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Yesterday afternoon we encountered a banner emergency.
The new manager of a local grocery store came in to my shop with a frantic and frazzled look on his face.
He had a rolled banner tucked under his arm and 2 hours to make it ready for  the rodeo arena where it would be displayed as a sponsor banner.
The problem?
No grommets to hang it with.

Well then…
I resisted my natural tenancy to lecture and tell him that if he had ordered his banner from ME it would already have grommets in it. He already knew that. He was aware of this fact by the stack of nearly finished banners spread across my work table. Banners with GROMMETS in the corners.

He begged. He pleaded. He found the perfect bribe.
That’s right folks.
He offered me coffee. Lots of coffee.

So while I pushed my already scheduled work aside to install the desperately needed metal rings, he zoomed back to his store and loaded up on several different flavors and blends in big ol’ robust bags.

So now he has a banner at the rodeo and I will be well caffeinated for the next two months.

I love my job!

An exciting day… sorta.

I received a facebook message asking me if I knew that the website was looking a bit peculiar.  Ummmmm…. nope. Thanks for telling me!

Arghhhhh!!!!
It would seem that the turkish underground subversion terrorist dorks are getting their message out by hacking unsuspecting websites and hijacking their homepage.
Again I say ARGHHHHH!!!

I won’t start into my diatribe about the senselessness of hacking someone’s website, especially if you’re trying to make a political statement. (Somehow I just don’t think it brings anyone over to your way of thinking. Especially if they don’t speak Turkish)
Just leave my stuff alone, you… you… stupid hackers!

I said  many bad words and called my tech support. They are always helpful and friendly. But they  left me on hold so long that I figured out how to fix it myself.  Yay me!
There  for a few brief moments I was basking in the glory of being a Geek Goddess.

I had to change my compromised password so now I have a new password that is so secure that even I can’t get past it.

But now…
to carry on with my Geek Goddessness…

I made a font!
I’m so darn proud of myself. And it was fun too.
I named it “Bit O Curl”
It makes me so happy I want to do another one… so if you need me I’ll be parked in the computer room with a gallon of coffee and the music blasting.

You’ve all seen the stick people on car windows. Some are really cute. Some… not so much.

These are not your ordinary stick people. In fact, they’re not people at all.

It tickles me when folks step out of the box a little and ask for something that is unique to their own family. I’m more than happy to oblige.

Draw, color and make fun things on the computer.  That’s all I do all day long, day after day…. sigh. (hee-hee)

Everybody who’s ready for some spring raise your hand and give a shout.

Me too.
Can’t wait for this blanket of white that’s been covering everything since the first of December to melt away and let me see some green. Even a little dirt color would be welcome at this point.

So…
In order to fight off the winter-time housebound craziness that is starting to possess everyone – we’re bringing on the flowers.

These little dearies will bring some color to your winter weary eyes and quite possibly bring a smile to your face too.

So pop on over to this page here at Writings on the Wall and get yourself some posies!
You know you want to.

People always ask me where all the quotes we have come from.
Actually, a few people have asked me if I make up all of the quotes.

Um…. no. I’d like to take credit, but the bible verses kind of blow that idea for me.

Many of the wonderful quotes and phrases we collect come from endless online searching. Some come from seeing or hearing something and writing it down for future use (you wouldn’t believe my giant pile of sticky notes) and many come from my customers.
It makes my day when someone brings me a catchy phrase or an inspirational quote that I haven’t already seen or produced many times.

This tile was ordered for a Christmas gift.  I’d like to take credit because I think it’s hilarious, but I can’t.
It’s the hands down winner for funniest tile of the year.