Janet's Smiles

Not really!  Jim asks us to play with come/go/leave/stay and I have chosen Michael Jackson’s “Leave Me Alone.”

I like to give a special ringtone for family and friends so I can tell right away who is calling even when I don’t see the phone.  My husband, Bill, is “Million Dollar Bill” by Whitney Houston.  Our oldest daughter, Amanda, has the tone “Amanda” by Boston.  Our youngest daughter, Rachel, is “My Girl” by the Temptations.  I even gave one to our home phone, “Back Home Again” by John Denver.  Our son, Jeff, went through a period where he really loved Michael Jackson so I used “Leave Me Alone” as his ringtone.  I thought it was pretty amusing.  Get it?  Leave me alone? 

The song is a dig at all the sensational news stories that were circulating about him at the time.  According to Song Facts it took eight months to film because each part is made up of still images that had to be photographed individually.

However, as any mother knows, you don’t really want your kids to leave you alone and so I changed it to a song by another one of Jeff’s favorites, Phil Collins, “I Can’t Dance,” which actually is not true either, Jeff is a great dancer and dances around all the time.  I may have to find another song for him.

Do you have different ringtones to identify your callers?  Share!

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You can tell that this is February because I haven’t posted as often since I don’t have a challenge I’m following.  I actually do have some challenges but they are not the blogging type they are the typing type.  I am in the process of taking on some more work — a good thing — but it is requiring some extra time to get things organized. 

Since today is Valentine’s Day I’ll share a little something I made years ago in case you are looking for a last minute idea for your special honey.

I went to the store and got a bunch of different kinds of candy and then I put them on a poster board and wrote a message using the candies as some of the words:

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For our Stream of Consciousness Saturday Linda has given us (un)pack to play with.

By far the biggest thing I have had to unpack is my ScrapBox Workbox.  I was so excited to get it and when it was delivered it was on a pallet which they left in our driveway.  We had to wait until our daughter went away to college for the room to be empty enough for us to assemble it so for a few days all the boxes were in the living room! 

I was really lucky to get this model on sale.  They don’t make them in this style anymore.  They’ve changed the name from Workbox to Dreambox but I’m perfectly content with mine. 

And then to pack it full with all my craft supplies!

But you know, when we built the studio in the backyard, I had to unpack the whole thing, take the doors off and carefully move it, reassemble it and pack it full again!  Here it is in its new home. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
In between the original set up and the move to the studio, I changed bedrooms so actually it has been unpacked twice since we put it together!  I don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon.

What’s your biggest pack or unpack project?                                                 

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Up and out of the house early this morning to take my son to an appointment and while I was in the waiting room, I thought I’d check my emails.  I get so many because I have about 4 email addresses to help keep things separate.  Anyway, I saw this:

Now, the ones from DT I would have deleted as spam immediately anyway but after I took this screenshot, Tom Cruise, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Jacob Marley also stopped by my blog to leave me comments!  These were on my Blogger site and unfortunately Blogger is not as efficient as WordPress at weeding out these crazy people.  It was too hard for me to navigate on my phone so I had to wait until I got home to handle this mess.

I mean, I know I write very insightful and interesting blog posts but I’m pretty sure that Leo, Tom and Bruce have other things to do, not to mention that Burt Lancaster is dead and Winnie the Pooh and Jacob Marley are fictional characters.  Somebody has too much time on their hands and just what do they expect to gain from this?  They have to know that the comments are going to be marked as spam and deleted don’t they? 

Does this ever happen to you?  What do you do about it? 

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In 2013 and 2017 I did a 365 day picture project where I took a picture every day for the whole year.  I put those pictures into an album and for the 2017 one I even made a slideshow.  This year I heard about the 1 Second Everyday app where you take a 1 second video everyday so I decided to try it.  Here is my January in 31 seconds.

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Here we are at February.  Linda’s Stream of Consciousness prompt for us today is “Choices” and she tells us to talk about the subject of small, uneventful choices.

Just so happens I finished reading “Pride and Prejudice” last night and so today I have the small, uneventful choice of picking my next book.  I did get to scratch off one of the books on my chart with P & P so I was happy about that. 

I have a lot choices for the next book to read going through the PopSugar Challenge and looking at others to scratch off.  I went with:

My husband got this for me for Christmas.  I’m using it to fill the category of “a book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement,” since one of the really identifiable things about Elton is his glasses.  It’s not on the scratch off chart but if I choose a book that is on one or the other, I’ll be satisfied. 

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Our prompt today is “finished” but we aren’t quite finished with the month yet.  Still one more day to go. 

I do have two more cards that I finished though and they are in the Etsy shop now.  This one says, “Keeping you in my heart” on the inside so it could be used for either a get well or a sympathy card.

I just love the colors in these.  This one says “Get Well” on the inside. 

I was hoping to get a few more Valentine’s things finished before the end of the month.  I did get a big transcription job that I have to finish first though.  Maybe Saturday I can spend the day in the studio working. 

Are you glad January is almost finished?

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#JusJoJan and One-Liner Wednesday come together for one last time.

“Life is always a bumpy road, eventually you just learn how to drive on it.”

Don’t know who said it but it makes perfect sense to me.

This always made me laugh.  It is on a building near where I live.  Talk about learning how to drive through the bumps!

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Hey Barbara, thanks for the prompt today of Television.  I really don’t watch that much television, especially during the non-baseball season.

I do have a TV in my studio so I can catch the baseball games while I craft.

The old craft room

TV is upper right corner

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Today’s prompt is submitted by Debbie to Linda and it is “Dazzle.”  First of all, I’m dazzled by the fact that it is already the 27th of January.  Slow down will you? 

Of course my mind always turns to crafts first for ideas and the word Dazzle makes me think of a type of sticker that I use when I am making cards and things.  It just so happens that I finished a card that uses them last night.

The dazzles come on a sheet and this particular style comes in at least three finishes.  Each page can make three cards, one heart shaped, one oval and one square. 

                     

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