Saturday, October 17, 2009

she's crafty

what is going on? i seriously feel like violet beauregarde... but i'm not turning violet, i'm turnin' into a "homemaker"! i cannot think of anything except driving to Arizona for the day just to shop at Hobby Lobby to find new lovely new trinkets with which to feather the nest. i know Dr Phil would consider this to be my 'jumping the shark'... where a harmless love of all things crafty and cute becomes a dangerous sick obsession that threatens the wellbeing of our family (AZ is 6 hours - each way - and it's HOT there... even hotter than here, i believe...)

yesterday i couldn't do ANYTHING until i had finished cutting out every last one of my big letters for Danny's wall. i even took my exacto knife to mcdonalds to do some cutting there, only to be told off by the two little boys in my care for carrying a weapon to mcdonalds, which they were SURE was probably a felony.

today i worked all day long on making the boys' bedrooms perfect and cozy and arranged their books by height/spine color, irregardless of what they're actually about. (if i worked at the library, the shelves would be much much much prettier) i made brownies (again the dense fudgy teeth imprint type), pumpkin cobbler, enchiladas with absolutely no recipe, gave the rats a manicure, made a tiny manhattan skyline in shrinky dinks, and a red lobster, and a little cow, and a triceratops....

now all i can think of next is making jewelry. must find: little letter stamps to make silver charms with names and numbers. i looked on etsy - $180. i can't afford that, that's oprah money. a little bird (Grandpa) told me that Harbor Freight had them in the days of yore..... my heart pounded as i typed in stamp letters and hit return... and BAM! we are SOOO going at 9am sharp tomorrow!! i hope they have blank silver heart shaped charms too... a girl can dream :)

dinner last night: the biggest pizza E-V-E-R.... those plates are dinner plates, they look like saucers next to it. i did a search for where to find a 24 inch pizza and ONLY found places in Michigan, and LOTS of them :| i had no idea it was the big huge pizza state, but i want to go to there :)
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Sam's room all switched around. the thing to the left of the white table is the rattie's townhome. guess who made it?? uhuh... that would be me :) don't worry, it has LOTS of holes in it and they love it so much
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the new supersize white board that Dad bought him today.. we didn't even make him write this - awww!
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our beautiful library
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$5 of foam and an exacto knife = new wall candy :)
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:44 AM

    carol you amaze me with your craftiness....please move here and teach me. :)

    Angela King :)

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  2. So where is the pizza from?

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