wedding banner

Next weekend I am getting hitched!

I am finishing the final touches for the big party and I am very excited to be marrying the first person I had a real crush on (13 years ago) I am very lucky!

I made this circus-type banner to make the party extra pretty! I forced my future husband to take his life into his hands and crawl up on the roof to take pictures.

I am pleased with the results. I am also pleased that in the picture, you can see a picture of the black kitty who goes on walks with her owner and her dog brothers. Seriously, she doesn't run away, he stays with the man and the dogs! I am impressed!

necklace

in the middle of nowhere in a small town of New Hampshire, my mom found a glorious bead store. We went there in the winter and I was very hesitant about going inside. When I said the middle of nowhere, I truly meant it. I felt like I was walking into somebody's house. Alas, I was pleasantly surprised to see it was an actual store, with glorious prices! Mum bought me a bag of "leftover" beads for one dollar.

Here is the result.

mad mad mad

whenever I try to make something, I get soooooooo mad!
I have not been making many things because I can't take the stress lately.
In the summer, I will be better about these things. I will be working less than part time (20 hours a week!!!! awesome!!!) so I will force myself to be good and make things.

but in the summer, I will be distracted by the beach and bike rides.

so yeah.

we shall see...

sunshine, lollipops, and birdies!

today i enjoyed a mental health day off from work and accomplished a great deal of fun things!

1. i cleaned my work space (half-heartedly)
2. made a new birdie, while watching online cartoons.
3. worked on a quilt i have been working on for months and months.
4. started a brand new project out of old felt.
5. worked on my banner for the glorious occasion.

i like working for myself.

Purnima's Green Paw

Purnima and her sister, Pandora are my naughty orange kitties. I love them, but they are so bad. Their favorite activities include, chewing expensive wires, chewing house plants, loudly meowing at night, begging for food (a dog's job), scratching furniture, and scratching at window panes. I have been told that I am not good at discipline, perhaps it is true, or perhaps my kitties are devil's spawn...

Purnima helped me do some re-potting today. My New Year's Resolution last April (I make New Year's Resolutions at any given point in the year) was to be better at keeping house plants alive. It is working! I bought six plants to practice with and only one died! So today, Purney and I replaced the carcass of the plant which didn't survive with a clipping that I stole off a classroom tree! I hope that I let the roots grow enough and it will survive in its new home.

Maybe Purney will be more respectful of house plants, knowing the work it takes to care for them...

Whale

I liked this guy inside out better.
I am practicing making whales before making the masterpiece of my dreams, a Narwhal! I have a way to go...

Dress

Today I am proud because I made a dress! I had been putting it off because I figured that it is something way to hard for me to do, and I do not like to challenge myself because I am very easily frustrated and I give up too easily.

The dress itself is not very flattering on my not-so-slender figure, and is a little see-through, but the fact that I made it will force me to wear it every day, until nothing is left but tattered rags...