Eek!

Ok, so I have been bad and missed a few days of the blog challenge. We had a busy weekend.... we attended a wedding, it was our two year anniversary, and various family members had birthdays in addition to me cleaning the heck out of the house and hanging some art/shelving. I also worked on *our* wedding invites and am about half done - my goal is to have them out by the end of next week (crossing my fingers).

The wedding we went to over the weekend was probably the most depressing party I have ever attended. They originally cancelled the wedding, then put it back on a few weeks later. They lost their church, so it was supposed to be in a park and then was moved into their reception venue. I won't get into too much detail but Matt, his sister, her best friend and myself all ended up drinking wine in plastic cups in the parking lot.

I finally hung the shelves in my crafting room today! Things are gradually coming together. It's hard to get things done with a wee baby and terrible gas prices prohibiting the purchase of anything non-essential at the moment. Gas is $1.35 a litre here (over $5 a gallon for all you Americans). I put $12 in my tank the other day before driving to my mom's house and when I got back the gas light was on again! arg.

So anyways, Tuesday's challenge is to review something. I haven't really seen any new movies lately other than Sex and the City, but I did rent this one a few weeks ago. It came out in 2005 - I found it in the indie comedy section of my movie store and quite enjoyed it.



I've liked Evan Rachel Wood ever since seeing Thirteen, and even moreso after Across the Universe. Here is the plotline from wikipedia:

Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) is a high school student at Roxbury, a Beverly Hills school for the wealthy. She and her best friend Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois) take Randa (Adi Schnall), a new student from the Middle East, under their wing. When Kimberly decides to accuse her drama teacher (Ron Livingston) of sexual harassment, she draws everyone - including her friends, family and the media (a reporter played by Jane Krakowski) - into her manipulative plot.

This movie is smart, sassy, and funny whilst being very dark. The storyline is not something you typically would see, and although the main character is a pretty bad person I couldn't help but be interested in her. Oh, and I <3 Ron Livingston. So - rent this one! It's old so it's in the cheapo section lol.

I'm going to finish up this post w/ some gratuitous cuteness.



This little man was 8 weeks old yesterday! Time is flying..

Vacation anyone?

Oooops! I was so busy browsing home decorating websites today that I forgot to do my challenge!

Today's challenge is to talk about vacation. I'm not really going on a vacation this summer, however, I am in a completely new province that has BEACHES so I think just being here at home is going to feel like a vacation! We visited here last summer, but only for two weeks and in late August. I'm excited to experience my first whole summer on Price Edward Island. I spent my entire life up until this point in Alberta, which is completely landlocked and quite mountainous, so being surrounded by the ocean is a big change for me. It still blows me mind all the time, just ask Matt. I'm constantly saying "I can't believe I live on an island" or "Whoa, look, the ocean". Lol :)

Here are a couple of beachy photos from when we visited last year:





Anyways - like I said in the beginning of this post I spent a lot of the day looking at home decor websites. I feel a new obsession starting to slowly creep in.... I am already coming up with all these ideas to decorate our place. For example, Matt's father gave us a coffee table that has a shelf underneath which is currently filled with baskets full of junk and they don't look very nice. I am planning on sewing a few pleated pannels and then attaching them under the top of the table with a glue gun to create almost like a little curtain that hides all our junk!! yay! It should be relatively cheap (all I have to buy is about 1 meter of fabric) and easy to do.

Somewhere in between the home decoratinmg research, I made a cute unicorn plaque today, but I forgot my camera at the MIL's house so no photo yet. I also organized our bookshelf by color, so we have a rainbowy bookshelf. Matt thinks I am utterly ridiculous for the two aforementioned things, and I probably am, but come on a rainbow bookshelf is pretty damn cool.

Speaking of my mother in law.. she bought a karaoke machine! Yesterday was Jessica's birthday so she surprised the family with the machine and gave Jessica a bunch of cd's for it and an extra microphone. A very good time was had, and I'm sure there will be more to come. I have no idea why I didn't think to purchase a karaoke machine before because I had the best time I have had in a looong time. Oh, btw, I own at karaoke and will kick your butt :P

Tomorrow is wedding invitation day, finally. After months of getting pushed back and pushed back, we are finally assembling them. For some reason I'm not looking forward to it! Wish me luck.

Hee!!

I sent in an idea to scrapscene, and they used it!!

Ribbon Storage Ideas

Too bad I forgot to give them a link to my blog LOL. Duh, me.

Finished!

I hope she likes it :)

My Nemesis

I would like to introduce you to my nemesis:



So, I got this bag of real crumbled bacon bits at Costco when we were there last. I love love these and they normally are quite expensive for a small jar so I use them very sparingly. Now I have a giant bag that was very reasonably priced and all of my expensive bacon inhibitions have gone out the window. Every time I'm in the kitchen, especially when microwaving something (like Matt's bagel bites that I'm eating right now - hee!!) because the pantry is right next to the microwave, I end up eating a couple scoops of these. They're just so damn delicious. I fear what these extra bacon calories are going to do to my waist, yet I can't stop!! I need to go to rehab for bacon bit eaters :(

I spent a considerable amount of time last night browsing flickr. This is my new favorite website!! I can't believe I didn't know about it before. I thought flickr was just a photo hosting website, and I had no idea the wealth of amazing things I could look at on there. I got 3 hours of sleep last night due to browsing photos until 5:30am, oops.

And finally, for the big blog challenge, two links to people I love:

Matthew <3

Courtney <3

And a birthday shoutout to my lovely sister-in-law-to-be Jessica whose card I am off to make now :)

Sneak Peeks!!

A couple sneak peeks of some things I've been working on.... mostly of my craft room :)

One of the shelves I got for $0.99 at Value Village and painted white. It sits above a desk and above my Cricut machine.. I thought the cartridges looked nice on it.


Another $0.99 shelf, also painted white. I organized my buttons by color last night in little making memories jars that I got for 50% off at Michaels.


My new baby, the paper spinner. I found this at a LSS that is scaling back their scrapbook section.. It has two of these sections on each side (I only took a photo of the bottom one - the rack is actually quite tall), and little hooks where I can hang embellies and sticker packages. It only cost me $25!


New ribbon storage. I'm re-spooling all my ribbons into old fashioned clothes pegs that I found at the dollar atore and putting them in Candy jars. I have one jar filled about about 29290482348 ribbon rolls left to re-spool lol.


And finally, some polymer clay stuff I was working on last night.

Unfortunately, too much time spent in the crafting room lately has meant that the rest of my house has become terribly neglected. I have a bunch of crusty dishes waiting for me in addition to bathroom cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, and mopping. *sigh*

Refreshing!

Here is my photo of something refreshing for today's challenge.... pink lemoande cocktails!! I really wish I was on a patio somewhere drinking one of those. Apparently, it's supposed to get up to 22 degrees today!

More to come later :) Sneak peaks of my craft room and possibly some projects I've been working on.

PS!! Check out this little turorial I found on making polymer clay buttons...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gO8tjBqiD4

King Jude

Just found these photos on my memory stick and *had* to share them...

Newest Creation

The lovely Michelle posted a little tutorial a while back on drawing and painting lettering on a layout... I tried it today. I wanted to do a LO using song lyrics and it seemed like a perfect technique!

I've never painted so much on a layout before. I also tried something new.. I bought a glue pen the other day and used it to doodle and then covered it in glitter. The '2008' and miscellaneous doodles are done using orange glitter. The strawberry sticker is by Martha Stewart Crafts. When I saw those stickers in the store I thought "WTF, a green strawberry, I'm never going to use that!" and it was the first one I used LOL!


I'm participating in a blogging challenge over on SB.com and today's challenge is to blog about something "hot" and what it means to you. I am assuming this refers to products or trends... but the first thing that popped into my head when I thought "hot" was how NOT HOT it has been here! I want to go to the freaking beach already, it's June!! Why do I live on an island with awesome beaches if it is just going to be cold and rainy?? I have cute little swimming trunks for Jude and matching little lime green baby gap sandals... but alas, they sit in a drawer, unused and sad :(

Something else not very hot right now is the state of my lone pair of jeans. The hems are all rippy from me stepping on them.. and I actually just got them tangled up in the wheel of the computer chair and fell on my ass trying to free myself. Jean shopping is apparently something I should no longer be putting off! Next time I'm going to break and arm or something, sheesh.

I'm going to end this blog by saying that you should read Matt's latest blog about his new/old job. I'm cracking up.

Arg!!

I desperately need... roughly $600. That is the amount in my cart on scrapbooker's paradise.com LOL. A few of the items I am wanting:

.... and many more. Why am I so broke?! Grr :P Come on tax refund!!!