My old-ish project

Well, this has been done for a while now but I thought better late than never! :-)

First I got a frame on clearance (and then an extra 15% off with my employee discount!) at work. It was on clearance because someone had tried to glue stuff to it and then ripped the stuff off leaving weird cardboardy residue

So I got some paint (67 cents! - employee discount) and some paint brushes ($1.99 for a set of four. - employee discount)
Then I spent all of about 15 minutes putting several coats of paint on the back and inside edge of the fame. (yay for living someplace where the weather causes paint to dry in seconds.)

Then I used a coupon and printed out some pictures that I've taken of the plants around here at costco for less than $4. Using a combination of stick tack, double sided tape, and some extra paper, I arranged the photos inside the frame on the wall!

I'm still alive!

I promise. :-D I'm just working a lot these last few months. Which is good for my bills! Not so much for my creative side. But we all must make sacrifices in the name of staying alive, and as much out of debt as possible.
Anyways, I *do* have a project I finished a while ago just haven't gotten around to taking pictures of it (my bad). So hopefully that will be up soon! And I know Courtney's disappearing into oblivion for a while so I'll try to step up my game here.

Oops.

I just figured out that I wrote someone a thank you note for something they didn't give me. Lol...good thing my friends have a good sense of humor! :-D I'll bet they were puzzled.

Excellent news! Noble got a job. :) Hopefully she will still have a little spare time for awesome projects, but for right now, she's making money!! Woohoo!

I'm not. :-D

I did make socks (and broke my personal record by making the whole pair in 3 days!).

And the muslims we buy our eggs from gave us this cute little banty egg. The man said, "Belief or not, is chicken egg!"

Another project underway: unraveling this sweater and making it into this sweater

More artsy pictures of yarn and rapidly raveling sweater:

A quest!

Hey y'all! So with swagbucks I've managed to collect quite a few magazine subscriptions which means I have growing collection of big pieces of paper! :-P Anyways, I need to think of a clever way to store said magazines; hence the quest. :-) If y'all have any ideas I'd love to hear them!

Yikes!

Once more, we are not dead! I just lent my camera's SD card to my husband so his Latin class could make videos of themselves. It should be back soon and then there might be pictures of things like bread, bags, vacuuming, and me gearing up to sew!

I should probably explain, meanwhile, that I can "sew." That is, I can successfully turn on the sewing machine and use it to stick pieces of fabric together. And I can even embroider. What I cannot do, so far, is make the stuck-together pieces of fabric *fit* me. Fitting patterns = tricky. I try about once a year, and that time is rolling around again......

So keep a weather-eye out for the amusing pictures. :)

A Laundry Day

So today my oh-so-chic project was the laundry. I've been helping my mother with laundry ever since I was little, but I just had this realization:

Now that I'm married, I am the Underwear Fairy. Just like the Tooth Fairy magically knows that you lost a tooth and comes to give you a note and a quarter, the Underwear Fairy magically knows when you're almost out of underwear. Then she washes it, folds it, and the next day you find it there in your drawer again...even though you didn't tell anyone you were almost out of underwear! It's magic (sadly, you don't get a quarter when the underwear fairy finds out you've worn all your underwear).

When you're the Underwear Fairy, you know the tricks of the trade. But to everyone else, it is definitely magic.

Haha, ok. Pardon my flights of fancy. :) But it just made me laugh to be the underwear version of the Tooth Fairy.

I didn't take any gruesome before and after pictures of the laundry because a) they wouldn't be that gruesome (since there's only two people in this apt.), and b) who wants to see other people's dirty laundry? Not me! :)

But I thought I would share my project with you. 'Til next time!

Courtney