No straight lines here

For some reason, when I sat down to draw, I couldn't draw a straight line for my life!  Then it dawned on me that in ZIT there are no rules that say I have to draw a straight line.  It's not like it's this weeks challenge and I'm trying to achieve a certain look.  So I'm just going with it on this piece and just saying this turned out just like I wanted.  Actually it took on a life all it's own and made itself like they usually do.  Now if I could get my vacuum to use itself I would have it made!

Craft Project?

When we had our family room cabinets made, Mr. Thisorthat planned to have black mesh inset into the cabinet doors so that his elaborate stereo system (that's inside them) could breath.  He ended up putting some different fabric on there and was somewhat pleased, until Little Miss Thisorthat wanted to play in front of them and kept pushing the fabric through the door.  Not good!  Then for awhile we lived with nothing in the inset (not good from my standpoint).  I was about to have one of my tangles printed for a wedding gift and Mr. Thisorthat thought it would be really cool if we enlarged parts of it and had that put into the cabinet doors.  Can you say "blown away"????  I show him all the pieces that I do and he always says nice things, but to have one of them in the room where we spend the most time (you know where the tv is) stareing at us all the time, I wasn't too sure.  Oh yeah and it's BIG!  When the pictures arrived I have to tell you he got right on the project and glued them to some really thick poster board, cut them, and put them in the doors.  When he got them hung I think we were both blown away.  It's pretty cool and all because Mr. Thisorthat wanted to do a craft project - he he!  Good job honey!!

Within the lines

Staying in the lines is hard sometimes!!  Saying that, I suppose it depends on what the lines are.  In some cases the lines are drawings we make (and those lines are REALLY hard to stay in sometimes - he he!) and other times the lines are surrounding our everyday life.  We have to decide what we will accept and what we refuse to except, and of course everything in between.  But life happens and the lines change which makes for more confusion!  I think that's what "thinking outside the box" is all about.  Moving your lines.  We move our lines all the time even though we don't realize it.  Mr. Thisorthat tells me all the time that he hasn't changed, but I can tell you after 30 years together HE HAS!!!!  Think about what you would have accepted when you were first married or when you first had kids, and then what you accept now.  Way different huh???  The important thing isn't that the lines stay the same or move, the important thing is that you're happy with where the lines are.  Today look at where YOUR lines are and smile.  I hope they are where you want them to be.  If not, take control and move them so you can be happy!!!!  After all life it too short to be unhappy!