263 Corkboard

263 Corkboard

Object: Two packets of cork tiles

Acquired: 2009

From: Store

Notes: I once lived in a very tiny room with walls that were too hard to stab a pushpin into.  I managed with a few, and tried different solutions, like buying nails (must have got the wrong type), and buying this cork, which I figured I could hang on the wall and then hang things on it.  I didn't account for the fact that it's really thin and the pins could barely push into it at all before running into the wall.  So I used the sticky tabs provided to make the one tile I had on the wall two-tiles thick, which worked for a while--until it fell down, anyway.

You can see that I never opened the second package of tiles. And at one point I put one where the bunny could get it, and SHE thinks they are the coolest thing to dig and chew upon. Maybe that's what I should do with the rest of them...

262 Red Bandana

262 Red Bandana

Object: Red Bandana

Acquired: Unknown

From: Unknown

Notes: Look, guys! I found one of my missing red bandanas. I think I saw the other one somewhere, too. I'll have to look again, though, I wasn't in bandana-reclamation mode, so I'm not positive I saw it. Still, another bandana.

261 Puzzle

261 Puzzle

Object: Puzzle

Acquired: 2011

From: Good Will

Cost: $.99

Notes: A puzzle. I haven't put this one together yet.

Hey, know what would be awesome? if there was a place that you could make custom puzzles--but not lame-ass ones of your poorly-focused family gathering, but more like the self-publishing places, but where they'd print puzzles so I could, for example, find an awesome artist on Etsy and subtly suggest that they go have their prints made into puzzles at this site, and then I could have amazing and unique puzzles.  Or like a Zazzle store, but selling puzzles from artists who, perhaps, paint wizards WITHOUT beards. Or dragons that don't look stoned.

The possibilities are endless.

260 Greed Quest

260 Greed Quest

Object: Greed Quest

Acquired: 2011

From: Garage sale

Cost: $.50

Notes: It's not a two-player game, and since I only have one other person to play with, it doesn't work very well.  But I brought it to a game-night, and we ended up playing with six people (the maximum number). It's not a six-player game, either, no matter what the box says. But it was only fifty cents, so I can't complain.

259 Puzzles

259 Puzzles

Object: Set of ten puzzles

Acquired: 2011

From: Thrift store

Notes: Last time I got a set of ten puzzles from a thrift store, two puzzles were missing entirely, and I think three more were missing pieces, so I was a little nervous about this set.  As I was putting them together it looked like one or two might be missing a bit, but I eventually found the misplaced ones, so all the puzzles are complete.  Out of the ten I only really like... four or five of them, although all of them are currently up on the walls.  I just put the ones I like less in corners I can't see as well.

258 Puzzle

258 Puzzle

Object: Puzzle

Acquired: 2011

From: St. Vinny's Thrift Store

Notes: A puzzle of a castle.  My boyfriend and I put this one together one day. It has a missing piece, but in the height of hilarity, it was 'replaced' with a home-made piece cut from a piece of tag board and colored blue with a marker.  I applaud their attempt at replacement, but the bright blue of the marker didn't mesh well with the pale blue of the sky, so I just tossed that piece.  This puzzle is also hanging on my wall, even with the missing piece.  Some day I'll replace it with a puzzle or thing that I like better (and what has all its pieces), but for now it keeps the wall from being too plain.

257 Puzzle

257 Puzzle

Object: Disney "Fine Ar" Puzzle of Pooh Bear and Co.

Acquired: Unknown

From: Thrift Store

Notes: I love to buy puzzles at thrift stores, because you never know what you're going to find.  Even the possibility of missing pieces just adds to the fun.  Although of the dozens of puzzles I've bought at thrift stores, very, very few of them have been missing pieces (I think it's like four, or possibly three out of...a lot).

I like to hang the puzzles on the wall when I'm done with them.  Not with puzzle glue or in frames or what have you, just picked up, held together with friction and tacked to the wall with pushpins.  It's a technique that's confused many people over the years, but it's cheaper than posters, better themed than kitschy art, and I feel more connected to them, since I put them together.  Plus they store conveniently when I'm done displaying them.

256 Puzzle

256 Puzzle

Object: Disney 'fine art' puzzle of Cinderella's castle

Acquired: Spring 2011

From: St. Vincent de Paul Society Thrift Store

Cost: $.98

Notes: I might actually already own this puzzle. I know I own a couple of the Fine Art series--ones that I put in the attic--but I can't remember if it's two or just one.  If it's just one, then I don't own this one, if it's two, then I think I do. 

I haven't put this one together yet, though, so if it's missing pieces, then it can go in the trash, although if it's not then I suppose I can re-donate it if it turns out I own another one.

255 Journal

255 Journal

Object: Journal with magnetic closure

Acquired: Christmas 2010

From: Ella

Dates: May 4, 2011 - June 26, 2011

Notes: I know this one was from Ella because Lydia only got me lined journals with spiral bindings.  I'm starting to forget with a few of the others, though.  I don't have a preference for the spiral-bound and lined notebooks anymore, but Lydia and I haven't exactly been living in the same place recently, so she can be forgiven for not knowing that.

It's funny, but the magnetic clasp on this journal made me very paranoid.  See, I keep my journal and my kindle in the same place, but ever since an unfortunate accident with the TV and a very strong magnet, I've been very, very wary of putting magnets (even weak ones) near my technology.  I'm pretty sure technology is mostly protected against stray low-level magnets, and I don't think it's as much of a problem as it was back when people had CRT monitors, but I'm still paranoid.  So I had to keep my kindle in a slightly different place, which wasn't as convenient. Now I don't have to, although one of my blank journals has a magnetic clasp....

254 Dry Erase Markers

254 Dry Erase Markers

Object: Ten dry erase markers

Acquired: Various

From: Various

Notes: I keep these wrapped up in a bandana (I switch which one I use every so often), and since I was photographing the bandana, I figured I should photo these, too.  These were all gifts from NC at various points, except for the yellow.  See, I had two black markers and no yellow.  Black is certainly more useful, but I wanted the full rainbow so I could make colorful and fun things on my dry erase board.  So I traded one of my blacks for an unused yellow in a bin in the supply room.  I felt guilty for a while, but eventually managed to convince myself that the black was preferred by NC, since no one ever used the yellow anyway.

I took rather obsessive care of these, and almost never let the kids touch them, let alone use them. And that's why I have ten well-working markers, and everyone else was stuck using a half-hearted green.