fortune cookie wisdom, plastering canvas and snow patrol

it's time to start on the second annual humble hand drawn fortune cookie wisdom calendar!  kind of a mouthful, yes?  i like the sort of pretentious unpretentiousness of the name that describes the style of the calendar so well. i made one last year (the first annual) and it was so much fun i decided to make it an annual thing. 

here's a few months from last years calendar

realistically i should have started this a month ago but i'm going to work my butt off to get it done quickly.  here's my inspiration.

so, when you open your fortune cookie, do you eat it or is it all about the fortune inside?  is it bad luck not to eat it?  and no, my chinese food take out place doesn't know my order by heart.  not yet anyway.

oh the joys of pixlr.  guys, i'm sure you all know about this awesome photo editing site, but i've just found it again and am actually teaching myself how to use it!  don't laugh, it's hard for a woman who used to do graphic design with a rapidograph, a waxer, an x-acto blade and a compugraphic typesetter.  we were known as paste up artists, but me and my oldest friend called ourselves paste heads way back in the mid 80s.  it's actually very frustrating having an idea and knowing how to do it with my hands but not on a computer.  anyway, i'm so happy to have figured out how to do these collage thingies.  which color do you like for the lines - the black or lime green?  i need help!

what's in the collage thingies is something i've been wanting to try since doing the plaster work during our bathroom renovation.  i loved the texture of the walls after patching them up and thought it would be awesome on a canvas.  i started with a painted black canvas and spread a pre-mixed spackling compound all over it and then before it dried, wrote in it with an old ice pick.  it pulled up some of the plaster stuff and i did press down some of the really bumpy stuff but i think it's kind of interesting.  i'm letting it dry and we'll see how well it holds up and sticks to the canvas.

here's a little bit of the soundtrack to my day.  love to hear what yours was.

a little appreciation is due

youngest son is pretty pissed off disappointed with me because i neglected to mention in my last post, that he was the one who informed me of the new snow patrol ep.  and i call myself a fan, tsk tsk.  anyhow, this is me showing my awesome youngest son some appreciation, giving credit where credit is due. 

thank you sweetie pie.

did i totally embarass you?

new vintage in the shop

a preview of vintage to come

what would i do without you my youngest son?

feeling a bit like eeyore lately

...even though snow patrol is coming out with a new ep sept. 4th. :)

truth be told i don't really want to move and i'm deep in the middle of moving. i miss middle son who's off to college and i'm sooooo effing proud of him.  i don't want to go through all the tangible evidence of our lives and decide what to keep and what to throw out.  i hate change even though i love change.  maybe it's just too much change at once?

what would pooh bear do, i wonder?