For the Love of Purple

According to this El Defensor Cheiftain article,  if you live in Socorro, New Mexico, you just might find a purple toilet on your lawn!  Why?  The SHS Interact Club at Socorro High School is trying to raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.  Just how a purple toilet helps cancer awareness is anyone’s guess, but it’s a purple story and I’m reporting on it!  lol

The group will be delivering two purple toilets around town during the month of March.  If you find it on your lawn, you have to call them to have it removed.  For that privilege you pay, $10.  For $15 you can have it delivered to someone you know (and presumably don’t like very much?).  For an additional $5, you can have it delivered and remain anonymous.

Now I’m all for a fun charity event, but this doesn’t seem like a grape idea to ME!  What if you don’t want to pay to remove it?  Well, you are fined!  Yup!  $5 for every day it sits on your lawn in all its purple glory!

Now on the off chance that someone reading this blog actually lives in Socorro, New Mexico and finds an anonymous purple toilet on their front lawn, let me just be clear…It wasn’t me!

Have a GRAPE purple toilet free lawn…ah, day!

According to several sources, Sony Pictures is soon to release Harold and the Purple Crayon as a MOVIE!!  It appears to be a collaboration between Sony Pictures and Will Smith. With all the remakes of TV shows and children’s books gone wrong, I sure hope this one is a good one.  What do you all think?

I’m not sure when the movie would be released, but until that time, I thought I bring you a little old fashioned Harold with his purple crayon:

Have a GRAPE Day!

Ok this week I have to report I made a purple boo boo!   I wanted to do a stencil craft this week but I couldn’t find my purple fabric paint so I decided to use purple puff paint instead.  BAD IDEA!

Puff paints are thicker and don’t cover as well so I had to go over it a number of times which pushed the puff paint underneath the stencil.  So my purple hearts looked more like little clouds.  I tried to fix it, but I am not happy with how the large purple hearts came out.  I ended up going over the outside purple hearts with the purple fabric paint when I found it.

Forgive me, but I wanted to get this out so I took the picture while the puff paint accents were still wet.   What do you think?

Here’s what you need to do it right:

White TShirt

Purple and Gold Fabric Paints

Small Paint Brush

Place to Put Your Paint Colors into Before Painting

How to Stencil:

Put cardboard in between the front and back of your tshirt so it doesn’t bleed through to the other side

Tape down your stencil

Squirt some fabric paint into your pallet

Hold down stencil areas as you come to paint them to avoid spreading paint under stencil

Allow to dry

Take accent puff paint and create hearts on the sleeves, collar and bottom of tshirt

Have a GRAPE Day!

About 3 1/2 years ago I got my glasses with bifocals.  I felt old.  However, three months later my bifocal changed and I felt even OLDER! After paying nearly $350 for these glasses, I wasn’t about to spend another dime until my bifocal prescription had stabilized!  So I waited 3 1/2 years!  Years of holding my arm out increasingly further away in order to read.  Having to read my Bible online because I was unable to read anything anymore.

So the other day I realized they probably weren’t getting any worse and I went in to the eye doctor to get my new prescription.  I wanted to use my own glasses because I loved them even though they are not purple.  They have the magnetic sunglasses which makes driving much easier for half blind people so they don’t have to take off the glasses to put on the sunglasses and have a momentary lapse of focus with their traffic accident!

Since I’m blind as a bat without them on, I had to stay in the office/store for the 90 minutes it took for them to make my new lenses.  Couldn’t read.  Couldn’t see much of anything, BUT…

I noticed little flashes of purple everywhere!  Yes, they now make PURPLE eye glasses!  And yes!  I did have my camera with me and took pictures.  I just hope you can see them as I took them BLIND!

I also spotted a lavender eyeglass case I just HAD to buy!  Especially since it was only $2!

So now the only thing left in my purse that isn’t purple, is my checkbook.  I’ll have to take care of that right away!  LOL
Have a GRAPE Day!

Purples come in so many pretty shades/hues!  What’s your favorite?  Why?  What do you own that is in that color?

I love the darker more bluish shades of purple because it’s bold and rich with color!  I have several things in dark purple: purse, wallet, pencils, pencil holder, websites, books, pens, boxes, etc.  My cell phone is more reddish purple.

What is your favorite purple color and why?  What do you have in that color?  Please post a link to your pictures!  I’d love to see!

Have a GRAPE Day!

As some of you may remember, I was complaining that I couldn’t find a nice purple napkin holder.  This has worked well for the last year and a half, but as you can see, it’s not PURPLE!  lol

So I decided to take it on for this week’s Purple Project.  Here’s what you need:  purple ribbon, purple flower, hot glue gun and glue sticks.  I just put a little hot glue on strategic spots around the basket to hold the ribbon on and then glued the flower to the middle of the front of the basket and TA DA!!!

What do you think of my newest creation? Please leave a comment and remember to have a GRAPE Day!

This video says there are purple flowers that you can eat. In fact, he says the whole plant is edible!  Anyone know about this?  I feel kind of funny eating flowers even if they are purple!

Have a GRAPE Day!

I found this article in my purple Google alerts today because she was found wearing purple.  I can’t post her pictures here.  Please go to their site and view them.  Do you recognize her sweet face?

She is only about 2yrs old and cannot even tell police her name.  She is in good health, but through tears can only tell police she wants her mommy!  Poor little dear!  If you recognize this adorable little sweetie, please help!

“If you know this child, you’re asked to call Newark police right away at 302-366-7111. You can also text your tip to 302NPD to make an anonymous report.”

I pray someone can help her have a GRAPE Day!

According to this article, research by the University of Cincinnati suggests that drinking 100 percent purple grape juice can reduce or even reverse memory loss.

“Other studies have shown that purple grapes have powerful health benefits. One Vanderbilt University study found that people who drank grape juice more than three times a week lowered their risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 76 percent.

Additional studies have shown grapes to have heart healthy benefits including keeping arteries supple and blood pressure low. Researchers believe the benefits in Concord grape juice come from antioxidants in the grape’s skin and fruit.”

So drink up Purple Lovers and… Have a GRAPE Day!

Before I get to this week’s Purple Project…

You may notice that FortheLoveofPurple.com looks a bit different today.  Well, that’s because I have been having problems with some of the widgets, links and affiliate badges as well as the load time of the site.  I have talked to my hosting company and each time they give me a different reason and solution, which throws me into a Purple Fit!  I decided to try a new template and found that some of the links and widgets came back!  Purple Cheers!  BUT, the site still loads very slowly.  No Violet Victory here…  However, I will keep working on it.  I have to call them back today and will keep you informed.  If you have had a problem loading the site or with the links, please post here.  Purty Purple Please?  Cuz I want to be able to share this with the folks at my hosting company. You see, they think I’ve gone Purple Loopy!

And now for this week’s Purple Project!…

Ok this week I decided to try a craft I’ve never done before.  I wasn’t at all sure how it would come out, but it looks pretty cool!  And PURPLE! I started with this pretty glass heart paper weight:

I took purple glitter puff paint and swirled it all around the back of the paper weight and viola!

Isn’t that gorgeous? Now you try!  and…Have a GRAPE Day!