Christmastide gifting has befallen us, and to herald in the habitual handmade and
homemade holiday, I crafted for lovely chums bitty notebooks to document their fine thoughts and knack for literary prowess. Per my partiality to meld together things practical with thorough injections of elements whimsical (e.g.
Play Pouches,
Laptop Jackets, and
Gadget Garb), the Notes & Such series is born.
The outer cover hails from recycled brown cardstock,
with "notes & such" hand-stamped onto vintage feedsack fabric and sewn between the front and inside covers.
The blue-hued vintage composition cover within features a bevy of detailed fancies,
including arbitrarily stamped pages,
a teeny library pocket of "heartfelt" fabric,
and a tag-stuffed miniature manila pouch.
Within the faded yellowed pages are newsprint dividers,
an old-fashioned priority-stamped telephone memorandum
anchored into place by a musical note paperclip.
The inside back cover accents time-honored advertisement graphics
and a delicate doily bookmark to eradicate any possibility of losing one's place in the amassing collection of jotted miscellany.
'Tis all secured by variegated wraparound baker's twine,
spiffily tied up with raw strips of fabric-turned-ribbon,
and ready for very merry distributing!
Notes & Such bitty notebooks shall be available in the
shop once 'tis up and running again after the year anew.
entitled "Birthday Buzzmusement"
in honor of the one from whose name 'tis derived. Party scheming and executing always proves to me to be a titillating thrill.
A bounteous spread of fresh fair fare gratified hunger pangs
and nostalgia-radiating carnival games galore reminiscent of Buzz's gamemaster proclivities diverted all attendees.
The most notorious amusement was indubitably the art of pie chucking
at a good-natured birthday celebrant target
who got massacred by foamy mounds of whipped cream again
and again.
Peachy keen times.
