One Last OMG Fashion Trend For 2012

So right before the New Year I like to go back over years gone by.  I am sure I am not alone but right before I could close the chapter on this year someone had to squeak in one last eyebrow raising, WTF, are you serious fashion mishap.  I realize the most people think that you could put a burlap sack over a top model and they can make it look good (most often true) but I just found one thing that even a top model can't make look good.  You have to watch this video it is too funny - she can't even walk.  I think the expression on her face is not a professional pose but one that says "when I get my hands on my agent, I am going to..." I hope you enjoy and have a blessed day.  I know I am blessed because I never had to try on these shoes:)


If you are like me and love to see the funny things people will wear here is a great link to get more!  The link lands on my favorite:  http://ow.ly/gqeCG   enjoy:)

National Postcard Week - Reminder of Up Coming Postcard Swap

If you love postcards this is your holiday, May 6 - 12 is National Postcard Week.  How many of us celebrate is by sending postcards.  I am holding a postcard swap, this would mean that you would pick  postcards that you either made or purchased from your area and send it to the people who have signed up to also participate.  In return you will get a postcard from each of them so it could help build your collection.  Plus is really fun to see other peoples designs and from what areas of the country it comes from.  I really hope you join in the fun.  Here is how:

If you would like to participate in the swap here is what I would like you to do by April 29th so that I have time to organize the list:
♥Comment your interest below
♥Leave your email address (I suggest in a
format that can't be picked
up by spammers such as
butterflyintheattic at yahoo dot com)
♥Indicate if you would like to have it
mailed with the postage on it or in a
seperate envelope so it will be unused.

Once I get the list of everyone interested on April 29th I will start to email people to get there addresses and make a list of people interested in participating. I will send another email with the list to each of you and from there it will be up to everyone to follow through and send out their postcards. Please make sure that you send one to each of the people on the list, I don't want anyone to have to be like Charlie Brown and going to an empty mail box every day LOL.

The sender will choose the card they send to you; it can be handmade or commercial (mine will be from my own handmade designs.) I prefer mine mailed and if there is time a nice message would make things even more interesting. If you have any questions please post them also since others may have the same thing running through there mind; I will check back and answer.

I hope to see you on the list this should be very fun.
Thanks,
Butterfly

Happy New Year - Dragon vs Mayan Calendar

I find it truly amazing how often life and cosmic law will simply balance itself without a real conscious effort on anyone's part.  On one side of the globe there is a "Dooms Day" mentality with a mass of people believing that 2012 will be the end of mankind and on the other half there are a multitude of people celebrating the first day of The Year Of The Dragon.  That half of the globe is not wringing their hands in worry but embracing a future that will be prosperous and filled with many good things. 

I read that in Asian countries people are excitedly getting married and trying to have babies that will be born under the lucky Dragon's sign at a rate of 20% increase in births this year.  I wonder if the Western World will have a 20% decrease in births since we seem to have gravitated to the theory that the world is going to end in December.  I have studied many intriguing books on the Mayan Calender and ancient history; I started reading them because I like the mystery and intrigue of long forgotten civilizations.  Unfortunately along with the good things I learned from these books I also picked up on the message that they Mayans believed we were shortly running out of time.  When I first started to read them it was about 10 or more years ago so I was fascinated with the year 2012, but unfortunately, as always, time has marched quickly by and here I sit in 2012 thinking about all those predictions. 

As a Christian person I believe that the end will come as a thief in the night and that the Mayan Calendar is intriguing but just like our modern calendars...flip it.  I know that people much more intelligent than I will have a rational of why we can't just flip it, but really?  Wouldn't it be like Billy Bob learning to read and for the first time he sees December 31st on the calendar and freaks out.  Why does it just stop?  Isn't there anymore?  It's the end of the world!  Wait maybe that is why the calendars run into January instead of ending at the actual end of the year, people where panicking every December.

I do think that there is a lot of great information that we can glean from studying ancient civilizations and that there are many predictions that have come true or look like they were true from ancient and modern profits. But first of all for every ancient dooms day prediction there is an equally ancient prediction from other cultures that the world is not going to end.  Secondly many of us in the Western World proudly claim to be Christians but then we will panic and worry about the end of the world when our faith strongly tells us that no human being knows when that time will be.  And lastly even if the Mayan hit it right on the head and the world ends, knowing that will not change anything, what is going to happen will happen.  So I have decided to take the message as:  Live life as if each day is your last, behave in a manner that if it was your last day you wouldn't be scared that you would be sent straight to ... treat the planet as a treasure, and love people as if this was their last day. 

I also have decided (maybe this happens as you get older to everyone) that I will not choose to live in the drama of doom and gloom and worry all the time but I choose to celebrate life.  I may not live in the East and I don't practice the same religions but the Year of the Dragon sounds like a very good year.  I am going to embrace 2012 as a prosperous year and as a year that begins my future.  No looking back, no worrying about the end, just thanking God for my bright future with all the people I love around me.  So here is to the Year of the Dragon, may all of you have a prosperous year and enjoy great wealth and relationships!

Special Weekly Treasury Overview - December 30th

I've been amazed at the multitude of treasuries cropping up today.  I have been featured in several treasuries today alone so I decided to do a Special Weekly Treasury Overview.  I am very grateful to those that have featured my items in these wonderful treasuries. 

I was feeling a little blue because Christmas is over and New Years Eve is tomorrow.  I love the holidays and this year they seemed to have come and gone so fast.  I have also had a few personal set backs this last week so my plans for celebrating the New Year has changed.  But thanks to my friends at ETSY I am feeling a lot better and excited about spending New Years in my virtual world and with my good friends that may also have had to change their plans.  It is all good when you are surrounded by friends.  Thanks again to all.  

 

 

 

 

 

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