Ah hem!!! It's my birthday....

Oops, so anxious to go shopping that I forgot to put OT in the subject line, sorry.

Patti

Many Happy Returns of the Day!! SJ

In message , Patti writes

Wishing you many Happy Returns of the Day. Hugs Shirley

Have fun, Patti. Happy birthday.

Cheers, Jan

Hope you have lots of fun and go home with bags full!

And Happy Birthday!!!!!

Happy Birthday!

Hey - the neat thing about that is - you can shop when the great bargains are in the stores - your birthday dollars go further... LOL Hope you have a wonderful birthday shopping trip!

Cheryl

Patti wrote:

Awwwwwwwwwwwww, Happy Birthday!! I hope it's a great one!!

Happy Birthday, Patti! I hope you find all sorts of great things with your gift cards. :))))) hugz, Linda P.S. Bead&Button had a class last year making a whimsical bracelet out of chopped up gift cards and credit cards.

Happy Birthday!!! Hope you get lots of glass to melt!

Barbara

Bead & Polymer Clay Votary

There is a very fine line between a hobby and mental illness. (Dave Barry)

Ah, the curse of December birthdays, especially the ones between

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:02:04 -0500, bluemaxx wrote (in message ):

I saw that last year in one of their magazines, and decided I wanted to do something similar. So, I've saved all the little plastic "credit cards" that come in the mail with preapproved credit card offers, a few plastic room keys from some of the places we stayed this year (The hotels have never minded, and I always ask), and several "Charlie Cards," the replacement for tokens on Boston's MBTA system. I have a whole roll of tokens, which has saved them from the fate of being melted down, but that's another story for another time.

All of these cards are sitting in a beaded box on my desk, waiting for me to have a moment to do the perfect project with them. Right now, I think I am going to make a mobile. The arms of the mobile will be curved pieces of wood, decoupaged with old pay stubs, checks from now-defunct bank accounts, and (if I can bear it), a dollar bill or two.

The cards will be cut up a little - I plan to make them look like pirhanas, eating up the paychecks. (My own little joke, captured in my art)

Some of the prettiest cards are affinity cards - an organization teams up with a bank to sponsor a credit card for its members. AAA is one of the more widespread affinity cards. Some tiny fraction of each dollar you spend with the card is passed along to the organization, who gets to design the card for maximum attractiveness to its members. The one from Audobon and some floral society are just gorgeous, and I wish I had ten of them. Then there are credit cards which let you send them a .jpg file, and they'll put it on your Visa card. (I have one from a closed account that stars Bob and Manda.)

It's funny how many people have been saving the cards for me, and I will have plenty to use for practice, and plenty for a couple of mobiles. If I wanted to make those bracelets, we'd be talking between ten and twenty of them. But as soon as anyone has heard about the project, they started saving all the cards from the credit card offers. Like me, the donors were picky: anything that looked blah, or all of those ugly grey fake ones were discarded (no pun intended).

Bob, of course, is going to be less than thrilled when/if I put my lovely mobile in the living room, no matter what statement I'm trying to make. He keeps talking about our next house, and how it will have a finished room over the garage. That's going to be my room, and he plans to install a day bed, a bathroom and little fridge in there, and then, he says, it will be like living alone, because he'd never see me.

Bag that "I'll never see you" baloney. However, I am keeping my comments quiet, because I would LOVE to have such a big space all to myself.

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In article , Kathy N-V wrote: Yeah - you're back!! I missed you. hope you are doing well. Manda must have almost finished college by now ... LOL what a treat to have a Kathy N-V post to read this New Year's Day!

Happy Birthday to Patti and Hi to Kathy NV!!!!

Becki

Nawww. I was going to mosaic it in 11/0 beads, but then I decided that would be too cheap and easy. I'm now using antque 24/0 Italian glass beads. It's kind of tough, doing all that work underwater, but I manage about five hours a day before I pass out from asphyxiation. I should be done (with any luck) in about three years.

Haw yourself, and it's good to see you,

Kathy N-V

P.S.: For those who may be new here, Our dear Sooz is giving me a ribbng for picking projects that are a little um, challenging, then beading around the clock once I get into the groove.

Sooz, you should have seen the pain doctor's face when he asked me about all the cuts on my fingers. After I told him that I had been beadng (with fireline, which isn't exactly silk) he freaked, and now when I go, He asks to see my fingertips. ;-)

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:32:50 -0500, Dr. Sooz wrote (in message ):

Oooooh, a mobile sounds good. :) I, too, have been saving all the free cards that come in the mail. Some are really cool; like the ones that have tiny shoes on them from Sunsilk, and the Coldwater Creek Purple Pansy flowered one. I've got a stack 3 inches high, at least. Started saving them when I read the class description and you had to bring 20 cards to the class! Like who keeps old credit cards??! heh... now B&B isn't offering the class (at least I didn't see it the first time around looking at their booklet).. and now I'm too poor this year to take any classes anyway. But I hesitate to make a bracelet out of the cards; I didn't take the class and I don't believe instructions have been in a magazine yet.

Another thing I've been saving for an eventual *something* to make is all of the old dog and cat rabies tags I had jumbled in a desk drawer. They're colorful because every year a new color and shape comes out, they're metal and they jingle nicely. :)))))

Actually...after paying almost 3 Grand for my cat's surgery... credit cards and rabies tags would go good together on a bracelet! I'll name it Tuck's Revenge. lolol

Haw! Oh, dear, doctors would never understand the cuts on your fingertips.

And remember how Martha Stewart had that TV ad some years back, where she was mosaick> Nawww. I was going to mosaic it in 11/0 beads, but then I decided

People are selling old rabies tags on eBay??!! lol... now I've heard everything. I don't have very many tags saved... couple 5 or so. Maybe I should send them to you. :))))))

Murphy's Law #999: As soon as you throw away something you think is useless, you will find a multitude of uses for it. And that's a fact, Jack. :)))))