Hello all,
Just wanted to let you know that my blog has moved! The new address is www.thepeculiarpalette.com. It's bigger and better and will be worth the trip. See you there!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Scrapbook Supply Giveaway
Good News! A new blog I am following, Scrapidilly RockS, is giving away a collection of great scrapbook supplies! If you are a scrapbooker or paper crafter, you should check it out!
Good luck!
Good luck!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Farewell to Cookie Puss
This sucky economy is causing horrible things to happen. All my favorite stores and restaurants are either struggling to survive or have already closed. Pretty soon the only store we're going to have left to shop in is going to be Walmart. Not cool at all.
I came close to tears the other day when my sister and I went into the last Carvel store in AZ and saw the big sign on the wall saying they were going out of business. I have loved Carvel ice cream ever since I lived in NJ, where they are one of the biggest names in cool, tasty treats. I was ecstatic when they started opening stores here in AZ a few years ago, and made sure someone bought me a Cookie Puss every year for my birthday. One by one, these stores closed over the years until there was only one left. Now that one is closing too.
One thing I am learning in the meditation classes I've been going to lately is that in order to not create suffering for yourself, you have to change the way you react to things. So as I was standing in the middle of the near-empty Carvel store choking back tears, I was trying to come up with something positive to think about its closing. I did manage to come up with two positive thoughts. One was that at least they were here for a little while and two was that now I will have one less calorie overloaded treat to eat. But I am still very sad.
Luckily I was able to stock up on Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale before the official closing this Friday, since they are offering them at half price. Mr. Puss is only $13! We bought 4 since they stay fresh for 60 days. I thought it would be nice to bring home a whole fudgie family. Unfortunately, after they are gone I will have to hop on a plane and go all the way to NJ to get my fix of delicious ice cream and chocolate cookie crumbs.
By the way...if you've never had chocolate ice cream blended with chocolate cake mix, you haven't experienced heaven in a cup. I highly recommend getting your hands on some.
I came close to tears the other day when my sister and I went into the last Carvel store in AZ and saw the big sign on the wall saying they were going out of business. I have loved Carvel ice cream ever since I lived in NJ, where they are one of the biggest names in cool, tasty treats. I was ecstatic when they started opening stores here in AZ a few years ago, and made sure someone bought me a Cookie Puss every year for my birthday. One by one, these stores closed over the years until there was only one left. Now that one is closing too.
One thing I am learning in the meditation classes I've been going to lately is that in order to not create suffering for yourself, you have to change the way you react to things. So as I was standing in the middle of the near-empty Carvel store choking back tears, I was trying to come up with something positive to think about its closing. I did manage to come up with two positive thoughts. One was that at least they were here for a little while and two was that now I will have one less calorie overloaded treat to eat. But I am still very sad.
Luckily I was able to stock up on Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale before the official closing this Friday, since they are offering them at half price. Mr. Puss is only $13! We bought 4 since they stay fresh for 60 days. I thought it would be nice to bring home a whole fudgie family. Unfortunately, after they are gone I will have to hop on a plane and go all the way to NJ to get my fix of delicious ice cream and chocolate cookie crumbs.
By the way...if you've never had chocolate ice cream blended with chocolate cake mix, you haven't experienced heaven in a cup. I highly recommend getting your hands on some.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Sunshiny Day
That's an understatement here in AZ...This was my take for a 'yellow' swap. I have just rediscovered my love for vellum. I happened to buy a sheet of vellum paper a few days before I signed up for the swap so I decided to use it. I also got to use my favorite cat stamp and shrink plastic. All in all it was a very fun project...Hope you like!
Transparency Technique
These are the cards I made for a transparency swap I recently participated in. I decided to go old school and make shaker cards. I used double sided foam tape to adhere the transparencies, then built up the edges around it with modeling paste. I painted them with acrylic paint and used scraps of painted cardboard for the accent paper and confetti.
Monday, July 13, 2009
ArtistTradingCards Home Page
I just went to the ArtistTradingCards yahoo group that I belong to, and low and behold there was my mermaid card featured on the home page. How exciting! And what an honor to be chosen out of all the other talented artists who post their work on the site. I kind of feel a little famous now...hee hee hee....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artisttradingcards/
What a nice way to start off a Monday morning....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artisttradingcards/
What a nice way to start off a Monday morning....
Monday, June 29, 2009
More ATCs.....
The above ATCs are for a "Sun" swap. I have quite the collection of sun rubber stamps and I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to use them. I learned an important lesson about ink stamped paper and gel medium while doing this project.....which is to test to see if the watered down medium will cause your ink to run. It did on some of my cards, so badly that you couldn't even make out the image anymore. Just a word of caution if you try this yourself.
And these are the cards I made for an "Owl" swap. I was at a scrapbooking retreat playing around with a cricut machine and made the owls and the moon. When I got home I added the brads for eyes and painted big retinas on them to make them look owl-ish.
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