I am PISSED.

I hadn’t meant to make most of my posts about food, but the clean living fat man inside me cannot be silenced. I pinky promise all my posts won’t be like this. I forget why I was looking into salt in general (random, I know, but I love to learn as much as I can about whatever is in my world) and as soon as I started my research, I immediately regretted it. Same deal as lemons – what in the hell can be in there aside from salt?!

Let’s have a look-see at the back of my salt container:

Salt – Seems legit.

Potassium iodide – Overloads the thyroid to help block the absorption of radioactive iodine. Bonus!

Dextrose – Sugar… IN SALT!!!!! ….why??

Sodium bicarbonate – Baking soda. Sounds harmless, depending on what’s actually in it. Some brands don’t sell you pure baking soda (shock!)…

One morning at Breitenbush, while I was sitting on a bench reading Girl in Reverse by Barbara Stuber and waiting for the lunch gong, this raven came walking up the sidewalk, much to everyone’s amusement.

He was not at all shy, and I decided to grab my camera.

In another minute he had flapped up to my bench, and started trying to eat my book!

I never expected to get this close to a fearsome looking bird.

What, it’s not edible?

A day or so later, I saw him again in a tree right by the kitchen. I think he was waiting for the lunch gong, too.
By the way, Girl in Reverse is an excellent Young Adult book. I enjoyed every bit of it.  It takes place in Kansas City in 1951 and features one of my favorite places, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I don’t write book…

Here are a few more postcards I made this last summer. The first one was made from a 78 record cover:
I’ve seen other people use old stamps on photos of other people. So I combined stamp faces with an old pattern envelope. I had lots of fun with this one, and now I’m collecting face stamps for future variations!

I combined pieces from two magazines for this one. I’m not sure why Elsie was asking questions about husbands, but that line really was part of the Borden ad.

Here’s one I’m particularly pleased with. I added a couple of “stamps” that weren’t originally on the packages, as well as the other oddities.

And one more, which started out as an ad for State Farm Insurance. I got to use up some of my sticker collection for this one.

It’s hard to find the time to spread out all my…

First, here are the last two entries that arrived this week~ this first one is from Sarah, my project partner here at Lackman. Sarah is from Lenexa, Kansas:

And the second is from my son Andrew, who lives in Olathe, Kansas:

Thank you, Sarah and Andrew, for sending these along! The deadline is now past, (although I will hang anything else that comes in) so here are the photos that show how the exhibit looks!

I borrowed the top section of one of the cards for a header for our sign.

An empty room divider screen mounted on a coffee table  keeps things stabilized.

Smaller items that would not hang surround the screen.

I put together a display of library materials about collage and postcards, and by the end of the first evening, half of them were checked out!

I used the plastic binder on the end of the table…

Some of you are already familiar with my mail art call for the library display I’m coordinating at the Lackman branch of the Johnson County Library. For those that are not,  I’ve been gathering submissions for several months for this display to promote Library Card Sign-up Month (September). The regular blog for the project, Library Mail Art,  will be updated this weekend, since I will need to feature a couple of pieces that haven’t yet arrived, and I promised photos for the participants.  But I put the display up last night, and here is how it turned out:

I used part of one of the artist cards as a header for the sign.

An empty room divider screen combined with a discarded coffee table worked well for a prop that won’t get knocked over.

We just criss-crossed strings in each section and used clothespins and clips to hang everything…

Okay…
here we go again:

“Instructor killed when he’s accidentally shot with Uzi
by 9-year-old girl”

Let me run that by you again:

“Instructor killed
when he’s accidentally shot
with Uzi
by 9-year-old girl”

http://abc30.com/news/girl-9-accidentally-fires-uzi-killing-instructor/282164/

Oooops.
Happened at a place called “Bullets and Burgers“.
All they need to do is add “… and Face Painting” and it would be the perfect place to book a nine-year-old girl’s birthday party.
Could use balloon animals as targets.
Be prepared in case a bunch of squirrels start charging her house.
Or bad guys in black helicopters come to take away Mommy and Daddy’s antique Colt .22  single action pistol.

We’re dealing with two tragedies here, and that’s before we consider the victim’s family:

there’s an obvious one in a young girl who could still be a Brownie having to live the rest of her tainted life with the thoughts, the visions, the memories and the horror of a…