Thing-a-day.com

Finally! Figured out how to print nicely and cut in a straight line

Not-so-shameless plug (hey, you’ve been asking!): These are freshly posted in my etsy, if you’re interested.
(molliefabric.etsy.com)

I can’t believe this is the last day! I’ll post one more thing tonight (this post is for yesterday).
Thing-a-day really got me goin! I’m feeling so… useful haha

Seriously though, is there a year round community for this? I want to keep going. I guess I could start my own blog, but having a community to interact with would be way better! Does anyone know? I cant find any info about it on the thing-a-day site.

Ouch. Ouch ouch ouch. My wrist isn’t so pleased right now, but DAMN those are some sharp looking envelopes. Actually I had my sister here helping me or I’d be in a bigger mess with my mad bad wrist. These are for the valentines that I will be working on tomorrow with my first grade son - 20 different papers for 20 different envelopes. Don’t worry, the kidlets will all get a Sponge Bob lollipop so even if they don’t enjoy the beauty of these babies, they’ll still be happy

He made the lizard one from a magazine page. It’s upside down and its head is on the back. I think it’s the best one for his teacher.

Hah. I just noticed the new themes. Guess I’m just in time, eh?

With all the orders I got the past days I ran out of supplies. Today I’ve had to stock on my box envelopes. I make these with some scrapbook paper with a template I made. Love these little things they are so easy to make quick and fun. Plus they are perfect to put my stitch markers wrapped in some bubble wrap in. They make a cute presentation for my customers.

I have finally finished up with my finger painted valentines project (except for the whole actually going to the post office bit). I struggled with decorating my envelopes… I have grown tired of my Valentine’s Day project, so most are simple. But then, necessity (which we all know is the mother of invention) helped get my creative juices going. I was running low on envelopes due to my usual absentminded mess-ups. Additionally, my last two valentine cards were of an unusual size. I also felt bad wasting envelopes. So I recycled my mess up envelopes! Yay! These were my favorite envelopes to make. I have included a picture of a ho-hum envelope (very valentiney) and pictures of my favorite re-worked (but not so valentiney) envelopes. And in the spirit of our nation today, I redacted my envelope picture for privacy sake.

Ho Hum Valentine Envelope

Redacted & Reworked Envelope

Back of Reworked Envelope

For all the pretty paper I have hidden away, I really prefer general office supplies. Interoffice envelopes are my favorite.

So it’s February 1st and I’ve taken a good look through todays Thing-a-day’s posts and I’m beginning to wonder what I am doing here lol. There’s just so much talent here! How wonderful. I had intentions of sewing up something today to post. However, my habit of daydreaming kicked in and rather than sewing, I just sat around daydreaming and doodling.

It used to be that I would doodle on scratch paper and throw it out when I was done, but since I’ve been doing a lot of letter writing lately I’ve decided to dress up the plain white envelopes with my handy dandy art work…And when I say “art work”, I use the term loosely. In fact, here is a picture of my handy dandy art supplies. A plain white envelope and a Strawberry Shortcake pen. Ooo Strawberry Shortcake, you know you’re jealous. The pen’s pretty sucky though, since it doesn’t smell like strawberries like the smelly dolls used to back in my day.

And here are my envelopes.

Not sure what my fascination is with cats lately. I don’t even own one. The cat on the bottom envelope was intended to be purely black, but since my nifty Strawberry Shortcake pen has a super duper ultra fine tip, I got lazy trying to color the cat in and said, “Eh, good enough.” So we’ll just pretend I meant for him to look this way okay?  Sshhh…it’s our little secret.