WOYWW #177 ~ Love Comes In, Love Goes Out . . . Pigs Play Pinochle on Your Snout!

Hey Hoe Dearies!

 

Lots of rakes seeing action this time of year, not so many hoes.  I'm still slaving at the gin mill (oh, would that that were true), so for today's WOYWW, I have a simple Show and Tell.

 

First, appropopo, is my desk,

 

where love has been received of late. 

 

My sister, Diana, who (hoom?) you have previously met through that window, wrote a little book called "Darnellisms."  It should have been called "Dianaisms" because it contains her own very clever way with words!  How about that; it must runneth in the family!  Diana is also an accomplished  photo grapher,

and put together, she's made an adorable little book!  Thank you, Sis!

After I admired it, my online friend, Virginia, sent me that beautiful pink butterfly card she made for Breast Cancer Awareness month, along with  the lovely tag!  She sent me loads of stickers, too, which were off to the side and which will be put to good use!  Thank you, Virginia!

My online friend, Annie, sent me (in delightful British tissue paper) the gorgeous blue butterfly card and mouth-gaping wall hanging (below) after I admired it.  Remember I gave Jerry my dried flower framed art and then I was left with an empty space on the wall?  Well, Annie's Art has filled it stunningly!  You see how that worked out?

I wish you could feel it.  It is so tactile and so lushable in person!  Thank you, Annie!

I sent out some love, too, by way of a surprise card to my online friend Di.  She's received it, so I can post it.  I think she's amazing and she loves pink!  (I love the silver embossed elephant with that embossing folder background that looks so perfect with it.)

 

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I think we all appreciate how the World Wide Cobweb provides us with the opportunity to befriend each other and show off our work, but we still haven't forgotten how much fun it is to use the old-fashioned postal service, have we?  There's nothing like email in your Inbox and there's nothing like touchable mail in your mailbox!

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We've had a flurry of activity at the front door of the Playhouse this week!  My goodness, I am so smack-walloped!!  Please make room and help me welcome Michelle from My Passion for Crafting, Mara from Love Your Mother, Jenny from Crafting in the Country, and Claire from My Life on the Scrap Heap.  Thank you so much ladies!  You all have such great talent and it's wonderful to have you along for the journey!

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Since my brain cells are being destroyed deployed in the service of my employer, I thought you might enjoy this amusing excerpt which I did not write, but which I can relate to ~ and I'll bet a lot of you can relate to it as well!!
 

Eyes Wide Open

Marriage changes passion.  . . .

This is not 1973, I remind myself . . . this is not my sister lying next to me in the same bed, hogging all the blankets, breathing on me and periodically slamming her leg against the mattress so hard the entire bed shakes.  No, this is my husband.  The man that I love, the man that I voluntarily chose to spend the next one hundred years sleeping beside, which right now, at three in the morning, seems like a very bad choice, but what did I know?  Who can predict these things?  He slept like a dead person (and so did I) until our early thirties, at which point I stopped sleeping and he started driving his pigs to market in the middle of the night.

~Paraphrased from The Slippery Year:  A Meditation on Happily Ever After by Melanie Gideon

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Okay, I'll be honest.  In all fairness to the Mister, I have also driven my share of pigs to market in the middle of the night.  But only during a blue moon, you understand.

Enjoy the days and nights of your life, snoring and all, and enjoy the WOYWW train ride through Blogland!   I hope you'll click HERE to join our delightful hostess Ms. Julia and her What's on Your Workdesk? Wednesday hit parade!

As always, thank you for stopping by and leaving me some love.  You know I'll return the flavor, even if it takes me all week!