greetings.

So apparently I like to take 4 month breaks between posts.  I'm back!  At least for today, anyway.  Greetings sir and madam.

My friend Audra and I (Hi Audra Lou, Esq.) were in the card-making mood again the other day, and here are a couple that came about from that batch.

thanks!

Tuesday marked 3 years of being married to my wonderful husband.  ...and his family.  I LOVE the Steichens.  They are the family who are all so smart, well-rounded, and talented.  Seriously - this is the type of family that spontaneously gathers around the piano and sings (yet are still somehow all very normal people) at the holidays....or really anytime 3 or more of them are gathered.  I'm pretty sure I'm the black-sheep of the family in that arena.

My mother-in-law is fabulous.  In fact, her nickname is FMIL - which pre-wedding stood for "Future Mother In Law," and 3 years later we both still use it on cards, etc. and say the F stands for Fabulous.  She once told me that if she was ever getting on my nerves the F could stand for something completely different.  Ha!

Anyway, my FMIL completely read my mind this week, and got me some beeyootimous new placemats.  Um...I mean "us."  She got US some new placemats.  

I was feeling a bit artsy fartsy, so I went ahead and made a homemade thank-you card.  Forgot to take a pic of the inside.  Whoops.

....Yep, another door in the background.

sick.

When my friend Audra Lou H. Esquire asked me to draw her a card that was happy, we came up with a cutesy cartoon-y frog checking out some crazy double rainbows.

But then we decided that what would really make a nice card was someone with a heart that was exploding.  For those of you that just viewed the previous image, you might think this would mean a cute representation of a post-Whoville-sing-along grinch-like heart that's so filled with love it pops neatly out of one's chest.  But no...we have more of a sick sense of humor...so....this:

Is that blood on the wall?!  Yes...yes it is.  Please don't commit me.

calvinball.

Have you ever played the game 1000 blank white cards?  The game is one in which you don't really have rules.  Or, you make them up as you go.  And then you break them!  And you draw!  And write stuff!  And get points!  Or lose points...   

The way it works is this:  everyone gets dealt a hand from a pile of blank white notecards at the beginning of the game.  They are armed with only a pen and their creative (or vicious) minds to make their own cards.  The cards can give or take points, suggest an action, make up a rule for the game, or are just to make people laugh.  I find that most of the cards fall into this last category.  Once everyone has a few cards with which to start, you simply go around the circle and play your cards, draw from the middle pile, make new cards as you go, and see what transpires.  

Here are a few cards I drew the last time we played.  I apologize for the grossness of the first one.  Groooosss.

When I played, one card made everyone eat bites of hot hot salsa or lose a turn.  One friend got peckish and made a "go get me a snack" card, and one card gave the player points if they could get our dog to bark.