Tiny (Calling) Cards

I was just squandering my last few minutes of morning time poking around Flickr (after spending a few minutes drawing a tiny little translucent penny racer. I started to gently move it out of the floor last night with my foot, envisioning myself stepping on it at 5:30 a.m. with my coffee in hand. And, as I pushed it aside, I insted bent and picked it up and put it on my little table... morning sketch object already in place! Yes, this goes along with the pick out your clothes the night before and throw them on the couch so you're ready in the morning approach to life... seems to work for creativity, too.)

So, I was poking around and admiring an artist I hadn't seen before and then saw she was showing off one of these that she'd received. It's a MOO card case made (and sold) by Splatgirl. It took me a minute to remember what MOO cards are (which is funny since creating a set of these is on my list to "do" at some point this year). The artist makes ATCs, so when I first saw the image, I was thinking ATC holder - or index card holder. But, once I hit the Etsy site, I knew that wasn't right. Then I was thinking gum stick holder. I am, after all, of the JuicyFruit/Big Red/Doublemint generation. Then the MOO clicked in. Soooooo cute! (Love the key fob version, especially!)

MOO cards were seriously on my original goals/projects list for the year. And then I sort of forgot about them. Plus, I was thinking that I wanted to wait until later in the year to have a good body of work to choose from. And, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them anyway! But, now that they're resurfaced in front of me... I again find them so cool and compelling and just fun.