so that worked!

finally...i've been playing with the computer for like an hour and finally figure out how to upload these potholders that i made for erin's shower. well, not bad, i guess, for a cardboard camera. i'll be uploading some more photos that i developed from that camera. and in the meantime, i think i'm going to get a digital camera!
i'm going to try to upload one more photo, this time i think i will try to upload the computer cake (which says Be Obscure Clearly) that I made for the newsroom.

let's see

glycerin

This is hilarious, all the snow globe recipes that call for glycerin say you can find it in a drugstore. I have never seen glycerin in a drugstore in my life. At CVS tonight, the staff agrees they have never seen glycerin in their drugstore, but one nice staffer who used to work at Michael's craft store says I can find it there probably. While I'm at CVS I pick up some mineral oil, because that is what one of the "recipes" calls for. I do want to try it all the different ways, including the way where you make it with clear corn syrup. Let's see which works best.
For some reason I have a thing for snow globes. When I look in my pile of crafty ideas that I have collected over the years I found three different recipes for "How to make snow globes." One was from Martha Stewart, another from a craft magazine from way back, not even sure the name of the magazine, and the other I had handwritten, copied from somewhere, not sure where. Two of the craft books I just took out of the library also have directions on how to make snow globes. So I will give the different ways a whirl and report back.
I also am inspired when I see on a blog I just discovered that the creator of this blog is into snow globes too. She makes a very pretty one and this week it's on her site, called prettylittlethings (http://prettylittlethings.typepad.com/)

make my own soap!

I am so inspired to make a living doing something green and healthy and creative. My career since college has been great, but it's so stressful. There has to be a healthier way to earn a living. Driving back from Woodstock, N.Y., today I had the idea to make my own soap, I would call it "Karen's (Karen means pure in Greek) Blissed Out Soap bar," and "Karen's zoned out body oil," and "Karen's () body scrub." You get the idea! This is so exciting!

book art

When I got home Friday night after bad date, I have urge to create so bad. I pull out the directions for "book art" I had seen in Mary Engelbreit "Home Companion" catalog. I'm going to do some today and when I figure out how to post photos, I will post some! So looking forward!!!!

the dearth

Work has been so crazy this week, filling in for the editor on vacation, that I don't get much time to do creative things and it's a huge bummer. I do get to edit at work, which is somewhat creative, but nothing like the projects I could be doing at home.

computer cake

The cake turned out really good. People loved it. I was afraid they wouldn't be able to figure out what it was, but everyone knew. Though everyone in the newsroom thought I was the one who thought up "Be obscure clearly," which I wrote on that computer screen. I can't believe I was the only one who learned in J-school that it was E.B. White's famous saying.
Hey, I guess that's a compliment-people think I am as witty as E.B. White!