Froggie Eyes and Turkey Necks

Hi There!

Happy Fresh-Smelling Monday Morning to you! What will your week bring?

I've got a cutie of a card for you today. Several months ago, my good friend Di stamped off some sweet LOTV Annabelle images for me and I used one of them on my card. (Thank you, again, Di!)

 

I colored her with watercolor pencils and fussy-cut her to make her work for the current CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. Here is the fun sketch by the talented Gayatri (which I flipped):

I had an apropopo vellum sediment for this cheery card so I stapled it to a pink panel and it put on the inside:

I'm also entering:

• Di's Pixie's Snippets Playground, where the theme is to use up those snippets; and
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challege, where the theme is Anything Goes.

You can click on any of the challenge links for details about the rules, sponsors, and prizes. I hope you can play along!

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Aging is Not for the Vain at Heart

Even if we manage to forget our ages (sometimes to the point of embarrassing our children), there are some aspects of living our lives that can interfere with living our lives. I thought I would share with you that there is one consequence of aging that I'm having fixed this morning. Genetically, I've always had heavy eyelids and I was advised a couple of years ago that they were impacting my vision. But I let it go and walked around with my eyebrows metaphorically pinned to my hairline so that I could see. When I went back to the doctor a couple of months ago, my eye test results were, of course, even worse with the passage of time and the falling of gravity. 

So I'm having a blepharoplasty today. Doesn't that sound like one of my made-up words? It snot. But I think some Greek might have had a cold when he decided the word for "eyelid" would be "blepharon." Guzhunhidt.

I did ask my lovely surgeon if she would suck up my neck while she was at it, but all she did was laugh so hard she nearly fell off her stool. Darn it.

It isn't the first time I've tried to get an easy neck lift. A few years ago, I was seeing a lot of commercials for a laser treatment that lifts saggy necks and jowls without surgery and the results looked amazing.

So when I was at my dermatologist's office for a six-month checkup, I told her I was interested in the procedure. She is Asian with a heavy accent. I'm not making fun of her accent; in this case, it was her delivery that made her brutal honesty so funny!

She came around to stand in front of me, took a look and said, sternly and firmly, "You too late. You need knife."

All righty then. That's using your words!

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