Even if you're a gigantic loser like me who bailed out of the movie Up after the first harrowing 10 minutes, you're probably familiar with the image of Carl and Ellie's house being lifted from the ground by a bunch of balloons coming from the chimney. For Christmas, the lovely Kristen gifted us a wooden model of Carl & Ellie's house. With a little wood glue applied via a syringe and a LOT of patience (and some swearing) I assembled the house back in March. This was the finished ...
2023 Valentine cards
For a few reasons I hadn't felt much like crafting for months. I bought the cutest Halloween dies, colored and cut a bunch of bats which ended up tucked away in an envelope for next year. I bought even cuter Santa dies and they didn't even make it out of the packaging. While I'm never the best at my craft-of-the-moment, I recognize that it's good for me to tap into my creative side. One evening while rotting my brain away on TikTok, I saw a video about junk journaling. People who junk ...
A long weekend with a longer one to come
This is what a three-day weekend looks like when you're a middle-aged adult: This will be a short yet hectic workweek because I have a half-day tomorrow (aforementioned mammogram with ultrasound if necessary and I swear to Pete if I need another biopsy I will cut my own bangs), and am off again on Friday for a little bit of adventuring! I finished Spare and I felt really badly for Harry. As badly as I can feel for a super rich, super privileged man, that is. He writes about how his ...
I’m a Cricut Joy Noob
Back when I was a teenage mallrat in the 1980s, there was a giant machine in the card store that would let you create your own card on a touchscreen and then it would SSLLOOWWLLYY draw that card out for you with some sort of robot and a rainbow of pens. The card cost maybe $6.99, which was very expensive for a teenage mallrat but it was worth it to see your recipient's name on it in giant block letters. I can't find an image of that that machine on Google because I'm probably missing the correct ...
Holiday Cards 2020
(blogged while listening to John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together) I enjoy sending and receiving cards for the holiday. It's an old-timey habit that I really thought was dying out a few years back. Turns out, you just need to find people who care about cards as much as you do! In October/November of 2019, I began to dabble in making cards. I knew that I wanted to make some of our cards this year, but I knew that I would be overwhelmed knowing I had to make fifty-plus ...
Friday (Sunday?) 5: Korea Guidance
Firstly, check out this gloriousness: Embed from Getty Images Look at this! Getty Images lets you embed their work on your unprofitable blog now! Actually they started it in 2014 but it's news to me! Our US Curling boys brought home the gold. WM woke up in the middle of the night to watch. WM: Hey. I'm awake so I'm going down to watch curling. Me: mmffsnortdrool-YouEssAyy-slobber And then I watched the replay later. Curling is like bowling, billiards and skeeball ... on ice. How ...
Stupid beading tricks – Save a horse, wear a necklace
I know, that makes no sense. I had a horse pendant sitting in my brown bead box for almost two years. I'm not a horse person, but I know someone who is. What's funny is that I look at the finished project and it just looks like a bunch of beads strung on beading wire. But oh my gosh I spent so much freaking time finding the 'right' beads to string. I guess that's a byproduct of having a bead box filled entirely with only brown beads. This is how bad my bead addiction is at the moment - I ...
Chief Diva in charge
In a terrifying turn of events, I was put in charge of the office while most of our coworkers are gone at our organization's Annual meeting. One of our Drexel Co-ops made this sign for me, which makes it official. My duties are very important. They are: 1) Make sure lunch is ordered & delivered for the Left Behinders today (Qdoba), tomorrow (sandwiches) and Friday (pizza). 2) Help with the decorating. Another of the Co-ops' responsibilities is decorating the office to welcome back the Annual ...
The lovely Design Seeds
I love doing things that include color, but I'm not always great at choosing color palettes. Via Pinterest, I found a site called Design Seeds that is going to be a very close friend of mine from here on out. Not only does it have palettes based on yummy photos... But it will also let you search for a specific color -- I use the sliders to match up with beads: And it'll offer up a palette that matches your chosen color! Your palette also has a Pin It button that'll let you pin some ...
Nothing good can come from this
But you know this already, yes? ...
Fall Folly-age
Fall Folly-ageOn Saturday, Thor and I went to Springdale Farms for some mums. Because it's our first real *season* in this house, I wanted to festoon it properly. We picked a hyooooooge (*tm* Trump) unbloomed pot of mums for the porch, and two smaller purple mums for the garden at the end of the driveway. (Note: the petunias that I planted back in June became some bunny's lunch.) I hope the mums on the porch bloom.Springdale Farms is noted for their bakery, so we bought a French Apple pie and a ...
