Infamous (I)

Today's letter is I, and I'm pretty happy with I. I is the first letter of my first *and* last names. My initials then are IMI, and in Japanese that means, well, meaning. So am I meaning? Meaning of what?

I (me, not the letter) love language. How in+credible it is that we can take pieces of sounds and symbols, add them together to make more sounds and symbols. How in+genious of us to create a multitude of meanings and uses, forms and functions, out of air and vibration of our vocal cords. Whoa.

Nothing wrong with having fun with the in prefix, eh? Some other favorites:

incommunicable (so much of art comes out of our need to communicate the incommunicable)
incomplete (I have too many projects like this)
insinuate (ah, the subtleties of language)
instability (= life)
inextinguishable (true love, and yes, I believe it exists)

Do you ever have fun with language? What are some favorite words, morphemes, sentences?

Today is my first post over at The Caffeine Coquette. Do check it out, won't you? I shared a step by step tutorial to make a cute little candy container for Easter. Here's a teaser picture of the final product.

N. has already devoured the candy, but I'll fill it up again for Easter....

Excellent day!

Today has been an excellent day all around. And yes, I don't usually use the word excellent, preferring wonderful, awesome, and such. But in honor of the letter E, you know.

First, I received this super awesome goodies package from Carla Sonheim (possibly for finishing up the Silly III scavenger hunt?). How cute is that? I love it! It made me so excited to get this little surprise in the mail.

And then... some excellent news: I've signed up as a team member over at The Caffeine Coquette! I'll be one of her network writers, contributing articles on crafting with kids or for kids every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. I am so excited to join her team and hope to see some of you mamas over there.

Care to share some excellent happenings in your life?