Carded.

whatever this phase of life is--i've recently decided to hang up any more presumptive thoughts or pressing "why's" and "why not's"--it's a perfect catalyst for the conception of ideas (i.e. more cards):

"hummingbird fly"

(a close up: newsprint wings. my favorite.)

"hello."--this card was inspired by "where the wild things are," which is weird because (a) i haven't seen the movie and (b) I don't remember the book being quite so cheerful. but i had friendly monsters with large teeth in mind when i was making this card...





i can't decide if this is a just a sort of "not your average peacock" card, or a "Happy Thanksgiving, Turkey" card, or maybe it's just a perfect hybrid-- the turkpock:








...last and not least, inspired by my love for coffee and newsprint and Africa and World-Market.







maybe, if I don't get married, instead of being a seamstress, or an eccentric old woman who fills her lonely life with cats, i can make cards. yes, that is what i'll do. make cards and send them out to random people that i find in the phonebook.

it has been decided.

A preview of things to come...

Lately, I've gotten into card-making...

(i apologize for the pictures. in lieu of a camera, I settled on using photobooth on my Mac. I wish that the images weren't reversed. So dumb.)

A series of Thank You cards:



owl.






newspaper tree.












envelope for newspaper-tree card.





a random "I Miss You" card:




(i love those letter stamps. hate that it's backwards. guhr.)





s'more Thank You cards:


this one was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man & The Sea. since the details are hard to see: the blue paper is super-imposed over newsprint, then I used an exacto-knife to cut out the image of the a sailboat in the ocean, with a flock of seagulls soaring above. it's one of my favorites.

this one makes me feel happy and sunny inside.







hey, if you like them, let me know! I am planning to sell some cards on etsy.com sometime in the near future. But if you would like me to make a more personalized set, I would love to do it for you (shameless plug, heh). No, but honestly, card-makin' keeps me sane. So really, it's an investment going towards my emotional well-being.

toodles.