ATC lunchboxes

My mom found these little lunchboxes at Target, in the seasonal-discount section right by the entry doors. They cost only $1.00 and held a whopping three mini Pops or six mini Rolls.


Ganoush is using hers to hold glass droplets.


Then I realized that they are a wonderful size to hold ATCs. Not too tight, and deep enough to hold 100 blank cards.

I sent Mom off to get some for me, too. Yes, I'll pay her back.

Margarine Star

Margarine Star
Originally uploaded by Heidicrafts.

Art is a way of seeing. Art is how you look at something with open eyes.

My kids and I always try to notice and appreciate the star on the top of the tub of margarine, made when the factory machinery fills the tub quickly with a bloop of margarine.

A good friend once spoke of her family phrase, "Breaking the Smooth." It needed to be done with a little reverence. There is something about disrupting the form of a product as presented, altering the star into "just" a tub of margarine. Changing the sacred into the mundane.

My husband thinks we're all weird in this regard, and never shows us the star if he opens a new tub.

Where did you find art unexpectedly today?