Washi Tape Retail Therapy as Easy Happy Stress Release: Hoarder Inspiration or Desperation, Story #12, Part 2

Washi Tape Retail Therapy as Easy Happy Stress Release:  Hoarder Inspiration or Desperation, Story #12, Part 2

Craft Retail Therapy!  More Washi Tapes!  Yikes!  Less washi tape and more washi tape cards!

I need washi tape like I need another hole in my head, but I keep buying it anyway!  I thought if I bought the elusive "daisy masking tape" set and the "graffiti" sets, my washi tape insatiability would be over, but no!

Every time I finally decide to buy the daisy masking tape set, one of the colors gets bought out!  And for some reason I need to have all three colors!  Now it's just getting harder to find and does anyone know why this particular washi tape is so expensive compared to the others?

I have no idea what I'm going to do with all my graffiti washi tape, but it's going to be something fun and good!







The "grafitti tape" sets are from mechakucha808, who if you ask me has the best prices in town, including shipping and is very nice and helpful and also gives out discounts to repeat customers and the coolest cutest "thank you" gifts ever of  little kokeshi charms and/or mini spools of tape!  And shipping is quick- all the way from Hawaii. Oh, and of course she has the kawaii bomb packaging too!  Thank you Nancy!


"MechaKucha" is a Japanese word with many different meanings, mixed-up, all over the place, and wacky' or it could mean 'really really, or super duper'.  -Nancy's profile

 Nancy says "MechaKucha" is the perfect word to describe her store and for me it's a perfect word to to describe my HoarderRehab adventure!

And believe it or not, I still want more!  I'll wait til after this weekend because I'm going to take a pic of my washi tape hoard and count it.  That seems to help me stay conscious about this new/old found collection!

Here's the washi tape I've been eyeing next!  I love Mina Perhonen and her designs and probably the only thing I can afford of hers is her butterfly washi tape!

I'd like it in pink and blue for to make baby cards, but maybe I'll change my mind after all the pics and counting of my washi tape collection.  Although, I like it in red also.

The Mina pink butterfly is on ebay for 3.00 including shipping for 5 feet of it! or 32 feet for $7.50 including shipping for the red or the blue.  Maybe mechakucha808 will start sample spools of Mina Perhonen.  Hmm... she does have Shinzi Katoh sample spools, but I'd much rather have Mina.














Hoarder Inspiration:   I can't wait to see what I end up doing with all this washi tape!  Once I get started I keep on going!  Once I made over 800 "out of context" cards one summer back in the 80s.  They are lost in the hoard somewhere.  When I find them I'll include a pic of them here and/or sell them on etsy.

Some of my washi cards are on HoarderRehab here.  I've already made at least 100 "Abstract Love" cards and gave them out as "thank you" cards to etsy buyers before I started writing daily on the blog.

I use the washi tape scrap pieces from "Smiling Houses over Blue Sky" cards

to make these "Abstract Love" cards, until I ran out of the memo paper.  Also sometimes I'd include an origami jumping frog or origami crane hanging ornament, which I make when I have insomnia or am too tired to do anything during the day.

 I found some thick beige watercolor gummed paper and now they evolved and look like this:

The flower petal cards, which I call, "he loves me, he loves me not" are here with directions, if you'd like to DIY!  I got the idea from the etsy blog article:  How-Tuesday: Petal Card for Mother's Day, but used washi tape, instead of tissue paper.

Lastly as more HoarderRehab inspiration, I am hoping that this next weekend picture taking will provide some insightful clues as to why my washi tape is growing!  And if having a pic of the entire collection and counting it will change my washi tape hoarding ways!  Only time will tell!

Hoarder Desperation:  These cards don't use that much washi tape, so I've been thinking about how to use them on a larger scale.  Any ideas out there?

My washi tape collection began in a small cherry tomato container and already exceeds a box that's probably as big as 3-4 shoe boxes.  On top of that, I had forgotten about my first two stashes of washi tape, so once I started to dehoard I found more!

Even more astounding and mysterious is why I'm so attracted to washi tape and when is enough enough?

Thank you etsy for providing various blog articles that are so artistically inspirational and for helping me get my hoard out there via VintageToGoetsy, HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!

Thank you US, Germany, Lithuania, UK, India, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago for visiting as more mysteries than answers emerge!  Does this happen to anyone else? and if so, how do you stop it?

Finally a parting question to help clue me in just came, as I was about to click on the "publish" button:

When will making the washi tape cards become a better stress buster than buying the tape?