i happened to glance at this piece of junk mail on my mother’s coffee table while we were in california. on the surface it seems fine; just another happy kid photo for a local market and their upcoming event.

but, wait… what the… oh noes!

upper left corner = some poor kid in a baseball hat getting a “talking-to!!” i can totally hear her voice in my head, too.

she’s all “no, look at me dylan. do you think it’s funny what you did? do you?”

and he’s all “no…”

and she stoops down to his level and says “i don’t think you understand why this isn’t funny.”

and poor little dylan, or tyler, or zach, is trying as hard as he can to think of the right answer that will get her out of his face.

wish i could time-warp over there to tell him that there’s no right answer and i do guarantee you that whatever he did was TOTALLY funny. i also wish i could know if she ever saw this. i hope he did… and that he has a scrapbook.

ok, it took me an entire week to get back to a normal work flow since my trip to maker faire. we had a fantastic time and i’d love to show you all the things we saw and did, but i can’t. i can’t because my camera turned out to have been totally buggered most of the time i was there. take that, and add it to the fact that paul could get a phd in crappy photos of moxie, and i’ve got practically nothing i can show you.

this is literally the only photo of me that is light enough, mostly in focus, and in which i don’t look like somebody just egg-farted:

here’s one of me and stacey that arwen took. and here’s one that somebody took of me and brookelynn. (looking at these, i’m starting to think that the egg fart face is disturbingly my fault/problem.)

you can see brookelynn’s photos of the needle felting playground here, thank goodness.

one of the coolest things was meeting people that made their own monsters from my tutorial. for instance, i met this great kid whose name i forget. she helped me during my monster demo for craft. the second day of maker, she came back and brought me this:

she made it herself and i’m completely honored to have it. i’m blushing even writing about it.

oh! also, i ate my very first “funnel cake” ever. that stuff is really good.

you shoulda been there, man.

it’s sandal time so i’ve been looking for some, you know, sandals.

anyway, zappos is still the mother of all shoe hubs on the internet, but i guess they sell a lot of other things too. see?

if you’re thinking “moxie has gone crazy in her brain meat…what’s interesting about this!?”

well, i’ve always been crazy in my brain meat, but try reading the text out loud, starting with the phrase “we are a service company that happens to sell…” and keep going till you find it. (i’m pretty sure there are laws about this kind of thing, right?)

i love everything cofygirl does, and now a selection of her gloves are going for cheap!

go forth and snap ’em up…i think today is the last day! clicky.

( i already gots mine!)