I am starting to like these thankful Thursdays now and feeling like a much better person
(glass half full, remember)
than the one who whined all the time.
And I have alot to be thankful for this week .
Gratitude 1: This amazing giveaway over on Lory's
The Sunshine Studio blog where you can win your choice of one of my Polarity lockets
so hop over there and get yourself entered!
Gratitude 2: Polarity's soft launch on
Uncommon Goods website
yup, THAT Uncommon Goods (and if you are asking what a soft launch is, I am not exactly sure, but it sounds..well... soft and kind of launchy)
I was totally going to do a big announcement for this in January - when I thought we would be making our debut, but somehow we are on their website now and I am a bit speechless...
well, not exactly (have been howling at the moon a bit over this actually)
I love Uncommon Goods and this is very exciting for me and 3 of the Polarity locket artists - Holly Ward Bimba (
Gollybard),
Jessica Doyle and Christy Zaragoza (
Peppermint Daydreams) and I will chat more on this later when the Valentine's Day catalog comes out and yes, this is my first catalog, ever!
Gratitude 3: I am very thankful that I found my missing keys (that have been missing for almost a week)
at the bottom of my pocketbook
the pocketbook that I use everyday and had checked a few times - well, at least I thought I had checked it a few times, I mean who loses their keys and doesn't check their pocketbook, right?
Gratitude 4: I broke a major OCD habit today
well, maybe not so major because I have alot of them, but I had my little bag of peanut M&M's
(well ... actually a HUGE bag, why is everything else getting smaller while these damn bags of peanut M&Ms are getting super sized)
and instead of eating the colors in alphabetical- well, red first and then alphabetical order, I just ate them out of the bag, one by one, distractedly, without thinking about the color
I stared at the empty bag with shock and awe when I realized what I had done and then knocked on some wood that I hadn't just caused a major disaster somewhere in the world
(like Katrina- don't even ask me what I forgot to do that day)
Gratitude 5 - The security camera in our local video store is totally broken.
(now I had nothing to do with the actual breakage, but am happy that someone else out there had just had enough of this already, too)
I mean, have you ever seen yourself on a store security camera?
It is horrifying. You totally think you are having a good (looking) day and and then you see yourself on one of those, and you're like, "oh my God look at that sloth coming into the st-- wait, that's me."
then you feel like crap
or maybe that only happens to me.
Oh, and I am totally grateful that the customer who ordered the Mad Scientist cork necklace and discovered that I had reversed the last 2 letters of the word scientist, which kind of changes the meaning a bit if you see what I mean, was kind enough to tell me about it and not tell everyone else by putting it in my public feedback - of course I told her I would fix this problem immediately, but couldn't resist telling her that as far as the problem piece goes - I wantit back.
This is part 5 of my weekly series on some recycled and repurposed Christmas gift ideas- things that are easy enough to make fairly quickly, but still look like you put the proper time and thought into them.
1. Gather your supplies: books that you don't mind drilling holes in- I know this is going to hurt all you bibliophiles, but sometimes art hurts folks (the books should be the same thickness as the length of the screw attached to your drawer pull unless you have some heavy duty wire cutters like I do), your doodads and sawtooth hangers
Some simple wrap (Target giant lunch bag - just how big have our lunches gotten I'd like to know- run through an inkjet) completes the gift!
