[i need your help]

Remember this bird doodle?

I like doodling birds so I have a feeling I will be making many of these kinds of doodles.

I’d like to come up with a cute, funny name for the my birds. My mind is drawing a blank so I was wondering if you could help me come up with names. If I will pick the name you are suggesting, I will send you a little something something as a thank you.

I also need a fun title for the blue picture.

The bird with the two feathers on its head is the main character. The other bird is his friend. Or maybe a girlfriend? What do you think?

ps. Word of the Day:

MAFFIC

\MAF-ik\

VERB

: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior

EXAMPLE: Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.

[source]

{which one's your favorite?}

Another word I like:

pippin

\PIP-in\

DEFINITION

1 a crisp tart apple having usually yellow or greenish-yellow skin strongly flushed with red and used especially for cooking

 

2 a highly admired or very admirable person or thing

 

EXAMPLES

The CEO's retirement speech was a pippin.

 

"[Judge Len Goodman of 'Dancing with the Stars'] said … that the dance was 'first class.... It was crisp, it was sharp, it was like a pippin.'" — From an article by Allyssa Lee in the Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2011

DID YOU KNOW?

English speakers have experimented with the use of the word "pippin," which germinated from the Anglo-French word "pepin," meaning "seed" or "pip of a fruit." "Pippin" has been used to refer to a part of a pea embryo, a grain of gold, and a grape, but those uses were not hardy enough to become firmly rooted in the English language. The word did take root, however, in the soil of the northern regions of England, where it is used to describe a small fruit seed. In addition, it has widespread use as the name of a crisp, tart apple and of a person who is unique, usually in a pleasant way.

{golden yellow journaling cards + a free printable}

I just added these to my Etsy shop.

Do you like the lines in the cards? Or should I go back to no lines? Just wondering. :)

And here is today's free printable:

I like this word of the day:

duende

\doo-EN-day\

DEFINITION

noun

: the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm

 

EXAMPLE

The magician was not only a talented illusionist; he also had the duende that kept the audience rapt throughout the entire show. 

 

Happy, happy Thursday everyone! :)

{get going!}

now that i have chocolated* myself, i'm hoping to get going on my to-do list.

i need to:

 make gifts for sienna's teachers from the above items, reconcile credit card statements, plan and start working on a father's day gift, book an appointment for a bloodtest & doctor's visit, clean cat puke off the carpet (i forgot he shouldn't have BBQ chicken), change bedsheets & do laundry, submit medical receipts to insurance company, fax some forms to sienna's new school (we won't talk about what happened last time i tried to fax them), wrap a babyshower gift (the cutest creamy pink ruffled swimsuit) and who knows what else i'm forgetting from my list.

lots to do so i better get going. wish me luck. :)

*chocolated myself

(pronounced chocola + ted) 

= filled myself with chocolate in hopes of having some energy after not sleeping enough due to falling asleep for a quick nap late in the evening while putting sienna to bed. long enough sentence for you? :D i know, my english is terrible. if you want to see amazing language skills, this is definately not a blog for you :D

and yes, i made that word up. it should be in the dictionary, don't you think? :)

{it's been a while...}

...since i've scrapbooked.

so i had a blast. :)



word of the day:

cryptography

\krip-TAH-gruh-fee\

noun

: the enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher; also : the computerized encoding and decoding of information

have fun:

HBPFEMZ XDKKAFAMB CGYV,

PYS EX TEYS;

HBPFEMZ AYIAMB YGM;

HBPFEMZ IPDYMAMB YGM EMXACK,

EX YGM WDKKAS DW,

SGMB YGM UABPIA EMXACK DYXAARCZ,

XAATAMB YGM BAF GQY,

EX YGM APXECZ WFGIGTAS, MBEYTAMB YG AIEC;

FALGEHAMB YGM EY EYEJDEMZ,

UDM FALGEHAMB EY MBA MFDMB;

UAPFAMB PCC MBEYVX,

UACEAIAMB PCC MBEYVX,

BGWAMB PCC MBEYVX,

AYSDFAMB PCC MBEYVX.

HBPFEMZ YAIAF KPECAMB.

(HINTS:  P = A, M = T)

{love is worth celebrating}

so funny :D

you can print this card at mmmcrafts.blogspot.com.

canoodle  \kuh-NOO-dul\  •

verb: to engage in amorous embracing, caressing, and kissing

(source: merriam-webster dictionary)

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

 8 Charity never faileth.

(1 Corinthians 13: 1-8)

{me lovey}

please come and decorate our house you talented lady from purple area you. tha-a-anx! :)

ps. i promise i won't be snitty*.



snitty

\SNIT-ee\

DEFINITION

adjective

: disagreeably ill-tempered

EXAMPLES

She's nice but her sister is outright snitty.

"I'm sorry, that was a little snitty, wasn't it? I've had a lot of things bottled up inside for a while and that can make things come out weird sometimes." -- From Robert Morrow's 2010 novel Ringing True

(source: merriam-webster dictionary)

{start it with some humor}

why a new blog?

• bigger photo size.
• slightly different color scheme.
• a new year, a new blog.
• i'm just trying to flummox* you all.
• why not?

so hold on tight and hope you'll enjoy this new adventure with me. :)

* i'm going to be practising new words on my blog in order to expand my vocabulary. i'll be filing the words i want to learn under the label "word of the day".

flummox • \FLUM-uks\  • verb

  : confuse

 Examples:

 Ruth was flummoxed by the angry outburst and wild accusations that greeted her mild complaint.