Balderdash Makes Me Happy

Ah, Balderdash. My love. My Balderdash.

I really LOVE playing Balderdash. So much that I whenever I play a game, I bring home all the little slips of paper and blog our answers. And you get to play too. Just leave your answer as a comment on this blog and I'll pick the funniest one. Whoever is funniest gets a fun surprise in the mail from me. 

First things first -- the winner from my last Balderdash blog entry, Betsy -  who killed me with her synopsis of the movie, "Hello Down There":

The Story of forbidden love between a fuzzy Norwegian hat and the woman who wears it. Spoiler Alert: The hat dies in the end.

I don't know what it means -- but I know it's funny. And that's all that matters. So Betsy will be getting some cool farting tater tot greeting cards in the mail post haste. 

And now this week's contest: 

It's a MOVIE and the title is "Ladies Who Do." Our answers: 

1. A small town gets turned upside down when the local hair salon wins a hair styling contest.

2. Ladies clean up the entire world using only garbage bags and gum.

3. A documentary about women entering the work force during World War II.

4. A group of women start a do wop group in the 1920's and make it to #1 on the charts. 

5. A bunch of office cleaning women get rich when they find some hot stock tips in a garbage can.

6. The much more popular sequel to the first film, "Ladies who don't."

7. A small group of women in rural Georgia form an association to rebel against society's "A lady doesn't..." attitude in the 1950's. 

8. The sequel to "Ladies who don't" followed by the third installment "Ladies who don't do diddly squat."

Now it's your turn. Write a brief but hilarious movie synopsis of "Ladies Who Do" and leave it as a comment on this blog. I'll get in touch if you're the winner!

And if you don't want to play, just enjoy this new Shower Art: My Other Car is a Unicorn on Roller Skates. 

New Signs

Granted, new signage probably isn't what most girls go ga-ga and blog about. I'll give you that. For free. But Doug made the MOST hilarious signs to point people down to our studio on First Thursday for the Art Walk. That's just one -- they all have different sayings on each side. "If you don't buy art, the terrorists have already won." "WTF?!" "art art art art art art art art ART art art art art art" "I made this sign, you follow it. That's the deal." "Buying art makes you tough and handsome" They apparently worked and inspired hoards of folks to visit on First Thursday. It was a good night. They also inpired a little violence as I got into an altercation with some street youths who kicked over the sign that said "WTF?!" and then stomped up and down on it. I happened to see them and yelled, "Why would you do that?" -- that's the equivalent of "Keep off my lawn you pesky kids!" in street youth terms. And the head street youth (the one who kicked it over so the rest could jump up and down on it) said, "It seemed like fun." What could I say. He's right. It did look like fun.

New Shower Arts to Celebrate Friday

To celebrate this sunny, lovely Friday -- some Shower Arts. Enjoy. Yay Friday.

Donating to The Sampler

Ahhhhhh...there's nothing like the feeling of accomplishment that comes with finishing something. For me at least. I love crossing things off my list. Today, that was mailing off the Etsy Rain submission to The Sampler. We ended up submitting about 300 items, 60 of which will be submitted to magazines and design blogs. Thankfully, I got some much needed/wanted help from fellow Etsy Rainers and friend. You know who you are. And thank you. Thanks so much. What I learned: The post office has flat rate boxes. Anything you put in them is $8 something dollars. Way better than the $70 I ended up paying for our four boxes. Argh. Doug spent many an hour making up packaging labels for Shower Art - waterproof art you can hang in your shower with a suction cup. They turned out wonderfully. I spent many hours gocco-ing them and then making them into stickers to put on the boxes. Lots of work, but I think they look fantastic. Here's some of the items we submitted: And here's the little guys in their Sampler packaging: