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miss understanding
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Fortune Not Cookie by miss understanding

January 6th, 2008 12:24 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Install fortunes of your devising in permanent or non-permanent media in openable structures, such that passersby will come across them.

I've been thinking about this task for a little while and came up with what I wanted to do a few days ago, but it took the need to run an errand to buy some duct tape for me to get around to implementation. I decided to keep it somewhat small since I decided to stick my "fortunes" on fixtures in a department store (I suppose K-mart would be called a department store?). Two fortunes, six of each....

"You are already beautiful"-to be placed on fixtures in the beauty product section


"You are not your underwear size"-to be placed on fixtures in, you guessed it, the women's underwear section. It's all about the underwear with me lately. This comes from an essay I wrote in an old blog of mine recalling how I used to gauge myself/my body on what size my underwear was and would fret about someone else seeing the size unless I believed the size to be small enough, as well as my love of Fight Club.

I apologize for the blurriness of the text in the pictures. While I made them large enough to be legible, I also made them as small as possible so that they might have a fighting chance of being there for awhile.

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The fortunes
Ye ol' magic sticker maker
We're in business
Ready for sticking
The mart
Round 1
Round 1 co.
Adaptation
Round 2
Round 2 co.

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posted by Hemingway Kat on January 6th, 2008 1:55 PM

love, lovE, loVE, lOVE, LOVE.

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posted by miss understanding on January 6th, 2008 3:37 PM

HKat-thank you very much, love.

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posted by Lincøln on January 6th, 2008 6:17 PM

Awesome.

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posted by susy derkins on January 6th, 2008 7:50 PM

Teary eyes here, a flash of warmth for Kmart shoppers.

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posted by miss understanding on January 6th, 2008 9:52 PM

Warm sentiments in isle six.:)

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posted by bunny dragon on January 11th, 2008 12:33 PM

You used stickers?

I guess that makes me go "hmm", because it's not reverseable, which I advocate as being important for stuff like this.

It does lead to an interesting conundrum: if it's trivially reversable (by having a slip of paper being thrown out), is it worth doing?

I do like the basic idea, though. :)

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posted by miss understanding on January 12th, 2008 8:10 AM

Thank you.

The stickers that come out of my sticker maker aren't of the quality that would lead me to believe that anyone will have a hard time taking those stickers down.

Are small things that will exist as they are intended for a short period of time worth it? I believe so. That's the social worker/occasional optimist in me. Not everyone can reach everyone all the time, but most people can reach at least one person for one moment in time. Of course one does have to consider the effort going into whatever project is in question.

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posted by Whimsical Disarray on August 11th, 2009 4:54 PM

You know, you could add something like this to Operation Beautiful.

:)