LIM Week 91, Stretch-a-Sketch!

And we're back around to Friday!  In November, no less ~ double whoosh!!

It's nice to be back in the www world.of.card.crafting.  I'm so glad to be visiting friends I haven't seen in a while, taking scroll strolls up and down to ketchup with a lot of you.  One thing that happens to you when you work eight days in a row, as nurses and doctors and shift workers everywhere know, is that you have trouble remembering what day it is.  Couple that with age-induced CRS and you'll find me on a Thursday night suddenly getting a call from the frontal lobe clerk announcing that it is 15 hours to closing over at Less Is More.  Hell-O!

 

This week Chrissie is hosting solo again while Mandi is up to her eyeballs in alligators getting her new wedding business off the ground.  Continued best wishes to Mandi!  Chrissie's challenge is a sketch challenge:

 

 

Her inspiration cards are drool-inducing!  I translated her sketch thus:

Easy peasy, CAS, and done in time!

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I do love Swiss-dotted paper.  The reason the Swisses like to put dots on things and poke holes out of things is because in the early morning hours of June 19, 1458, the King of Swiss, Rudolph of Hapsburg, went riding in the chiffon shirt he only wore for Coronations, thinking that just this once it wouldn't hurt and he could ride longer if he didn't have to change shirts when he got back to the castle.  Well, you know where this is going.  About 12 miles down the narrow Alpine path, the wind picked up her skirts and took off like a rocket, sending tiny pebbles swirling in the air everywhere.  Several pebbles went up the nose of the King's steed, causing him (the steed) to shear off through the cops, er, copse.  The copse's branches slashed and whipped about the person of the King, piercing holes in his royal chiffon Coronation Shirt and raising welts upon his rippling upper arms.

 

With difficulty and expert tease, the King bedraggled himself directly to the ceremony, having no time now to change and, really, in those days, having no Standby Coronation Shirt.  Out of respect and politeness, the townspeople and Coronees poked holes in their own finery with their bare teeth and a tradition was born and imitated by designers and cheesemakers from that day forward.

 

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Please turn now from History to the tab in your study book for welcoming new friends and say hello to Pamela and Darla!  Welcome ladies!  If you have a website for others to visit, please do let me know and I'll be passy to happ that along!

 

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BTW, if you're a frequent visitor, you know how I love to make up words or play with words and that I am especially capsulated by words that are complete and utter new words with the addition, or conversely, the deletion, of one single letter.  The annual work project that I've been busy with the last few weeks involved the preparation of seminar materials regarding changes in the education law for public school administrators.  Hence, the word "public" is used repeatedly.  Guess who didn't run spell check last year before hundreds of workbooks were published and guess what word appeared?  It was only once, but still.

 

I ran spell check this year. 

I'm editing this to add that yes, as my friends are pointing out, the titillating word IS a real word that spell check would ignore.  I should have said that I ran Find and Replace!  Now the book is full of pubic schools.  Just kidding, but if they have me back next year . . .

 

Enjoy your day!   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:  Bazzill dotted Swiss

Stamps:  SU! balloon, unknown set

  sentiment PTI (?) unknown set

Ink:  Memories tuxedo black

Pearl Badabing from stash