I’m hooked!
I’m hooked on art journaling and ever since Glenda mentioned the online
store “VivaLasVegaStamps” I’m hooked on that too!
Look what came in the mail this week…
After I ordered these stamps, they arrived within a week!
All the way from Vegas! Now THAT’S some service! Wohwee!!!
It’s that I’m on a budget, otherwise I’d buy more, and more, and more of these
beauty’s! I spend quite some time on their site, drooling over all the gorgeous
stamps, giggling over some text-stamps (“Elvis is dead and I’m not feeling
too good myself”) and narrowing down my “first choice” in stamps to a
reasonable amount (my first choice would have cost me $180)
I’m totally in love with the “running lady” (the big stamp on the left) and she
reminds me of my friend Lenny!!! Aaaah, dear Lenny (bonjour ma belle!)
I met Lenny when I was twenty, and we shared the second floor of a house
for almost a year. We lived in a “girls house” and there was a lot of giggling and
hairdressing and “what colour lipstick does match with my dress you think?”
and swapping clothes going on in there! Downstairs lived two girls, sharing a
kitchen and bathroom, and upstairs it was the domain of Lenny and me.
On Saturday nights we all dressed up to go into town. It was only a 10 minute
walk to get to the “place to be” where the terraces (and the party people) were
but sometimes the four of us ordered a big, fat taxi and we let it drive to that
place – the chauffeur would open the doors for us right in front of the crowded
terrace and we would make an entrance like I never did again in my life…
oh it was such fun!
I remember our little kitchen in the front of the house where Lenny and I
spend hours sitting at the little “fifties table” (a triangle shaped table with
three legs – remember those?) discussing the “facts of life” – and we looked
at our little corner closet with glass in front, where we kept our collection
of “fifties kitchen items” (we brought those home from our raids to flea
markets and second hand stores) She was a fan of Marilyn Monroe and
we loved to dress up in tight skirts, high heels and fifties “twinsets”.
No wonder that stamp brought it all back…
Before I sound like a real old lady, musing over the old days – let me show
you what I made this week. This is a tiny mini album for my aunt’s birthday.
She lives near the sea and loves everything about it, so I focussed on sea
and shells and used poems (haiku’s) written by my mum for the journaling.
(My mum’s a poet and writer – lots of children books with her name on it –
and you can find her website here)
And of course I HAD to play with my new stamps!!!
When I saw the “shooting girl” a song came to mind, so I used that stamp
to make another ATC for “ATC the Music”
Nancy Sinatra – “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”
And with this BANG I’ll leave you for the weekend.
Have a lovin’ Valentine’s day on Sunday, and see you next week.
Je t’embrasse!