BOO!

Did I scare ya?

I have been so bad about updating this blog lately. I swear, I really haven't had anything to show. Haven't had time to do anything creative in so long. I'm hoping I will have some summer days that will give me long stretches of time to make a few things. I have a long list of stuff I want to make and a few unfinished things. I have done a couple of pages in a little journal that belongs to my friend Heather

(http://boobyfish.blogspot.com.) I have no idea if that link will work because typepad has made so many changes that I feel like I've never been here before. My little "insert link" icon is grayed out. Very annoying.

I'm hoping to be able to share some creative endeavors soon and some youtube and/or flickr videos. Flickr now has video hosting with a limit of 90 seconds. There was a bobwhite quail talking outside my studio window this morning and I caught him with my Flip. I'm going to try to upload it to Flickr. I'll let you know if I'm successful. I'm hoping you will be able to hear him through the window. I love the sound of a bobwhite quail. Reminds me of my grandmother who could mimic it exactly. When I was little I thought it was AMAZING that a bobwhite just happened to make a sound that sounded like their name! Don't you just love the way children think? It never occurred to me that the bobwhite got it's name because of the sound it makes:)

Wallpaper News

My etsy shop is pretty bare these days. I think I have 3 more of the nonflocked mini-packs. I have been cutting for the past 2 days. I've completed more large flocked and regular packs and am almost finished packaging another round of regular mini-packs. I should have another round of flocked mini-packs finished tomorrow. The hope is to get EVERYTHING listed by tomorrow evening. I've changed things up a bit. The larger packs will now fit in a flat rate priority envelope. This change serves 2 purposes; one, to accommodate international buyers and, two, I can now ship 1 flocked pack and 1 regular pack together without the shipping price increasing. Now days, the shipping price increases on Priority mail when it goes beyond 1 pound. On top of that, it increases based on the distance of your postal zone from my postal zone. It's almost $8.00 for more than one pound from here to California. Crazy. So, I'm hoping to use the postal service in the most efficient way possible. The only bad thing is I cannot possibly fit 2 flocked packs in a flat rate envelope, but I can fit one flock and one regular or 2 (possibly 3) regular packs. I'm not sure how I'll work all these weird shipping combinations out on etsy. Hmmm. I'll think about it later.

From Natasha

Sweet Natasha (

http://natashaburns.blogspot.com) sent me a wonderful little package a while back. Here it is:

Here is a closer look at the print of her wonderful red sundae painting:

Wow. This typepad has really changed. I'm having lots of trouble.  Doesn't Natasha do the most beautiful work? I love the way her prints look on the sheet music. Very cool. The red sheets are vintage, felt contact paper! It was among her grandmother's things. It's wonderful and I've already used it! I'm allowing myself to use one sheet and I'll hoard the rest. Thank you Miss Natasha:)

Etsy Love

Here are a couple of things I purchased from etsy a while back. Oh, I love them both so much. First is this darling and perfect little birdhouse from Jeanne (

http://jeanneszewczyk.blogspot.com/).  I can't believe I can't insert a link. ANNOYING. Jeanne makes the most amazing things. I'm in awe of everything she does.

Next, is this tiny little box from Jenny (http://journals.aol.com/jennyeveryday/everyday-is-a-holiday/). I use it on my desk to keep little things that accidentally don't get picked up like rhinestones & beads. I always check this little box before going to my big stash. It's perfect and I get to look at one of my favorite of Jenny's paintings.

Okay....I'm off. I've got to get out of this typepad nightmare. I have no idea how this post is going to look. I guess I need to spend some time studying this new way of doing things. Seems a lot harder to me. I know I need to work on my blog in a major way. I promise it's about 5th on my list of priorities. Hopefully I can get to it in July:) I'm going to need your help Heather.

Comments

[Jessica Canham]

Hey, good to see you, Donna! I got an email from Typepad informing us that it was going to have some new features. Maybe they're just working out the bugs. I hope it will be easier to line up text and photos.

[Heather]

Well where are the pix of your pages in my book? Are you keeping them secret? I of course will help you with your blog when you are ready.
miss you
xoxo

[Barbara]

YEAH! Glad to see a new post. It looks really good. I saw an email regarding changes, but haven't made a most yet. Maybe tonight. Hope I can navigate thru all the differences without too much trouble. I am looking foward to seeing your flip video. I keep thinkin I need to get one of those things because I want an easy way to load videos, and my current situation seems too complicated for me (and I am finding I don't have the time and patience to figure it out).

[Will]

I can't seem to master Blogger! I dont' know what I would do if I had to go with Typepad. It's kind of like using Publisher and PageMaker, the real and the...not. Google reader has kept me from being so keyed up about the long posts, now I can just read them when they come my way and not think about it. Kind of nice kwim? Not that you read my blog.

[karin (creativechaos)]

Oh boy...I'm in trouble. You are the 4th person today that is complaining about posting on typepad with the new changes....I'm posting tomorrow....if you don't ever hear from me again it means typepad killed me.....

[Carol/Sassafras & LuLu]

Hi Donna...ya scared me...well I was absent for a while too...life is like that. LOVE that artwork of Natasha's on that sheet music. I am sure you have just been tryin to get things done which requires some little times away. Good luck w/typepad stuff, I am so not a techi, I still gotta learn how to do a header some day!
hugs, Carol

[Jeanne]

Oh cool...my name in lights, er well, in writing anyway. So happy you like your little birdhouse! It was my favorite of the ones I made. I have some new birdhouses that need to be decorated....hmmm, wonder if I'll get around to them before the birds fly south for the winter? That little box of Jenny's is darling....is that a portrait of you on the lid?
Hope you figure out Typepad...I was always under the impression that it was less of a hassle than Blogger. I wonder where I ever got that idea! Good luck! :)
xo
jeanne

[Natasha Burns]

Hiya Donna! glad you like your goodies, I'll send you more of that red contact paper as soon as I can. Love the goodies you've been buying, just so sweet!
I hear typepad is a nightmare to work out, I'm happily plodding along with blogger thanks to Heather doing a beautiful layout for me! Glad people know how to do it because if i was left to my own devices my blog would look scary!

[jenny holiday]

Donna!!!
Hello hello!! I am playing MAJOR catch up in blogland today...well I have about an hour...and I am checking in with my favorite gals. We are in the process of moving. It truly came outta nooowhere. We have been in our current apt. for 12 years!! It will be a miracle if we can pull this all off by the end of the month.

As always your blog is just oozing with fabulousness!! Your papers...creations...doodles...bits, all make my heart sing! I am dying to order some of your papers...but I think it may have to wait till I am in the new place. I hope you will have some left.

Ohh...and thank you so so much for purchasing one of my itty bitty boxes. So so happy she is living under your red roof!! :)

Happy Summer!!

xoxo Jenny