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What is that child doing?!

As stated in the last post, I haven't been here in six years. Here's another post that was started and scheduled to be published on August 3, 2008.  I'm posting it now so the subject of the post can drop in and read it. I never finished it, sadly, but this is definitely GiGi all over again. LOL! 

Here's what was in my draft:

Okay, so I'm sitting here at my computer, and my six-year-old is in the kitchen. She's entertaining herself, as is her habit since she has no sibling comrades. She possesses an over-active imagination and has a flair for drama (probably got this from her mother).

Now, I can't swear to this, but I think I've just been listening to a musical version of Macbeth. I have heard, in the space of ten minutes, no less than:

• Three arias (mainly about taking a sh-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w-e-e-r);
• More than three reprimands (to at least one imaginary friend);
• At least three gag attacks (make that five now);
• A speech about the importance of going to bed; and
• What sounds like a rather violent murder by poison (complete with fiendish laughter).

I should probably be recording this so I can blackmail Gigi when she's in high school. 

She's singing, "La-la-la-la-la-la-la," in a drone-like fashion.

But wait!

The wordless aria is over - it has been replaced with these stunning lyrics:

"You takin' a bath, sweetie? Okaaaaaaaaay!"

[pause]

"Are you clean yeeeeeeee-eeee-eeett? I'm cleeeeeeean. I'm clean! I'm clean! I'm clean! Cleeeee-heee-heeee-EEEEEEAAAAAAN!"

"Will you get your face rinsed? Gotta take a little shooooooow-000000w-ooooow-er.... a little shooooooow-000000w-ooooow--OH, GROSS!!!"

[gagging sounds, coughing. . . .]

So, I repeat: What is that child doing?

#END OF ORIGINAL DRAFT#

Here's a picture of the little maniac at her junior prom (Covid robbed her of the senior prom) 2 years ago. (Clearly, she got that bathing thing down.)

 

Pretty Pun'kin'

I haven't been here in six years. *gulp*

As I was tooling around in my posts que, I discovered a number of posts I suspect may never have been published. (Surely this cannot be correct, right?) But, just in case, they weren't. I'm publishing this one now because this is such a stinkin' cute pun'kin'! 

Take THAT, Mr. Easter Bunny!

Here's what was in my draft that was to have been published 10/28/2012 (for heaven's sake!):

This is also my latest card for Outside the Box, the Memory Box Design Team's blog. 

I N S T R U C T I O N S

1. Make 4.25" x 5.5" card using Licorice; round corners.
2. Cut Jack'o'Lantern cardstock panel (4" x 5.25") and round corners. 
3. Using VersaFine Black Onyx ink, stamp Halloween Collage (G1395) repeatedly on the J'o'L panel and adhere to card.
4. Stamp Great Pumpkin with VersaFine Black Onyx ink on mango ginghampatterned paper; cut with Great Pumpkin die and color outer edge around pumpkin with black marker.
5. Color pumpkin's stem with green and brown markers.
6. Die cut Perkiy PumpkinFace 
7. Cut graveyard landscape to 5.5" width and stamp sentiment with embossing ink; sprinkle with embossing powder and heat.
8. Adhere ghost to back of graveyard using thinnest dimensional foam, then attach to card front using thicker dimensional foam.
9. Coat circle with embossing ink; sprinkle with embossing powder and heat (see tip below).
10. Adhere moon to card.
11. Adhere bats to card using dimensional foam.
12. Adhere bling and clean up 'cuz you're finished!     

T I P

Take a scrap piece of cardstock - about 4"-6" long and adhere your circle to the end of it. Now you can apply the embossing ink and powder and be able to hold your circle by its "handle" so you don't burn your fingers when you heat emboss it! 

S U P P L I E S

All supplies are by Memory Box unless otherwise noted. 

Cardstock: Licorice, white; Patterned Paper: Nightfall; Stamps: Gothic Halloween (B1886); Dies: Ghost Trio (98376), Graveyard Landscape (98375), Swooping Bats (98409), Nestabilities circles; Ink: Ranger Distress embossing ink; Other: Ranger Distress Ultrafine Silver Embossing Powder; gems, dimensional foam