These napkin rings I made as door prizes for my mommy group. I want to keep them. Maybe I'll win them as a door prize. This project was cheap, and I'll probably make sets for friends for Christmas. It took 16 gauge bronze wire, 28 gauge bronze wire, and glass beads. Thanks to JoAnn's and their fabulous Veteran's Day coupons (because nothing says Veteran's Day like a well made craft), I finished this project, 4 rings, for 3.59.
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This Snow White dress I made for M for Christmas. I like it now. I hated it when I was making it. It's the only thing she asked for for Christmas and I, being the dolt that I am, thought I would make it instead of just buying one. This dress was the biggest pain in the butt to make. I'm not even kidding. It has applique. It has darts. It has gathers. It has a zipper. It has a popped up detachable collar. It has piping. I wanted to scream by the time it was over with. But it's done now and it's cute! And it's closer to Snow White's dress than anything they have in the store so Woo Hoo! And I may or may not have not had cording on hand to do the piping. And I may or may not have cut the string off of one of M's pull toys to use as piping. I may or may not be a horrible mom.
3) My Cocomotion. I love it and I love the fact that it's making cocoa for me right now. Because I'm cold. And in need of chocolate.
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My turkey. I bought my Thanksgiving turkey and I'm so excited! I'm not, however, excited that we still have a tiny freezer and my turkey takes up the whole thing. Dear Hubs: I want to move into a bigger house where I can have a deep freezer. Thanks.
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Cinnabons. Love them. Love that I ate one at the mall today. Love that you can almost go into diabetic shock just by smelling one. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.....it's Cinnabon season.
I love autumn. It is my favorite time of year. The air is cool with just a bite of winter to it. I get to wear my sweaters again. I start making soups and hot cocoa. The leaves turn and fall from the trees. Kroger starts selling cinnamon brooms. Everything smells like pumpkin. Like I said, it's my favorite time of year.
So it makes me sad that after Halloween everything becomes about Christmas. It's only fitting, since my favorite season is autumn, that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love the simplicity of it. I love how it's just focused on family and giving thanks for the harvest, friends and family, blessings in general. It's relaxing. It's a turkey slow-roasting in the oven while M and Hubs watch the Macy's parade in their pajamas on the living room floor. After dinner we put up the tree and trim it. M loves it.
I was sad today. I went to Wal-Mart to buy some dish detergent and the store was completely decked out in Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, too. I just wish that Thanksgiving could get its due. We have seven weeks until Christmas. Do I already have to have candy canes and tinsel shoved in my face? Hobby Lobby had their Christmas aisles set up in July. JULY! I was still wearing flip flops and dying from heat exhaustion.
So I'm pleading with everyone to just STOP with the Christmas-ing already. We have a whole month after Thanksgiving to focus on Christmas. Just stop right now and be thankful for what you have; for who you have. It's time everyone took a step back from the commercialization and just focus on their families for awhile.
Me: What? We've been married for 9 years and this is the first I'm hearing about your songs.
Hubs: *sigh* I have songs playing in my head all the time. Yankee Doodle is one of them.
Me: **snicker**
Hubs: Why are you laughing at me?! Like you don't have songs playing your head all the time.
Me: What other songs play in your head?
Hubs: The Entertainment Tonight theme song. But it's usually Yankee Doodle. When I wake up in the morning Yankee Doodle is playing in my head.
Me: **Dies from laughter**
I swear, I live with a Martian. I get songs stuck in my head, sure, but I don't have an internal playlist. Does anyone else have Hub's problem? Because he seems to think it's the norm.
Richard…the man we know so much about, but know nothing about.Here’s everything you need to know about Richard.He’s fierce (see above photo).He doesn’t age.He’s always rocking the starched shirts, even though is cohorts look like a merry band of hobos.He know his eyeliner and hair gel.
Richard has been on the island, looking the same, for years.He killed a bunch of soldiers on the island in 1954 and stole their hydrogen bomb.He was the leader of the hostiles when Ben was an innocent little nerd.He eventually recruited Ben and saved his life after Sayid shot little Ben.He visited Locke when he was a child. He confused Locke by laying a bunch of junk items in front of him and asking which belonged to him.Locke chooses a knife and Richard gets all offended and stalks out.PMS much?
Let’s try to unwind this and start at the beginning. Richard was with the others in 1954 when they found the hydrogen bomb.Ellie and Charliebarf Widmore were part of the Others during this time and eventually became the leaders.After the others killed the soldiers who brought the hydrogen bomb they stole their tents, clothes and supplies.During this time Ellie captured Daniel, Miles, and Charlotte after they time traveled.She brought them back to camp.Ellie wanted to shoot them, but Richard listened and finally declared that Daniel was, indeed, a scientist.Daniel offered to disarm the bomb and Richard agreed.Soon after Locke arrives and asks to speak to Richard.Richard orders Widmore to stand down.He is so fierce.Locke asks him how to leave the island and Richard tells him that’s confidential.In other words, Richard’s a stingy-butt with his secrets.
Fast forward to the 1970’s.Richard’s still running around the jungle and looking fabulous.He really hates the Dharma Initiative.At one point he’s so pissed that he strides into camp with a torch and sits on a bench, which is totally what I do when I’m angry.Sawyer comes out and is all, “Sorry I accidentally killed your friends.”And Richard is all, “It’s okay.What conditioner do you use?”Later Sawyer and Kate take little Ben to Richard, who takes him to the temple and heals him.He also turns Ben into a raving psychopath, but we can overlook it because this is our Richard we’re talking about here.Then Daniel, so torn up by the death of Charlotte and angry because he can’t seem to untie his tie and take it off, storms into their camp with a gun, demanding to talk to Ellie, aka his mama.Richard tries to calm him down.Daniel points the gun at Richard and Ellie shoots Daniel in the back. Richard’s all, “What the heck, Ellie??”
Then it gets really confusing.Widmore storms in with Jack and Kate as prisoners.Ellie orders their release and takes them to the bomb to remove the core and encase it in concrete. Richard, Ellie, Kate, Jack, and some redshirt hothead named Erik all walk to the creek. Sayid pops up out of the forest and kills Erik and Richards says something like, “That’s okay.No one really liked him anyway.”
Years later Ben steals a baby and Richard’s all, “Awesome.”
In the 90’s Richard leads the purge of the Dharma Initiative.
In 2001 Richard recruits Juliet to work for the Dharma Initiative.
After the crash, Richard met Locke and suggested that he have Sawyer kill his father, since he was having trouble doing it himself.Locke is stoked at the idea.
After the survivors contact the freighter Richard sets out to lead the Others to safety in the temple.
Richard intercepts Sayid and Kate in the jungle while they’re looking for Jack and tells them that he will guarantee their space on the helicopter if they help him rescue Ben, so they agree.
In 2007 Richard is building a ship in a bottle, because even a guru needs his arts and crafts time, and Locke shows up, but now we all know it wasn’t Locke.It was the bad man in the black shirt using Locke’s body as a puppet.They pack up to “go on an errand” and Sun shows up to tag along.John takes them to the Beechcraft stuck in the trees.He gives Richard a medical kit and explains that a man will stumble out of the jungle with a gunshot wound.He tells Richard to fix the wound and tell him to bring everyone back to the island, and that in order to do that he would have to die.He also told him to give his compass to the man.The man was Locke.
Darth Locke then informed Richard that he was going to lead the whole group of the Others to Jacob and Ben did a mental fist pump.Richard tells Darth Locke that Jacob made him ageless by lending him this great cold cream.Richard took them to the bachelor pad in the giant foot.Richard waits outside with the others while Locke and Ben go into the foot.A few minutes later Ilana shows up, remember the hoochie with the great earrings?She tells Richard they found something Uh-mazing in a box and Richards asks what it is.It’s……wait for it……..wait for it……LOCKE!DUHN DUHN DUUUUUUUUHN!Richard does a facepalm.End of season.
Sawyer nicknames:Your buddy with the eyeliner, Hoss
My new shoes. I'm not even lying. I got them this weekend on sale. I've only been eyeballing them FOREVER. DH finally relented when I pointed out the sale. And told him that he can get that remote control car he wanted. We both win! So I bought them on Saturday and on Sunday I rocked them at church. Only they hurt my feet bad. Hubs said, "Why do you keep wearing them?" I said, "Duh, because they're cute. Look how cute my feet are right now!" Men have no idea.
Anyway, here they are:
Aren't they FANTASTIC?? I heart them so much. Looking at this picture makes me want to go put them on with my pajamas right now. And I guarantee if I did, they would look fabulous.
My only problem is I don't have much to wear them with. I wore them with a long black skirt and my gray sweater on Sunday, but I didn't like it because the long skirt took away from the cuteness of my shoes. So this morning I got up early and went on a thrift store search for something to go with my shoes. I found this:
Did you hear angels singing just now? Cause I heard them when I found this skirt. It is awesome. And I got it for 6 bucks at my favorite friendly thrift store. Score!
My only problem now is that I don't have a shirt. I can't find one anywhere that goes with this skirt. So I need some help. Any suggestions? Anyone? Anyone??
It's been awhile since I posted a Thrifty Christmas post, so here are some of the things I've been working on lately:
M likes to pretend to cook with me. And she likes that I wear an apron and reaaaaaally wanted one of her own, so voila! I had some fabric leftover, so I made her a matching oven mitt and I made her the adjustable chef's hat just for fun. Total cost: $6 in supplies
She likes to pretend she's a doctor. I like to encourage this because if she's a doctor when she grows up, she can afford to put me in a better home when I'm senile. So I made her some scrubs for her doctor pretend time. Total cost: $4.00 supplies
I don't know if I've posted her diaper bag on here before or not, but here it is. See, she likes to carry a diaper bag when she carries her dolls. We only have one diaper bag, the gigantic one I carried when she was a newborn. It's almost as big as her and she has a hard time lugging it around. I made this one without a pattern and it turned out great! There are lots of pockets on the inside and outside for all the junk her babies need. Total cost: $0 (no pattern, fabric scraps)
She also loves to use wipes when she pretends to change her babies, but I hate giving them to her because they're expensive. So I made this little holder and filled it with white felt squares for her to use as baby wipes. That way we're not just throwing money away, which is what Thrifty Christmas is all about!
Last, I crocheted this ninja for hubs. Only he found it because he's a Sneaky Pete. So it's sitting on his desk at work right now. Total cost: 75 cents, clearance yarn.
I haven't posted in awhile, and the reason why is embarrassing. So I'm just going to come clean with all of you. I'm a boring person in real life. For reals. And we've had a very unpleasant stomach virus. NASTY! But it's all gone now and it didn't kill me. Hooray! So I decided, since it's such a lovely puke-free day, I decided that I'm just going to share things I love with you, since I've been reflecting on things I love today.
1) Sunflowers
Seriously. This is what I want my yard to look like. I love sunflowers that much and they're in season right now. There is a vase of them on my table right now. LOVE THEM! Happiness in flower form. If a sunflower got together with a daisy and had a baby, it'd be the happiest baby ever.
2) C.O. Bigelow Cinnamint Mentha Lipshine
Amazing! Love it! Tastes like Christmas! Go get yourself some at your local Bath and Body Works! (No, I don't work for them)
3) These burp rags I made for my friend's new baby.
I've never actually made burp rags before and they turned out cute!
4) This new damask print I just ordered.
It's going to be our new bedspread. I was going to get pink and brown, but Hubs said pink wasn't manly enough. I don't know what his problem is.
5) Hot Chocolate And it's cold enough to drink it now. Mmmmmmm.....My Cocomotion has been getting a lot of action this past week.
These napkin rings I made as door prizes for my mommy group. I want to keep them. Maybe I'll win them as a door prize. This project was cheap, and I'll probably make sets for friends for Christmas. It took 16 gauge bronze wire, 28 gauge bronze wire, and glass beads. Thanks to JoAnn's and their fabulous Veteran's Day coupons (because nothing says Veteran's Day like a well made craft), I finished this project, 4 rings, for 3.59.
This Snow White dress I made for M for Christmas. I like it now. I hated it when I was making it. It's the only thing she asked for for Christmas and I, being the dolt that I am, thought I would make it instead of just buying one. This dress was the biggest pain in the butt to make. I'm not even kidding. It has applique. It has darts. It has gathers. It has a zipper. It has a popped up detachable collar. It has piping. I wanted to scream by the time it was over with. But it's done now and it's cute! And it's closer to Snow White's dress than anything they have in the store so Woo Hoo! And I may or may not have not had cording on hand to do the piping. And I may or may not have cut the string off of one of M's pull toys to use as piping. I may or may not be a horrible mom.
My Cocomotion. I love it and I love the fact that it's making cocoa for me right now. Because I'm cold. And in need of chocolate.
My turkey. I bought my Thanksgiving turkey and I'm so excited! I'm not, however, excited that we still have a tiny freezer and my turkey takes up the whole thing. Dear Hubs: I want to move into a bigger house where I can have a deep freezer. Thanks.
Cinnabons. Love them. Love that I ate one at the mall today. Love that you can almost go into diabetic shock just by smelling one. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.....it's Cinnabon season.
