Road Trip

This pretty much sums up our navigational talents :D We drove down to Fort Worth TX for a company picnic.. I know, nutty, but I haven't been out of town in forever. We met at Burger's Lake, which I have to say is my kind of man-made lake. After burning ourselves to crispy goodness, we went off in search of our hotel. My navigator slept the whole way, and it only took me an hour to complete what should have been a 15 minute drive. Check in, shower, change and it's off to find a local Mexican restaurant. Hey, it's Texas, we should be tripping over them. After another hour of driving, during which I visited a number of locales visited whilst searching for the hotel, we ended up at Zeke's fish and chips. OMG, I'm so happy the only "Mexican" place we found was On The Border. I LOVE fish but think tartar sauce is something created by an individual with defective taste buds. But the stuff at Zeke's makes me want to sell all my stamps and move to Fort Worth for the rest of my life. It's just that good. They're in the Ridgelea area if you ever get over that way.
The next day, we debated on how we wanted to spend the day. The zoo, shopping, or possibly the Kimball Art Museum. But no, we decided to go here:
Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax/Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Grand Prairie TX. I noticed some interesting things in the wax museum. Martin Luther King, Jr bears a striking resemblance to Eddie Murphy, James Madison had incredibly tiny feet and Rapunzel was apparently double-jointed, to name just a few.
This guy was a fave as I'm obsessed with the imminent zombie epidemic ;)

Ripley's Believe It or Not did not win quite as much, but these were kinda cool, as were a couple of the miniature paintings. The last supper created with postage stamps.
A painting on a Pringle's chip.
All around, nice little weekend getaway.

Commitment Issues

Continuing on my quest to complete all of Michelle Ward's previous crusades, here is my tattoo story for Crusade No. 3, Tattoo You. To add to the story, when I got off the bed to fetch the phone book and find a suitable tattoo shop, I fell flat on my face and didn't get off the floor til the next morning. God bless Jose Quervo.

It's on RANDOM

It's just too damn hot to go outside, so I've been sucking up the AC, playing around with stuff I've meant to do forever. This is from Michelle Ward's Crusade No. 2 - Playlist. Since I don't really have a playlist, I just set my mp3 player on shuffle and wrote down what played. Okay, so skipped a bunch of Clapton... but this is about how it played out :)Jeez, you can't read the scan. Ah-Ha - Take on Me, Violent Femmes - Good Feeling, Pearl Jam - Why Go, The Blackwatch - Solo Sword Dance, Eric Clapton - Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out, 1st Battalion Scots Guards - Argyll Broadswords, The Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing, Zero 7 - Destiny, The Church - Under the Milky Way, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the World, Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, NIN - Every Day is Exactly the Same, AC/DC - Thunderstruck, Dexy's Midnight Riders - Come On Eileen, Richard Cheese - Rape Me, Pink Floyd - Hey You, The Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun
In other news, we went to a wedding. The photographer wants to do a "photo shoot" with my 18 year old daughter. Right.

Little bit of catchin' up

This is my spooky tag from Michelle Ward's Crusade No. 1, Spooky Art. So I'm a bit late with it :p I used stamps from Michelle's Graven and Crow About plates. The funny thing about me and the Crow About plate, birds scare me half to death. The way they are always fluttering just gives me the screaming mimis, but I totally fell in love with these stamps. Go figure.

Sabrina and I went shopping today with our lovely 40% off coupons from Hobby Lobby and I bought a nifty set of pens while she bought more silk screening ink. Now she has a cool book bag while I have a lovely apron with
SID-F*CKING-VICIOUS :D I'll take an actual picture after I figure out where the camera is hiding.

Mail Art

Michelle Ward's Crusade No. 10 is for mail art. And I like to throw my landlord a curveball from time to time. Not that fish have anything whatsoever to do with rent, but I LOVE the big fish stamp and thought he'd be great with this ink combo.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOMMY MYERS!

Sabrina, Linda, Mother and I are meeting for lunch today, to celebrate Mother's birthday. Here is her present, finished at 7 this morning, right before I dashed into the shower. In true Laura fashion, I printed the picture on the wrong side of the photo paper, and you can't see it in this scan, but I think the "JetPrintPhoto" repeated through the image is a bonus. I can't wait to give it to her .