More Shopping for me - I know, bad right?

I was only going into the store for 1 magazine, really!

There really needs to be a 12-step program for magazine addiction - it's true, I'm really a magazineaholic - I can't have just one, I don't know when to stop, I should not go into places that offer my weakness and I shouldn't be with people who enable my addiction. Going into to Chapter's was the first mistake - this is what followed me to the cashier:
And I couldn't resist these adorable little notebooks since I'm always jotting down blog post ideas or things I want to check out or craft ideas and need a little book in my purse, on my nighttable, at the ready - I really should just stick one in my back pocket all day. But aren't they darling?
Inside the covers is this story:

The designs featured on these pocket pads are from a collection of vintage textile paintings that were discovered - undated and signed by an unknown "Betty Anderson" - in a beat-up box in an antique store.

We learned that Betty was born in 1919 and lived in New York City for almost 30 years, where she worked as a commerical artist, textile designger, and children's book illustrator. Her versatility and success afforded her an uncommonly independent lifestyle. She never married, and in 1971 moved to Brattleboro, Vermont to preserve her family's estate, an eighteenth-century farmhouse known as the Poet's House on the Goodenough Farmstead.

When Betty passed away in 2006, some of her designs were inadvertently sold at auction and made their way into the antique shop. This same work now appears on our unique line of gift products, faithfully reproduced for those who appreciated the enduring freshness of Betty's designs.


I think Betty was way ahead of her time and either she'd be tickled that her artwork was enjoying a new found fame, or she'd be ticked off that she didn't enjoy this type of recognition in her lifetime. What do you think?

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My brother sent me this cute package of "pop-open" greeting cards, there are 30 different messages and they open like pull tabs. The idea is to put one a day in your kid's lunch or backpack. What a great idea, I look forward to opening a new one each day.
My first message was: If you really believe, you can really achieve it!
My second message was: Every winner was once a beginner!
My third message was written backwards so you have to hold it in mirror, it says" Discover new ways to look at things. See what you discover about yourself. "

Stay tuned for more!