Fruitful Boredom

Lately I've been in a very crafty mood. I just want to create things and make existing things beautiful. When I was younger I was really creative. I would constantly change my bedroom around and change things so they were just the way I wanted them to look. I would paint and draw and just make things original and mine. I even went so far one day as to take my closet doors off of the closet and put my bed in it so the head was in the closet and I had a cute little nook around my bed. Although I got severely scorned for removing my closet doors without my parents permission I loved that I had created a little space all by myself. For my sixteenth birthday I got 5 cans of paint and complete artistic freedom to paint whatever I wanted in my bedroom. I painted every wall in a different pattern, with no stencils and all free hand. I loved my room.  Although this craftiness and creativity has been vacant in my life lately ( I blame that on working non stop), it has returned! I have a huge list of things that I want to do and fix up and I can't wait to actually carry out all of the projects that I have in my head.

While I was sick last week I had a lot of time to do absolutely nothing but that got old very fast. So I turned to my list. A little while ago I found out how to make these really cool fabric necklaces from this blog. (There's a ton of other cute stuff that she's made. Worth the time to check it out). So I got my idea from there and then added my own ideas to them and kind of made them my own. I love love love love these necklaces and I get a lot of compliments on them and they're actually quite easy to make.

 I also made this last week. I can't decide if I want to put it on a headband or add a pin the the back and make it into a broach. (I hate that word "broach", it makes me feel like such an old lady)

I can't wait to start and finish all my other ideas. I have tons and tons of them.

I don't know what I would do without you

I was cleaning out my dresser today and besides mountains of clothes that I need to get rid of I found some of the notes that Mark has written to me. When we were dating he would write me notes quite a bit. I loved them! It was the cutest thing. We would go to say goodnight and he would slip a note into my pocket and I wouldn't notice until I got home. I loved reading his notes. This reminded me of just how much I love my husband! Not that I'd forgotten, I just got reminded.

I have the cutest, best husband out of all the husbands out there. I know everyone says that but it's true, mines the best. I was laying in bed this morning thinking about how great he is and I came up with a list of some of the sweet/great/cute things he's done.

• One Saturday I came home from a horrible day at work to a purple pet fish named Gravy. I'd been talking about how I wanted a fish for a long time and I came home and there he was! Surprisingly he's still alive, I do believe it's been 4 months. That is my record. 

• He always leaves me the heel of the bread because he knows I like them.

• He sewed the button back on my work pants when he noticed it was loose one day.

• He patiently lets me decorate the house and listens to my ideas while I know it bores him to death.

• He brought me a bouquet of movies when all the flower stores were closed when he got off work.

• When I'm sick he takes really good care of me. He always brings me water with two ice cubes in it just like I love.

• Sometimes at work I'll go to get something out of my purse and he's put a little something in there. Like one of his famous notes.

This list shows just a little bit of how amazing my husband is. I love love love love love him. He's my best friend. I don't know what I would do without him.

Cabin Fever

For the last couple days Mark has been getting over whatever he's come down with just in time for me to get sick. Although my case of this bug isn't as bad as his. Mark is diabetic and when he gets sick his blood sugar goes nuts and does all kinds of crazy things which makes him feel even worse. Luckily he's starting to feel better and his numbers are improving. I on the other hand, am starting to feel worse.

I hate being sick. I know everyone can say that but I REALLY HATE being sick. It's the most annoying thing in the world. All week at work I wait for the weekend and how I get to do whatever I want for those two days. I thought that this little bout of sickness would be like my weekend but a little crappier since I feel ... crappier. I was wrong. It is the most boring thing being sick and home alone. Yesterday I spent the entire day watching movies and trying to sleep but that didn't happen. So today I thought that I would try and be somewhat productive...

I've had a lot of projects on my mind lately that I've been wanting to tackle but no time to actually do them. Seriously, there is a ton of stuff that I want to do and only so many hours in a weekend. Today I did the smallest one on my list. I made a kind of slip cover for one of the throw pillows on our couch. I've been looking around at fabric but couldn't find any that I really loved or that I would spend money on so I turned to my closet. Out of the 30+ dresses that I own I found one that I've only worn once and probably will never wear again. I liked the fabric so I cut it up. The only thread I had was from Mark's missionary sewing kit so I had to use all kinds of crazy colours but luckily you can't even tell. I think it turned out alright considering the before.

Before

After

Now I have a Husband that's feeling better and a cute new pillow. This day turned out better than I thought it would.