Carrying On, Happy Mail, and a Diva Giveaway!

Laura Harms of the Diva Challenge we so love is offering up a grand giveaway this week! She has one of Carole Ohl's Tangle a Day calendars to share with a lucky winner--how sweet is that?! I love mine and, if I win the giveaway, I plan to share it with a tangling friend--these are just too much fun! Fingers crossed!

I wasn't excited much about yesterday...I had an appointment with our new dentist and I'm really not a fan of dentists in general--just not my favorite people. But...this guy is all right. He's a little quirky, a little nerdy, and he said a couple things I'm probably going to choose to ignore like "pull your wisdom teeth" and "gum surgery", but he's planning to fix my ugly tooth in a couple weeks with a simple filling rather than a ridiculously expensive crown, so that makes him rather super cool in my book. My 'ugly tooth' is a broken, brown nasty little guy right smack up front in the bottom of my mouth that glares hideously when I talk, smile, laugh, etc...and I've endured this hideousness for the last four or five years while other dentists tried to talk me into paying a thousand dollars or so for their 'fix'--yeah, no...not dropping that kind of money on a wee bitty brown tooth--I'll live with it before I pay anything close to that! And, now--NOW! I find out it can be fixed much simpler and way much cheaper...really makes me mad at all the past dentists who let me look like this for so long. See why I don't like dentists?? Grrrfff!!! Two weeks!! No more ugly tooth! Yay!

And the day got even better! Mr. Mailman blessed my day with two amazingly beautiful postcards from the Artists in Blogland swap! Lookie what I got!

That's my Bug--isn't he cute?! The card on the left is from Roberta Warshaw here in MA, and the beauty on the right came from Cathy Wilson in CT. Both treasures I'll enjoy for a long, long time--and encouragement to keep on swapping! So fun! Can't wait for #3 to arrive!

And finally, the first of February brought a new zentangle challenge from my friend Paula over at Chocolate Baroque to use circles as your string, as many or as little as you liked, and so I filled another page in my calendar with circle strings--viola!

 



Rather Shelly Beauch-y inspired...

Today is filled with shopping errands before the snow comes, catching up on cleaning chores that got put off from yesterday's dentist appointment, and then, hopefully time to play later this afternoon...Hope everybody has a great day!