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The Perfect White Pen?

Crafting 365, Day 59
Originally uploaded by Mixing-Katie

Does it exist? That perfect white pen? I've tried several, and here are the three that I use now: Ranger's Inkssentials, Sakura's Gelly Roll, and Signo's Uniball UM-153. I tested them on papers that I use often. When I use gel pens, I scribble a little on scrap paper to get the ink going. If I write on a surface that could clog the tip (like #4 and #5) I scribble again when I'm done writing.

#1: Textured cardstock. This paper has a linen-like finish. The texture showed through at least a bit with all three pens.

#2: Patterned scrapbook paper. This paper is smooth and all three of the pens seemed to work fine on it.

#3: Magazine paper. The Gelly Roll didn't do as well on this one - the line was a lot thinner than usual on this paper.

#4. Text page with acrylic paint. OK for all three. Sometimes on this kind of paper I need to stop often to scribble and get the ink flowing.

#5: Cardstock with colored pencil. None of the pens like writing on this waxy surface. I had to scribble a lot to get these words down. For this sample, I tried writing directly onto paper that had been colored with pencils. I've had more success writing on top of pencil that has been sprayed with workable fixatif.

Want want want!

This t-shirt is adorable!! Handmade is Better T

The same store also has a shirt that says "Knitting takes balls" LOL!!

Wordle

I made this neat image using Wordle. It grabs the words from a website or words that you give it and makes the words that are used more frequently larger. I was surprised NOT to see more art-y words in mine!

Tweet!

Finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon -- it's fun :-)

Random Music Video

I don't understand a word, but this song made me smile:

A Mixed Up Girl

Yesterday my hubby showed me this video - I noticed some of the lyrics are "I'm a mixed up girl in a mixed up world."

Laundry Machine

I HATE laundry. Not sure why, cause it's really not all that hard to do. Our apartment complex has machines we can use, so it's way easier than when I had to wash by hand. Nevertheless, I have been known to go buy new underwear or socks in lieu of washing my dirty ones. Well, today I finally did laundry. I spent more than $20 in our quarter washers and driers - that's NINE loads of laundry. How can two people have that many dirty clothes????

Lookie here!

Oooh, Tanya named me a BFF -- Blogging Friend Forever, how cute!

Tagged!

I got tagged by Blueskysunburn (Jennifer), a friend from AFA. It's a kind of blogging game! You tag someone, they make a post with six snippets about themselves, and then they tag 6 more people. Cool game! Six things about me:

1. I'm mad for inchies! I cut up some boxes from Mary Kay products today to make inchie blanks.
2. I'm an English teacher who can't spell!! I dread students asking me to spell something, haha! Well, what do we have spellcheck for nowadays, right??
3. I never ever dust. Achoo!!
4. I, erm, in fact am in need of a dragon intervention. I keep clicking on those things, like I don't have anything better to do :-) While I'm at it, here's my latest egg:
5. I hate socks.
6. But I like shoes!

I'm tagging:

• Dee, one of Two Brains (I'm the other brain!)
• Tanya, that Cheeky Urchin
• Zhenia, from two bits
• SuziBlu, who shares her Lovely Dream
• Lupin, making handstitched lovely Bugs and Fishes
• Michelle, from Mish Mash
  

I'm a bad blogger

I haven't been posting regularly, and I missed two whole months! Does this make me a bad blogger? I'm a blogger that doesn't blog.

I got a blog because I enjoyed looking at other people's blogs. It started when I read a few blogs by people that I know, then I got a copy of Artful Blogging. I really wanted to have a blog like that -- like the beautiful blogs featured in the magazine where they featured beautiful artwork, like the blogs my friends had where I got to know them better than I did before. So I got a blog. And don't know what to do with it.

It turned out that getting a blog was super easy -- all but the picking your name thing. I wanted something to do with mixed media, since that's what I've been playing with lately, but all the addresses with that were taken. So I got mixing-katie and named the blog Mixed Up, and figured that it was pretty appropriate: I'm messing around in mixed media but don't really know what I'm doing. Also, I'm at a place where I need to decide where my "career" is going, and I'm not sure about that. We're going to move relatively soon and don't know where we'll go. I want to take my "art" more seriously, but don't know if it's worth it. So many decisions, and I'm not sure about any of them. So Mixed Up seems like a good name for me.

Stamp Fulfillment

Last weekend I needed some stamps. I went to the post office, even though it was closed, thinking I could buy cute stamps from the stamp machine. No such luck. They took out the stamp machine and now have some ATM-looking thing that sells postage stickers for Priority and Express mail, and sheets of the not-so-attractive Forever Liberty Bell stamps. I got a sheet of these, but was disappointed about it (I've been wanting more of those Star Wars stamps).

Well, later I read online that the cost of mailing a letter will go up to 42 cents in May. So those ugly forever stamps aren't looking so ugly now. I also found out that you can buy stamps online from the post office website (usps.com). They charge a dollar to mail your stamps, no matter how many you order. I ordered me some cute stamps! Plus some more forevers, plus a bunch of one cent stamps. Looking forward to getting these cute stamps back from mail art trades.

My order came in today. Return address: Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City, MO. Boy do I feel fulfilled. Plus, each sheet of stamps comes on a nice, clean piece of cardboard *perfect* for cutting up for chunky 4x4's :) Even more fulfillment.