Crafty Shopping: After watching a few Michaels hauls on YouTube yesterday, I ventured out to 2 of them today to see if I could find goodies for myself. Being super picky about what I was going to spend money on, I only came out with a 2-pack of metallic Faber-Castell Gelatos. I don't know what the original price of these are, but I got them on clearance and then I was able to use my 40% off coupon. The final price was $1.27. I didn't even use my own money because Julie gave me a Michaels gift card for Christmas. Truth be told, I had no idea how to use these, but for $1.27, it was worth the risk.Happy Mail: My friend Suzie sent me this stuffed kitty that she made. How cute, right? I think I'm going to name it Pokey...as in Garfield's teddy. He'll hang out with Ginger on one of my bedroom shelves. For Christmas, I sent her a bunch of my homemade cards because I know that she, too, likes to send snail mail. One of the cards that I made came back to me. I always find that amusing.
Homeowner win: My toilet upstairs has been giving me trouble recently, specifically the flapper. I replaced it this afternoon (Mom actually had an extra one at home...she is prepared for everything!) and it seems to be doing much better. Fingers crossed.
Movie fail: I borrowed several DVDs from the library yesterday. One of them being Drive. I have to say that Ryan Gosling was a motivating factor, as well as it's 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I started watching it tonight and got about 2/3 the way through and decided it was too awful to continue. Gosling appeared wooden. It was violent (too much for my tastes anyway). Just plain not interesting. YAWN. I think the last time I had this feeling was when I watched Prince of Persia. Again, the movie was so bad that a) I couldn't finish it and b) a hot actor wasn't enough to save it.
Card: I found some cute TPC Studio chipboard embellishments at Tuesday Morning today. Each package has a raccoon, bee, and deer, and Tuesday Morning sold them as a bundle of 6 for $4.49! I decided to use some scraps that were already near my paper trimmer, specifically the metallic red and the negative of a die-cut.Card Specs:
Paper: American Crafts- Letterbox, American Crafts- Hello Sunshine
Stickers: TPC Studio- My Funny Valentine (raccoon), Basic Grey Micro Mono Stickers
Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 4, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper
Punch: Martha Stewart Garden Gate border punch
Other: Black Sharpie Ultra Fine Point marker
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