It's in the bag....

Okay dear readers. The store is FINALLY open. I set up a few bags today.  I know. I know. I'm a procrastinator. If you're looking for the store, you can click on the link to your right called "my artfire store". Feel free to take a look and tell me what you think.

No pressure.

At all.

It's easy.

Just go look.

If you want to...

Go ahead.

Now.

The end.

Happy Weekend friends :)

Five things...

Five things that made me happy today. Why five? Well....

1. I finished FIVE bags this afternoon. It has taken me forever to put the final touches on these, and I'm very excited to show them to you. I'll post them soon. (tonight or tomorrow)

2. My FIVE year old wrote his numbers 0-65 all by himself!

3. I sold FIVE bags this week. Woo Hoot!

4. I bought a FIVE pound bag of  huge lemons from Costco. We have been living on super-sour lemonades, strawberry lemonades, ginger-lemonades, and for dessert for the grown folks? Electric lemonades. I love finally having summer fruit.... Stores with fresh strawberries, blueberries and pineapple at affordable prices? I'm in heaven.

5. Number FIVE on my list of things that made me happy today? Well it has nothing to do with the number five. It really should have been number one. You see, I bought some new clothes for the teenager. Without her. I know. What was I thinking? But guess what? She liked them! What? You read that right, friends. She REALLY liked them! I mean "tried-them-on-and-twirled-around" liked them! Be prepared for the next part of this story, lest you fall off your chairs.  Because then.....(I'm shaking here)....she said, "Thank you, mom!" and hugged me. Holy Hannah!  I don't quite know what I did to deserve the final shocking occurrence. I've heard it is a rare sight that happens once in a blue moon...but God as my witness, it happened......The teenager. She took those new clothes and..... Hung. Them. Up.  I can die now.

Happy Thursday friends :)

Okay. So I think I know Victoria's Secret......

While browsing in another resale shop, I found some really cute vintage patterns. Not 1912 vintage; more like late '60's- early 70's vintage. They caught my eye when I spotted some gorgeous sketches of women with "smart" hair. These ladies were sporting very cute dresses and blouses and I was reminded how fashions, like so many things, come back around with time. ( Please, I beg you future designers.... for all that is good- keep the leg-warmers and neon socks neatly in the 80's where they belong.) Anyway...I had to pick out a few. There was a blank space on my craft room wall and I had a plan. (and they were only 25 cents each! Come on now, who could pass that up?)

I loved the packaging so much, I decided to choose four of my favorites-

I bought four frames at the dollar store and painted them "ballet slipper pink" (hey, that's what the can called it) from Krylon. I centered the patterns into each and then backed them with aqua cardstock.

Yeah, they're a little girly......so what? :)

And then... I hung them on the glaring blank space in the room. Okay, no I didn't. The husband did. But it's only because he knows how to center and level and NOT knock out drywall and all that fancy stuff. Before you start tsk-tsk-ing me, I DO know how to do those things, but I really have a problem spacing things evenly; especially when the hooks to the frames are not properly spaced. (Dollar store, remember?) So here they are- all cute and even like little OCD soldiers.-

See?  Not a square foot of available space left." That is a quote from the man with the level. In case you missed it, THIS was my all time favorite pattern. I had to hang it but kept the directions for future use. I guess if you ever have too many shellybean bags, (is that possible?) I could always whip you up a pair of panties underpants lingerie bottoms underwear. Man I love to wear them, but hate any word that describes them. (#62 on my crazy list). The only question is your preference. Satin? Cotton? Nylon?  Boy shorts? Cheekys? Bikinis? Grandma-loving-hip hugging-under- the-bra drawers?

That leads us to the title of this post. What,  you ask IS Victoria's secret? Well, after reading the pattern, I'm guessing that.....other than the the sexy models......besides the tiniest bit of fabric and lace.... Get ready for it girls.......because the answer has to be.......a ginormous, never- ending, buy-more-than-one package, boatload amount of.......................ELASTIC! Ugh.

Happy Thursday, friends :)