Me, that is. Yep, believe it or not, I am actually a creative person, although I rarely finish what I start. Still, I have lots of amazing ideas. The main things I love working on are: customizing t-shirts/clothing reconstruction, handmade stationery, and duct tape crafts. Now that I’ve actually gotten a lot of my storage and organization ( Read more... )

I am *almost* to the point where I can buy fencing materials and the pool they want. I hope to have this done by around the first part of June, since they’ll be out of school then. They’ll have to help me, of course. And, given my track record with home improvements and trying to ‘fix’ things, I am sure at least I will make a few mistakes along ( Read more... )

You’ve all seen my cute new sofa, and you’ve all heard me lament how it was cheap and how worried that I am that I am going to have to replace it sooner than I’d like. Well, hopefully I’ll have my garage/workshop set up and finished by then, because I’d like to make theater seating for the home theater. Something awesome like the Fairfax Leather ( Read more... )

The delivery guys couldn’t come till after my husband left for work, but they showed up an hour and a half early. They offered to put the new sofa in the living room for me, which they told me on the phone they didn’t do. But I couldn’t take them up on it because, since they were so early, I still had the old sofa in the living room.

Getting the ( Read more... )

My grandfather owned one of the simplest, yet prettiest old Victorian houses I’ve ever seen. Sure, it had its share of problems, such as (but not limited to) poor insulation, inferior wiring and plumbing, lead in the paint and windows. Still, it was a huge part of my heart and soul. It was the second-to-last house on a one-lane, dead end street ( Read more... )

I mentioned my plans for my home theater/media room in a post recently. Now that I’ve actually settled on some colors and a design scheme that I love, I can think about the electronics I’ll have in the room. I already have the cable setup I love (extended basic + dvr + a few premium channels). The main thing now is deciding on a tv. I am going ( Read more... )

Decorating my living room, that is! It’ll have a really cool, loungy feel, since it’s also our home theater. My new sofa is being delivered Monday evening. I’ve decided on a cherry and light oak diamond pattern on the floor. Very whimsical, ‘Alice in Wonderland’-y….but not stark black and white. There will be hanging Morrocan lanterns in key ( Read more... )

I am tired, but I have the day off. I totally forgot about daylight savings time this weekend, but luckily everything in the house does all its own changing except for one manual clock, which is now at the correct time because I never changed it back in the fall.

It’s been a busy weekend. Saturday we went out to the movies. The oldest and I saw ( Read more... )

This weekend was damn near destroyed in a matter of minutes Sunday evening. So I am going to list the good points:

• The basketball season is over. Well, except for tournament play.
• Scoring the super-sweet ladies version of this Dirtbag tee:
  
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