So I have a coworker who's having a baby. Well, his fiance is. Anyway, I found out yesterday that they're having a girl.
This is a disaster!
Not because he's not happy about it, or anything like that... but because I've managed to develop quite the stash of fabric for a blanket for a baby boy. I have almost nothing girly!
And the last thing I need is an excuse to go to Joann's...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Target Tuesday
Here's a link up I can get behind! I love me some Target, so here we are... Fabulous but Evil's Target Tuesday.
For my first one, I'll admit - I'm going to be pretty boring. I've been reworking the closet in my office/sewing room so that it can better hide-I-mean-store all my fabric and other quilting supplies... so this week... storage stuff. Lame, huh?
These cases would work pretty well:
And the price doesn't seem *too* bad for a set of six.
Something simpler, though, might also work just fine:
And they're a much lower price, for more bins!
So that I don't seem like a total drag, this is the shower curtain I want for our second bathroom / the laundry
room:
Super cute, right!? I love dinosaurs, and we alread have a set of towels that are a similar shade to Mr. T-Rex there... ;)
For my first one, I'll admit - I'm going to be pretty boring. I've been reworking the closet in my office/sewing room so that it can better hide-I-mean-store all my fabric and other quilting supplies... so this week... storage stuff. Lame, huh?
These cases would work pretty well:
And the price doesn't seem *too* bad for a set of six.
Something simpler, though, might also work just fine:
So that I don't seem like a total drag, this is the shower curtain I want for our second bathroom / the laundry
room:
Super cute, right!? I love dinosaurs, and we alread have a set of towels that are a similar shade to Mr. T-Rex there... ;)
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Happy house
One of my favorite parts of having a house is randomly being able to tackle a project. Since hubby and I finished my office a few months ago, there were some lingering projects that needed completing - like the closet. It was still the same atrocious sky blue that it was when we moved in, even though the rest of the room had been painted. I took it upon myself today to pull out the old "organizer" (by that, I mean two sets of wood nailed to the wall with wooden dowels for clothes rods), use joint compound to fill in the holes, and then paint the doors the same gray as the rest of the room.
While I was out getting the joint compound for the walls, I also picked up six 24" wide by 12" deep pieces of white melamine for shelves, as well as white metal brackets to put them up with. I'm still debating whether or not I should paint them the same purple as the trim in the room.
After the closet's painted and the shelves are hung, I'm hoping I can convince Jeff to finish the ONE last piece of laminate flooring that needs to go in there and to put in baseboard around the bottom. I wouldn't ordinarily bother with baseboard in a closet, but the laminate kind of makes it a necessity (there's always a gap around the edges) plus we already have the baseboard painted in the same purple as the rest of the room.
I also learned how to decoupage this weekend. I couldn't find any outlet covers or switch plates that I liked for our bathroom, so I took it upon myself to design my own! After Jeff and I picked out colors for the room at Lowe's (a warm beige called "Basket," a medium blue, and a navy blue), I used some batik fabric from Joann's to cover the switch plates and outlet covers! I look forward to adding more little handmade touches throughout the house - like the quilt that I'm STILL not done putting the strips together for! Oops!
While I was out getting the joint compound for the walls, I also picked up six 24" wide by 12" deep pieces of white melamine for shelves, as well as white metal brackets to put them up with. I'm still debating whether or not I should paint them the same purple as the trim in the room.
After the closet's painted and the shelves are hung, I'm hoping I can convince Jeff to finish the ONE last piece of laminate flooring that needs to go in there and to put in baseboard around the bottom. I wouldn't ordinarily bother with baseboard in a closet, but the laminate kind of makes it a necessity (there's always a gap around the edges) plus we already have the baseboard painted in the same purple as the rest of the room.
I also learned how to decoupage this weekend. I couldn't find any outlet covers or switch plates that I liked for our bathroom, so I took it upon myself to design my own! After Jeff and I picked out colors for the room at Lowe's (a warm beige called "Basket," a medium blue, and a navy blue), I used some batik fabric from Joann's to cover the switch plates and outlet covers! I look forward to adding more little handmade touches throughout the house - like the quilt that I'm STILL not done putting the strips together for! Oops!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
By-the-end-of-March to-do list
-Finish making all quilt squares into long quilt stripes
-Finish Comfortably Numb, start George Martin book
-Clean up weeds I've already pulled out of garden.
-Pull the remaining weeds.
-The rain has not made this very do-able. :(
-Get garden set up - the long ties are in the garage, all ready to go, just have to get them laid out!
-Buy plants for garden - peppers, a tomato plant, herbs (?), raspberry bush and plant them. It kind of has to stop raining for more than 5 minutes for this to happen. Possibly buy grass seed.
-This may wait until April - Discover's doing 5% cash back at home improvement stores, April through June, so it would be more effective to wait until then! Keep an eye out for coupons, though, in either case!
-Go shopping at Old Navy when gift card arrives (yay!)
That seems like enough, especially since there's only one weekend left!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Book #11: Switching Time
Book 11: Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities, by Dr. Richard Baer
Another book where the title/sub-title pretty much sum up the plot, this was the memoir of a psychiatrist who, over the course of 16 years, treats a woman with a true case of multiple personality disorder.
Spawned as a coping mechanism to deal with a cycle of abuse that started well before she was born, "Karen's" MPD helped her get through years of abuse - from her father punching her mother's stomach while she was pregnant to ritualistic quasi-religious physical and sexual abuse. The journey is definitely interesting to follow as we watch Karen learn of her "alters" and eventually cope with having them.
Perhaps something fiction next...
Another book where the title/sub-title pretty much sum up the plot, this was the memoir of a psychiatrist who, over the course of 16 years, treats a woman with a true case of multiple personality disorder.
Spawned as a coping mechanism to deal with a cycle of abuse that started well before she was born, "Karen's" MPD helped her get through years of abuse - from her father punching her mother's stomach while she was pregnant to ritualistic quasi-religious physical and sexual abuse. The journey is definitely interesting to follow as we watch Karen learn of her "alters" and eventually cope with having them.
Perhaps something fiction next...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Book 10: The Mirror Effect
Book 10: The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, by Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. S. Mark Young.
Oh Dr. Drew. So handsome. Killer blue eyes. An engaging speaker, that time Jeff and I got front-row seats (!) at Chico State. Le sigh.
But oh Dr. Drew, your books. They're not good. I read another of his books, Cracked, about his experiences working as a physician in rehabs. That one wasn't good, and this was a disappointment, too. The book, at 267 pages, could have been half as long and still gotten its point across. The first 100+ pages were spent presenting the problem of "celebrity narcissism" - as if it really takes 100 pages to tell people that celebrities are narcissists, and to explain what narcissism actually is.
The book is based on a study that Drs. Pinsky and Young did where they had celebrities take the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Predictably, celebrities score notably higher on the NPI than "average" people. Drew outlines causes for this and the consequences for today's youth.
I think I'd have been better off reading the scientific paper rather than this book. At least Drew's handsome on the cover:
Oh Dr. Drew. So handsome. Killer blue eyes. An engaging speaker, that time Jeff and I got front-row seats (!) at Chico State. Le sigh.
But oh Dr. Drew, your books. They're not good. I read another of his books, Cracked, about his experiences working as a physician in rehabs. That one wasn't good, and this was a disappointment, too. The book, at 267 pages, could have been half as long and still gotten its point across. The first 100+ pages were spent presenting the problem of "celebrity narcissism" - as if it really takes 100 pages to tell people that celebrities are narcissists, and to explain what narcissism actually is.
The book is based on a study that Drs. Pinsky and Young did where they had celebrities take the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Predictably, celebrities score notably higher on the NPI than "average" people. Drew outlines causes for this and the consequences for today's youth.
I think I'd have been better off reading the scientific paper rather than this book. At least Drew's handsome on the cover:
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Giveaway
My favorite part about this blogosphere thing is this newfound chance to win stuff - who knew that people were sponsoring such great giveaways?
Anyway, Rachel over at Stitched in Color is hosting a giveaway for batting - a full quilt size chunk! This may not be exciting, I suppose, if you're not a quilter, but if you are... it's exciting. And you should go enter, and if you're not a quilter, well, you can just give it to me.
Whether you sew or not, enjoy her pretty pieces. Amazing, inspiring work, I think! :)
Anyway, Rachel over at Stitched in Color is hosting a giveaway for batting - a full quilt size chunk! This may not be exciting, I suppose, if you're not a quilter, but if you are... it's exciting. And you should go enter, and if you're not a quilter, well, you can just give it to me.
Whether you sew or not, enjoy her pretty pieces. Amazing, inspiring work, I think! :)
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