jamaica

a hundred

The Dares hit one hundred today. Can you believe it? I'm so proud of the girls. I got a good retrospective working on the new site, now with photo albums for favorite pages and comments that work. It's so clean and pretty, and puts all the emphasis on the Dares. Where it should be. And, we've got exciting things coming up... downloads, swaps and all sorts of other fabulousness. So keep watching.

This week's dare was 100. 100 whatevers. I cataloged all the things I want to do but never get around to, and a few silly ones. You can see the inside pages over at the Dares. I had a lot of fun doing it. Maybe I'll tear the pages out as I do them and watch it shrink. 

I was overzealous in my cutting of paper for this little project and ended up with with enough for another book of 100. If you're interested in making your own, leave me a little note and I'll send it off to you. Of course, you'll have to stamp all the pages yourself (stamping 1 to 100 was a bitch) but all the pieces, front, back, paper and ring are there.

Happy Friday!

jamaica

Hey J.Crew...

...how about coming up with a "new favorite silhouette" that works for someone with an ass? Someone who isn't a size two... someone who eats cheeseburgers and likes to drink beer... someone who doesn't want those skinny pants digging into her crotch all day while that damn cardi clings unflatteringly to her butt. Your consideration is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
jamaica

dressed

...because some days I do dress for work. Today is not one of them though. This was last week. In a new three quarter sleeved jacket that ties in the front. Pretty fucking fancy for work. At home. By myself.

rainbow forever

Finally... enough color to justify rainbow order. Pink with red letterpress lines, orange micrograph, yellow boxes, green soccer fields, blue old school computer paper, purple graphs. It's a veritable Lucky Charms of paper.

windows

For Dare 99: Cut-outs. I bought a package of small matchboxes to ship my little letters in. I've just been covering them with paper; they work perfectly and look lovely but I've been wanting to do more. This is the deluxe model... with a window on the front. I exacto'd out a bit of the top before gluing the paper around the box, then carefully cut out and folded back the edges at the window. I used a small piece of heavy Hambly overlay behind the cut-out. Reminds me of a specimen box or itty bitty shadow box. It would be cool to have a whole set of tiny boxes with little trinkets in each one.

And then there's this... I took this from my desk, on the phone with my boss, no zoom or anything, not 5 feet from where I was sitting. Baby Bucky came to eat that tatty bush by my front porch. Which is fine with me (a little National Geographic in my front yard) just as long as she doesn't poop on the walkway.