The Totally Tricked-Out Tissue Box

Here are a couple of photos from the new tissue box I finished over the weekend. This one will open my new Etsy shop... hopefully later today. Tomorrow at the latest. (Since this will be my first listing, I'm trying to give myself a buffer to allow for any major complications!) The link to my Etsy shop is active in the sidebar. Although there's nothing in the store as of this posting, you can at least see the storefront. Yea! One more thing off the list!

I feel like I worked my butt off all weekend, but didn't really make much progress. Do you know how that feels? Partly I think it was because Steve and I were completely derailed on Saturday afternoon. We had ANOTHER fire in Placerita Canyon, which is the Canyon behind our subdivision. It was like a sickening deja vu... a sky filled with black smoke, water-dropping planes and helicopters, utter dread. Luckily, they pounced on it, and it was out by Sunday morning.

The part that makes me furious is that this is the FOURTH fire in Placerita Canyon in three weeks. Apparently, there are eyewitness accounts of someone in a truck throwing some sort of lit flare out of the window and into the brush! What kind of sick person does this sort of thing?!?!?! Does he have some sort of vendetta against us? I hope they catch him. I won't tell you what I hope they do after that...

I've got a long list of computer stuff and paper work to get to today. (Not my favorite tasks, in case you didn't know!) But I also plan to work on my holiday fabric collages and get the first strokes of paint on a new batch of canvases. If you do take the time to take a peek at my Etsy shop, I just want to say "Thank You!" I so appreciate the visit!