Clever Thoughts - a Printable

I'd like to take a moment to protest the ending of the weekend. It's not because for about 48 hours straight all you could find on TV was news on Hurricane Irene. It's not because for 24 hours straight it poured like you wouldn't believe. It's because I freakin' hate Mondays.

This week I have something a little different to share. I made my first printable! This is a far, far cry from sewing, I know. But Friday night I found myself on the couch, with zero energy, and my laptop close by. I've been puttering about trying to learn a bit more about blog design and playing around with graphics and images. A line from the book I'm reading kept popping into my head, and because I found it so amusing I decided to make a graphic of it. As I was twisting my brain for what exactly to do a back-to-school commercial came on, and inspiration struck. I thought this would be a sweet little message for school-age kids, but might also amuse the grown-ups, or it could be a little something for a teacher to add to a bulletin board. Anyway, here it is:

For anyone interested, the book is "The Man From Beijing" by Henning Mankell, a Swedish author who is VERY good at keeping you from figuring anything out until he wants you to.  The font is called 'Pastel' and I downloaded it from dafont.com. And I made that notebook paper background in PowerPoint. It was tedious because I'm anal particular about certain things, and those lines being evenly spaced was one of them. Now that you know how I did it you can make your own, haha. Or you can print mine. Just click on the photo above, and it takes you to a new screen. Right click the image, save it to your desktop (or wherever you'd like) and then open the file to print. OR if that doesn't work you can get the pdf here.

That's all I've got, folks. I've been stitching away all weekend, but I haven't stopped to take any photos. My knitted armadillo just needs a body and then I can share that with you, too (hopefully this weekend). And my Sherbet Pips quilt sandwich has been waiting patiently for me to stitch it all together. I think Congress needs to stop worrying about the economy and start focusing on mandating three-day weekends for everyone because I clearly have too much to do.

I'm linking up here this week:

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