Saturday, February 24, 2007

Long time, no blog!!

My husband reminded me that I haven't blogged in awhile. So, I made a point of taking pictures today just for this occasion!

Work has been going good, but I have found out that I REALLY have to go to bed around 9pm in order to get up at 3:30AM and be somewhat human...If I don't, I'm thinking of ways to not go to work each time I hit my snooze alarm!! Next week will be my last week of crazy commuting so I'm really excited about being a human to my family again! I literally come home around 6pm and TRY to keep my eyes open long enough to spend time with my family...I feel really guilty going to bed any earlier, so we've worked it out okay so far. It's Saturday and I'm off so Lane and I played together all day. We finished up Logan's room - It looks GREAT! We went out for lunch (BBQ) and then played outside with Ellie and her favorite tennis ball...It was a really nice day in the neighborhood.

Here is a great picture of the wall that we finished in Logan's room today. As you can see Lane is 'holding up the floating planets'...He's a strong guy, huh? Anyway, Logan and Lane were searching for pictures of room ideas. They saw this one that had crazy circles on it and it stuck! So, after Lane did all of the painting, we began the search for ideas for the circles. One (of many) great things about Lane is that if you are stumped for an idea, he can usually make it come to fruition. We talked about cutting circles out of border or wall paper so it would stick, we thought about that sticky 'fun' foam, etc. So, we headed out to Lowes to see what we could find. We went through the border aisle, but nothing until...we found these pre-cut CIRCLES!! So, we figured that we could just cut even more circles out of them and make LOTS of circles...WA-LAH! It really turned out awesome!

After the success of the room, I felt inspired to finish up some of my crafty swaps. I had been working on this butterfly one without success so I just about gave up. I had the wings figured out, but not the body. So, I made about 4-5 different body types and FINALLY came up with something today. I have 3 layers on their wings - two layers of clear plastic (from a thick sheet protector) and sheer silver fabric (from an old pottery barn tablecloth). The plastic really gave it some thickness and sturdiness for the wings - no droopy wings!! I had to make two, so after I figured it all out I hammered out another in about an hour (or less).

Then, I had fun finishing up my 'Clothespin Doll' swap. We were supposed to make 3 dolls - one for each of our three assigned partners. I got so wrapped up in them (literally) that I ended up sending 2 to each of them. They couldn't have traveled alone, now could they? The dolls were really fun to make and I could have made about 100...I'm sure the next rainy day will come along and Logan and I will create some girls...An easy craft and a fun 'girly' one, too!

Well, it's about my bedtime...I've got my crafty room all cleaned up and it's time to start the work week again! I feel better now that I had a nice day with my husband and Logan's room will be ready to go! The upstairs might just look like a livable place again soon - Logan and her stuff can move out of the guest room now! (and of course now that her room looks sooo good, I have plans for the guest room)!!

Sorry for the week long delay - I'll get back into the groove this week (hopefully)!

Enjoy!