Return of the Googly Eyes!

Apparently, googly eyes are considered non machine processable by the US Post Office when glued to a postcard. If this didn't incur an extra charge I'd probably be less huffy.

I believe I mentioned before an ideal I had about a winking goat. My cartoon drawing skills were not up to this idea and it evolved into a flock o' sheep, no winking.

Basically I had this pic from a magazine with a herd of sheep: I cut it to fit my postcard and proceeded to glue googly eyes on any sheep where eyes were visible (for the most part, any one eye visible sheep just looked weird so I had to still another eye next to it....not that a flock of sheep with googly eyes isn't weird in the first place).

(It looks less swishy in real life)

I call it Conspiracy Theory: They are always watching. I think I link this to paranoia because of a book series, (the only one that is extremely lengthy, that is more than three title in the series) that I read: J.D Robb (Nora Roberts) In Death. Any time the lead character finds herself in the countryside, she freaks on the ideal that there are more farm animal then people and that these animals are likely to be planning to overthrow the humans (as they out number their overlords).

So I thought I would make the imminent animal coup very obvious.

In the Works

At this point, as I have sent off the night sky piece, I have a few ideals being considered for the next project....in no particular order (but I did number them):

1. Leafless trees: I'm afraid this is very much along the lines of the night sky but worse. I've tried this before and I always end up with squiggly lines that look nothing like trees or branches. I will be working with a photo this time to help me nail this one...
   
2. Circular post card (almost stealing this idea really from the hand made wedding invitations an old friend did): I have this great cutting board, exacto knife and circle patterns to create this and though it will cut down on the space on the back, I think it would work really well . I also have this incredible tiger graphic that has inconvenient text so the circle would be a good shape for it.
   
3. My wax stamp: I have a monogram wax stamp (you know for when you write letters and pretend/wish you were from another, older century..only with indoor plumbing). In fact, I have two. I was thinking that it would make an interesting feature to add to each piece.
   
4. For some reason I think I want to create a winking goat. That's it, the entire ideal.
   
5. Desperately seeking an ideal to justify buying a spool of smiley face ribbon. I got nothing for it yet and I am very afraid I bought it because I have a weird affection for ribbons and smiley faces. (Normally separately. Normally. heh.)

I wonder what will make the cut....probably just the goat.