last night, as we were coming home from a grand night out at ghost jail theatre (the sweetie pie brother is visiting from vancouver and i am trying to impress him with worldly delights), i discovered a very special something on the floor of a streetcar. it was a slightly crushed security envelope button. what kismet. i guess the world is finite and circular after all. i get excited enough when i see buttons i made on the backpacks of strangers but to have one returned to me by the fates...well, it was just too much.
so i am having a two-part contest to celebrate.
part one - if you think you lost this on the king/roncesvalles car on sunday, march 29th, 2009, then i will return it to you.
part two - if you want to win a care package of mysterious sweetie pie goods, then leave a comment under this post. and if you want a second entry, then say something nice about me on your own blog (you will have to leave a link in another comment here to get a second entry). entries must be posted by midnight (est) on friday, april 3. yup, this is a quicky.
after all, i have to return the favour to the gods of stuff and chaos. i can feel karmic debt looming over me as i type.
25 comments:
What a great thing! Every time I pay a bill, I think of you!
Is that weird?? (:
i heart care packs.
That button is gorgeous. I don't have a blog, but I will say that you are amazing and I can't wait to see you if that's still happening in May.
I would love a little bit of sweetie pie press in my life.
I did live in Toronto and now I live in New Zealand...and many of your buttons came with me. They now adorn the backpacks of various friends who will indeed knit till they die. I don't have a blog but I thought you might like to know there is a little group of islands in the South Pacific adorned by the Sweetie Pie Press.
I found a package marked 'buttons' wrapped in an old envelope yesterday. I opened it up to peer inside and realized they were in a security envelope.
I have never before wondered if I should run off with an envelope because someone in Canada might not have the pattern. I can't say that again.
Sadly, it was not mine to run off with, so I didn't. But I don't think I will ever look at security envelopes the same again. I had no idea it had changed my world! :D
Crazy! What are the odds? By the way, your little terrarium is incredible!
i definitely look at security envelope designs now thanks to your project....i admire your creativity, very inspiring.
That's amazing. :o
I would be so sad if I lost that beautiful button! I hope it finds its way back to the owner (lovely that it found its creator though).
i'd love to be entered but i don't live in canada... :P
I wish that was my button-- I want wallpaper outta that button. I hope I win the care package! I read your blog frequently- I was even inspired to make my own terrarium!
There is a letter for you at my blog. Please read it here,
http://vanillavain.blogspot.com/2009/04/me-and-zine-inspiring-zinester.html
Have an inspiring day Becky,
Vantiani.
Love that I found your blog via vanillavain! It is so great! I miss my brother and sister from Vancouver. I miss Canada in general...well maybe not Saskatchewan so much....who am I kidding even Saskatchewan is better than here.
aww so sad, but very neat that you happened to find it!
I sure hope I get to see cool becky again one of these days, and see her improv. I also hope I get a care package
blog love! (here)
that's so neat! I would have been so excited. I would love a care package... everyone in my dorm gets them all the time except me :(
i like this story...and have one also about a friend of mine in who found one of your pins (silhouette of a bird on grid background) on the street near his house in peterborough...he was with his 2 year old daughter and promptly pinned it to her jacket. it became her favorite thing and she still has it two years later.
that is so very strange and delightful :)
ps: your little toadstool below is just about the best thing i've seen all day.
I love all the buttons you do with all the interesting papers & materials. Those money ones are pretty cool!
It's nice to have reminders of the smallness of the universe, isn't it :)
Oh, I also mentioned you on my blog: http://www.funchico.com/2009/04/sweetie-pie-press-makes-funchico-buttons.html
that's a lovely security button but alas it's not mine. i've lost many of my spacing subway buttons, but haven't lost one of yours yet!
blog shout out:
http://pleasurecraft.blogspot.com/
I'm not entering the contest, just letting you know how charming I think this post is.
Well gosh darn, I missed the contest. But I want to say that we think you are the bee's knees anyway:)
xo
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