5 Things Friday

1. It's baseball week.  After a great spring season, a fun group of boys is playing in the All Stars tournament for the next week.  
2. My new favorite word is "decrapify".  It is a computer term I learned with two dying/irritating computers, but I'm using it now to describe my summer organizing projects.  Decrapify.  And it's something you really need to do if you buy a computer off the shelf. Decrapify your new computer
3. My current decrapify-ing project is the hall closet.  Coats? Nope.  Rarely does a coat or o any other article of clothing hang there, so the hanging part is gone.  Enter all sorts of new shelves......but I only have the "before" to share at this point...  
   
4. My new jewelry obsession is stretchy bracelets: so easy to make and fun to wear. My current "client" has a wrist about 4.75 inches around.  I can't wait to send these to her!  And yes, you see one in there for me.  I have a really small wrist, and normal bracelets are really too large to keep on.
   
5. If you need me, look in the concession stand at the baseball field (see #1). 

Have a great weekend!

The three sweetest words a mom can ever hear

And no, it's not "I love you".   

It wasn't those three words, as sweet as those are to hear.  It was different.

Let me set the stage: He wanted to go fishing.   We went fishing in a nearby lake for three hours, just him and me.  We drank Gatorade and ate Pringles.   It was hot, midday, and we didn't catch one fish.  We had a lot chase our lures and we could see them, but not one that we reeled in.

In the midst of all of this, I thought he might be getting hot, tired and/or frustrated.

We were moving to a new fishing spot on another part of the lake, when he said very quietly

"This is fun". 

If you see me and think I'm glowing, it's not just the sunburn.  It's coming from the inside. I'm so lucky to have spent my day sweaty, fishy and burnt.

We'll be headed back out soon.  

ps: yes, we do wear sunscreen; and yes, we still get burnt
pps: the luckier fisher-people on the lake were using night crawlers. I was hoping for luck with the fake guys. Any suggestions to avoid me digging up worms is appreciated. I've done it, and will do it again, but would rather not.  But I will.

Whew...what happened to Fridays?

5 reasons why:

1. Wedding projects
2. End of school year projects and outings
3. Baseball
4. Baseball
5. A new computer bought for work that just didn't (work, that is), and after dumping to omany hours into it, I returned it.  I decided my trusty less-than-a-year-old computer was just fine, and then that computer broke.  No, I'm not joking, and yes, I had two work clients who needed things right then.  

I'm working/playing now on a loaner computer, have the new computer shipped off for warranty work, and a new work computer is on order.  Add a full week of VBS to that, and that's where the Fridays went. 

But enough of the whining, let's see what I was up to these last months I couldn't share until the wedding was over.  Want to see?  

Project #1:  

This was the MRS. to a fellow MR. pillow (before I steamed it...really it did look better).  My niece saw these on Pinterest, and in true DIY mindset, I was all like "I can do that better and cheaper".  If anyone wants a second set, I can whip them out in no time flat.  The first set took me a little finagling and fixes.  Can we agree that we won't tell her this isn't the fabric she picked out originally?  Thanks. Let's do that. 

The "MRS" part was added using "Wonder Under", an iron on product that is sticky on each side. I bought the type that does not require stitching on the edges.  

She picked out the font she wanted and printed it out to the size she wanted on the pillow.  I adhered the WU to the brown fabric, and then cut out the letters.  They looked like this....

....and then this. 

At this point, there is a paper backing on the paper that you remove, then iron for 30 seconds on each area until it is adhered.  I had my doubts, but it really was stuck on there.

Once the letters were centered and adhered, I stitched the fabric together to make the pillows.

The Mr. and Mrs. pillows were waiting for them on their chairs at the reception, and will hang out with them at their new house after that.

5 Things Friday: Take 2

1. 5 days from now, the boy will graduate from 5th grade after 5 wonderful years at his elementary school (how's that for fives?)
2. There is 8 days left before my niece gets married; I've been blessed to work on a few very special wedding projects for her, and can't wait to share them after the wedding!
3. I went shopping for black shoes to go with my dress for the wedding....and came home with a second black dress and no shoes.  Not quite sure how that one is going to work out yet...
4. My flat screen spline arrived! Hopefully by Monday I will have a new screen and a new screen pet door installed!  I bought the PetSafe brand screen pet door and will report back after it's installed and used for a while.
5. Give me one flower and I can take 100 pictures.  Literally.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

I contained myself by only posting three (four).

 

Have a great weekend!