A famous ZNE-er and free stuff!

I found this great website with free fonts and images – I found it on someone else’s site. Unfortunately it was late and I now have no idea who to thank! Anyway, Tack-O-Rama has great fonts from the 20s through the 70s, plus pics and ornaments and all sorts of stuff!

Hey! On June 1st fellow ZNE member Alisha Fredrickson will be on HGTV’s “That’s Clever!” Check your local listings and check out Alisha!

Speaking of Alisha, her mom Glenda has some great felted pieces on her blog that I believe she put in their joint Etsy store. Check them out!

Yesterday Rexy and I had lunch with Pam Carriker and her handsome family. Pam is my long, lost best friend from high school that I reconnected with on the ZNE Design Team discussion board. (See my blog entry “You’re not kidding, it’s a small world!” below.) She gave me this lovely piece of art. It was so nice to see her again. It really was as if no time had passed. I immediately felt comfortable and conversation was easy. And although we touched on our pasts, we also talked as if we had just seen each other yesterday; which meant we could talk about anything. It was great, a really nice time. I feel so lucky to have hooked up with her again after all these years.

Gratitude Journal:

1. Pam
2. frozen waffles
3. the look and smell of lilacs
4. dishwashers
5. naps

On Roosters, Sickness, Dandelions, and Journals...

Here’s some pictures of our friendly, neighborhood, wild rooster. He roams about the neighborhood and visits everyone’s yard. Sunday we heard crowing and my husband said, “That sounds close.” I looked out the back door and there he was on our porch railing! He hung around for just a few minutes before taking off down the driveway to visit some other neighbor…

Well, the end is in sight for this silly sickness, thankfully. I finally broke down and went to the doctor on Friday and they gave me antibiotics. I guess it really was more than a cold. It's the first time I've gone to the doctor for antibiotic-worthy sickness in more than 10 years! My girl has continued to be fine during the day and coughing at night. Last night was the 4th night in a row that she woke up coughing - she ended up staying up for more than 3 hours! Of course this means Mommy doesn't sleep either, so I think it's been prolonging my crud...sigh. (if this looks familiar it’s because I wrote something very similar on the Design Team board)

What's really bugging me about all this is that I have been sick during the few nice April days we've had and I haven't been able to work in the yard. I know it shouldn't bug me, but on top of not being able to plant my new plants or weed - the lawn mower won't start! So the dandelions in the lawn that would normally get mowed down before going to seed have been spreading their evil everywhere - on top of the ones in the flower bed that I haven't been able to get to. I fear a full scale invasion is in the offing...and we currently look like the "bad" neighbors in the neighborhood because our yard is looking so pathetic.

On a happier note, I got my 4 issues of PLAY today and I'm having loads of fun looking at all the eye candy! It definitely made me want to rededicate to my art journal. I was doing well for a while but sort of tapered off about 6 weeks ago. I think one reason for that is that I only have about 3 or 4 more pages left and all of a sudden they seem "precious" and I began to be afraid of putting the "wrong" thing on them. Now I'm ready to break out some serious paints or pens or...? They also sent some bonus unmounted stamps with the zines - 3 free Zettiology stamps, how cool is that? Now that I'm finally feeling better it's time to get back to some creating! Hooray!

My Gratitude Journal:

1. Drinking water
2. Brooms
3. The T.A.s from UofW that give Rexy her therapy every day
4. The fact that my DH is ticklish
5. Glue sticks