Acid Tripping
Today We're FEELIN' GROOVY about:
~Flight of The Conchords. I love this show. I am pretty sure it wouldn't be funny if the actors were American, though. The accents make it even funnier.
~Karen is on her way back from New Mexico where her daughter's softball team came in 2nd in the Nationals! YAY!!!
~I pretended to not be home when the phone rang but was really making a new Spirit House. You can see it better here or buy it here. I like creating my own little world.
~Chocolate Chex cereal
Our Bêtes Noires:
~Feeling and sounding like a broken record
~Though the hotel where Karen and her family were staying in NM was right near a Cracker Barrel, she never actually got to go there.
~We got this comment from YouTube user VirginiaGomes
Newspaper? Masking tape? Elmer's glue? They must be kidding! As any scrapbooker know one of the most important things in preserving your memories is to use acid free and lignin free products and none of the above are acid free.
WHAT?! OH MY BUDDHA!! Are the Acid Free Police gonna come get us? Poor Virginia. We do feel sorry for her. As any ARTIST knows, the important thing is expressing yourself how ever you want to and with whatever products you like. I never use acid-free stuff. The more the acid, the better, I say! Not only do I not use acid free products, but so far, over the course of my entire lifetime, nothing I have ever made without acid-free products has disintegrated, turned to ash, turned yellow, or spontaneously combusted. People, USE WHAT YOU HAVE. USE WHAT YOU LIKE. There are NO RULES. So there! 
I stole this photo from Kimberly Kwan's blog. This little artist is her beautiful daughter who totally gets it.
the acid police are coming!!!!!!
xxxox
Posted by: claudine hellmuth | August 06, 2007 at 07:35 PM
I second that!
Life is way to short and my time is too precious to care if something is acid free. She needs to get over that hump in her creative road; no art teacher ever asks if the materials used to create a project was acid free; all that matters: the work is your own!
Like you said “There are NO RULES!”
Posted by: Natalie | August 06, 2007 at 07:40 PM
Note to Virginia: Timothy Leary's spirit just appeared to me in a glob of Elmers Glue ...and he told me to tell you take a Prozac and get over it....
Posted by: ~jolenemarie | August 06, 2007 at 09:09 PM
Archival arschmival I say.... acid free is definitely overated and definitely creativity stiffeling( misspelled for sure!) Long life Elmers Glue! Tena
Posted by: Tena | August 06, 2007 at 10:42 PM
art nazis.
Posted by: mary | August 06, 2007 at 11:57 PM
bwaaa haaa haaa!
I say we hunt down the you-tubee and FORCE him/her to scrap with non AF/LF! That'd teach him/er 4 sure!
After beign ostracised in my early years scrappy years by the AF/LF nazis I vowed i'd wreak my revenge....bwaaa haaaa!
(BTW: Liv LOVED that she's a superstar on YOUR blog now! ha! She'll be the talk of Kindergarten!)
Posted by: Kimberly Kwan | August 07, 2007 at 06:57 AM
I'm loving the Conchords, too. (Especially Jemaine.)
Posted by: Surcie | August 07, 2007 at 07:13 AM
Love that picture!
Are the chocolate chex really that good - I mean I love Chocolate and I love (rice) chex but was a little hesitant on the combo... With cousin endorsement i will have to give it a try on my next business trip... Isaac will tease me mercilessly if I buy it at home ;)
Posted by: Anea | August 07, 2007 at 10:29 AM
I'm so down with this statement: "the more acid the better" RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Ann | August 09, 2007 at 11:05 PM