Oh, I found some ideas. I typed "Free Vintage Christmas Clip-art" in Google and selected this site: Vintage Holiday Crafts. This little guy caught my eye instantly:
Is he not just ADORABLE??!!! I then did the polite and legal thing and read the terms of use. WHY are the terms of use so freaking annoying? Can I use the clip-art or not? Will I be shot for putting it on one of my Christmas cards to send out to a friend? What if I create my own cards to sell? Well, that's fine as long as I don't go over 999 cards. NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE???? Who has the freaking TIME for that crap???
Oh hey, I could really use an antiqued looking ticket stub to create a new "Grab my Button" button. Google... antique ticket stub. Scroll, scroll, GOT IT! Graphics Fairy eh? Okay, saved my ticket, browsing Graphics Fairy's site. 13,310 followers? What the heck? Guess I'd better delve in and see what all the hullabaloo is all about. Wow.... great clip art. Up to date blog. Lots of extra links to follow. Damnit, that one caught my eye. No ugly ornaments challenge.
Ahhhhhh-mannnn. She's posted a youtube video with her kids making crafts. Well, I have to watch THAT. Some kind of paper Christmas ornament they found on Martha Stewart's site. Did I just click that? Crap. 10 pages up on Chrome, I've no idea where I started or WHY.
Martha is a goner. Shut that puppy down after I read her instructions, which made NO FRIGGIN' SENSE AT ALL and went back to the ornament challenge page. Oh lookie! She's got a Pinterest link! click. Pinterest does NOT pop up. Instead, I'm invited to take part in a linky that will boost my blog and pinterest accounts with new followers if I am selected because of my creativity and photo taking abilities by three ladies whose accounts I need to link up with and leave comments on before I'm taken seriously. Seriously????
Argh. I hit the back button. Glare at the Pinterest button, and notice RIGHT below it, another button that says Pinterest Christmas Party!!! Well, I HAVE to click on THAT one! Pinterest doesn't pop up. again. I've been duped. It's a tutorial on a braided scarf. How did I get here??? Close that link down.
What in the heck was I trying to do??? My head is stuffed up, there is pressure behind my left eye, I'm scrunching my shoulders in danger of becoming a potato bug and folding in on myself.... and I've no clue what my original reason was for opening the damned laptop.
Oh wait! Check out that cool button! Below it says: "I have 15 fantastic guest bloggers ready to share some great projects and recipes with you over a 3 week time period." Oh my gosh. 15 'fantastic' bloggers whose pages I will need to visit because one or all of them might have incredible insight into something I can't live without.
That's when my eyeball fell out. I'm calling my doctor tomorrow for some ritalin.
Come on Nyquil, do your stuff! Get me out of this crazy thing...... called love?
I browse exactly the same way! Sometimes, for hours....where I end up someplace totally weird with absolutely no recall of what I was doing originally, and twenty-gazillion websites of "what the heck was I thinking?". But...luckily....my eye never fell out. THANK GAWD.
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