PaperWhimsy

Happy Thanksgiving & a Giftie!

I just read somewhere that there are only 34 days til Christmas!  Now, back in the "olden days" you didn't even think about Christmas until after Thanksgiving.  But since I've been thinking about Christmas for about three months, now for my shoppe, PaperWhimsy, I'm panic stricken!  I don't have any idea what I'm getting anyone let alone my gifts bought let alone my gifts wrapped.

So, if you're like me - you haven't bought gifts yet or any of the paraphernalia that goes with the gifts like the gift tags - or you haven't bought your Christmas cards, yet... maybe these little holiday gifties will help.

I'm attaching two digital files here for you to use for decorating your packages or making Christmas cards.  I started out with the PINK because I'm a pinkie and then thought, "Hey, not everyone is a pinkie", so I also made them in a sepia (which still has a hint of pink).  So, if you're a pinkie hopefully the PINK ones will please, and if you're not a pinkie, then hopefully the SEPIA will float your boat.  And if you like 'em both then hurrah!!!  Help yourself!

I would dearly love to see what you create with them if you care to share.  Just respond to this post with a link to your blog and your artwork.

Just click on the corresponding image to get to the download.  Please be patient, they're BIG files so it will take a few minutes to load and save to your computer. 

For my other digi sheets, please wander on over to my shoppe.  It just so happens that today is the first day of my Pre-Thanksgiving Giving Thanks Sale. The entire line of my "everyday" digi sheets are marked down 25%.  Just in case you suddenly decide you'd like to make some gifts for someone you love... or yourself!

Happy Thanksgiving!!  Happy Holidays!!!

Newness

Just thought I'd pop in and report that I am almost over my election day miff and back in my studio creating some new digital goodies to keep me inspired and hopefully you, as well.

A few peeks at what's been cooking...

Pretty little faces which are actually composites of several pretty little faces.  The children of Frankenwhimsystein.  I don't think these qualify as Steampunk - no watch parts or nuts and bolts holding them together.  Digging the purple all of a sudden.  You'll be seeing this background in a digi sheet somewhere down the line.

A little closeup for you.  They look as though they're in need of an adventure.  Interested in creating one for them?  You can find these sweet little faces HERE.

And some Christmas papers, below, with special Christmas pricing.  These Christmas bits will be retired on Dec 31st.  Nifty, these, you can just print and print and print to your heart's content - these are in digi format (pdf). 

Again with the purple.  I'm not anti-traditional Christmas colors but these are so much more fun, don't you think?  You can see this sheet HERE.

And some pale frosty blues.  You can find this sheet HERE along with some other flavors.

Is it just me or is Typepad a BEAR to format.  I can never get it to do exactly what I want it to do.  Even with their new and improved display and formatting features.

Back to the creation station.  Cheers!

Did ya vote?

Okay, we're talking about a presidential election and an historic election so I'm getting out of my PJs this morning and heading to my local polling place.  Already know where it is and I'm dragging Draw along so he can soak up this amazing experience.

I figure to head to the polling place at 10am.  After the initial rush hour madness and before the lunch madness.  Makes sense, yeah?

We're voting at the local township fire department and I'm wondering what happens if one of the fire trucks needs to make a run and I'm in the middle of casting my vote.  As it turned out, they did have to make an emergency run but they'd already moved the trucks and equipment out of the garage which is where the voting is taking place.

Get in the line which is snaking outside the building but it seems to be moving pretty fast (at least faster than the haunted house line which is the most recent line I've stood in) so I'm chatting and happy and it's a pretty day.

We finally get inside the fire station which only took about 10 minutes and I figure hey, that's not bad.  Cast my vote and then blow this pop stand 20 minutes tops.  Plus, Starbucks is passing out free coffee and I'm excited about that.  What I don't notice right away because they have the line snake right to go around a table and then snake left to file into the garage, was the enormous snaking line inside the garage.

So, here's the scoop.  I live in one of the fastest growing cities in the US.  One of the five best places to live according to US News or one of those magazines and there are two... TWO voting booths in my precinct.  Well, actually four voting booths but some shmuckety shmuck got it in their mind to have TWO precincts voting at one location.  So there are four voting booths total, divided between two precincts.

The pudgy lady standing at the doughnut table (the doughnuts are not for the cranky voters who are standing in the two snaking lines) is supposed to be directing traffic and alerting the voters as to which of the lines they should be standing in based on which side of the railroad tracks they live.  Unfortunately, she's got a donut in her mouth and can't talk too good.  I stood in line for over an hour before she actually waddled on by close enough for me to ask "what line should I be in?"  It was sheer dumb luck that I happened to be in the right line. 

So, all told, I stood in line for an hour and forty five minutes to take two minutes to cast my vote in one of the two voting booths set up for the 50,000 +/- voters in my precinct.

I'm not gonna ask you who you voted for, I'm more interested in if you had a worse voting experience than I did this morning. 

Hey.  Don't forget your free Starbucks.  House Blend or their Pumpkin Blend.