Retail Therapy!

Hurray for a day off!   I, of course, headed straight to town to "browse around" the craft stores...... hahaha......

It was fabulous!  I felt that.... something.... that excitement..... the prospect of MAKING......

I found a few things that followed me home......   just a few..... dozen.....

Just a few.... wants   NEEDS ! 

I ALWAYS need some lovely pens.... these are the softest, subtle-ist colors imaginable!  I am very fond of ZIG pens.... I have hundreds of them...... (actually, really, not kidding!)   We are good friends!  

Delicious pastel brush tips!  

Flat tip calligraphy markers.... 

I must confess..... I could NOT leave without these calligraphy markers.  Look at these COLORS!   YUM!  

I really do love the Calligraphy tip the best.  It is my old standby.  I was doing calligraphy long before it was a "thing".... Now there is "faux" calligraphy... which means "fake" calligraphy... and for those of us who were around when penmanship was taught in school.... call it CURSIVE..... hahahahaha!!!!  And now, it has been elevated to a NEW level.... that we would have called 

MESSY HANDWRITING....... 

(and I will admit.... I totally do IT too!)   

JUST PERFECT for my purse.... in case I have a hand lettering emergency!!!  It could happen.... 

So it is FUN to be in vogue....

It is more fun.... to just let it FLOW!!!  

Mad for PLAID!!!  

OH, and what trip to the store would be complete without a PILE of PLAIDS!!!  I am sooooo excited to get started on these projects!!! (whatever they turn out to be.... haha! )  Just LOOKING at them fills me with excitement!   

Cheers!  

judifer

Lost in the Back to School Craziness

I have a love/hate relationship with "Back to School".....

I do LOVE the children- very, very quickly we bond and they become part of my heart forever.  

That being said, the GRIND of beginnning a new year is TOUGH.  Every waking, sleeping, breathing moment is taken over by SCHOOL STUFF......

and I sort of fall off the planet..........

The parts of me that are SO ME..... get left of the shelf.... or under the bed.... I am not sure... but .... gone.... as if they never existed.  

Yesterday I was determined to find my marbles.... scattered though they were.... and see if I could recapture a little bit of what makes me tick....

I got up early (at 5 a.m. on a Saturday!!!) and made my newest grandbaby a tiny little outfit.   It will look darling on her.....

It really is quite tiny.  The photo makes it look big..... haha!  This is 0 - 3 months size.  

Then, I made some pumpking bread.... Oh YES I did.... I need to feel something ..... something dreamy and FALL-like...... And pumpkin bread made my house smell heavenly.... heavenly!!!  

And then in the evening, I got out a handful of pens and sat on the couch with a clipboard to draw/sketch/write a while...... It is soothing to me.... They were doodles and jotted notes.... NOT completed projects.... but the DOING is what makes me feel good..... the BEING who I am inside.   

 I am hoping/wishing happy FALL thoughts on us all!  

Cheers!  

judifer