Color Themed Handmade Postcards

These are for two separate swaps for two different clubs.  Just a little simple idea, using paint chips and one of the photo cards from the paint kiosk.  Then on one I added washi tape and the other a piece of yellow rickrack.  Easy peasy yet fun to make.

Better Than a Photo Postcard

We were to take a photograph and alter it.  I had a hard time deciding and then re-read the directions and saw we could use a magazine photo if we wished.  That was an easier decision.  But then what to do?  Well, doodle I guess.  And this is what happened.

I learn something with every piece I do.  The lesson that came with this one was quit overthinking and being so darn uptight!  UGH!!

Ugly Cat Postcard

Ok first off there is no such thing as an ugly cat!

This is my rendition.  Now if I had to pick a cat that doesn't really appeal to me it would be one of those pushed in face Persian types.  I don't find them so appealing.  Rex though...just gorgeous!  Like a living sculpture.  If I ever decided to get a purebred cat that is what I'd get.  In the meantime I have "American Barn Cats", LOL.  And they are lovable!

Happy Accident

Yesterday I worked at the antique store I have a booth in.  During a down time I was straightening up behind the desk and found a stack of old magazines.  For fun I went tearing (literally) through them (hope that was ok...they were older...2011-2013) and found this full page ad.  I tore it out, brought it home and lo and behold, it matches the cover of my one journaling book.  Pretty cool.  I also have quite a few dogs, cats and some people and sayings I tore out to play with.  I need to come up with a system to organize them.

Just A Note

I made this card for a long time penpal I have just to let her know I am on hiatus for writing letters, that I need this time to go within.  I know she will understand and so I feel I can say this to her.

I grew up with an alcoholic dad.  And making matters worse I had been a daddy's girl until my brother came along and the whole dynamic shifted.  As my dad turned to alcohol more and more I just blamed everything on that.  Of course it didn't help but there was a lot more going on underneath it all.

Now that he is gone I have allowed myself to have fonder feelings for him.  I have come to realize I was a daddy's girl and I feel royally screwed out of a relationship with the man who should have taught me how men are to treat women.  Too late now and at almost 54 I am still trying to figure it out.

Awhile back I came across a book called "Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics".  It is almost 40 years old.  I found it while sorting one of my tubs of stuff and brought it upstairs thinking I can tear it apart and use it in my journaling.   But instead I started reading it.  Today I came across this one and it hit straight home with me.  It says...

"I am learning to avoid hurt by seeing people and situations for what they are-not for what I wish them to be."

Wow.   This is me in a nutshell.  I get frustrated when I devote my being to people only to not have it returned.  I get put out when I can't get one on one time with someone but now I know they just are either more comfortable in a group or are the type a group gathers around.  The friend I am sending this to is one of those.  I always would get so upset because I never could have her attention 100%.  I crave 1:1 but apparently she doesn't and I think I probably even turned her off.  I don't know if I come across needy or not.  One co-worker told me once that she is envious as to how calm and collected I am.  I'm like who, me???  Holy cow, if she saw what was going on inside she'd not think that at all.

We all view things through our own private lenses.  And sometimes that view is wrong.