It Worked!

I've gone from having too little creative energy to too much, if that's possible. Or maybe it was the 3 chocolate brownies I had over the course of the day.

We had a bake sale today at work to raise money for the American Heart Association and I baked a double batch of brownies last night. I try to be modest about my legendary brownies, but damn, these were exquisite! Underbaked just enough to be decadent but not enough to be gooey. So of course I had to try one this morning while I was wrapping them individually for sale. Then I had to buy one after lunch, you know, for charity. And I'd saved a strip of the edge (the best part!) that Steve and I split after dinner, as brownie sundaes.

Oh yeah. Where was I?

So I bought a "mosaic tile" QuicKutz die yesterday and had a vision in my head of what I wanted to do. But I couldn't get there last night.

I call this Paper Frenzy. Every drawer of scraps is open and the pile is about an inch deep on my table. Tonight I finally got the tile part how I wanted it but it took a good hour to come up with the flower part.

But I finally got what I wanted. I originally envisioned a yellow daffodil and spent way too long scouring the Internet, looking for Origami daffodils, quilled daffodils - but nothing was quite right. I just kept playing around with the flower punches I own. This blossom is made out of handmade paper Xyroned to white cardstock and punched out with my beloved leaf punch. I scored each one down the middle so I could fold it slightly. The pale yellow center is held in place with a black eyelet. I like it.

It took me a couple of tries to get it scanned just right so while that was going on, I cleaned up my table. And energy-wise, I crashed. I'm kind of glad because I was so hopped up before, I was wondering if I'd be able to get to sleep. I'll sleep alright.

And little Verona slept through the whole thing. Actually, she didn't - I took this a few days ago. I have to close my studio door when I'm in there working because she hogs the table big-time. I mean she is right wherever my hands are. That went from cute to annoying pretty darn quickly. Closing the door solved that little problem! She still loves to use my mouse hand as a pillow when I'm using my computer. She's the sweetest little snuggle bug.