the craft bug...

All i want to do lately is craft! It's like a disease, a curse really. The house is a mess, there's work to be done, i can't sleep at night, and my wallet sure can't afford it. Lucky we have lots of stuff on hand i can make at least. here's a few things i made in the last week. the shoes will have snaps so you can change out the flowers, i'll probably add 2 more colors. the penguin hat was fun. i just used a reg pattern and changed it to match an idea i saw.

man oh man.

this week officially sucks. and i'm getting cranky. so warning to all there's about to be some complaining. Yesterday Darren came home from work with papers that needed signed from we went to the chiropractor a week ago. If he didn't have them signed right then he's get written up at work the next day. and why weren't they filled out right? because the idiot told us he was "too busy" to fill them out when we went to him the first time. so when i called him up to see if we could just fax them (he lives an hour away) he told me he didn't have a fax machine. so then we set it up to drive down there and get them signed. long story short we spent 3 hours trying to get a hold of him and thankfully our best friend is his nephew, he had to give us directions to the guys house. and all he said when we got there was "oh i am not feeling good. and i must have left my phone somewhere." he sounded pretty lame saying it i tell you. i was so frustrated i could have punched someone in the teeth.

Annoyingly Whinny Story #2: This morning my mom calls me before 9 and says i need to hurry and get to work. the color guard order was upset about something with their shirts and she didn't want to be alone when they came in (a united front is always better when dealing with fussy women). so i finished brushing my teeth and ran over. the message on our answering machine says they are upset and want new shirts made, the transfers have "scorched" a ton shirts so bad and they look horrible. My mom had them bring the shirts that were "scorched" in so we could look at them. They brought in 10 shirts that were a little yellow from the iron. this is caused because the irons are heated to 400 degrees and the shirts are white and when we make them they don't always have time to cool completely before another shirt is stacked on. it happens every time we make shirts. the solution. let it get some air, put it in the dryer, wash it, set it in the sun. any of these will fix it 100%. easy fix. i told her if i made new ones they would look the same. she acted like all the mothers would be pissed because of it and wanted to know what to do when they complain. i told her to send them in.

honestly i am just totally fed up with people. this whole week has been like this. so it's hermitude time!   

Menu board

A friend of the family offered us some messed up cabinets from his business. We have gone crazy for them! I have made a ton to sell at the shop, when showing them to my friend Mariam she gave me this great idea. i tried really hard to make it to sell, but i had to have it in my kitchen. i know it looks little kiddish, but i think it will look sweet in my vintage red yellow pink kitchen. i'm really excited to take it home tonight. it was so easy to make, only took me about 45 minutes including drying time (i cheated and put it outside in the sun, it baked it real quick). I really hope we get some more cabinets soon, they are been so fun!

the most fantastic fabric ever!

 while at hobby lobby the other day i found this fantastic fabric. i had to have it! I decided to make aprons out of it, One to sell and one for me. then i had an idea! what if i decorated my sewing room with it?! Best idea ever! i have a chair i plan to re upholster with it an curtains and maybe one of those wall hang things with the ribbon you put pictures in. Then i could add from there. only problem is it's supposed to be the baby's room once we have one. maybe i'll still do it. there's no baby yet.

The Narrows

We had a blast camping at the Oneida Narrow's the weekend of July 8th. We just spent the night, but we floated the river about 5 times, ate yummy tin foil dinners and roasted jumbo marshmallows. It rained Friday night while we were on the river still and pored for about an hour so we waited it out in the jeep. It was really nice, easy going. We had a little scare when Kelton and Eric sang the canoe in a deeper/faster part of the river. Plus they didn't have any paddles once they got it turned right side up again. Darren went down every time on his stomach so the backs of his legs were burnt something fierce. They are still bright red and pealing. I'm just glad we had such a fun time, i'd gladly go again (I'd sunscreen every half hour this time though).

St. George (on the way home)

 the 29th of june and the week after i spent in sunny st. george. We had a girls week and the guys joined us for the weekend. We saw the little mermaid! i loved it! i haven't stopped trying to figure who we can talk into joining us so we can go again. We also saw grease, but i didn't enjoy it as much. You'd be surprised in how many people you run into from up here when you drive 5 hours south. i think the count was up to 6. it was so nice to just get away and relax, i just wish Darren could have been there the whole time. but thus is life. I only took 5 pictures the whole time (Lame), probably because mandi had her super fancy one, so i didn't bother to bring mine along ever. 

4 wheeling fun

so about 2 weeks ago we went 4 wheeling with my brother and his girlfriend, her grandma and grandpa let us use their wheelers and we had a ton of fun. We got supper dusty, but the view from the top is gorgeous.