1 post tagged “crafty maggie”
I've been bursting with creative energy for about a month. When it started, I went to a local paper craft store and bought myself two sketchbooks. That, combined with my daily doodling at work on any surface available to me, held me over until last night. Last night I was visiting howaboutorange.com and found a tutorial that was so me, I had to try it. But, ya know, not at that instant as it was a work night and I was rather sleepy.
I get to work this morning when I remember what I wanted to do. I shoot off this email to Shawn:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Margaret wrote:
Are you going to be near any stores today? I need Mod Podge. You can get it at like Pat Catan's or Michael's or Hobby Lobby.
He hardly ever replies to emails so I go about my morning and almost forget about the Mod Podge all together. I wander away from my desk and come back to this email:
From: Shawn
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:40 AM
To: Margaret
Subject: Re:wtf? wtf is mod podge? you made that up so that i would look like an ass by asking for something called mod podge. mod podge. gtfo. nice try.
AND THEN I DIED. I nearly wet myself from laughing so hard. Perhaps you need to know Shawn to appreciate his response, but to me, it was priceless.
Anyway, he got me Mod Podge. Because he loves me. Step two was stopping at a scrapbooking store in Strongsville to get American Crafts paper. I've been crushing on this pattern and thought it'd be adorable on a couple of bull clips. But it was not meant to be, as the scrapbooking store is closed. For good, I'm guessing. Oh, economy, you're such a bitch.
The good news is that I happen to have a bunch of paper left over from misc projects. So I made two little batches of bull clips. AND I'M KINDA IN LOVE.
BEHOLD:
The big one was still drying when I took the picture. It's covered in handmade paper so it's quite thick, but you can't beat that beautiful texture!
And then here we have one big and three tinys. The pattern just called
for me to only use the three tinys in solid colors. I don't know why.
I've
stopped covering office supplies in paper for now. I'll start again
tomorrow. Because, you see, I was at work all day and am rather sleepy.
