WOYWW #214; NBUS #20 ~ Stamping on Patterned Paper (Inked)

Hey, Hey, it's WOYWW!!

I thought I'd click over to Julia Dunnit's What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday (WOYWW)  site in the highly unlikely event she had opened the linkie doors, seeing as how it's only 8 PM Tuesday night in California and, woot, she was open!  Since I'm working tomorrow, I'm goin' in tonight!

 

My desk:

It's pretty much a mess, at that stage where the next thing I must do is clean it.  You get the thrill of seeing it messy, which is way less boring.  What's of interest this time, at least I hope, is the pile of Post-It Notes (original "PIN" if you think about it) in the center.  As I was writing my umpteenth note today, I had a brain emission, which I decided to share with you.  By way of illustration, I piled all my postie pads on the desk.

 

Now you may have heard that those of us who are of the "baby boomer" generation will soon rule.  There are gonna be a lot of us geezers!  As such, we will need even more senior housing facilities built to house us, once we get to the point where we don't want to clean and cook anymore and we want to sit around and have coffee every morning with our friends,  make cards in the craft room, play bingo and mah jong, and go on afternoon outings to places like casinos and movies, malls, and museums, topping the day off with a refreshing cocktail ... wait.  What? 

 

Can I go now?!!

 

Then I got to thinking about how every day I seem to need to write down more and more notes.  I was always a note writer/list-maker kind of girl, so reaching for the PIN comes naturally.  But still.  Look at them all over and around my desk!  How many will I be writing a year from now, two years from now?  After a while, do I even see them?  (no.) 

 

Here's another angle of the Playhouse. 

See what I mean?  I put the non-craft notes up on the door so I will pull them off when I go out.  I take them in the house where they line up on the kitchen counter like tickets at the carnival.  Which brings me to my emission.

 

If I were a smart contractor involved in senior housing, I would skip the insulation step and just make the walls out of thick thick pads of Post-It Notes!  Wouldn't that be fun?  Then we geezers could just write all over the walls and rip off the "done" ones with the reckless abandon of the elderly.  Keeping, of course, one hand on the walker due to the violent teetering that would ensue from all that gleeful ripping.  When we aren't away on outings, of course.

 

What, oh, what did we ever do before Post-It Notes?  And just so you don't think I'm wasteful, we recycle our paper products faithfully, being of that also famous green-earth tree-hugging hippie generation.

 

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I didn't forget my promise to share a picture out the west window now that the crepe myrtles are in full bloom.  (That giant tomato is a volunteer plant from last year's crop!)

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Lastly, here is a close-up of the card on my desk. 

 

I am taking a course from Studio Calico called "Inked."  I am hopelessly behind, but that's okay.  Like a turtle, I'll get through it eventually.  I think you might still be able sign up, if you're interested.

Day one was "stamping on patterned paper," so that's what I did.  In my paper stash I found this 12x12 sheet of adorable paper (K&Co or DSWV) that I cut down to size, shadow-stamped with Hello (SU!) in wild wasabi and black (SU!), double-matted, and attached to my card base. 

 

I topped it off with a green apple embellie from my friend Loll's card candy, which she so generously gave to me.  That's what she does.  She doesn't sell her card candy, even though she could.  She just gives it away to her friends!  You can see it in the center of my last week's WOYWW desk.  Thank you again, Loll! 

 

The paper and the card candy are both NBUS (never-before-used-schtuff) so I'm back on track and moving forward!

 

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I hope you had a great week, enjoy WOYWW, and enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*!

 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse!  If you are unfamiliar with WOYWW, just click on the link, which will take you to Julia's fantastic site for all the addicting details.  Please do leave me a comment to let me know you came by so I can make sure and return the flavor!!

 

Mwah! 
  

*Life Is Too Short!