Friday was my 5th anniversay with my Mister, and we celebrated by taking Took to Railroad Park in Downtown Birmingham to play for a while. The thunder and threatening rain took us home sooner than I would've liked, but all in all I was REALLY happy we went, because the Small Boy LOVED IT.
I mean: LOVED. AND. WAS. ALL. ABOUT. IT!!!!
This was the moment he discovered the slide, please see below:
So that was Friday. =)
Saturday night we attended a surprise birthday party for a dear friend of ours (HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGIE!!!!), and I giggled and drank two simply FRIVOLOUSLY touristy-looking Pina Coladas, and ate chimichanga until I was pretty sure I was going to regret it. Then we all went to Lou's Pub, sat around and talked and giggled some more, and I drank one drink (and no more) so that I was SURE I would not regret it.
=)
Then we attended the FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY of two dear friends' daughter, drank more punch, ate FABULOUS cake, and protected Took from the two perfectly docile puppies roaming the grounds.
A great time was had by all. =D
BUT.
During all this "Great-Timey-ness". . . I came upon a rather startling and horrifyingly disturbing truth:
I have nothing to wear.
For. REALS.
In the winter, it is different and less stressful, because all you have to have are a couple of drawers full of jeans and sweaters and such, and YOU ARE SET!!!
But it is NOT winter yet, and thus I have simply nothing to wear.
(Nothing "acceptable" to wear, that is . . . oh, I have PLENTY to wear if we were in, say, a "Let's stay at home and play with finger paints" kind of place today, or if there was a gala coming up, and the dress code called for "Back Yard Play-Doh Chic with Two Lifesavers Stuck to the Hem". I also have SEVERAL different items that would look perfectly suitable for going out to, say. . . fill the car up with gas. Or to pick the cat up from the vet, or to wear to Hobby Lobby on a watercolors-run. I think you can see where I am going with this. . . it is NOT a subtle point that I am attempting to make.)
So. . . directly before one or another of the Dress Like A Relevant Human events of last weekend, as I was throwing item after useless, frilly, too-tight, too-hot, uncomfortable, ridiculous item out of my closet. . . I happened to find a few tshirts that I LOVE, but have never worn.
So, even given my past history with scissors, and the bleakness and tales of woe to be found therein (***at several points in my life, and for no logical reason whatsoever, I have decided to give myself BANGS. It has yet to turn out well. . . .and yet I always believe that THIS TIME!!! THIS will be the time it will look AMAZING!!! Never. Happens.***), I pulled out the closet pair of scissors and went to cutting.
I don't even think I have to tell you: For a few moments there. . .
I WAS EDWARD SCISSORHANDS!!!
And so, without further ado. . . HERE are my projects from last night!!!! =)
(Maybe took 8 minutes total to do all three.)
HERE is what the SAVE FERRIS shirt looked like before:
(Obviously a really cute shirt, but the cut looked stupid on me.)
AND HERE IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW!!
And from the side. . . check out the sleeve bow. =)
The LOW BOW!!!!
So, after all this UNBRIDLED success with the Ferris tshirt, the only reasonable take-away was that I WAS A SECRET TSHIRT RESTYLING GENIUS.
So, being a woman of action, and NOT one to squander this great gift/responsibility that I had been given, I quickly scavenged through every dresser drawer I have and came away with two more tshirt treasures.
The first: A Jack Skellington.
An awesome shirt, to be sure. But the sleeves are just a tad tight for me, and so I always end up sweating right through them.
A snip here, a snip there. . . . the visual in my head:
. . . .aaaaaand voila!!
Finally, the last top to undergo surgery was a Beatles shirt that I got a few months ago from Plato's Closet, and have only worn once. And I LOVE the shirt!!! . . . but the sleeves were all weird for my body type, and it ended up just looking strange and slovenly and . . . did I say slovenly already? (Just checking. Because it TOTALLY did.)
So I cut the arms off entirely, widened the neck (because I LOVE off-the-shoulder tops), and THIS is how it turned out:
I. AM. PLEASED.
(Pleased as PUNCH!!! For REALS.)
NEW SHIRTS!!! I had three shirts that I admired from afar but never wore, and NOW I have THREE SHIRTS THAT I CAN'T WAIT TO WEAR!!!!
I MUST be a genius.
Or a sorceress. . .
There really is no other logical explanation. . .
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I made that little line up there to signify that THAT topic, the one found ABOVE. . . has ended.
(I did not want you to feel that perhaps I had gotten bored, and was simply wasting your time with drawings of really long earthworms in love. This is not the case. I am simply introducing a new topic of conversation.
Consider this my way of easing you into it.)
(**You're welcome.**)
In lieu of a better title for this section, I have decided to call it:
**So I Decided To Take Pictures of My House Today**
(But I am going to try to top it.)
So today while the baby was napping, I did some round-the-house repurposing. I hesitate to call it "redecorating," because it was nothing near that grand.
Besides, everybody knows that "redecorating" costs money.
Basically, this was just moving SOME of my stuff around with some OTHER of my stuff. It was fun. More importantly, it was FREE.
Basically, this was just moving SOME of my stuff around with some OTHER of my stuff. It was fun. More importantly, it was FREE.
=)
This is our kitchen table/breakfast nook/ place for me to stack my paints and brushes and easels when I feel the urge to paint.
(We also use the table to play with crayons on, and Play Doh, as they are allowed nowhere else in the house. =)
(We also use the table to play with crayons on, and Play Doh, as they are allowed nowhere else in the house. =)
Our bar table, where I like to stow (prettily, I like to think) art supplies and fairies I've made. =)
Paints and brushes and stuff.
My Mouse I Still Need To Finish, and my Bert and Ernie I Still Need To Finish, behind the awesome Japanese-looking teapot I found on a thrift store hunt. And smell-goodly candles. =)
Only one of many. Our bookcases are precious.
Repurposed candle holder with rice for the window ledge in the bathroom. I am in LOVE with this right now.
And I don't even care that Took has arranged the bed pillows on the couch, or that he's brought down about 4 of his stuffed animals from upstairs.
Took's Nook. Complete with Caillou's Treehouse, and MY Fisher Price garage that I used to LOVE PLAYING WITH as a kid!!! Underneath the Bench We Used To Use For Sitting are storage bins: one holds all his musical toys, and the other holds nothing but cars. They ARE a favorite. =)
Big Bird chair. From MY childhood. SERIOUS. OLD. SCHOOL.
I AM STREET FROM WAY BACK.
. . . I do not even care that this is my den, even though I SWORE I would NEVER be one of "those types of people" that had a child and suddenly they were letting that child CONTROL THE HOUSE.
I always just KNEW that *I* would let a child play with a few things at a time, put them away, and then play with more. No muss, no fuss.
And yet THAT is my living room. It could pass for any play room at any day care center ANYWHERE. . . . and that kind of makes me happy. . . to think that a kid might feel at home here. =)
The Books. In the Winnie the Pooh hat box.
And finally, we went to the Dollar Tree today, and THIS GREEN BUCKET turned out to be the PURCHASE OF THE DAY!!
I originally bought it to be used as a waste basket in the upstairs bath.
But then I realized that there was really no use for one up there, and so it became. . . .
TOOK'S CLEANING SUPPLIES BUCKET!!!!
. . . .
And so this has been a glimpse into our lives.
Ta-DAAAAAAAA.
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