Here’s the deal:  I’m in the process of moving all my craft supplies into my oldest daughter’s FORMER bedroom.  When she left for University 4 1/2 years ago, I put up a 6 foot folding table in her room.  (Her younger sister promptly took a photo and sent it to her, the rat.)  When she would come home for breaks, I would clear out the debris and we would attempt to peacefully co-exist in that space.  Once she graduated, she moved home for 8 months, and I had to move out.  Everything went into the laundry room, which is a lovely laundry room but wasn’t quite designed for paper, stamps, ink, a Big Shot, ribbon, hardware…you get the picture.  Now that she’s moved to Australia for the time being (SIGH) I’m reclaiming that room.  Silver linings and all that jazz.

Where is all this going?  As part of moving I’m going through lots of crafting supplies.  Some are staying, some are going, and some, well, I just haven’t decided yet.  But I keep coming across retired products – stamps, papers, ribbons, In Color stuff – and remembering how much I loved those things when they were current.  Some of them I still love a whole lot.  Like this goofy owl:

• Love Owl Ways stamp set (retired) and Wood grain background stamp
  
• Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede and Naturals White card stock; Thoroughly Modern DSP
• Soft Suede Classic Ink Pad; Soft Suede, Cameo Coral and Bermuda Bay ink refills
• Soft Suede and Cameo Coral Stampin’ Write markers; white gel pen
  
• Aquapainter, Ticket Corner punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals and Soft Suede polka dot ribbon

You can’t see it in the photo but there’s a little Champagne Mist shimmer in the owl’s wings and chest because there was already shimmer paint in the lid of the stamp pad when I went to watercolor with my aquapainter.  I usually just put a drop from the re-inker into the lid of the pad when I watercolor, because if I don’t use it all or if I change my mind and need more, it’s there next time I need it.

If owls are your thing, then I’m sorry to torment you with retired stamps.  There’s hope, though – I’ve seen the Stampin’ Up!  Summer Mini catalog, and it may or may not feature a new owl stamp set.  How’s that for sneaky??