Grapes are God's Bottles

Whew, today was shipping day. Well actually, today was International shipping day + learning to love the USPS "Robot" (the self-service machine). After being literally demoralized so often by one certain Postal Worker at the downtown Athens branch, I fled to another nearby branch. They have one of these machines, which I was initially wary of, but now think is amazing. This way, I'm not "inconveniencing" anyone besides myself. And it's 24 hours! What a great invention...

Sorry about the lack of wordy posts in the last few days...the snowballing of moving (next Thursday, people! It's almost a week away!) is starting, and I haven't made too many groundbreaking new Black Apple goodies...I do love the "Delia Dandelion" painting though. I'm proud of that little lady.
Pssst! I just posted 3 more Samplers  to the shop (they'll be the last for a while, probably a month or so while I regroup!) so if you'd love some happy suprises, move your mouse over to the Black Apple Shop!

I went to my friend Jenny's art opening on Saturday night, titled "99 Bottles"...which was appropriate because there were, well, maybe not 99 bottles (maybe more, maybe less, actually! I have no idea!) in the show. There were so many different colors, sizes, shapes...it made me really happy. Add to that the unpretentious and positive vibe of the peeps at the opening, and it was a happy time.

I bought 3 bottles, two of which I got to take home today (thanks, Jenny!)

   

I love both of them, but they're both so different! The white one was cast from a vintage prescription bottle, I believe. It's just this great, strange, opaque white vessel. I love it.
Here is a closeup of the beautiful greenybluey one, because I see that it looks like an indecipherable mush in the above picture.

Isn't it lovely?! The bird, the faces (I think that's a bit of a vampire on the right!)...and the colors are just wonderful. It's so lucky to have artist friends, you get all manner of lovely things for tiny sums of money.

So, I'm feeling very scared about my moving right now. I am so excited, but I'm also one of those who has a hard time thinking of "what-should-be-done-first" and then applying that to the packing and the organizing. I bought lots of cute storage yesterday, because 75% of my stuff has no home. If I know what something belongs in (box, basket, etc.) it is much more likely that it will stay neat. However, the default home for my belongings is the floor, or the slightly more respectable "pile system". It's no good. Everything that doesn't have a home is either going to be A.) Tossed or B.) Stored here. That's the rule. I've made up lots of funny rules for the move (of what can come with me), but I still need to make some more.

I have a wholesale order to fix up for shipping tomorrow, and the aforementioned organization/pre-packing to do, but I'm thinking I must get in some quiet time this evening just making some Isobels. I just love those girls...they are so fun and unstressful to make.

Oh! I wanted to figure out "Self Portrait Tuesday" today, and join the ranks of lots of other smarties (including my dahling Shannon) but it appears that I am too dumb to figure out how to become official with them, and sign up, and do it right. So here's my self portrait. And it's Tuesday.

Bunnies are, without question, my favorite people.