Neon Googly Eyes Bra for EDC, Las Vegas: The Destiny of Things, Story 204

Neon Googly Eyes Bra for Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas:  The Destiny of Things, Story 204

Neon googly eyes that might knock your socks off!!!!!!

BEFORE:

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, neon googly eyes available here

There are no need for words for the AFTER photo, but I feel as though I need to build some sort of suspense, drum roll stall for the biggest entrance ever!!!!!

So if you are like me and do not know the acronym for EDC, it stands for Electric Daisy Carnival!

AFTER:

photo via Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerLoveEtsy

Here's the email I got:

I used the neon googly eyes to decorate a bra for EDC. I'm not finished but this is what I have so far...

So far?  OMG!  It looks fabulous!  I hope she sends a photo of it completed! because I can't imagine it even better than what already shows!

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, neon googly eyes available here

Classic black and white googly eyes, here

Here's what I wrote back immediately!

Hi Carina!

OMG!!!! That is so amazing!!!! So creative!!!! I love it!!! Can I use it as a story on my blog? I'll leave you anonymous if you prefer, but that's too cool to leave anonymous if you ask me!!!!

I'd love to see it finished too!

Which EDC are you wearing it to? Thank you for sharing! You made my day!

Kindest regards,
~Kennedy at
www.etsy.com/shop/HoarderRehab
www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings
www.etsy.com/shop/vintagetogoeasy
www.etsy.com/shop/JunkDrawerLoveEtsy

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And then I waited and got this a couple days ago!

Of course you may use my story. I'm going to wear it to EDC Las Vegas next month :)

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, neon googly eyes available here

Classic black and white googly eyes, here 

Saying Goodbye:  Well, well, well..... In the past month, I've never seen so many creative uses for googly eyes ever!  Between EyeBombing City Eye Sores and googly eyed bras for Electric Daisy Music Festivals, I am googly - eyed myself!

What I Learned:

1.  It doesn't hurt to ask for a story because there are plenty of people out there willing to help me with mine by sharing theirs!  Nor have I seen anything so creatively made with these neon ones and the classic black and white ones!  I used mine in the classroom in many ways, but nothing as zany and exciting as my two Friday stories!  Read EyeBombing City Eye Sores from another artist here.  

Feel free to get more ideas by reading how I used them in the classroom, here.

2.  Time's up!  It's been another busy week here in Etsyland and HoarderRehab!  Hope everyone has a good weekend!

What does Electric Music sound like these days?  I have no idea, but read about the EDC in Las Vegas and watch the trailer or EDC, here from wiki

Here's a song that popped into my head when I thought about what electric music might sound like, but it's electric music from my time, Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

Thank you Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerLoveEtsy for your surprise email with story and photo update.  I just love it!

Thank you Etsy for another more than happy sale that's win win for all involved!

Thank you US, Luxembourg, China, Italy, Germany, Philippines, Ukraine and other countries for your visits and company at my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!   

My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at least 1 new item daily on each shop five days a week! 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 175 items ,  The Destiny of Things-191 items , VintageToGoEasy - 164 items and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy - 142 items!  Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!

Related Stories:

1.  Eyebombing with Googly Eyes:  transforming city eye sores one googly eye at a time, here

Googly Eye Bombing Story, here
black and white googlies, available here for your own eye bombing pleasure!

Most Read Story of the Day:  Doily Wedding Craft Garland:  The Destiny of Things, Story 202

Most Read Story of the Week:   Eye Bombing with Googly Eyes:  The Destiny of Things, Story 200

Most Read Story of the Month:   "The Loss of Nameless Things" Hoarder Inspiration or Desperation, Story 18 

All Time Most Read All Time:  My Louis Vuitton Collection the end of mine for the beginning of someone else.  The last piece of my LV collection, my 80s LV gold cornered wallet is available here at The Destiny of Things!   

"In self trust all virtues are comprehended."  ---RWE in Fortune Teller Miracle Fish by Cathyrn Hankla, page 112, part 10.

Spice of Life Enamelware: The Destiny of Things, Story 203

Spice of Life Enamelware:  The Destiny of Things, Story 203

Sometimes information, help, support and dehoarding come in small and big surprises on Etsy!

photo via VintageToGoEasy

Yamata enamelware here and Bumper Harvest enamelware here

I was going to collect Yamata enamelware because I love the stenciled air brushed styling and bought my first piece because of this other stenciled air brushed styled bowl here:

photo via VintageToGoEasy, available here

Let me start again by saying I have or had an extensive bowl collection because my brother and I used to cook a lot and one of our sayings was " no kitchen can have too many bowls," so whenever we went thrifting and saw a bowl we liked, we'd just buy it!

Most of my collection of bowls went to my Aunt on one of my moves.  I think she ended up with most of my Bauer bowls, but I still have many kinds of bowls, even though many have found new homes.  I do have my Grandmother's set of nesting Bauer bowls somewhere in my hoard and if they are stored in my truck, I do hope they have survived the many drives over bumps I seem to manage to drive over!

Anyways, still working on how to empty the truck without hoarding more into the music art room!  So anyways, I had this crazy notion to collect stencil styled air brushed bowls and bought this Yamata bowl to go with the Rose bowl! and with it came these three other enamelware bowls!

photo via VintageToGoEasy, available here

Okay, I am starting to see how my collections end up bulldozing and morphing into a new one! So my stencil styled air brush collection of bowls turned into an instant collection of enamelware bowls!

Now that I don't bake or cook as much due to gluten, soy, dairy allergies I hardly even use bowls anymore, yet I still manage to collect them!

I think if one is a recovering hoarder or even a hoarder in denial what I'm writing is understandable, but it might be hard to imagine if one is NOT a collector!

I'm still not sure what I'm trying to say or where this posting is going.... except I've been listing all my bowls and clearing out my kitchen for the my Grandmother's Bauer bowls stored in the truck along with two different sets of my Grandmother's China!

So I listed the Spice of Life enamelware bowl, however I did not know it was a Spice of  Life bowl nor did I know anything else about it, except for the French saying on it!  Because at the time I listed it, the French translation was all I could research on google and believe me I spent a good amount of time researching!

Quite some time went by and then all of a sudden, a kind Etsyian, Elizabeth of Izzy's Kitchen sent me an email with this information:

These enamel bowls were made to accompany Spice of Life from Corning ware.

I was ecstatic! but before I could change the listing information, she sent me another email asking how much shipping would be with her zip code!

One thing lead to another and before I knew it, it sold!  And now this bowl has a new life and home on a off the grid Alpaca farm in Arizona!  Can you believe that?  And she's from right by me in Pico Rivera!

I couldn't believe it because one of my dreams is to live off the grid in an Earthship and get away from the city!  So I just had to ask how she ended up there and she told me:

She wanted to get away from crazy LA and just happened upon 45 acres of land and after retiring early built it up and is very happy now!

45 acres!!! Retired early!  She really is living a dream life!  And it's my dream too, but without the Alpacas.  And she's a hoarder too and has an Etsy shop too!  I am so happy and thankful to have met and  be in such good company with someone living a dream like mine! and able to do it with hoarder tendencies!

So much hope and inspiration in that for me!

Saying Goodbye:  I am so thankful this has gone to a collector of Spice of Life Corningware!  And so happy to know that I can live out my dreams, even if I can't stop hoarding because Elizabeth is already doing it!

What I Learned:

1.  I am not the only who keeps things from all my relatives from great grandmothers, grandmothers, and great aunts and she love to shop at antique malls and thrift stores too and although she lives 25 miles out from the closest town and 50 miles from a city big enough for a Walmart and Home Depot, she loves being out in the country and can not live with traffic or big cities anymore.

That is me too and as soon as Mr. Oz retires we are outta here!

2.  I think this posting is a reminder of my long term goals and dreams of our off the grid, self sustaining recycling home built mostly from recyclables or an Earthship.  And also a reminder of my short term goals of organizing the music art room enough to be able to unload my truck, so it's no longer a storage facility.

And to dehoard all I can, so when we do move it's not a lot of burdeness crazy hoard, but light and joyful!

Thank you Elizabeth of lizzyzkitchen on Etsy, for not one but several happy surprises!  Thank you for helping me dehoard one item at a time, finding so much pleasantness in common, the realization that I can be successful with my dreams hoarder or not and for helping me stay focused on my long and short term goals!

Be sure to visit her shop, lizzyzkitchen, she is having a Father's day sale until June 15, so check it out!  She specializes in Corningware, Pyrex, Fransicanware, Tupperware, Princess House, Jewelry and more!  My favorites are her knitted and homemade, especially the handy bottle carriers, here and her beautiful hand embroidered towels, here.

lizzyzkitchen has over 230 items of fun!

Thank you Etsy for sending a stranger kind enough to email me information that turned into more than a happy sale!

Thank you US, Germany, France, Luxembourg, India and Pakistan for your visits since yesterday's posting, 

Doily Wedding Craft Garland:  The Destiny of Things, Story 202 and for taking part in support towards my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!  

My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at least 1 new item daily on each shop five days a week!  

 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 176 items ,  The Destiny of Things-190 items , VintageToGoEasy - 165 items and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy - 144 items!  Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!

Ran out of time for related stories....but still enough time for a quote!

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ---Another moment of silence for Maya Angelou, author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" the first book of hers I read in college.

 

Doily Wedding Craft Garland: The Destiny of Things, Story 202

Doily Wedding Craft Garland:  The Destiny of Things, Story 202

These are going to be in a wedding!!!!

48 mixed sized doily pack, available here

Here's the note I received:

I am preparing for my daughter's wedding. I tea stained the doilies and fastened them to jute to create banners for tables at the reception. 

Wow, these must look even more gorgeous tea stained hanging from jute as a garland!  I wonder if they were difficult to tea stain.  I wonder what the final product looks like and of course, I'd love to be a fly and buzz around and see all the creativeness at her daughter's wedding!

48 mixed sized doily pack, available here

Doilies are good for all kinds of creative things, but I have yet to do much with mine.  I did make a quick garland as a sample and doily envelopes too!  

Here's some projects I'd like to try:

Herb and flower holder idea, larger French doilies available here

I take that back!  I have made some cards with doilies, just not the round ones.  I've made many cards with the small red hearts ones.

Here's some cones that seem easy enough to make for holding herbs and flowers or party confetti or wedding petals:

Cone style holder, 8.5 round doilies available here

 The "Keep This Coupon" card is going to a friend, on the back of the card is the other half of the coupon,

The middle heart lace doily card is available here

and the last doodad was an experiment with a choya top

The above is made with these doilies here and only took one doily:

These are small red paper lace heart doilies and have "with love" embossed on the inside heart

Available here

With the little heart scraps in this doily I made this mixed media loteria card:

El Paraguas Mixed Media Art Loteria Card, here

I would like to embellish all 54 cards as a series!

Okay, so I have been busier than I thought going through my art project "to do" lists, but my project days have come to a stand still!

48 mixed sized doily pack, available here

Saying Goodbye:  I hope I never have to say goodbye to doilies!  Somewhere in my hoard is a sample of Valentines I made for everyone in my kindergarten class made with red construction paper and doily!  I do remember my little fingers becoming so sore after hand cutting 27 hearts with right handed scissors for a left hander!

What I Learned:

1.  If you ask me, doilies make the world go around!  And how they got to be so expensive, I'd sure like to know!

2.  Doily History and Traditional Uses:  Doilies were first made out of fabric and/or crocheted and were primarily used as furniture protection, like coasters for vases and beverages, flower arrangement, especially for a bouquet of posies, head covering, clothing ornamentation and lastly for food presentation and etiquette.

Crochet doilies often separated the dessert plate from the finger bowl in formal settings.  I've only used a finger bowl a couple of times in restaurants, but I do remember my Grandmothers using their crochet doilies to cushion and pack their China dishes after holiday dinners for storage.

And my Grandmothers used the paper ones for eating inside or out, but especially for outside picnics and patio, like bento boxes, finger sandwiches, desserts and cookies.

Now I even remember making doily origami elephants with her!

 My doily sample banner is reuseable and folds flat for storage, available here

Add some simple twisted streamers, also available here

What memories do doilies bring you?  They brought me a  lot!  More than I expected.

Thank you Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things for letting me know how you are using your set of doilies!  What fun and how lucky your daughter is to have a Mom creating your big day celebration with such details!  I hope it gives others inspiration and ideas too!

Thank you Etsy as more stories come pouring in and I might need to write daily to keep up with them!  It's so fun and interesting to get each and every one of them!

Thank you US, Luxembourg, India, China, Germany, Finland, United Kingdom, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden and many other countries for taking part in support towards my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!  

My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at least 1 new item daily on each shop five days a week! 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 175 items ,  The Destiny of Things-191 items , VintageToGoEasy - 164 items and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy - 142 items!  Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!

 

Related Stories:

1.  Paper Lace Heart Doilies as Table Confetti and more, read about it here

2.  Alice and Wonderland Dinner Party doily coasters all the way to the UK, here 

3.  Loteria Cards as another Wedding Day craft, here

4.  My Apothecary Jars turned into Wedding Candy bar, here.  My third story!

5.  My Grandmother would have used doilies with these snack plates and tea cups here!

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."  A moment of silence for Maya Angelou....  

Diamond Party Favor Trinket Box: The Destiny of Things, Story 201

Diamond Party Favor Trinket Box:  The Destiny of Things, Story 201

A simple story of agreement!

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here

From an Etsy buyer:

"Cute little storage containers."

 photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here

Which is exactly why I bought them!  I originally used them in my gumball machine art project that holds all my childhood dreams.  They are somewhat larger than the gumball vending machine capsules I like to use with them and mix them together.

Some of the diamonds have varying degrees of flaws, mainly from the manufacturing, so I use those to make desk inspiration for the young at heart.  

When I used to teach third grade I used to spend the first day of school giving students fun assignments that were really incognito assessments, like write the alphabet in lower and upper case letters as fast as you can while we timed it.  

We'd also sit around and try to crack walnuts in perfect halves and snack on them too!  Later their homework was will 100 items fit into a walnut?  and to list them.  And the next day we'd share our walnuts and their contents and use them as desk inspiration.

These diamonds would have made it a lot easier and everyone could decide to be a king, queen, prince or princess while collecting their 100+ items!  What fun!

Anyways...here are some of the diamond desk inspirations I've made for children and adults.  I've made Pirates and Hello Kitty ones for some little ones I know as little fun traveling bon voyage gifts.  

 See what's inside a Crystal Skull Pirate diamond here!

Shiny silver cross bones skull ring, mini treasure chest with crystal heart and skull beads inside it,poison necklace, skull clothespin map holder, magic pirate coin, pirate stickers and more!

 See what's inside a Hello Kitty diamond, here!

Hello Kitty stickers and matching tattoos with glitter, hearts galore from heart rhinestone stickers and flowers in a pink lilac treasure chest, Cat gel glitter resin charm necklace, and more!

Sold out, but I'd be happy to make one upon request, see more views here.

Some Halloween ones went to my friend's grandsons. Here he is at the kitchen table with some down time playing and sorting:

photo via Ali, friend and Etsy shop owner from HeyAlleyCat

Children may love to sort and play with little trinkets and boxes, but I do too!  I love rearranging my desk inspiration diamond trinkets when I'm on hold on the phone waiting for customer service, etc. or just looking at it full from different angles or adding and taking away objects to see how they look inside it.  I even like to sort by color, shape and size!  Be it from smallest to largest or largest to smallest!

And I couldn't resist making one for teachers!  So here's a Red Teacher Diamond Desk Inspiration Kit:

Everything in it has meaning and symbolism to me as a teacher

and I hope for the teacher who gets it!

Meaning and Symbolism described and available here

One pink diamond has sold last October without a story:

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy 

I made a different pink diamond desk inspiration later.  It's different, but still filled with fun!

 photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here

As one can see, I have a lot of fun with these diamonds and everyone I've given one too loves them too!  They are great for pocket travel, desk inspiration, take empty and fill up during an adventure for any age and can be filled with so many useful things, themed items or silly what nots for everyone and anyone's interest.

I don't know which is more fun, filling one up, sorting and rearranging one or watching someone open one!  Try it yourself and let me know!

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here

Saying Goodbye:  I have plenty of these with most of them for my gumball machine art project called, "Once a Penny Dreams."  I just added it to my art project day list, so I can finish it soon take a photo to share on here.

They are cute little storage containers and I keep them handy for anytime I need to fill one up to give as a little gift to cheer someone up or spread a little fun and happiness!

What I Learned:

1.  I just love trinkets and their packaging containers!  Take a wild guess of what I've started to collect next under this category?  Oh no and oh yes!  It's been one of my rewards for a bad habit I'm trying to break and I'll be listing the doubles on VintageToGoEasy soon!

I couldn't help myself once I saw these trinkets and I don't know if it was coincidence or majestic timeliness but it was the around the same time my WW2 Trench Art Sweetheart bracelet was ordered, so I used some of the profits to fund my new collection!

As a recovering hoarder, I don't know if this is good or bad, but for helping me to improve myself by breaking other bad habits, it's working and it's a fun way to do it!

I am motivated by rewards.  I don't know why and I wrote about it here, Rewards as Motivation, Hoarder Inspiration or Desperation Story 9.

I have since found different ways to reward myself that don't cost any bucks, but do include the help and support of friends, so that's a fresh start in a new different direction!

2.  I find it very peaceful, timeless and fun to sit around sorting and rearranging, even counting things.

Do you think you can find 100 items to fill a diamond up?  I know I can, but I've played this game many many times over the years using walnut shells!

Thank you Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerLoveEtsy for leaving a few words that helps me with mine and  lets me know that I have something in common with a non hoarder! For me, validation is is a pleasant confirmation of agreement.

Thank you Etsy for your continual support and outlet as a recovering hoarder! So far over 720 items have found new lives and homes thanks to you!

Thank you US, UK, Ukraine, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Norway, Brazil, Spain, France, Lithuania, Morocco, Russia and many other countries for your visits and support towards my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!  

My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at least 1 new item daily on each shop five days a week! 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 175 items ,  The Destiny of Things-191 items , VintageToGoEasy - 163 items and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy - 142 items!  Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!

 

Related Stories:

 

1.   Rewards as Motivation, Hoarder Inspiration or Desperation Story 9  What is your biggest motivating factors?

2.  This 3 Way Nicho was ordered today and it was heart wrenching for me, but I don't know why yet, so it's going into the pile of "The Lost of Nameless Things."

3.  I Love My Gumball Machine Capsules!  The Destiny of Things, Story 156, read it here.

 

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood." ---Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker.  Author of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," one of my favorite novels from my college days.

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." ---Malcolm Forbes

I hope you all had a safe and fun Memorial Weekend and thanked a Vet!  I thanked all the vets in my family!

Eye Bombing with Googly Eyes: The Destiny of Things, Story 200

Eye Bombing with Googly Eyes:  The Destiny of Things, Story 200

Transforming City Eye Sores One Googly Eye At A Time

photo via Rob Johnson

Every once in awhile, out of the blue I receive a story so surprising, it leaves me awe struck, inspired and ready to go on happy adventures of fun, laughter and so much more, like a small miracle landing safely to be noticed...all from googly eyes!

 photo via The Destiny of Things

available here for your own eye bombing pleasure!  at our other shop, JunkDrawerAndMore

So I spent a good part of my blog posting time trying to decide on which title!  Oh well, let's take a vote!

Okay, my OCD has really kicked in this week and as a recovering hoarder micro managing every little thing is becoming tedious and decision making is at it's weakest!  It's okay, it's best if I accept this about myself without judgement, instead of hankering over it and getting no where with it by mulling it over, like beating a dead horse to death!

Anyways... someone left me some vague feedback over their purchase of googly eyes and I don't usually email over it, but the feedback was so funny to me, I just had to respond and I'm so glad I did because I got this story!

Here's the feedback:

fast shipping, quality product, and exactly as expected. What more can a person want from googly eyes? Buy them! 

How funny is that?  Funniest most simple intriguing feedback ever!  Thank you Rob!

 photo via The Destiny of Things

available here, in three different googly eye sizes, at our other shop, JunkDrawerAndMore

Here's what I wrote:

Thank you for the fun and funny feedback. May I ask for my Hoarder Rehab blog, how you are using them? Thank you for your consideration and kind feedback.

Best regards,
~Kennedy at
www.etsy.com/shop/HoarderRehab
www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings
www.etsy.com/shop/vintagetogoetsy
www.etsy.com/pt/shop/JunkDrawerAndMore

Read 190+ stories from Etsy buyers who help me stay focused on my HoarderRehab!

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 So funny and googly cute!

photo via Rob Johnson

And he wrote back!

Rob Johnson

May 10, 2014

 

I'm using them to make this city funnier, one googly-eye at a time.

As an example you can see from the attached photo, this public eyesore is now the source of a good chuckle.

These eyes adhere really well if you clean the surface underneath first. This set has survived a lot of rain!

Even that tiny photo looks so funny!  And it can survive rain too!  Wow!

Kennedy Miranda

May 10, 2014

 

Oh my!!!! That's the funniest eyesore I've seen in ages! Thank you for the best chuckle of the weekend! I am going to use this for next Friday's blog posting if you don't mind. Do you have site you'd like me to refer to besides your Etsy profile? leave you anonymous? It's too funny for anonymity!

I'm going to keep my eye out to do the same! Thank you for the ideas!

Thank you for making my day and weekend!

Kind regards,
Kennedy

Rob Johnson

May 10, 2014

 

I wish I could say that "Eye-Bombing" was my original idea, but it wasn't. Not sure who started the street art project, but like you, I found it hilarious.

I also like how it's non-permanent. The self-adhesive eyes can be removed very easily so it's not defacing anything. I suppose they can fall off and create some small litter. So I just decided to clean up some litter elsewhere to net out even karma-wise for any environmental impact a few stray eyes might create. :-)

I carry a few googly eyes with me at all times. My friends' 4 year-olds love to go eyebombing and will spend hours searching for funny places to put them. It gets us outside, it's creative, and we always end up laughing. It's often the kids that find things that look like faces needing eyes.

Feel free to use the photos in a blog post. But I have no need for credit my way. I think it's better if others employ the concept regardless of any other person.

Attached are three more photos. And I hope more eyes sell!

Cheers

A dear friend and I have been thinking about beginning an exercise program.  Yes, it's just in the "thinking over" stages and has moved on to the "talking about" stage and soon I think it will progress to "the doing" stage and I will be talking walks again!  And googly eyes are going to our motivator!  

Endless amusement while taking eye bombing walks and picking up trash to "x" out the karma if any googly eyes should end up googly on the ground!

photo via The Destiny of Things

These are not self adhesive, but available here, at our other shop, JunkDrawerAndMore

Saying Goodbye:   I must have wrote googly bye at least three times by mistake, so I guess it's a "googly" goodbye and what fun it's going to be to set out on my own eyebombing walk with googly eyes!  It'll be like starting my exercise program without even knowing it because it's going to fun, instead of the dreaded "got to start" exercise program!

 Oh my!  Starting an excercise program isn't so bad with some googly eyes!

photo via Rob Johnson

What I Learned:

1.  The old trick of looking at something differently or even calling it something else, like from exercise program to eyebombing really does appeal and work for me.

2.  I've been trying a new experiment that I call "hoarding without hoarding."  It's in progress at the moment and it makes me nervous because I think it's snowballing into something huge and perhaps a tad out of control and when I think of all I've bought during this last melt down....

I don't know which is worse retail therapy as stress relief and feeling guilty about it or not buying and having FOMO, "fear of missing out" kick myself feelings!  At least it sounds funny to me now.  It's still nervous laughter, but at least I'm laughing.

3.  This month has been a struggle as a recovering hoarder, but I suppose breaking chains to freedom isn't going to be easy, however I am thrilled with all the big and little surprises it's brought me along the way!

Open Sesame!  What new doors will open to the next treasures?

photo via Rob Johnson

What new doors will open to your next treasures?  Turn an eyesore into a googly eyed treasure today and clean up along the way too!  One googly eye at a time, one bag of litter a walk!  It may sound super corny, but what fun!

Thank you Rob for your feedback, emails and fun inspiration!  Never thought turning and eye sore into street art would be so easy, full of laughter and fun!  Thank you for the tips on how to googly eye something so it lasts longer and if it doesn't - how to even out any environmental impact of a few loose eyes!

Thank you Etsy for the ever changing and evolving house of a recovering hoarder!  As of today, 704 hoarded items have been released into the world into better lives and new homes!

Thank you US, Ukraine, Canada, China, Germany, Egypt, France, Lithuania, Singapore, Thailand and many other countries stopping by to support my HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things with your visits!

My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at least 1 new item daily on each shop five days a week!

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 173 items ,  The Destiny of Things-188 items , VintageToGoEasy - 163 items and now JunkDrawerAndMore - 135 items!  Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too! 

The Universe is on a roll with googly eyes because I've gotten another funny story from an Etsy buyer using neon googly eyes!  Out of this world creative! 

Anyone else eyebombing one eye sore at a time?  We'd love to see your googly eye street art!  Join the fun and send your photos to hoarderrehab@gmail.com

Related Stories:

1.  Neon Googly Eye Bra for Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas:  The Destiny of Things, Story 204 

2.  A Record Breaking Order: The Destiny of Things, Story #145:  This Etsy buyer had a huge order, read what she's eyebombing with her googly eyes! 

Most Read Story of the Day and Week:   "The Loss of Nameless Things" Hoarder Inspiration or Desperation, Story 18 

All Time Most Read Story of Month and All Time:  My Louis Vuitton Collection the end of mine for the beginning of someone else.  The last piece of my LV collection, my 80s LV gold cornered wallet is available here at The Destiny of Things!  

"In self trust all virtues are comprehended."  ---RWE in Fortune Teller Miracle Fish by Cathyrn Hankla, page 112, part 10.

Office Stamper by Night and Craft Stamp by Day: The Destiny of Things, Story 199

Office Stamper by Night and Craft Stamp by Day:  The Destiny of Things, Story 199

I can't believe it!?!  I got snail mail from someone and forgot to write about it!!!

Hmm... I seriously thought I had written this story already!  Until another story reminded me about this story and I went looking for it and it was no where to be found!

As a recovering hoarder, not only is my house cluttered up to the max, but my mind is too!  Look what I found buried in ever growing folders of folders on my computer! Oh my and it's from last year!  And how funny, there's the date stamped right on it using the date stamper the story is about!!!!

And to top it off, I thought I had already wrote about this!

 photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here

or The Destiny of Things, available here

Back in October, when I received this letter I had it on my stairway tansu with it's book marker in a prominent display spot!  It eventually came unglued and I tucked it away for safe keeping.  Today I found it too and put it back together.

 

So there's the beautiful book marker that someone personalized and made just for me!  It's puffy, glittered and layered and I love it!  Does anyone know the name of that font?  I used to do calligraphy with that font and Old English.  So it's even written with a font that brings back good memories to me!

Anyways...

This stamper works double duty!  By night it's a billing date stamper at a hospital and by day it's used for crafting.  Mainly to finish her wedding album!  How cool, is that?

And guess what else?  She loved my handwritten letter and the goodies I sent with her package!  It's a little funny too because she thinks her story is boring and I never find the stories boring!  I find them fascinating that someone actually responded  to my note and later I find it enlightening as I relate their story to mine.

And getting a story "snail mail!?"  That's just special rarity.

 At the time, a little one's birthday was near and I was experimenting with cards, so I made her this little interactive paper doll card.  I had a couple versions and plenty of extras, so I sent one with a letter to Ashley.

The interactive paper doll card is available here

I wish I would have taken a better photo, so you could see that I used my date stamper too!

 photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here

or The Destiny of Things, available here

Saying Goodbye:  My stamper is going to last me another 9 years!  Yeah! to 9 more years of happy stamping!  

What I Learned:

1.  I love stamps and stickers, so much so, I became a notary so I could see what it's like to stamp my little heart out officially!

2.  I'm not the only one with a weakness for stamps and stickers, so is Ashley, so it's nice to know I'm in good company and have something in common with a non hoarder!

3.  Anything is possible when you own some rubber stamps!

Which rubber stamper is your favorite?  I use this one the most and it's one of my favorites.  My three other favorites are a tiny heart, a tiny crown and one that looks like a mod asterisk.  I make little doodads with them and put them in the "thank you packaging, " like this below:

This is somewhat like what I send as a packaged goodies or Japanese custom, omiyage thank you gift

photo via The Destiny of Things, available here

Each shop has one listed and they are all slightly different!

Thank you Ashley for sending me a letter through snail mail!  I love snail mail!  So an extra BIG thanks to you!  And I love your story and it's NOT boring.  I love how your stamper is an office stamp by night and a crafting stamp by day!  My apologizes for thinking I had already written it!

Thank you Etsy for so many amazing stories that help me with mine!  My Hoarder Rehab journey is a whole lot more exciting, fun and delightful than I ever expected!

Thank you US, China, Australia, Spain, Canada, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, Ireland, India and many others who have supported me with their visits to my HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things with your visits!   

My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at least 1 new item daily on each shop five days a week! 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 173 items ,  The Destiny of Things-188 items , VintageToGoEasy - 161 items and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy - 135 items!  Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!

 

Related Stories:

 

1.  Read about someone who scrapbooks with hers,  here

 

2.  A kindergarten teacher saving time using this date stamper, here!  A "destiny as infinity" story.

 

 3.  "Destiny as Infinity":  How I got the idea of "untold destiny" wishes through a mish mash of thoughts!

 

4.  My other "must have" teacher tools, I kept close at hand:   Service Bell and Receipt Spike  

5.  I received a handwritten snail mail letter with a beautiful personal book marker about someone's story and their date stamper and I can't find it!  I think it's a long lost story I MUST find now! 

I did finally find it, but not under the tab, The Destiny of Things!  It was in my many folders of folders of photos that I title under numerous names until they are mixed up or lost!  oh my...

 

"Nothing brings you peace, but the triumph of principles."  Boyd Crowder from Justified quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson.