Music Class and a Thank You! ~ ATCAS #21; CCIC; NBUS #48; PIXIE'S #88

Welcome to September! 

On average September is the most beautiful month of the year in America and the most comfortable.  September begins on the same day of the week as December every year, because there are 91 days separating September and December, which is a multiple of seven (the number of days in the week). No other month ends on the same day of the week as September in any year.

I gave you the above information because on average September is also the beginning of a new school year.  Return, recommunion, reconnecting, and resurgence of the leedle gray cells.  Hence, the theme of today's lesson post.  You might wonder why I am giving you math trivia when the post title is music.  No reason.  I just thought you would find it interesting.  Notice how I also slipped in the fact that there are only 91 days until December.

 

Get up.  It's gonna be all right.  It always sneaks up on you, but it always ends up all right.

 

For my card today, I am playing in the Addicted to CAS (ATCAS) challenge, where the code word is "Music."

Thank You!

 

Before I proceed, I want to take a minute and thank Kylie and all the ladies on the fabulous Design Team for honoring me as one of the first inductees into the Addicted to CAS September 2013 Wall of Fame, along with six other outstanding card artists!!  I am thrilled by this unexpected recognition and very grateful!

 

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I am also playing in the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge (CCIS) where the theme is "Back to School."

 

And because schools have playgrounds and I used snippets on my card, I am taking it to play at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground! 



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Finally, my card:

This was a QACAS card!  That NBUS black card base with the white background music text and the chalkboard-like musical note swirl and the words "music time" is a single sheet of patterned paper.  I know, right?!  I simply cut, scored, and folded it in half.  I added the musical score die cut, the NBUS sheet music cut from an ancient scrap of musical images, and some enamel dots. 

 

The musical score was the only thing that took longer than a minuet.  I stacked the colored snippets next to each other onto masking tape and then ran it through the Big Shot.  Even though I anchored it with a piece of tape, you can see that it slipped, hence the white bits. I decided I was okay with it that way.  Walla!

 

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The doorbell to the Playhouse has been quiet for a while, but today I am delighted to introduce you to two new friends!  Please meet Dianne Thomas of The Mouse in the Corner and Oma of I'd Rather Be Crafting!  Again, LOVE those blog names!  These two talented card artists represent the full spectrum of inspiration our community has to offer:  Oma has been blogging since 2008 (!) and Dianne has been blogging since just last month! 

 

Whether you are a seasoned blogger or brand new, you love visits, you love comments, and you love followers.  I appreciate that all of you take the time to do that for me and that you visit our new friends and leave them some love, too!  Mwah!  Welcome, Dianne and Oma, and thank you so much for joining in the fun over here!

 

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So I did a dumb thing.  Remember when I last saw you I was going out to do some gardening?  Well, I did.  It was a glorious day and I had a blast bringing new color and life to the yard and around the Playhouse.  It looks beautiful, if I do say so myself.  I will get out there and take a couple ten photos for you.  The dumb part is that I overdid it.

 

I felt great, you know?  I'd been restricted following my surgery, and it was wonderful to get out and get busy.  Sadly, at this age there is often a "mind-body disconnect."  I scooped and dug and squatted and carried and bent and reached and patted and watered.  Whoopee, I did it!!

 

Unfortunately, yesterday morning I couldn't get out of bed.  I know better, dammit.  That's what's so irritating.  The doctor has shown me X-rated evidence that I am a severe degenerate.  (The rude bastard!)  Back pain makes me a potty mouth.  Okay, that's not true, I'm always a potty mouth.

I think I will change the mind-body disconnect phrase to the "Delusional Mind-Body Disconnect."  Or.  How about DUMB for "Delusional Use of My Back?"  I'd laugh if it didn't hurt.  It's so hard to remember you have a bad back when you are not actively in the throes of a bad back attack.  So DUMB.  I know some of you are also degenerates, so you feel my pain.

 

The upshot is I am unable to sit at a desk for anything but short periods of time.  It has taken me all morning to write this.  My posts in the next few days may appear less often.  I may just do a few photo posts. 

But in the meantime, even if I'm not here every day to nag remind you, I hope that you remember to enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!* 

 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower!   

*Life Is Too Short!  

Paper:  DCWV or K&Company;
  scraps from stash
Die:  Memory Box, "Virtuoso Music"
Enamel Dots:  My Mind's Eye