music to my ears...

while perusing the Legos website and discussing the level of difficulty in assembling a paddy wagon:

l to c: it's a piece of cake for me.
c to l: oh.
l to c: when i say, "it's a piece of cake," i don't mean like what you eat. i mean it's really easy for me to do.
c to l: yeah. but i could do it too. it's a cake piece for me too!

it's gonna be here quick...

that's right. Halloween will be here before we know it.

I'm very, very intrigued by this: Pumpkin Junkin' 2007 (brought to us by the always inspiring Holli Conger).

The School of Craft still has a week left to work on assignment number two.

And I think it's time for me to get back on the ATC swapping train again. So with that said, I'll be hosting another round of Halloween ATCs.

This year's theme is the same as last year: "A Haunted ATC Swap". What does this theme encompass? Anything and everything Halloween related. You can go as campy/cute/creepy as you like! Click here for a slideshow of last year's participants.

This will be a five for five swap with some sort of trick-or-treat from me. You'll need to enclose a self addressed, stamped (with two forty-one cent stamps) A7-ish envelope. International swappers can send neat postcards to my two boys in exchange for postage.

Sign-ups will close on Wednesday, October 3rd.

The mail-to-me deadline will be October 24th and the mail-to-you date will be October 27th.

To participate just email me (amy at aplcreations dot com) with your name, blog/flickr address (if you have one, if not, no biggie), and your mailing address.

Be sure to take pictures or scans of your cards and post them to the flickr group!

this is not good...

for my pocket book.

s w o o n.

because procrastination is my birth right...

and because I laughed out loud reading Moki's and Dawn's:

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Harvey Chrysler (not bad...)

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
Cookie Dough Sausalito (sounds more like a mob hooker name...)

3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
A-Lyo (um, yeah, I got nothin' here...)

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Bird (I was tempted to say narwhal or blobfish just for fun...)

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Marie Houston (hardly dramatic enough for the soaps if you ask me...)

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Lyo-Am (now, that speaks to me as a Star Wars-esque name...)

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put "The")
The Red Pomegranate Green Tea (that's a mouthful, isn't it?)

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Donald Frederic (this just proves how far removed I am from NASCAR...)

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy)
Summer Attraction Whatchamacallit (Ha!)

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's & father's middle names )
Catherine Joseph (a lovely name to have...)

Feel free to grab this and go with it. Leave me a note if you decide to do it because I want to see what you come up with for your aliases too!

never in a million years would i have ever anticipated...

these words coming out of my mouth:

Prepare to embrace the idea of wanting, nay, needing to decorate your walls with insects...

Click HERE if you don't believe me.