The season for growing

Our lettuce is growing! We planted spinach, red leaf, and just some regular stuff about a week and a half ago. The last time we planted spinach from seed, none of it came up, so we were pretty excited to see those green sprouts popping up this week. Hopefully we will be eating some yummy salads in a few weeks!

I'm thinking we need to plant some tomatoes, too. Aren't they so much better home grown than store bought??

Weekend Project

This weekend I finally worked up the motivation to start a project. I've had so many ideas rolling around in my head that I think it's been hard for me to decide which one to actually start with!

We've had this media shelf for probably about 4 or 5 years; I think we got it at Big Lots. It was super packed with dvds until we weeded some out and my husband went through and recorded some digitally to our computer. There ended up being some empty shelves, but I couldn't get to them because of the spot in our living room we had it in.



See how it's really crowded with that end table there? By the way, I took this after I had cleared off about 3 shelves and then realized I would probably want to have a "before" picture. I never liked how the lower shelves weren't that accessible, and the black backing with its black hole-ish, sucking-the-rest-of-the-living-room-in quality was really starting to bother me. After seeing some ideas on Pintrest, I decided I would scrapbook the back of our media shelf!



I used Mod Podge to glue the paper to the back and then brushed another layer of it on top to seal it a little. I also moved the shelf to a different spot so it would be more accessible. And with the dvds more spread out, I was able to put some other little things in amongst the dvds to make it look more home-y.



Ta da! I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. My husband didn't like how "frilly" the paper was that I chose, but he did approve of the way I arranged everything. :o)



Yay for weekend projects! What projects are you hoping to get done soon?

The blank page

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It's been a long time since I've posted and, I'm ashamed to admit, even longer since I've sat down to do some sketching in my sketchbook. I always seem to run out of time between working, making dinner, laundry, etc. There always seems to be SOMETHING ELSE that I need to do.

Then it dawned on me today: have I been stalling? Not necessarily making up things to do, but putting more importance than necessary on other things and purposely trying to FIND other things to do so that I don't have to deal with the the scaryness of a blank page? Hmmm. That had never ocurred to me before.

I finally sat down this evening to sketch, and I have to admit it was hard. I stared at that blank page for a long time. Then I remembered something one of my art professors told me...he said that he always doodled and scribbled on paper until it began to vaguely resemble something and that's how he would come up with his drawings. I tried that and it helped loosen me up somewhat. I hope that I can continue to take 15-20 minutes on a regular basis to just sketch...and see what happens.

Dear Spring, please stay!

Josh and I went to my favorite downtown park not too long ago and the flowering trees were in bloom...so pretty!

The weather has been so beautiful here. Yesterday we went over to my mom and dad's for awhile and their wisteria is GORGEOUS! This was what it looked like two weeks ago when we were there for Easter...


and this is what it looks like now...


Isn't it amazing?! It smelled sooooooo wonderful, too. I am loving the green leaves everywhere and love hearing the birds chirping. I am ITCHING to buy flowers for our yard! I think some hydrangea bushes would look lovely in front of our house. Maybe if I can talk my husband into it? :o)

Long Easter weekend...

Josh and I had a long weekend over Easter and it was GREAT! We started it off by going to a place here in town we had never been to before called Aunt Martha's Pancake House. It's been here since 1959!




I should have taken a picture of the huge pancakes on my plate...mmmm! Then we went to a couple flea markets where I found these pretty coasters:


and this sweet old book!


Oh my goodness, I just love it. It's a book of poems for children that was published in 1937. And it has these cute little illustrations in it, too!


We spent the rest of our weekend with my family celebrating Easter. It was fun and the weather was gorgeous! I made these cute carrot cupcakes for everyone:


Spring has officially arrived...I am enjoying the flowers and the green coming out everywhere! Hope you're having a good week! I'm going to go have a leftover cupcake. :o)

Fabric hunting

Saturday I went to a local fabric store with my mom to hunt for some pretty spring fabric to cover the pillows on my couch and loveseat. The pillows that came with them are red and brown and have a rather generic design on them. I liked them really well when we bought the furniture about three years ago, but last spring I really started craving some soft colors and pretty designs and ended up staring at them rather resentfully for the whole season. So! Since my mom is teaching me how to use a sewing machine, I decided it was time for some pillow covers. We searched and searched and dug and dug through the fabric and I just didn't really find anything that I loved. We eventually dug through the overstock under a table and I found a fabric that I hadn't seen out on display:


It wasn't really what I had in mind, but I fell in love with it so I bought it. :o) I think we'll get started on making the pillow covers next week. I can't wait to see how they turn out!

Inspiration Board

Hi there! Is anyone else glad it's almost the weekend? :o)

I wanted to post some pictures of the inspiration board I finished for my Indie Biz class. First of all, I should say that it's a little different looking. When I went looking for the appropriate sized bulletin board, I was annoyed at how expensive they all were!! I ended up buying some cork squares from Walmart and then bought a canvas from Hobby Lobby. The lesson we had suggested painting clouds on the bulletin board, so I decided to paint the canvas like a cloudy sky:


Then I stuck a couple big cork squares on and painted it like some of the clouds were overlapping onto the bulletin board part:


And then I made some paper butterflies out of white cardstock to put on it and found some of "my favorite things" to attach as well:


I'm pretty happy with it and hopefully it will serve it's purpose...to inspire me!

Have a good weekend!