Brimful of Interest, Excitement & Skill
Look at this great board game my friend Mark brought home for me from a secondhand market a few weeks ago. You’re all invited to come around to my place on a rainy Sunday afternoon & we can sit on the floor & play Fairyland & have fizzy grape juice & ginger cookies. Hooray!
Well it was just a matter of time I suppose…it looks like I’ve been tagged by the well-preserved & fabulously talented benconservato & illustrator extraordinaire Racheal Anilyse. I won’t tag another 7 unsuspecting bloggers, but here are my 7 random or weird facts about myself:
- When we were kids, my sister Jo & I had a cardboard box with a human skeleton (Jo traded it at school for one of her Barbie dolls!), a scary black wig she got for Christmas, & a bunch of spiders (that escaped from my bugcatcher) in it.
- My sister & I used to play a game we called The Chocolate Nun. I’m not sure there were proper rules, but it involved hand signals somehow…& I think one of us wore a cape.
- As a child, I was obsessed with the trappings of bureaucracy & made my own stamps & forms. I glued homemade library cards in the backs of all my books.
- Ironically, this obsession was later quelled by 12 witheringly boring years spent working for the Tax Department.
- My family nickname is Weanie Beans & has many, equally embarrassing, variations – Beanie, Beans, Queenie, Queena, Kreenie, Reenie…& my Mum’s personal favourite…Beans On Toast.
- I’m a neurotic perfectionist. People deliberately move my fridge magnets a fraction of an inch, just to torture me.
- I have slept through the room adjoining my bedroom being ransacked by a crazed burglar, & a speeding car careening through my neighbour’s living room wall (the resulting evacuation attempt by the Fire Department, due to a gas leak, didn’t stir me either).
So there you are! 7 things you didn’t really want/need to know about Magic Jelly! Jot them down…if I ever become famous, they may crop up in Trivial Pursuit.
Recently Dick & Dora featured me in their blog…thank you! They also have an Etsy shop & make fab jewellery! And Fric de mentol included one of my Benediction collages in an Etsy Treasury list that made it to the front page. Hooray! Thanks Julian for getting a screenshot for me (a bouquet of parsnips is forthcoming) – it appeared in the middle of the night here in the Southern Hemisphere, so I would have missed it. Fellow Etsy sellers Anna Laura, Sherry Truitt & Salmon Street Studio also kindly let me know about it – thank you! It’s so nice to see such a great collection of artists make the front page – it was an honour to be among them!
Finally, thanks again to everyone who took part in my giveaway – the winners’ prizes are all in the post & on the way to their letterboxes.
Toodle-loo for now!
Excellent board game! What a riot! I love finding odd little things in thrift stores!
Thanks for sharing those very interesting bits of randomness – love to read these!
And congrats on the Front Page!
This was awesome! The Chocolate Nun sounds like it would make a good children’s book!
I’m on my way over to play Fairy Land. I’ll bring cupcakes.
I love playing the Chocolate Nun!
Fairyland looks great… lucky duckie!
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What a great game board! I am always looking for fun colorful ones, yours takes the cake!
I like the line “Brimful of Interest Excitement and Skill”
I got her via Loobylu. I’ve been drooling over your designs on Etsy but didn’t realise you have this gorgeous blog. Nice to meet you!
ohh, thanks for the nice words! I got a laugh out of your facts.
interesting facts, but I really do love the gameboard, I have quite a collection myself.
Why on earth would anyone leave a job the Tax office lol.
The Chocolate Nun sounds rude!
Wonderful game – love it!