I’m dying to start filling up my shabby journal of scraps prototype, but I am impatiently waiting until class starts so we can do it together! Finishing up with the last of my parent conferences tomorrow brings me one step closer to that end. REMAINS OF THE DAY on a bus coming to a town near you. Soon. Start saving your security envelopes that come inside your bills!
And while I’m on the subject of things the postman slips inside your box. Howz about this?
Okay, so a little dog-eared & chewed up, but a great surprise nevertheless. A thick Papaya catalogue printed on luscious paper! Did one of these land in your box too?
I will be making several purchases out of this baby then cutting it up and taking it back to my craft monkeys and putting it in their scrap bags. These images will have them scratching each others heads and squealing for at least a few days.
Today we played in the itty bitty visual journals. After clean-up was finished one of my bossiest punks fished every last piece of scrap out of the trash, deposited them on my desk in all their wrinkled glory, and announced that a Waster Person had thrown out good paper that could have gone back into the scrap bags.
After a brief, but zealous pontification on the difference between scrap and trash, everyone was instructed to raise their right hands and repeat the I Shall Not Waste Good Scraps Vow. I, Mary Ann Moss, am officially a drama queen.
I didn’t get one!
I don’t have those shoesies, either. 🙁
Someone bestowed some wonderful postcards to me for the B-day.
They come in this mad-crazy-cool tin!
I’m just skipping around this Blog after being distracted and not visiting my faves for a while. Life is VERY black and white without our favorite Blogs.
ox
How did you manage to get the catalogue, I would like one…..I cant find anywhere on there site to get one.
I must have been a bad girl, because that did not show up in my mailbox!
Your little monkeys are very cute. Bet you wish you had them 24 hours a day – about 4 of them…
I link the pink hat and the sequin shoes!
I have started collecting and hoarding security envelopes 🙂 only be free 2nd dec onwards hope I will still be able to join the class!! am so excited!
A Papaya catalogue??? Oh how I wish I could get my hands on one. The beauty and inspiration, not to mention the yummy goods. Oh my!
And don’t ya wish we could keep that sense of self that children seem to innately have? Just wear that bright pink at and sequined shoes, be damned what people might say! lol
Peace & Love,
~Barb~
http://craft-therapy.blogspot.com
It looks like they only make their catalog available to wholesale customers (I checked on the “Contact” section of their website). Boo. Mary Ann, are there other catalogs you find are good for inspiration and/or cutting up purposes? This one does look totally delicious.
wendy & jennifer i have no earthly idea why i got the catalogue – not sure how they devise their mailing lists. ive never ordered from them online before. i dont think theyre a big enough company to do a mass mailing across the u.s. it shall remain a mystery. wish i knew how to tell you to go about getting one for yourself, but i dont…
theres a phone number on the catalogue though: 1-888-488-0638
Have you set a date for the shabby journal class?
How do you get a catalog from them? I checked their website, but couldn’t find a place to request a copy of it.
Hmmm, how do you get on that magical Papaya mailing list for a catalog??
Anxiously awaiting the start of the new class – stockpiling various envelopes from the mail as we speak, urm, type …
What a fashion plate you have own your hands.
P.S. Following up with the Leonard Cohen concert (after I bought the ‘Live in London’ CD) with the “I’m Your Man’ rental from Netflix. Still enthralled.
Hi Mary Ann – I’ve been away from the blogosphere for way too long…but it’s been great scrolling through your wonderful posts for the last month, being inspired and oh so entertained. LOVE LC myself and the I’m Your Man DVD is thrilling. How wonderful to see him in concert…still sexy after all these years, maybe even more now than when he was a young turk. Love also the new Papaya catalog – I too poured over those luscious pages and placed an order pronto. I will finally, I think, break out my gathered supplies this week and work on my stitched and stenciled journal. I know I’m way, way on the late train for this, but excited none-the-less. Love your cutie in pink and tales from black top. Happy turkey day, hope you enjoy some time away from the monkeys. xo fran
tapping fingertips…. waiting (im)patiently for the opening of your class!!! 😀
I’m dying to start filling up my shabby journal of scraps prototype, but I am impatiently waiting until class starts so we can do it together! Is this a class your offering?
I drool over papaya, but the postage costs to Aust are totally freakin insane.. and the bag..love the bag.
oops best hat BEST shoes.
yup. fingers too fast. lol
Best hat. Bet shoes. EVER.
I keep flipping through my catalog. I have a mile long list of the gimme gimmes.
LOL, LOL!!!xx