President Obama speech to students

Here are some other good quotes I came across while working on a Bob Miller story. I guess I must be feeling like a failure lately because these quotes make me feel better:

"I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed," the president said, quoting Michael Jordan.
The president also told the students about J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, and how 12 publishers in a row rejected her first book before she got lucky with the 13th.
"She had a child and no job,’’ Carla Tischio, who team-teaches the class with Bernson, said after Obama’s talk. "She’d go to a coffeehouse, order one cup of coffee, sit there and write and write. What if she had given up after her first rejection?’’

Oh what a night!

love this quote!

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
by Marcel Proust
Sometimes when I feel like I'm the only one who is dealing with something difficult, I come across the quote like this and feel oh so much better. Thanks Mr. Proust......

cigarette museum art

This museum was one of the highlights of the visit, it's where I found the elusive cigarette machine art! I had to splurge and I bought three different coins so I could get three different gifts from the machine.
Let me back up....
Cigarette machine art (for more info go to http://www.artomat.org/home.html) is something I learned about a while back while visiting other crafty blogs. One of the crafters had her works displayed in the machines. I read about these machines and hoped that one day I could create something to put inside. Maybe my button rings, I thought. Or my embroidery designs. Something to do with flowers, but what? Eventually, I put it off and figured I would put that project on the back burner. Seeing it in person actually helped me realize that it was doable.

la la land

Florida was really beautiful and warm and relaxing...All the things I needed. I would have liked to have stayed away longer than a week, but it was still refreshing. Here's just a few of the shots from that week.....

Dave Barry quote

I just read a quote somewhere (I think it was a Dave Barry quote) saying that there is a fine line between hobby and mental illness. I think that's hilarious. Though I haven't been crafting as obsessively lately as I sometimes have been known to, I can relate. The only out of control thing in my life lately is work, it seems as if 12 hour days are the norm for everyone at work lately as our company shifts and tries to make it work with fewer people.