"Waiting for an Invitation to Arrive..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

We went to the craft store to-day, also! ^________^ And I bought a hundred-million stickers.

And besides stickers I bought little boxes to put things in, and notecards, and stationery, and a lilac ink pad for the stamps Nanni gave me for Christmas, and little sparkly pompom balls, and applique hearts, and another surprise for Miss Zara, and two somethings special for Miss Kylee, and little silly-pretty thank-you gifts for Manon and Erin, and also black cake glitter (only this makes me want to bake a cake for this weekend so I can use it, and I am already doing rather an excessive number of silly edible things). And silk flowers, by which I mean little tiny flowers made out of silk and beads.

...People on my letter-writing and package-sending list should be very wary in the next two weeks, because I have all the means to attack.

...I wanted to get more stickers, but I ran over my gift card and my Christmas money and had to borrow from Mum to pay for everything. Clearly, the way to make Soujins truly and utterly euphoric is to set them loose in craft stores with gift cards. Someday I will win the lottery and I will spend a whole day in a craft store buying all the stickers I should like.

I think I got something else, but I can't remember what.

(By the way, when we were in the babies-and-scrapbooking section, Hero kept going eeee, babies! which is a really good reason she is never going to get anywhere with Don John. I cannot help but think that Don John + tiny noisy waily messy thingies would = a complete disaster.)

They played Stand by Me and Every Little Thing She Does is Magic in the crafts store. I was very amused, because I had been telling the overhead music playing thingy to play Stand by Me for ten minutes before it came on.

--And now I have to go make stealth!mint truffle batter and prepare the tea infusion for the nuts for the teanutbread.

Does anybody know the whole of the Babylon rhyme? The 'can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again' rhyme? I've been thinking of it lately, but I don't remember the words at all.

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[erinpuff]

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

They were playing that in Kohls when I was buying pants yesterday, only it was the Shawn Colvin (<--female) cover so it was "...he does..." and it's a little weird in bits, but I've actually heard that more than the original, so. :o

Craft stores are fun! I haven't been in a long time, but I used to go all the time and spend lots of my mom's money. ^^

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Thee's adorable. *cuddle*

Black cake glitter! You can make Hamletcake. :D

[meteorspark.livejournal.com]

How many miles to Babylon?
Three score and ten.
Can I get there by candlelight?
Aye, and back again.
If your feet are nimble and light,
You'll get there by candlelight.

... stickers. I love stickers. -- and -- Every Little Thing She Does is Magic! The Police! *insert fangirling here*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

HAMLETCAKE!!11 ...ahem.

Stop buying surprises for me, Missy. I only have one for you-- well, two for you, but one's in the post-- well, three for you, but the third is either for your birthday or for ZPSINJ Day. :D

I like craft stores, which is the main reason I never go to them. XD I want to see all your pretty things, though.

(... o______o Don!John!babies is a very, very, very scary thought.)

Stand by me. ♥

[jiasachan.livejournal.com]

Craft stores, eee. They're marvellous. (And cake glitter may be the coolest thing ever invented. Well, not the coolest, perhaps, but definitely a spark of brilliance.)

. . . And Don John with babies would be deeply disturbing, I think.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

I shall have to make you a lovely and enormous package full of stickers and bobbles and stationary, and you can then send it back to me piecemeal. =)

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

How many miles to Babylon?
Four score and ten.
Can I get there by candlelight?
Yes, and back again.

That's all I remember. There was a different version, probably older, in one of the Lymond books, but I can't find the right one :( I'll look tomorrow.

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

i had something to say, but i forgot what it was -- yet another charming symptom of sleep-deprivation. oh --

craft stores are lovely. there's a paper and oddments store a little ways from here, and everything in it made me think of you. :3 :D -- the next time i get to buy a gift for you, i think i know where i'll want to go --

hamlet!cupcakes, ee.

(also, ros likes kids -- -- -- hush, ros. --)

[maranz.livejournal.com]

STICKERS! CAKE GLITTER! YAAAAAAAAY! I had the most wonderful cake today--it was strawberry cake, all pink. The only thing that would have been better is if it was glittery. I love craft stores.

Would you write me a letter, maybe? I promise to write back. And send you stickers.