I haven’t been feeling too motivated in the sewing department of late, but I do have a deadline to meet next week, this time it involves paper crafting.
My daughter is on the high school softball team and, as a member of the booster club, I am responsible for creating a locker decoration for each team member. The decorations are themed around a certain game/opponent, in my case, they are playing the panthers. So, I successfully coaxed my husband into creating the design on the computer, and it’s been my job to get it printed off, and then create something with it. I’ve opted to create a layered card that is about 7 1/2 x 9 inches. I’m jazzing up the card stock with glitter (oh joy!!) and ribbon. Each card will have each players name and number on it and I will place a magnet on the back with which I will attach it to the lockers in the locker room the night before the game.
It’s really a pretty simple project and I am getting a little bit of it done each day. It’s not hard, just time consuming, and messy (don’t forget about the glitter). Anyway, it’s keeping me busy!
I love looking for kitchen organization ideas when I’m looking through home magazines. If I had the money, I’d have new cabinets installed in kitchen. Our kitchen is rather large, but I don’t think it was very well thought out. For one thing, the pantry is down the hall, not exactly convenient. There are quite a few cabinets, but I don’t like them. The island itself is huge and the cabinets are as deep as the island is wide. I practically have to crawl into the cabinet to retrieve anything that has been pushed to the back, a total hassle.
If I could install new cabinets, I would include many of the features that we had in our smaller kitchen in our previous house. I really liked having a built in trash can, although I might upgrade to a compactor instead. I also had a built in recycling bin, very handy. One of my favorite features in my other kitchen was the built in spice rack. It was the full size of the cabinet door, right next to the stove, so it held all of my spices and was so convenient while I was cooking. I’ve used a lot of different kitchen spice racks, but the built in one was my favorite. The size of it allowed me to keep all the spice jars in one neat, organized spot.
Right now I’m using a lazy susan turn table in an upper cabinet. It would be okay, but the shelves aren’t adjustable and so the spice jars barely fit. Sometimes they fall over and then it’s like a game of dominoes, one jar falls over and then the next one falls, and the next one, and so on. I feel like I’m always picking up spice jars, and I also find it difficult to quickly grab the spice I want. I thought about getting a wall spice rack, but the only place I could put it would be right above the stove. I find that all the heat and steam coming off the stove causes the spices to go bad, so I don’t like them that close. So, I’ll just keep looking for ideas in spice racks until I can find one that works best for me in this kitchen, and, I’ll keep dreaming of getting new cabinets so I can be better organized when I cook!
My daughter is in her second year of learning French at school. The teacher put together a nice field trip and the students boarded the big yellow school bus this evening (yes, on a Saturday!) and headed towards Dallas. They are attending the Dallas Opera’s rendition of Romeo & Juliet, sung completely in French. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for anyone learning a new language and I hope my daughter enjoys it. I can’t wait to hear how she liked it, but, in the mean time, here’s a little snippet I found I YouTube.
The last couple of weeks have been rather stressful for everyone in our house, for a variety of reasons. At this point, I think we are all in need, particularly my daughter and myself, of at least one stress free day. I doubt that will happen anytime soon, so I thought I would surround myself today with things that bring me happy thoughts. I’m starting with this photo of my favorite flower, the simple, sturdy, beautiful tulip. Enjoy!
