grandparents who were near the end of their ropes, entertaining 5-year-old oliver for the 5th day in row...we had a great day. sabin fell madly for the sun chariot, an artifact from 1500 BC (or something like that), found in a field in Denmark here at the beginning of the last century. she asked questions and then didn't want to see any more of the museum, but wanted to go sit in the cafe and try to draw it in her new art notepad (who could argue with that?)
eventually, we came home and made gorgeous filet mignons for dinner, along with some of those yummy green beans i make with bacon, onion and almonds. we had a salad of spinach and mango (that makes us talk SILLY) to go with. and then the gorgeous (i can't make that look spelled right) chocolates husband brought home for valentine's day (along with flowers). with a bottle of south african pinotage (spiers, of course, we've been there!). it was a great evening.
anyway, back to the pretty papers...i'm sure the second to last one will come tomorrow. it just has to!! :-)
it was a lovely day today. valentine's day, perhaps that's why it just generally feels good. went to the national museum with sabin. although all of the other people there were either aggressively perfect families (2.5 children, bright blue eyes, long lashes, the right clothes) or single moms out with their kids and their new boyfriends (who were trying valiantly to pretend it was ok with the snot-nosed brats who were crawling in among the mummies) or the grandparents who were near the end of their ropes, entertaining 5-year-old oliver for the 5th day in row...we had a great day. sabin fell madly for the sun chariot, an artifact from 1500 BC (or something like that), found in a field in Denmark here at the beginning of the last century. she asked questions and then didn't want to see any more of the museum, but wanted to go sit in the cafe and try to draw it in her new art notepad (who could argue with that?)
eventually, we came home and made gorgeous filet mignons for dinner, along with some of those yummy green beans i make with bacon, onion and almonds. we had a salad of spinach and mango (that makes us talk SILLY) to go with. and then the gorgeous (i can't make that look spelled right) chocolates husband brought home for valentine's day (along with flowers). with a bottle of south african pinotage (spiers, of course, we've been there!). it was a great evening.
anyway, back to the pretty papers...i'm sure the second to last one will come tomorrow. it just has to!! :-)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
new banner
by the way, it's a pretty cool new banner i made for us today with my pretty papers, isn't it? :-)
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