Making Window Treatments

I found and purchased this material at Jo-Ann's Fabrics tonight to make window treatments for the 3 windows in my kitchen/laundry room.  My kitchen is currently a bright yellow and my laundry is being painted a sort of teal green.  The woodwork is brown and the new washer/dryer is graphite.  At some point in time I would like to paint our cabinets white.  Anyway, this material incorporates all the colors I needed.  I'm not quite sure WHAT type of curtains/shades/???? I'll make.  The material was on sale for 50% off and I had a 20% coupon off the whole purchase on the Jo-Ann App on my iphone.  I bought 4 yards for less than $35.  My windows aren't that large and I'm just going to make do with what I purchased - it's pretty wide material.  No, I don't have pattern, I'm just going to go with my gut.

Excitement.....about laundry?

I'm getting excited!  Only 3 more days until they deliver my new washer and dryer.  Who knew I could get so excited to do laundry...  Last night Joe and I went looking for a new color to paint my laundry "room."  Currently it's yellow like the kitchen, but I think I'm going to change that room to a blue-green, turquoise color. My new washer and dryer are front-loaders and they are graphite in color.  I did not buy the pedestals (yet).  I thought I would try it without them and if I really don't like it, I'll either purchase the pedestals on the secondary market or have Joe build a pedestal for them.

Past Projects

Here's a couple of cross-stitch projects that I did when I lived in South Carolina.  They used to hang in my office back in the late 80's/early 90's.

Gross-Out Alert

Today I went to the dermatologist to have two cysts removed from my head. One on my forehead and one on the back of my head.  The doctor cut the one out of my forehead and I got three stitches.  Kaitlyn made me take a picture of it in the jar to send to her so she could see it.  You know she loves gross stuff.  She really should have gone on to school to be a dermatologist.  The doctor did NOT remove the one on the back of my head.  My family will remember when I came home in April that it was HUGE, now you can barely feel it back there and the dermatologist said he thought it was going away. He told me just to watch it for awhile and if it starts growing or giving me pain, he'll remove it then.  It definitely was smaller today than it's been in a couple of years. Now I'll have my own personal Harry Potter scar.   heehee

Another Picture from my HS Reunion

This was one of the dances I was doing with my some of the girls in my class.  I was having a great time as evidenced by the smile on my face.  I am always smiling when I dance because dancing is one of the things I LOVE to do. Someone just recently posted this on the reunion website. Still waiting on a video.....

Flashback Friday

Back in my 20s and before I was married and had children, I did a LOT of cross-stitch.  I pretty much stopped doing it when I had children and now I don't think I could see the small holes well enough to start doing it again.  I always LOVED doing samplers - they are my favorite.  This one I completed the year Joe and I got married. It hangs by my front door in the hall.  The welcome sign hangs above it.

Retro Thursday

Since this is my "craft" blog now, I've decided I would take pictures of things that I've made over the years and add them to my blog.  This is a front door "wreath" I made from two straw hats.  The smaller hat is cut in half and glued onto the top of the larger hat. The larger hat is painted all over and I used raffia for hair and arms. The lettering I cut freehand.  The overalls are made from the back side of an old pair of Joe's jeans. This was a fun thing to make.  I think I still have the instructions to make a bunch of these for various things.  It used to hang in my front hall (couldn't use it on my front door, the storm door wouldn't close when it was on there) but now it hangs in my craft/sewing room.