Book OCD

Good morning campers...

yes, I have just decided as I type this that I am going to pretend that this is summer camp (in my brain), I never went to summer camp but always wanted to....I had these sill fantasies of becoming best friends with my bunk mates, and during a dance with the boys camp across the lake (because you know there is always a boys camp across the lake) I would have my first kiss.

None of it happened...but right now for some reason I wish I had some camp stories to tell...well ones that happened to me, not the girls in the original "Parent Trap" movie.

wow...I have just begun to write and all ready I am all over the place.

First, I really need to thank you all for putting up with the "cock talk" of yesterday, really it means a lot, and I am glad you all loved (and were haunted by) the term "flailing cock" as much as you were...sadly my bubs and I actually use that phrase more that we probably should...we're grownups after all...we should start talking proper...like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

So....the drowsy summer is beginning to really set in for me....sales have slowed completely in the past two weeks and all I want to do is read...

as you know I have been on a total historical fiction bender as of late, and I actually just finished The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, which was beautiful....after that I moved onto The Clue in the Crumbling Wall....it's a Nancy Drew book I got at the used book store down the street, it is the same vintage of the ones I read when I was a kid...so it was amazing to re-read the book...it's so adorable, and really I forgot how many times during mystery solving that Nancy quite literally takes a break to eat cookies or a cake.

I have decided to collect all the Nancy Drew books, but they have to be the vintage of my childhood books...I already have managed on Ebay to score a bunch of them....I will be getting one duplicate book though so if any of you want it...just let me know, if there is a demand I will will give it away raffle style.

You see...I am a book person, well, strike that...I am a reader, completely voracious, and for a few years when we had the comic shop I had no time to just sit and read to my hearts content...but now I have a bit more time...and I love it, nothing gives me more joy than falling into a world or words.

So in honor of that, I made this piece called "I Am Too Shy", it is available in my etsy shop....I can just imagine in a library or above a bookcase or even in a little girls room...

books are dreamy...

ok, enough of that....tomorrow is letters to celebrities day but...it is also the 4th of July so I amd not sure if I am going to bother with a letter or not....I am assuming that many of you will actually be out and about enjoying a day off...I am planning on sleeping in with my bubs and then going to see the Transformers movie with our friend Clemencia....and Clem....if you are reading this, bring cookies, I am already starving.

Happy 4th of July everyone....or as I like to call it in my neighborhood..."Wait was that a firework or a gunshot" day.

xoxoxo
jenn

Dear (Insert Name Here)

Dear Emma Roberts

You are adorable, I needed to just get that out in the open.

I will admit I was afraid when seeing the Nancy Drew movie that you would be horrible....and very Un "Nancy Drew"...but I was wrong, you were cute.

I have to commend you for overcoming a lot of adversity, being the niece of Julia Roberts...well yes, most people would not think of that as adversity....more a stepping stone, but you see....I am not really a fan of her...mainly I get fixated on her sometimes visible mustache....and cannot concentrate.

So, when hearing that you were her niece, well...I got sort of a pit in my stomach, and kept telling my bubs that it was "not right" that Nancy Drew just CAN'T have a mustache....but luckily you did not.

I was please though that your Dad is Eric Roberts, then I got the fool notion in my head that maybe he could pull some strings and you could be on Heroes for a few episodes next season, hell they could even do a Nancy Drew crossover, and you could be a teen detective investigating the Heroes....wait this sounds sort of pathetic, what I should really be asking is.....will you be doing a Nancy Drew II...or will they replace you with some generic horsey face girl for a direct to DVD sequel???

Now, this is where I give you a little advice, you are a young, pretty, wealthy teen star....please look to people like Claire Danes, Reece Witherspoon, and Jodi Foster for role models on how to survive through the years....I feel my heart would suffer greatly if you were to start having babies and going clubbing with Brit, and Paris....

Don't get all skanky and gutter trash, please...I beg of you!!!

in all seriousness, you are too charming for that, now....I am not going to say you are the next Meryl Streep....that might be saying too much, but you very well could be the next Julia Roberts...and well that is fine with me.

your fan
Jennifer Gordon

Shark Week

Happy Monday loves!!!

ok, so maybe not so happy....How were your weekends??? Please fill me in on the debauchery, please.

So I had a great weekend, starting of course with the Nancy Drew date on Friday as well as a leisurely lunch out with drinks...and yes, now that I am no longer in a Nancy Drew frenzy and I am thinking with a clear head...I still loved it.

Yes...it's a movie meant for children and the dreaded "tweens" I hear so much about...but it was a great movie for what it was, and Emma Roberts (new Nancy) did not even bother me as much as I thought she would. I was really afraid that just knowing that she was Julia Roberts niece was going to throw me off for the entire movie.

So that was how the weekend started...throw in some creating and some alcohol...and it was all fun.

My bubs and I also decided to have "Shark Week" in which all we watch are bad (and sometimes good, but that's rare) Shark movies...our big "living room" space is actually our studio, so we can pop in a movie and both continue to work on stuff (more about what we're working on in a minute), so this weekend we have seen...


Jaws (the original)
Jaws II (good, not great but good)
Jaws III in 3D (I think the best part of this one is every time there was a oart that should have been in 3d but wasn't my bubs sort of waved his arms about and said in a monster movie voice...3d...........3d...........
Jaws IV (this time it was personal...this is the first in a long line of smart shark movies, where the sharks hunt you because of who you are...not just because you are food.

we also saw...Red Water which starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Coolio...I think this was actually a made for TV movie, it was awful and there was a shark in a river....so you know it was bad.

ok, so I spend the weekend making things for my shop, as well as brainstorming with my bubs and coming up with ideas for.....our WEB COMIC...yes you heard it correctly we are going to have a web comic... it is actually the "Petite Heights" strip that was appearing in my Stiletto Heights comic, but we are doing tons of new ones....I say we, but in reality it is my bubs doing 85% of the work, I am the muse and the one that makes the people say what they are supposed to say.

I am the Stan Lee to his Jack Kirby (if you get that then you are a big geek like me).

So, now your wheels are spinning and you are thinking to yourself...where will I be able to read this wonderful thing....well sillies, it will be right here on my blog....It will be published on Sundays.

I am not saying it will start this Sunday....maybe next though, but I did want to give you a little heads up.

ok, enough of a ramble for now....I need another cup of coffee and I need to start packaging pieces (note the alliteration)

Tomorrow I will entertain you with a tag...oooh I know you can't wait more useless Jenn trivia!!


xoxoxo
jenn

Bad Boys...Bad Boys...Whatcha' Gonna Do

good morning everyone.

How are you all now that Friday is here???

This week has been a strange one for me...I have been abnormally anti social online, so to those wonderful people I usually chat with and e mail with...I am sorry I have been MIA, there has just seemed to be so few hours in the day to get everything I want to done....but as of right now I am "caught up" sort of.

so I am hoping to be more sociable next week.

One thing that has been eating up a bunch of my time is....spying on my neighbors, yes I said dpying on my neighbors.

you see.....there was drama the other night at Chateau Hillbilly next door....

it was a quiet night when all of a sudden I notice a large group of police men outside...what the hell?????

there were 4 of them, 3 cars and 1 paddy wagon....and they were pounding on the neighbors door.

of course my bubs and I were 1 part freaked out, and 1 part really excited, you see I have always wanted to be on the show Cops, as the disturbed neighbor of a white trash couple....and this I felt was my shot, but alas....no tv crew.

DAMN.

anyway my bubs went outside to "take out the trash" and then tp "get something out of the van"

my bubs is so cool, he very casually asked the police "is everything okay?" and there answer was no...they asked what was up with mr hillbilly and my bubs said we had not seen him since about midnight the night before when he was outside...drunk.

the cops talked to mrs Hillbilly and then left....there was no sign of the Mr.

So, this made me get my Nancy Drew on.....I have noticed many odd clues...for a couple days their little girl was not home, and the Mr's vehicle is gone and he was no where....but now I know he is back, I saw him briefly with some other guy as they dashed into a car and then quickly dashed back in the house.

They are never outside anymore (they were always outside) and none of the doors or windows are open, and there are no lights on....even though I can hear them bumping around inside.

see....drama....I ahve a ton of versions of what I think is going on in my head....

crazy huh?

so you see between working etc, I really have been preoccupied, it's how I get when there is a mystery afoot.

any theories? I would love to hear them.

so do you all have wonderful plans this weekend? I plan on eating ice cream and making stuff...but that is what I always do...so I am also hoping that I can go see the new Nancy Drew movie this weekend, though my bubs in adamantly against it...he knows I love all things Nancy Drew....so he might cave in.

I have been making lots of new pieces for my shop, and also hopefully to Bring over to The Frame Station as well as another new place that wants some pieces....oh also, I will be getting more pocket mirrors in my shop this weekend, none of the older designs will be made again but there are a ton of new ones, and lots of "tree" themed ones, as I got a lot of e mails about the tree mirror I had before.

ok, that's enough of my babble...have a good weekend watch for a possible Saturday Night Sale in my shop too.

xoxo
jenn