First you must know that I took my kitten to be spayed last week. Everything went fine and she's been at home healing just wonderfully.... well, then yesterday I had set the entire day aside to just play! I wanted to paint some journal pages, try a collage technique I had seen, just relax and create, ya know? The only thing I had to do was take the garbage can to the road, that's it! So, I did that, then seeing that my kitten Lula had followed me, I stopped at Mom's house on the way back so Lula could play with her kitty-cousin, Marie. It was still early for us, only about 9am, so I'd sit and visit with Mom while they played for just a bit. Those little kittens were romping and stomping and generally trying to tear the house down LOL It's so much fun watching them play together, it really lifts my spirits! Then Lula does some acrobatic leap and my Mom goes "omg"!! I'm like "what"?!?! She tells me to get Lula so we could look at her tummy. Turns out the little rascal had pulled ALL her stitches out overnight. Uh huh... call the vet, they say bring her up here right now! yikes! So we get dressed and here we go .... to the vet ... with Lula ... again lol
The doc comes right out to meet us and ushers Lula into an exam room like we're bleeding all over the place or something. No she's not bleeding at all lol He looks at her tummy and then at me and says "oh, that's fine, it's just the top layer of stitches and there are 3 layers." I suppose we did everything but call an ambulance to get Lula up there asap and she's fine. : "Rub this ointment on it twice a day and it'll heal perfectly well on it's own". Oooook, I can do that. If she lets me lol So we bring Lula home. Of course my mom had to stop for milk and a few other things so we finally get home around noon. NOON!
I figure I can still salvage my day so I get settled back in my nest and Lula is playing around like the rambunctious little thing she is. All is well. Phew! Now the part of the day I've been waiting for, yaaaaaaaay!
I go gather my supplies to start the first (notice I said first) project of the day. I wanted to try a collage technique I had seen that you dry and then paint over, sand, grunge up, etc. It looked very cool and I knew I could do it. So with my supplies gathered and all this old crusty paper on my table that I've been collecting for years.... ahhhh I'm a happy girl. Let's get messy! Where's the glue?! lol About that time Mom (bless her heart) comes in to see what I'm working on. Issue #1 - The gel medium I bought to do this collage is too thin. Now I go scrounge for some sort of craft glue and find something about the consistency of Elmers. (Those of you who do this know how it's going to end). It took me 3 HOURS to do the 2 pages I had laid out. Just to get the torn paper glued down to them! omg lol My arm is still tired! Ok backtrack to me ripping up these old papers.... Issue #2 - Mom wants to READ them all before I can use them. : Even better, she wants to read them all to me! LOL I was patient, not sarcastic and acted interested. Yes they are cool Mom, that's why I'm using them! Anywho, once I finished gluing down the strips the paper was buckled so badly I was afraid what they would look like once they dried... IF they dried! Please pardon the bad photos but here is the finished STEP ONE:
See how bendy they are? And hard! Let me tell ya, you could hurt someone with these pages lol I've asked for advice on what to do with them and most have suggested putting them between some heavy books. That's what I'm going to do first. My only concern is will they stay flat once I get them back out? We'll see. I think my new motto is "trial & error" lol
Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon!
Hugs, Lisa
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