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OH SHEILA...

I always like to try to take the time and thank those that take time to give me the time, you know what I mean? Miss Sheila over at Halo Hill is a hoot, yes a hoot and obviously a genius because looky what she wrote about lil' ol' me...Thank you Miss Sheila, it was much appreciated. I am flattered, flabbergasted and flummoxed...

{Visit Halo Hill}

I HEART HAND DRAWN FRAMES...

I was thinking this obsessions would go away, that it was a passing fancy as so many of my obsessions are ( I have A LOT) but I have to admit it's just growing with each day and so I will share what I am hearting today...

{Photo 1 from Inchmark} {Photo 2 from Modern Roost}
{Photo 3 from Hello Lucky}

No. 1 is from a book called 'When you were small' by Sarah O'Leary with truly lovely illustrations by Julie Morstad.  I highly recommend this book to those that have procreated or know of others that have as it is a real imagination generator. The blog where I heisted the photo from 'Inchmark' is quite a read as well, by the talented former Martha/"Mom" staffer Brooke Hellewell Reynolds.  No. 2 is wallpaper by designer Lisa Bengstsson and I totally am going to be stalking this artist as she's just an awesome inspiration plus she seems to have quite a good sense of humor and I need to laugh more. No. 3 is from the Julia Rothman for Hello Lucky project and I am seriously enamored with Miss Julia and if you can't afford anything else from her offerings these cards will do quite nicely thank you, beautiful color and the letterpress detail is truly top notch (yes, of course I have one, I told you I AM OBSESSED).

I think this might even be a fun project to have your creative kid(s) do on white kraft paper, force them to earn their keep, uhm, I mean inspire them to create and then have them send Auntie Miss B. some of their genius.  Totally into it.

ALTERNATIVE ARCHIVIST

{Great idea via Cookie}

What a clever + cool idea, sending yourself letters postmarked to give to your kids one day.  The idea was suggested as an alternative to those that don't scrapbook, a way to document your child's years, but it might be fun to start when you are a Lalapoolza trying to figure out life (like moi). I am totally going to start doing this, maybe enclosing photo's or other ephemera from my current life, it will be like mini time capsules, of course I can eventually show my children if I have them or the mini donks if I don't. 

HAPPY, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA... OR HOW TO GENERATE A FAVICON.

I am totally about judging a book by it's cover, product by it's package and boys by their biceps (just kidding about the latter, totally into big brains, totally...) Anyway, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China or your blog?  Well, it's a little touch, it doesn't make or break your blog but it does give the impression of professionalism because as you can tell by my erudite writing style I am all about professionalism...This little touch is called a 'favicon' I know it sounds like some bad 90's techno band but it's just that little icon that appears in the upper right hand corner of ones browser.  Mine is a tilted chandelier of course, because nothing and I mean nothing screams total professional like a chandelier askew, right?  Well, it's not hard to make one, no sirree, and because you are my very favorite pretties in all the land, yes you, I am giving you a little link to create your very own favicon for free, yes, free.  If you would like to show & tell, please make your favicon and include a link in the comments I totally would love to see what you come up with and how very professional you are.  Now, get going, you have a blog to make infamous...Get you favicon on here.

WHY, THANK YOU...

I am so very flattered when anyone knows I exist, really and truly.  I am also extremely grateful when someone mentions The Bella Bella co. because maybe just maybe that means I am one step closer to not having to be a slave to the man and I can stay at home, design, breed mini donks and eat bon bons (isn't that what all work from home designers want?).  So thank you 'The Speckled Egg' for mentioning our little company and my wildly successful Blahg , I appreciate it more than you can ever imagine...

 

If you have mentioned the Bella Bella co. llc, please let me know I would love to worship at your feet as well....

PARACHUTING SQUIRRELS, WINGED FRENCHIES, WINGED PANDAS AND A BRAIN SURGEON...

Guess what?  Okay, I can never keep a secret, I get to work on Friday!  Yea!  Can you believe how lucky I am?  I know, I know, some girls have ALL the luck. I bet you didn't know that my job was on par with emergency room brain surgeon or homeland security special agent but I suppose it is, lucky, lucky Miss B.!  I mean, I personally don't know anyone else that is getting so lucky.  I told Marie (my biological mother), my great news and she said:

MARIE:      

"Call een seeck."

MISS B.:    

"First of all that's not possible, you see if I don't show up the business might collapse, it might be the end of the company as we know it and that would be just too much responsibility for me and besides it's too obvious getting sick the day after a holiday to lay around in a tryptophan and sugar coma, come on now.."

MARIE:      

"Joo could geet turkee poy-zohn-een, eet happenz to meeleeeanhs of peeple."

MISS B.:    

"Yes I could, but I am obviously very, very important to the success of this company so I must show up on Friday."

So that my pretties is my great news!  I am besides myself.  I don't even have the right words to express just how I feel. Since you most likely won't be working on Friday (don't be a hater) I am offering up a little concellation something something to make you smile, how's that? See below for your smile:

{available at mis nopales art}

Hint: Any time you can include a parachuting squirrel and winged panda in your post, your stats are sure to fly off the charts.  That's right just try slipping those bad boys in and you'll see...

SEMANTICS OR HOW TO HAVE A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL BLOG PART TROIS...

To commemorate my second anniversary of my very, very, very, successful award winning, stimulating and thought provoking blahg I will continue to share what I have learned thus far. So, here my dears is the third installment of my 'Blogging like a banshee series', no, what was that? oh yeah-'How to have a wildly successful blog', somethin' like that.  Now this may not seem important but the title of your post is important, go figure?  So titles like the ones below aren't going to help you much with search engines or new readership and it's all about the readers yo:

{ACTUAL MISS B. TITLES FROM PREVIOUS POSTS, not successful, unless you count the authors amusement than a HUGE success...}

• "Gee, your house smells terrific..."

• "I prefer the term 'blush' eye" (this was in reference to my bout with pink eye, sexy!)

• Welcome to my pity party
• I've been framed...
  
• W.W.K.D.?
  

Titles that will help you reel in the readers, (keeping them reading is a totally different animal), I'm just trying to help you get people to your blog today we'll discuss keeping them there in another installment, so stay with me here...baby steps...

SUCCESSFUL (it's all relative) POST TITLES:

• Bunnies + Balloons, oh yeah and a baby hedgehog, oh my!

• Fat skinny person  (this is one of my most read posts, besides 'brown chicken, brown cow', who knew that we are a majority?)

• Brown chicken brown cow (you see, it's simple to the point and anytime you can slip 'chicken' into a title of your post, I will deem it a success)

• She Bangs (this title is great if you want some weird, lewd contingent coming over to your blog, you see I am desperate for potential advertising dollars, readers so I take what I can get, hi mom! No she's not lewd, but she is one of my only blahg readers, just kidding, my mom is too busy salsa dancing to read my blog, no I am not racial profiling...)

• I cheat...do you? Again this may not bring the type of reader you might want to confess your inner desires to...

Phew, now if you have any specific questions on how you too can have a wildly successful blahg like myself, please feel free to ask away as after 'Black Friday' or as we like to refer to it in our family 'elastic waistband pants day', we will be finito with this series until next year when I will be blahging from my pied a terre in Paris because that's what super successful, award winning, mind numbingly great bloggist do and yes, I will be wearing my elastic waistband pants on a regular basis because who cares what I look like when you can scribe like I do? Okay I know scribe?  I just felt like now that I am so successful I can take liberties with the English language, maybe next year I will invent my own language, why not?

MEET YOU IN THE BACK ALLEY...

Okay my pretties, if you wondered why I changed 'Freeebie Fridays' to 'On the download', it wasn't because I had a flash of genius or anything, but because I never seemed to get it quite together.  Thankfully for you I am not a total sloth, I did  find the missing download provided by the wonderful (and talented) designer Cori McCabe of Back alley design.  I really love this one, I know I always love them all, but I'm greedy and this one is another to add to the stash of tres fab downloads.  Cori made you a printable pdf of her paper airplane design which is perfect in every way:

{Visit Back Alley Design}

Okay, you have to give me props for finding this designer right? I asked Cori to tell me a little bit about herself, under the guise of 'professional' journalism and not because I am nosy or anything like that, nope not I... Miss Cori obliged:

My name is Cori, and my favorite typeface at the moment is Copperplate Gothic. (I'm a typography snob) Graphic design and photography are two of my favorite mediums. I got my graphic design degree less than 2 years ago so I still have a lot to learn. Meanwhile I have been having fun breaking all of the rules now that I'm not being graded! I can often be found on my laptop with a warm cup of tea in hand and my cat Miffy snuggled up on my lap. Maybe I'm a little crazy, but I believe that good design can change the world.

Cori was kind to also add in another little freebie, a recipe card pdf, with an antique strawberry motif, so sweet (both the card and Miss Cori of course).

Thank you again Cori! I do apologize to all you lovelies that I can't be counted on to stick to my schedule but I did make Monday just a little better, no?

Get your download on here:

Paper Airplane notecards
 Strawberry recipe cards

BUNNIES + BALLOONS, OH YEAH AND A BABY HEDGEHOG, OH MY!

There really is nothing quite like baby bunnies, especially if they are fat and floating in the sky with balloons tied around their waist, nope, nothing quite like that...

{Bunnies adrift by Argyle Whale}

Unless of course you added an adopted baby Hedgehog named Acorn into the mix and then mayhem ensues, perhaps you go into cute coma or you can't remove that look from your face of sheer and utter delight.  I like to be delighted. I hope you do as well. If not, whatever you do don't look at the image below...Btw, I didn't know you could adopt hedgehogs and I've never seen one in Los Angeles before, so thanks to the world wide web, I suddenly feel incomplete without one...

{Baby Hedgehog by Justin + Elise}

AND THE WINNER IS...

Yes my pretties, Shannon G. won the 'Jettsetter' calling cards for either herself or a friend (hopefully a very, very good one, if that's the route she takes).  I need Miss Shannon to email me so I can get all the pertinents like name, number, email and 'title', going with the address on back or not, you know the details...Please don't worry your pretty little head if you didn't win, you ARE NOT A LOSER!  NOPE.  You just aren't a winner...yet. Okay, you are all winners in my eyes because absolutely no loser would spend their hard earned free time reading this here blahg, no siree, no they wouldn't, that is why you are winners.  I on the other hand may be considered a loser or at the very least absent minded or lazy, or?  I can't seem to find your download for today, I DO have one, I really do and it was AWESOME and I am sure it's 'round here somewhere but at this moment I can't find it and I can't remember who is providing it and she is probably wishing she had a dart board with my mug on it because these downloads take time and I've of course gone and messed it all up...again...Well, just let me tell you, if I didn't have a full-time job and owned a small business and a Time Machine, had a hungry Fancy, two very spoiled puppies and had one insane mom to deal with I would totally be on top of things, I know I would and you would get your downloads when I said you'd get your downloads and we wouldn't have this kinda of trouble on a weekly basis, ya know?

I will be serving up another chance to win next week, I am going to try to offer up some chic Mommy cards, see if they are 'chic'-er than most, without having to resort to selling your first born child to get your hands on said Mommy cards, which of course would defeat the purpose of them, especially if your first born happens to be your only, but heck, I guess the beauty of these extra chic Mommy cards is that if you are not a mommy you could still use them, which is perfect for the Mommy that isn't that social she can use them way past the time of playground playdates and pass them out at her first born's wedding or somethin'. I promise to try to make something timeless and as beautiful today as in 25 years from now, but anyway, come back Monday, I'm gonna make it Funday...