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I hesitate to confess how much shopping I've been doing the last couple of days. I guess I just didn't get enough during the holidays. I need to order more paper from the GHM! Dept. -- good heavens above, how much do I adore the GHM! Dept.? Too much, don't ask. Anyway, I am on a quest to make some cards and stuff. I have a hankering for black and white cards, and while I was contemplating my toothbrush, I thought, "Ooo, grey and white and a touch of baby pink."

That color combo was such a huge fad in 1983. Remember? I remember going to Youth Legislature in Nashville and watching a schoolmate of mine serving as Youth Governor. She was the first girl to be elected Youth Governor, and she was the first African American to be elected as Youth Governor -- all in one fell swoop. Anyway, Juanita's inauguration suit was light grey with baby pink piping. She looked fabulous and I remember being terribly jealous of that suit. I didn't own anything in grey and pink. My mother said it was a fad, and dang it, she was right. By the time I arrived at college in September of 1984, no one had any grey-n-pink suits.

Anyhoozle, while I was thinking about black-n-white cards and grey-n-pink cards, I was mentally planning to make my Gimme A Ring cards. Y'know. Blue and white and orange.

And I really wanted to work with my stencil the way Tricia did for the Greetings to Go ALSB, but I don't have any watercolor crayons.

Now you're thinking I went shopping for watercolor crayons. Oh, if only I were that logical.

No, I decided I wanted to do Tricia's Glimmer Mist thing with the stencil. (Tricia so rocked out the Glimmer Mists. That company should thank her every week for as long as they're in bizness. ) I have only a few Glimmer Mists -- the hot pink that came with Bistro, and blue and green and gold and red. I tried to order a yellow a few weeks ago, but the  only non-CS store I use (Blockheads -- http://www.blockheadstamps.com/index.html) was out of it. Argh.

And then I decided to try to mix my own Glimmer Mist orange.

After I waited three days for Wesley to bring me some pipettes from work (he's a lab tech), I started mixing.

A little water, a drop of yellow re-inker ink, 3 ml of gold Glimmer Mist, 0.5 ml of red Glimmer Mist, and a sprinkle of Perfect Bronze Perfect Pearl dust... that should do it, don't you think?

Fingers crossed -- and now I need to get back to shopping. Should I get a stack of the white paper from Cyprus, or a stack of the new white from Gimme A Ring? Aw, heck, I better get both!