This time of year...

I've been chatting with a lot of friends lately and December is always this time for big reflections.


But also it's as if extra pressure will always arrive to make you face things more!
Ex girlfriends or boyfriends will suddenly be at the same places you are - the ones they definitely rejected throughout the rest of the year. Families will ask questions you're not used to them asking.
New years will loom up in front of you with a whole suitcase full of both great memories, and definitely in my case, some atrocious ones!


I've worked out I have what I'm from now on calling "baggage anniversaries"...

I'll find at certain times of the year I'm just completely stressed out without warning.
Perhaps I should have immediately "let go" and brushed off hurt from that relationship that crashed around me?
Maybe I should have gone for grief counselling when I lost a friend?
:)

but these aren't soooooo bad? I'm only briefly unbearable at points and try very hard to pull myself back together asap.

Baggage anniversaries are working out ok. It's like having put my luggage I've accumulated over the years on a sort of budget payment plan I guess!
We don't have to force ourselves to deal with everything we go through immediately I think. Just remember to take peeks at it everynow and then before you're buried underneath it all!

Funny enough to post

I first got sent this via e-mail and since then "My heart is a crap taco" has definitely become one of my favourite quotes

Thanks to Dave and a little bit of Internet investigation meet Matthew Inman who, as it turns out, I may have been the last person to have discovered. Ah well it doesn't dim my great impression of his stuff any less so go read!

and aaalso please check the rest of the strip here!

funny blissness... if you don't giggle I don't mean to alarm you but your sense of humour might be dead.

a stitch in time...

...completely wakes up this design!

Being the embroidery obsessed lass that I am these days I'm in what you could call awe of this solution to the Royal Variety Performance's program cover.

Elliot Young was commissioned to create a one-off cover which will be handed to dear Charles and Cammie while the rest of the audience "will have to make do with a printed facsimile if they want to know what time the Pussycat Dolls are coming on" the post says.


I'm really going to try become more active in my love of craftiness *sigh*
So I certainly missed the opportunity this year...but NEXT year people are getting embroidered plushies for Xmas.
that. is. it.

A flock of phones!

Telephone Sheep Exhibit by Artist Jean Luc Cornec in theMuseum für Kommunikation Frankfurt

Found these odd little cuties while stumbling!

"Ever wondered where old phones go once they've been "retired from service"?
Every one of these sheep was made from old telephones and cords."

soooooo cute!

and later...

Mark: i think i might have to make a call...baaaaaaaaaa
me: hehehehehor like hello, baaa-baaa?
hello, good-baaa?
oooh... am gonna add that!
Mark: oh baaa have