Cute right? Adorable even. 35 pieces of adorable cuteness in an adorably cute box to be exact. Here's the thing though...when my order arrived a week later and I opened all my "cute" things I had a sudden realization that I don't do cute...cute is not my thing...never has been...neither is anything theme-y and I would say animals are definitely both theme-y and cute. Odd right...ordering something not your style. ..I thought it was...seriously as I took inventory of the menagerie that lived inside Mr. Frog ...that's what I call him now... I couldn't fathom why I ordered them. Trying to rationalize my purchase I tried to remember what I was doing the night I ordered...was I drinking heavily? had I spent time that night with puppies and babies and I was riding a cute high when I ordered? was I held captive that night by Elmo and forced to order cute things? ...there all of them plausible reasons...especially the first one but the reality is it didn't really matter why I ordered them cause order them I did and since it was so not worth the greenbacks to send them back I just decided to keep the box of cuteness. So then for whatever reason I decided not to put Mr. Frog away...instead I set him on a shelf next to my scrap table and there he sat...for weeks...those little froggy eyes just staring at me. Periodically I would take Mr. Frog off the shelf look at all the marvelous creatures that resided inside his belly and wonder what the heck I was going to do with 35 little critters...but alas I would always return the critters to their home and Mr. Frog back to his shelf and he would go back to staring at me and I would go back to ignoring him until one day it happened. I had a need for an animal! But not just any animal...a cute animal...a cute little chipboard animal...so I opened Mr. Frog and took out Mr. Giraffe and made a layout and even though it was cute...gasp...I liked it! Probably because the super awesomeness of the other scrappy stuff I used toned down the cuteness to an acceptable level. So only a short while later I had need yet again for another animal so I sprung Mr. Rabbit from his box of cuteness and plunked him on a layout filled with awesome scrappy goodness and then just a few months later I had a third layout in need of animal cuteness so down came Mr. Frog from his shelf and out came Mr. Sheep to live among more awesome scrappiness. Amazing right...3 layouts with 3 cute little critters...who da thunk it...surely not me. I personally was astonished after I used the 1st one...by the time I got to the 3rd one I was downright befuddled and flabbergasted by all the super cuteness I was using. So imagine my surprise when believe it or not...it happened again! Yep just this week I did yet another layout with another cute little critter ...bringing my cuteness total up to a whopping 4...amazing right...hard to believe even...well here it is ...
Adorable right? Super ridiculously cute right? I know right! I mean that little itty bitty froggy is just so stinkin cute! I love him. I love him and everything else on this layout...that paper...awesome...those thickers...mega awesome...those adorable Jilli Bean journal spots that double as lily pads...mega super awesome. So I guess this layout is a lot of awesome with a splash of cute...guess that's my new style!
Of course now I still have to use the other 31 critters in the box...
I'm thinking the lion, cat and monkey have a chance of making it to a layout but I'm having doubts about the yak, squid and clam. LOL
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