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Day 18 Thing:  A dry-run set up of the table for my first craft fair.  (It goes along with the student fashion show at the local UC.)  It turned out quite nicely, but rather than show those pics, I am including a much more inspiring one of the buttons I just picked up at Thrift Town for my cuffs/headbands:

Day 19 Thing:  A handwritten note to my dear friend.  Another favorite thrift store of mine supports the local SPCA and has a great collection of old/vintage greeting cards.  This one is a (not-vintage) hilarious, slightly fuzzy, photo of a groundhog (?) glued to a card.

So as some of you may have noticed, I’ve missed a couple days of Thing-A-Day… Well, today was “makeup day”, and I did a whole bunch of stuff that I’m going to post - including 3 new celtic knots and a recipe.

I’m going to post each Thing separately, because of the size limit on postings (or at least on images)…

So, onwards and upwards!

I am helping my brother(in-law) come up with a way of presenting a short written piece to somebody so that it is more substantial than your average note.  Because of the sad nature of this keepsake, just handing over a sheet of printer paper isn’t exactly appropriate.  Here is the mock-up of what came to mind.

My thing today was inspired by something that happened to a friend who had left his car with a flat tire for three days in a movie theater parking lot. When he returned there was a sheet of canvas with a note on one side and an abstract, yet warm and friendly painting on the other. My note reads:

“Hello Friend,

I do not know who you are or what you look like, but I want to tell you that I think you are a beautiful person, regardless. A friend once told me that she believes in telling people nice things about themselves because even that small amount of positive energy, when repeated enough, has the capability to change the world. Well, I am not one for that sort of extreme optimism, but I do think it true that the smallest random incident is enough to change the outcome of a day, or hour - perhaps just an instant . . . but isn’t it worth it to try? So I hope you future happiness and peace of mind.

Enjoy the snow, your friend”