I am at peace with the fact that my mother will never see me as an 'adult' in the full sense of the word. In fact, over the years, I have not just come to accept it but to learn to take full advantage of it as well (hey, if people expect me to act like a twelve year old, I'm not going to disappoint them - especially if I still get to retain the adult pleasures of staying up late, no curfew, ability to watch tv whenever I want).

So, I suppose I was not as surprised as I was amused when she came knocking on my door last night holding up a 'stained glass' set. Except it is for kids so it's not really glass, it's just a sheet of plastic with a cartooney picture on it that you fill in with paint with the paints provided in the set.

She said she wanted to put some up on the farm for decoration. What makes her think that it would make fantastic wall-art is beyond me but who am I to talk - I have one of those hanging from my ceiling.

I took pictures. Before & afters and even took a picture of the pretty one that is hanging in my room that I did when I was a kid (the ones she got weren't that pretty).

Unfortunately, this morning when I went to transfer the photos from my SD card to the computer (I have to transfer directly from card-to-comp because I lost my camera's cable), I realized that my mom took the SD card. She needed to print some photos and her thumb drive or a CD just won't cut it for the woman (kinda pissy about that at the moment because I have yet to get my SD card back).

So yeah, no photos. Just... fly on the wings of imagination to envision it, k?

There were two sheets to paint in.

One was this weird mushroom house scene (you know, polka-dot mushroom roof). Very kiddy. It had clouds and a garden and trees and a stone pavement leading up to the door. Here's where 12-year-old Salian kicks in...

The clouds are really lemon-drops (oh yes, I went with the whole candy-world theme!);
there's a peppermint tree (which means it's still green);
there is an icy-mint gum-tree which is blue and filled with chewing gum (but you can't see the chewing gum unless you actually hop into my mind);
the stones leading up to the house is squashed and compressed cotton candy;
there are mandarin-orange-juice trees;
the house had a chimney with smoke coming out but the smoke is really just lime candy;
all the trees have golden barks;
and finally, the grass is blue (get it? blue grass - the music genre? I know that's not candy but I was chuckling at my ingenuity anyway)

The second stained glass picture was this underwater dealio with an angel fish as the main focus. By that time, I was creativitied-out so just put in whatever colour was at hand wherever the brush landed.

Although, at one point in time, I held up that picture and the paint colours started to run and mix into a blue starfish and it ended up looking really cool; so I did the same with a snail in the picture.

So now that picture has and orange/yellow-striped angel fish, an uber-bright-colourful starfish and a rainbow snail. There were other things to fill in with paint in that picture other that those three creatures but I have no fucking clue what they were anyway so just kind of randomly painted colours in.

Wow, this is a long post. Wouldn't be so long if I had my SD card and could just put stupid photos up. But noooOOooOOooo... a CD's a waste of space and a thumb drive is used for other things... gotta use Salian's stuff and then not return it to her...

Add: I got my memory card back and I got the photos :D