One Item (yea, right!)

When was the last time you went into Michaels for ONE ITEM, and actually emerged with ONE ITEM? Huh? Well? Tell the truth!! Tonight after work, I went in for the sheet of balsa wood I need to finish my Picasso-Esque cat's fence. Balsa wood - you know, $1.49 for a long sheet of it. My mistake [the same one I am forever making] was to 'mosey', just to 'take a look.' I still managed to get out of there for under $15, but I am determined at some point to succeed at the One Item Michael's Stop! Maybe I need to add that to my resolutions list for 2008! I confess to finding it hard to fork over the price asked for rub-ons. I LOVE them, but they just seem exorbitant for me. Maybe if there were TWO sheets in each package, I dunno. But these were on sale for $1, as were the purple pressed flowers. The little gold bunch was outside on the sidewalk, kicked into the gutter. I always frisk around the bushes and gutters outside when they've got their flower displays out there -- I asked and they don't consider it stealing to pick up the broken-off bits and add them to the contents of my bag. Eesh, these ribbons! In the $1 bins, folks ... LEMONS!! And more lemons! When we bought our house 8 years ago, and I was trying to find lemon stuff for my kitchen, do you think I could find a doggone thing? pffft. Oh Oh OH I love lemons! And now I seem to be obsessed with any kind of motif/pattern that feels Moroccan to me, somehow exotic and desert-like. Hence the foam stamps and the ribbons with similar motifs. I wanted the harmonica for the cat piece -- my brother Bobfather blows harp, used to blow harp and play rhythm guitar for a rock band, and he is GOOD! The harmonica just needed to come home for the canvas. And no, not even I take photos of a sheet of balsa wood -- HELLO!!