Don't judge!

There are some things in this world that is certain; taxes, endless pursuit of happiness, the chicken's will dance when we sing to them, the dogs will sing along with us, and the cat's will judge us for making up silly songs about them. And also, that our house is turned upside down during the summer while I work on various projects.

I am so-so close to finishing up my big week long project, I will be ready to mark this one off the "to-do" list. I endured many bruises, unexpected guests, and a very stiff back. 

But, It's gonna be awesome!!  I can't wait to reveal it!!

Night view from my pretty blue lady!

The pictures don't do this pretty lady justice!!  So excited!!



Tomorrow, I am hosting a baby shower!!

Also, I am pretty sure that I will be posting some pictures of the bedroom.  We are far from finished, but it has turned out to cute, not to share. 

Mark Laundry room off my 'to-do' list!

Curtains are so square!

One Glorious day: I woke up, and impulsively decided I was going to work on the laundry room! I cleaned and painted the walls a lavender color. The color doesn't go with my theme of blues, golds, and greens. But I figured we keep the door shut from the kitchen to the laundry room anyways, so it really didn't matter much!

So I will post pictures of my laundry room as soon as the cabinet doors are dried enough to hang em.

But I wanted to talk about my simple, easy as pie curtains! I am not much of a sewer, but I know enough about sewing to do curtains, pillows, and a couch. I have issues with straight lines, and doing the calculations. But for some reason making my own stuff is more gratifying to me than saving up money and buying.....

Okay here, I picked the length that I wanted the curtain to be. 13 inches. The I added 3 inches for the top, and another 5 inches for the bottom seam.

Then I ironed the top 3 inch seam

I put an 1/2 inch topper (funny story, I stole Chad's square to help with my issues of keeping the curtains square...meanwhile he was tearing up the garage looking for it!!) I used the square to draw out the lines so I could sew along it. The top line is 1/2 inch and I just drew another line along the bottom part of the square. This gives me a ruffle on top, and the rod goes in the middle.

Then I sewed it, concentrating hard on the straight line. Which I totally failed at doing.

I pinned the seam, trying to keep it as square as possible. Again, I had issues.

So I hung the curtain up and realized the left side sat at 25inches, and the right side hanging at 23inches.
So I had to measure it out, discover where I screwed up. And start over again.


I had to make the 25inch side, hang at 23 inches. Re-pin it, Re-iron it, Re-sew it.

Ta-dah! Of course I wanted it to hang at 13 inches, not 23, but again. I don't do math!

Funny story! So the cable guy came over and I had the curtain/square on the floor in the living room, cabinet doors sitting up on paint cans in the kitchen, my sewing table and sewing machine in the den. As I was yelling at the sewing machine and curtain...ranting and raving about how I loath Math....Chad came in attempting to quiet me. (ha-ha! Fat chance!) At least I was ranting and raving to someone, and NOT to myself! When Chad turned around to address the Cable guys question, I suddenly became aware of how I must look to a stranger. Littly-bitty ol me..taking up 3 big giant rooms. Working on several different projects at once. Just as I was becoming a tab-bit insecure. I heard the Cable guy say, "Can I sit here?"
Chad goes, "Yeah, you can't destory that chair, its one of HER newly acquired projects!"
After the Cable guy left I turned to Chad and said, "I suddently felt like I was the crazy wife, with a million different projects, but nothing really completed!"

Chad said, "UH-Baby not only are you a client, you're also their leader!!"