Imaginary BFFs

Do you ever meet someone and are so excited about all the things you have in common and decide that you need to be BEST.FRIENDS.RIGHT.NOW!!?  Yeah.  I do that a lot.  Sigh.  It usually scares them away.

The same thing happens when I find something amazing on the internet, which makes me secretly wish I could be BFFs with the creator.  Someone who shares my quirky brain patterns.  I wish I could just say "I.LOVE.HOW.YOUR.BRAIN.WORKS!LET'S.BE.BESTEST.FRIENDS.FOREVERRRR!"  Like this gal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWPC4wF16Y

But socially speaking, coming on too strong is often kind of terrifying to most people.  Even trying to somehow awkwardly say, "I don't actually neeeed more friends... I'm not completely bonkers.... I just loooovvvveee you!!" still has the effect of a social nuke drop. 

So, I try to keep my imaginary BFF status to myself.  But of course, I can't stop talking about them anyway because I'm just.so.excited!  My latest imaginary BFF is Allie Brosh.  She created Hyperbole and a Half...  You will recognize some of her creations as the net's most popular memes.  But I recognize something in her soul that tells me we are kindred spirits.  And that's totally not creepy..... 

Childhood antics, cake obsessions, failure to adult....  
We are, like, twinsies!! 

But it's a lot easier to resist the temptation to frighten someone with my enthusiastic admiration when they are internet-famous.  I mean, I have a shred of dignity left, after all...  But harder to contain my joy at meeting a nifty person, well, in person... So some may end up rather terrified or at least mildly distrustful of my affinity for them in the early stages.  Probably should stick to making friends with people's pets at parties...

But if I do meet you, and instantly love you, please don't be scared.  I really do have other friends, and I love them too.  I've just got lots of love to give! 

.....and here's some stuff I made!

Paper beads made by my hands!  Silver-tone rose charms! Bead thingies! Wire!
I'm gonna have a hard time not keeping these...

I colored these pages, then decided I didn't dig my "adult coloring" results
and turned them into beads.  Shiny beads!

More handmade paper beads and silver-tone sparkly charm heart!
On super-stretchy durable elastic... in case any of my customers are accident-prone
and constantly getting caught up on every day objects... like me.... (new BFF??)

Handmade paper beads!
Silver-tone custom charm with with hot air balloon under acrylic resin!
Yay!! Stretchy!