Paper Product Redux (098/365)

TIME: 5:46 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Paper towel pattern

I’ve taken a photo of a paper towel pattern before.

In 2012!

It was time for another.

Get To Work! (071/365)

TIME: 4:42 PM
PLACE: Work
SUBJECT: Origami

A couple of years ago, I had an Origami Page-A-Day calendar at work.

This guy and his hat were two days I folded and ended up keeping.

He stares at me all day long.

Ledger-flake (032/365)

TIME: 7:49 AM
PLACE: Work
SUBJECT: Paper snowflake

Last year I forced my co-workers to cut out snowflakes from ledger paper I had on hand from my old auditing days.

We also made a paper clip chain for garland.

They went back on the department tree this year.

Chalk Swatches (012/365)

TIME: 8:50 PM
PLACE: Living room
SUBJECT: Art chalk and sketchbook

StellaDella is experimenting with pastels tonight.

Before she begins drawing and sketching, she makes a swatch of each pastel color in her sketchbook.
That way she knows how the colors will look when she uses them  in her artwork.
The color swatches look like art too.

Bucket List (171/365)

TIME: 6:41 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT:  StellaDella’s Summer Bucket List

It reads….

1.  Ride evertthing [sic] at six flags
2. learn to knit
3. eat pig trough with family [this is an ice cream challenge at the White Cottage]
4. get rainbow dash back pack
5. go camping in tent
6. fish with dad.

She said to me, “I think this is all doable.”

Yep, I Voted (311/366)

“Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.”

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror VII, Written by Ken Keeler, Dan Greaney and David S. Cohen, Directed by Mike B. Anderson, Production code: 4F02 Original airdate in U.S.: 27-Oct-96

TIME:  4:38 PM
PLACE:  Polling place
SUBJECT:  Official Ballot header

Some of my candidates won, some did not.  In one local race that I really cared about, my choice was a winner.  I’m happy.

Paper Product (159/366)

“The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?”

Jef I. Richards (US advertising professor)

TIME:  8:49 PM
PLACE:  Home
SUBJECT:  Paper towels

Some days (yesterday) you have so many photos you can’t choose just one to post.

Some days (today) you have no freaking clue what you are going to take a photo of for the day.

Hence…a paper towels picture.

How An Accountant Wraps A Present (347/365)

“I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.”

Stephen Wright (American Actor and Writer, b.1955)

TIME:  11:58 PM
PLACE:  Desk
SUBJECT:  Employee gift exchange contribution

Tomorrow is the Christmas luncheon and gift exchange at work.  The gift exchange isn’t mandatory, but I decided to join in this year.  It’s one of those exchanges where you can “steal” gifts from co-workers.  The only stipulations were the gift value ($15) and you had to wrap it pretty.  I bought a $15 Starbucks card and then I went “green” with the wrapping.  I used a cereal box to place the gift in; then made the bow out of a jeweler’s advertising insert and wrapped the box with the stock section of the paper.  I think it’s rather festive myself.

Paper Snowflakes (344/365)

General der Infantrie Albert Burkhalter: What would you rather have fall upon you, responsibility, or snowflakes?

"Color The Luftwaffe Red." Hogan's Heros. Perf. Leon Askin. 16 Nov. 1968. Television. 

TIME:  11:12 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  Paper snowflakes

This is what I was doing while watching the James Bond movie last night – cutting out paper snowflakes to hang in the living room.  And after?  I vacuumed up all the little pieces of paper with my Dyson.  Now you just stop right there. Please. Please quit being jealous of my wild Friday night escapades…it’s not always that exciting of a time.  It’s usually quite boring.

Shredded (332/365)

Jimmy: You know, there's some sort of speed control on here, somewhere.
Beth: Oh, hang on, hang on, here are the instructions for the shredder.
Jimmy: Wait, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait. Shredding the instructions for the shredder. Talk about your mind blowing irony. Dare I?
Beth: Oh, ah, Sir, I...
Jimmy: Let's do it. Go, baby, go!
[Drops manual in shredder]
Jimmy: Now, where the hell's that speed control?

"Friends." News Radio. Perf. Stephen Root and Vicki Lewis. 14 Nov. 1995. Television.

TIME:  10:49 PM
PLACE:  Home
SUBJECT:  Shredded remains

How I spent my evening…catching up on the never-ending pile of paperwork at home.  Going through the mail/bills/receipts/school papers/etc.; entering data into my Quicken program (because you know, I can’t get enough of that number stuff at work – you caught my sarcastic tone right?); and shredding everything when I’m done with it.  I shred it all because I am a paranoid person and don’t need anyone getting into my “bidnesz”.

Homework (249/365)

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

Lily Tomlin (American Actress and Comedian. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2003.b.1939)

TIME:  7:50 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen table
SUBJECT:  StellaDella doing spelling homework

Unlike last year, SD actually has homework that takes longer than 5 minutes to complete.  Tonight she had to neatly write the spelling sentence 3 times in her spelling notebook and then complete page 1 of her spelling packet.  It took her about 20 minutes to do – that wasn’t too bad.

I, Robot (237/365)

“I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning normally—“

Hal 9000 (2001, A Space Odyssey)

TIME:  10:48 PM
PLACE:  My desk
SUBJECT:  A robot made by StellaDella

I took photos of an ice sculpture that was at a fundraiser I attended earlier this evening, but none of them were in focus…that’s what I get for not using a flash.  Anyhow, I was panicking about what I would have to post today.  Like this is the most important thing in the world…yeah, right.  So I turned to my desk and seized upon the “robot” that SD made the other night.  He looks a little forlorn and sad standing there in the desk light.  SD needs to make him a friend to play with.

Sadly, We All Find It Funny (190/365)

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

Dave Barry (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)

TIME:  10:32 PM
PLACE:  My brother’s house
SUBJECT:  Answer slips

We celebrated my nephew’s birthday at my oldest brother’s house this evening.  It was the last night spent with my California brother and his family before they fly home tomorrow.  We ended up playing a game called “Things” – basically everyone writes an answer to a posed question and your job is to match up each player with the answer they gave.  It didn’t take long before the “farts”, “poops”, “boobs” and several R-rated phrases appeared in the written answers – usually in duplicate.  And, since apparently all of us have the intellectual maturity of a 12 year-old boy, we giggled and snickered each time they were read.  ‘Cause that’s how my family rolls.

Paid (053/365)

"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist, 1803–1873)

TIME:  12:24 PM
PLACE:  Work
SUBJECT:  “Paid” and date stamp

I am an accounting geek and I have a secret…I love the “ker-chunk” sound my self-inking “Paid” stamp makes when I use it on an invoice.   I will also admit to enjoying the daily routine of changing the date on my date stamper.  I believe these things are required to tickle your fancy in order for one to be a card-carrying bean-counter.  Or maybe I am just eccentric.

Hanging Hearts (045/365)

“Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.”

~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest

TIME:  8:20 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  Paper hearts

I put these together on Thursday evening, so I would have some decorations up for StellaDella’s family party on Friday night.  I had the paper and eyelets on hand, so it was a very inexpensive endeavor.  We began our Valentine’s day with the annual cooking of the pink heart-shaped pancakes. (I was going to post a picture of them, but that would be two pancake pictures in a row and that would be against my arbitrary rules I have for this project.) The kids only had a half-day of school, but managed to have Valentine parties worked into the condensed day.  HH gave me a box of chocolate covered strawberries and a card with kittens on it.  He also made a tasty dinner <= always a good thing! 

Crayon Carnage (033/365)

"Life is about using the whole box of crayons."

~RuPaul  (American actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer-songwriter, b1960)

TIME:  11:50 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Shredded crayon wrappers

We started making StellaDella’s classroom Valentines today while they were out of school due to the snow.  We are recycling the plethora of old crayons we have (two plastic shoeboxes full) into new chunky swirly ones by melting them in a Valentine cookie pan I purchased on clearance at Target last year.  StellaDella and I peeled the paper from a kabillion crayons – Two things I learned from this:  One: peeling crayons takes much longer than you think it would and two: I am a much faster peeler than she is.

Paper Lanterns (310/365)

“No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.”
 
Carole Borges (American, author, poet)

TIME:  9:24 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  Paper lanterns

I made these paper lanterns last night to decorate for the DramaQueen’s birthday party we had tonight and also for Thanksgiving.  I think Thanksgiving is such an overlooked holiday when it comes to decorations – in the stores, as soon as Halloween ends, Christmas takes over and Thanksgiving gets the shaft – well, that’s not going to happen in my house.  So there!  These lanterns are just some cardstock I had on hand, cut into strips, then punched and threaded with some natural hemp cording.  I made ten of them in five colors and two sizes.  I varied the lengths of the cord so they are staggered as they hang.  So simple, yet it makes me happy looking at them.