I have quite a few things in the works! I am soooo excited!!!
One – I will be making something very special for a very special friend of mine. That’s all I’m saying right now.
Two – I will be attempting to make a headboard out of a door. I know you all have seen them on Pinterest! We gave the girls our old bed frame and no we are on nothing but rails!!!
Three – I will be repainting the chest of drawers that I painted less than a year ago! LOL It no longer matches.
Four – I will be painting and updating an old cedar chest that was given to Colin for a toy box.
I LOVE painting and it’s been entirely too long since I’ve done any!!!
OH!! And I have been SUCH a slacker lately!! I still have to finish the last set of sewing for Sewing to Rebuild! I want to mail all of them out at the end of the week!
AND I still need to sew a couple of things for Colin. He’s been feeling a little left out. Poor fella.
I will be doing tutorials for the all the painting projects. Well, if they turn out…. LOL No matter what, I will still show you all the results! LOL I just hope they are GOOD!
We will also be having TONS of company in the next few weeks!! BUSY BUSY BUSY!! My goodness!
Welcome to Take One of June’s Secret Subject Swaps. This week, 12 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts.
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What is your oldest piece of clothing, does it still fit, and why do you still have it?
It was submitted by: The Most Awesome, the Queen of Secret Subjects and Flies….. Karen from Baking in a Tornado.
At first I was stumped. I have been pregnant 5 TIMES!! My weight has been up and down and up and down. I change sizes more than the kids change channels… Then I thought, well, I have some shoes I’ve had for a while. But even those I give away after a few years…. Hmmm… Then it hit me. There’s one item of clothing that I have had for 20 YEARS!! Yes! 20 YEARS!!!!
My WVU Mountaineers Football jersey!!!! It still fits (just not as loosely as it once did) and I wear it a ton during football season.
This jersey has seen some up and downs… Some wins and some loses….. Some players and coaches come and go…. It has seen A LOT!!!
Hmmm… maybe IT should do the Fly on the Wall. LOL
Speaking of gaining and losing weight (I think this fits with the topic). I have been back on the Atkins Diet for 2 wks now and I am down 9 lbs!!! YIPPPPEEE!!!!!!!
I am done with the meds that make me gain weight. I am done with the birth control methods that make me gain weight. I am done with eating my feelings!!!! I am taking control of my body again!!! I managed to have 3 kids without adding more than 10 lbs. After I had Deanna I was on the Depo Provera shots for a year. I gained more in that year than I ever did while pregnant with the kids. I went off it after that. It had completely messed up my system and doctors thought that I would never be able to get pregnant again. HA! Thankfully they were wrong! 7 years later I had Cailey. After I had her I went on Atkins and lost 45 lbs in 3 months. I managed to keep it all off until I got pregnant with Colin. Now, I had my tubes tied AFTER having Cailey. No, I didn’t have it reversed…. So, after I had Colin, it would have been a more intense surgery for them to try to tie them again. Instead of going through all of that I used the Mirena….. BIG MISTAKE!!!! It happens that anything that disrupts my monthly… ummm… visitor, also makes me gain weight. Fun. Add on top of that the fibromyalgia, depression, and medications and you have a major weight gain. More fun… I’m not nearly brave enough to say just how much weight I gained… Maybe one day once I can put all of this behind me… I am still entirely too vain to put it out there. LOL But I’m trying very hard and it’s a lot of work. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that it isn’t. It’s an uphill battle all the way. I don’t know if this will ultimately have anything to do with the fibro but it sure couldn’t hurt.
Wish me luck!! Send prayers!!!
Shew! It feels good to get some of that off my chest.
I have reallllly been hating on my kitchen lately. It’s a VERY VERY VERY bright green. At first I thought THAT was the problem. Now, I’m not so sure. I think it might just be that the curtains in there are AWFUL with the bright green. So, I’ve been thinking about making over the kitchen without painting it.
I have some green gingham and some bright white fabric that will make very cute curtains (and will MATCH). Then I started thinking about how to style the kitchen. I was thinking about my bathroom as well. I think it’s a special bathroom that still has it’s original 1920′s feel with claw foot tub and stained glass (faux) window. I need to work WITH that.
As I was perusing Pinterest I came upon a ton of vintage ads. PERFECT!!!! I am thinking about printing some of them out and using them in the kitchen and bathroom. I have a couple of Norman Rockwell prints already and I am going to use those, too.
Here are a few that caught my eye.
These are just a few that I am thinking about using.
I am probably going to use vintage ads/prints throughout the hallways, as well. Might as well make a thing of it!
Once I get the kitchen done (after the Sewing to Rebuild) I will take some pictures and show you what I come up with!
In sewing news, I am humming right along. I have another bag and toy made. Today I will be working on the clothing to go with them! I will be showing you all of them tomorrow!
Welcome to a Fly on the Wall group post. Today 13 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you’d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around my house.
Buzz around, see what you think, then click on these links for a peek into some other homes:
First off, this is what I have probably looked like this past month -
And the house still looks a little like this -
Now on to what you might have heard!
The Hubby – What does that sign say? Alvin Heights???
Me – OMGosh! You should realllly wear your glasses! It says ASIA KITCHEN!!!!
We started watching the North America series on Discovery Channel. At one point it shows a bobcat trying to catch a mole.
Colin (hysterically laughing) – LOOK!!! The bobcat is playing Whack – a – Mole!!!!!
Afterward the bobcat starts playing with the dead mole.
We were watching another episode of North America, this one with mountain goats, the other night. The little baby mountain goat was too scared to cross the river.
Colin – Mommy, sometimes you just have to get over your fears.
The narrator – Sometimes you just have to get over your fears.
Colin – HEY!! He copied me!!!!!
Colin – I am so hungry I can feel the stomach acid eating away at my insides. (He’s 6, BTW….)
The day the movers came it was raining. No, it wasn’t just raining, it was a mini monsoon!! Naturally….
Anyway, the movers only really had one choice when I came to unloading our stuff. They were going to have to block the street for a little while.
Now, that being said, this is NOT a main thoroughfare. It is NOT a dead end street. It is a VERY small, quiet, neighborhood street. There MIGHT be 20 houses on it but I doubt it.
So, the movers put out the orange triangle things and the fun begins.
Most people calmly turned around went another way.
Some did NOT.
One “lady” (and I use the term VERY loosely) – ***BEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*** (She is just laying on that horn for all it’s worth like the movers are just going to drop our couch and move out of her way.)
Me – So sorry! But you will have to go around!
The “lady” – What the !#$%??? Why the !#$% did you block the road? I go down this !#$%ing street everyday!
Me – Well, today you will just have to turn around and go another way. Sorry.
The “lady” – ***BEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEP*** (She then throws trash out of her window.) You are a !#$%ing @#$%^&!
She continues on in that way until she turns around.
I think what ticked me off most was her littering!! There was just no call for that! LOL
Deanna has gone on a diet. Now first let me say that I do NOT condone it…. I have been trying and trying and trying to tell her to just cut out the junk, add more fruits and veggies and exercise more… She is a teenage girl so you can probably figure out how far I got with that…
She and Joshua have a bet going. If she wins (by staying on the diet 3 weeks) she gets to shoot him with an air soft gun. If she cheats on the diet she has to buy Joshua a game.
Can I just say that I am now sick to death of Joshua running to me and asking if XYZ is OK for her to eat?????? OH MY GOSH!!! I swear he must ask me 10 times a day!!!!
Thankfully there is just one more week to go!! I hope we can all get through it without taping Joshua’s mouth shut!! LOL
If you’ve been following along you know that we spent 2 weeks in 2 hotel rooms…. SIGH….
Joshua – Oh, no!!! Dad is going down to the other room to use the bathroom! I was getting ready to go down there and play a game. I guess I’ll just have to wait now.
The next day The Hubby went back down to the 2nd room…. As he came out of the bathroom Joshua says, “It stinks in here,” in a very depressed tone. LOL
One day the hotel decided to check the fire alarms in the rooms. Over and over and over again. We were about ready to hurt someone by the time it was over.
One day (still while staying at the hotel) Joshua comes up from the vending machines.
Joshua – I am NEVER getting on that elevator again! I swear it’s possessed! It made this awful noise!
He then tried to imitate it.
The next day I talk him into going down to the laundry with me.
He was right. The elevator was DEFINITELY possessed. It took a few days before I could be convinced to ride on it again…. It sounded like the elevator from hell!!!!
I realized yesterday that I made a BIG mistake in my sewing room/library….. I accidentally covered all the outlets with bookshelves!!!!
I was in a bit of a panic for a little while until I saw that if I pulled one of the shelves out just a tiny bit, I could fit my hand behind there and reach an outlet. SHEW!!!
Some days I think my brain is on vacation. I just wish it would take the rest of me with it!!!!
The Hubby was going down the stairs the other night and we hear – OUCH!! What the HE&&???
Colin – My booby trap worked!!!
The Hubby – I hate Legos.
And now for some of my favorite LOLCats!
As usual I pretty much forgot a lot of the stuff that happened. I even added stuff to my iPhone this time but instead of writing what happened I left myself keywords…. With my memory that didn’t help very much…. LOL I still can’t remember what “wainbows” means!!!
Today is my 1 year Blogiversary!!!!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!!
I can’t believe I have been doing this for a whole year!!! So much has happened. So much has changed. And yet, it feels like just yesterday that I started on this journey.
I love blogging. It keeps me sane, especially through both moves and my health issues. Not to mention raising 5 kids and homeschooling! LOL
I hope that the next year is even better. I hope I can continue to grow. I hope I can continue to bring you sewing and crafting ideas, homeschool helps that you will all find helpful and enjoy!!!
I LOVE ALL MY FOLLOWERS!! Thank you so much for following along with me!!! And I promise, as soon as I get this house settled, I will jump back into tutorials and homeschool units!!!! I have been feeling like SUCH a terrible blogger lately. I really have to get this house in shape so I can get back to having fun!
It’s been a whole week since my last post!! MY GOODNESS!!!! I am SO sorry!!! It’s been crazy and hectic around here. I am still unpacking… I am working on my sewing room/library. That’s about all that’s left except for figuring out where to put some little things. I have most of MY books put up but there are still boxes and boxes and BOXES of the kids’ books. YILES!!!!!!
I have also been fighting yet another ear infection. MY GOODNESS!!!!! What is up with that????? And of course, we are in between insurance, again…. So I have just had to suck it up and deal with it. Thankfully it seems to be getting better now.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what my first sewing project ought to be once I get up and running again. I am in desperate need of some new clothes so I think the first few things will actually be for ME!!! LOL
I have been thinking a lot about this pattern-
Simplicity 2947
It looks SOOOO comfy and perfect for summer!!!
I wish I could remember what other patterns I have. They are still buried in a box somewhere. MY GOODNESS!!!!
I think I am going to keep an eye on the Joann’s ads. I want some more patterns!! Like these…..
OH!! I got a couple of books for Mother’s Day!! Right now I am almost finished with Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants. MY GOODNESS!!! It is sooooo good!! I have never read anything by Ken Follett before and if this book is anything to go by then I have seriously been missing out. I wish I had the next in the series!!!
The Hubby got me Dan Brown’s Inferno!!!! I should be starting it tomorrow! I just LOVE his Robert Langdon series and have been reading it from the beginning.
Joshua got me Charlaine Harris’s Dead Ever After. It is the very last Sookie Stackhouse book!!! MY GOODNESS!!!! WAH!!! It was a great ending to an awesome series and I just don’t know what I am going to do without any more!!! WAH!!!!!!!
Welcome to Take One of May’s Secret Subject Swaps. This week, 12 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts.
Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:
You’ve just received a call-you’ve won the trip of your dreams! Describe what it would be-where you’d want to go, what you’d want to do, and who’d you want to do it with. Use your imagination-anything can be possible here!
WOW!!! I won a trip!!! SOOOOO COOOOOOL!!!!! The Hubby and I have NEVER been on a real vacation. NEVER!!!! We taken a day trip here and there but that is it. :/
I LOOOOVE to travel to new places. I LOOOOOVE seeing new things.
My absolute DREAM trip would be a couple of months visiting pretty much every European nation. I would see absolutely everything that I could. Castles, historical sites, villages, big cities. EVERYTHING!!!!!
I hope this trip comes with some money, too… I would want TONS of souvenirs!!! And not the cheap touristy stuff!!!!!
AND I would take the whole family. Yes, I do dream of getting away for a bit without the kids but I know myself… I wouldn’t have as good a time without them as I would have experiencing everything with them.
I think I will go be depressed now. There’s no way my dream vacation will EVER happen. Well, unless I win the lottery… but that would mean I would have to actually play the lottery…. LOL
Don’t forget to check out all the amazing bloggers that are taking part in the Secret Subject Swap!!! I <3 them all!!!!!!
We are alive!!! Buried alive in boxes, that is….. LOL
I have a little rant coming up….
The movers…. ARGH!!!! They managed to ruin 3 of my book shelves, break The Hubby’s desk and lose one of The Hubby’s DVD shelves…. AND we can’t do a thing about it because they were all made of pressboard. Nice…. ARGH!!!!!!
Not only that BUT they were REALLY late, like a whole DAY late. I started getting those Funny Farm feelings again….
When the movers finally got here they were really nice and seemed very horrified that so many of my shelves were destroyed… They blamed it on other guys. I guess it could have been. At least 3 different sets of people handled our belongings. SIGH….
Then the company tried to charge The Hubby’s boss too much. When The Hubby signed the papers on moving day, there were no charges listed, just a documentation of our stuff. Then miraculously the charges showed up afterward. We have the original set of papers to prove this. Just CRAZY!!!!
Some advice, if you are hiring movers go with a BIG company. One that has been in business for many, many, many years. Stay away from the small, recently in business guys. I usually don’t say that. I am all about small businesses but I think this is one of those times when you just have to go with the established, good reputation guys.
SIGH…. I need new shelves. I think The Hubby is going to commandeer one of book shelves. SIGH…..
On the bright side (you always need to find one), we are loving the house and the city. There are definitely some rooms that need painted (the kitchen is neon green) and I am itching to get started on that but I need some order in the house first! Wish me luck!
This house has 1 bed and 1 bath downstairs! Then there are 2 beds and 2 baths upstairs! Usually we would want a 4 bedroom house BUT the bedrooms here are very nicely sized so 3 bedrooms are plenty! That also leaves me with a sewing studio/library! LOL
We just got word that the movers should be here TOMORROW!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!! I can’t wait to get moved in!!
Now, there is definitely some painting that needs to be done but that will have to be done after we have moved in! YILES!!!!
