CAS-ual Fridays CFC61 ~ Let's Strip!

Well, hello there.  Come here often?

I feel certain that after last week's nude crafting at the Play Date Cafe and now stripping over at CAS-ual Fridays, I might see a lot more traffic on my web site, if you know what I mean.  Hello, gentlemen.  I'm sorry to disappoint you; it's not that kind of blog.  Move along, boys.

Of course,  when I first saw this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge,

I immediately remembered that part-time job I had in college.  I'll post this one photo, the rest I'm too shy to share, I'm sure:

@Amazon.com for Leg Avenue

Ah, those were the days.  Now between modern times, clothing styles, and modern technology, we've seen it all, mystery solved, fun and flirting fossilized.

I did all right crafting in the nude last week, except for that one area, so now I think nothing of stripping and stamping.  But strips on my card?  What strips?  Strips of what? 

Since I don't have naked lady stamps, much to your surprise, what is the next best thing?  A dress form!  I have that.  Nope, some other clever stamper already beat me to it.

How about a bandaid?  You know, they're called "bandaid strips" and when you're done with them, you "strip" them off.  I have that.  Nope, some other clever stamper already beat me to it.

A card with a wallpaper-like pattern then, paper pulled halfway down in strips, because one "strips" wallpaper off the walls?  Mmmm, perhaps.

Ah ha!  What about an air strip?  You know, for landing airplanes.  But the only airplane stamp I have is a stamp of a plane flying, not landing.  Well, I could put strips behind the plane, like entrails.  Contrails?  I tried just triangulating the strips but they looked, well, dumb.  So I grabbed one of my new Memory Box dies that's all flourishy and I cut up the flourishes to make the contrails look swirly.  Thus:

You know how you have regular fries and then you have curly fries?  Well, you can have regular strips or curly strips.  Mine are curly.  What strippers strips can you think of to decorate your card?  I hope you can join in the fun challenge!

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Let me slip on this house dress and show you our giant tomato plants.  They are only noteworthy because this year our plants are all "volunteer" plants that came up in the vegie boxes from last year's crop.  Usually we remove those and plant fresh tomato plants from the nursery.  Plants whose names we know.

So what happened was that this year I had an epiffaninny.  You see, I can't eat tomatoes (waugh, which I love), yet I am the one who, for the last umpteen years, plants them, takes tender care of them, weeds them, and picks them.   Now I am not very good at math, but finally the numbers fell into place in my pea brain, and I said, why am I doing this?  You do it, Mister.

Hence, since Mister would rather ride motorcycles than farm tomatoes, we have volunteer plants for the first time.  So far they are doing as well as, if not better than, any plants in prior years.  Here is a picture with a patio chair for scale:

That's a seven-foot fence, so that one plant in the middle should be called a Sequoia Tomato!  I'll keep you posted.  I expect it is going to fall right over one of these days as it is growing feets higher than its cage.  The one in the back has just started producing very delicious yellow cherry tomatoes.  The rest are still mystery plants.

I also wanted to show you our giant basil and tarragon plants, so I had one of the farm hands go up in the plane that was dusting Brock Lee's crops and take this photo.  That farm hand is going to be in trouble for not pulling that tractor back to the barn first, if Mister ever sees this picture.  When the cat's away . . .  

And finally, the following are photos of our ornamental oregano plant, "Kent Beauty."  I bought it last year and weathered it in the garage over the winter.  It all died off, except for one little strand.  It's so cool how it fully came back into this gorgeous plant.

I'm off to the nursery to get ideas for new plants for my other pots around the patio.  (I sure hope they have more Kent Beauty oregano plants for sale this year.)  I have about a dozen geranium plants, which are always reliable in the spurts of extreme heat we can get.  This year, however, the  infestation of geranium bud worms is too great and the plants are succumbing.  It's hard to combat a killer like that when a new one simply flies in, disguised as a pretty white moth.  Nature wins.

Enjoy!   As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

Paper:  PTI white, black, spring rain

  SU DSP In Color

Stamps:  WeRMemory Keepers, "Travel

  Light" and Rubber Stamped, Inc.

  "We've Moved" A2464C

Ink:  PTI black

Memory Box die

Corner Chomper