Trees

I have been dying to go to Flax to slowwwly puruse their papers section for a few weeks now. Last week I walked all the way there from my house (uphill both ways, srsly) only to find that it's CLOSED on Sundays. Which? I don't know, just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, I digress. I spent about an hour and a half there today - how is everyone who works there so friendly? - and came home with a bunch of huge sheets of super-adorable printed papers, a new exacto knife, a glue gun with the wrong size glue (BLARG!), paper mod-podge and the coolest thing - a bag of about 100 different 3x5ish-sized papers, all different colors, prints, textures, etc etc etc.

Obviously, when I dumped it all out on my bed I was quite overwhelmed. But then I remembered my doodles. I doodle a LOT in class. A. Lot. And I seem to always doodle the same sorts of things. Mostly it's a tree with pointy branches. So I decided to do some papercuttings of my tree using different squares from the big bag o'love.
One of them started to behave very weirdly once it hit some mod-podge. It started to curl in on itself. So. I decided to make it into a vase.



I also liked this one:


mmm, paper makes me happy.