Craftyminx

Family Brawl '07

My father and I are a lot a like even though we would never admit it in a court of law. I really saw our similarities come out today while we were trying to move me into my apartment. We both had a plan and didn't want to compromise. I wanted to clean the carpet and all the cabinets etc. before I moved stuff in. My last apartment was sooo dirty when we moved in and it stayed that way until we moved out. There wasn't time in the beginning to do the cleaning and then there was always furniture in the way to keep it from being properly cleaned. I refused to let this happen again.

My dad on the other hand wanted my stuff out of the garage and was dead set on putting it in my apartment the minute I signed the paperwork and obtained the keys. My poor mom had to play the middle man between my dad on the phone demanding that we move and me with her demanding that we clean. It wasn't pretty, but I finally gave in a little and so did he.

We went home and got the carpet cleaner and the vacuum. While we cleaned, my dad loaded up his other trailer with his stuff from outside. I cleaned the dining room, kitchen, and bedrooms and when we were done we put all of my stuff from the garage into the living room (all unloaded in 20 minutes by 5 people woot!) which will be moved when the floors are dry and then I'll move everything in the bedrooms and clean the living room floor. Its going to be harder that way but I know my dad needs the garage to be cleaned soon and my stuff was in his way.

So now I just have to tackle packing my room in an evening so we can move the rest of it tomorrow. My dad's plan is to have everything in my apartment including my parents bed and barristers bookcases tomorrow ugh. They will stay at my apartment until they close on the house and then they will go to the farm.

Because of all this fun today, I had to miss yet again another Shawnee Sit and Stitch. I'm missing knitting and crafting. Its kind of bumming me out. Oh well, sometime soon everything will be back to normal and I'll be settled into my new place and be very happy indeed. Did I mention that the apartment has BLUE carpet? God must hate me.

Ok I must go pass out now and put ice on my knee (which is another story entirely).

Labels: life

We're sooo screwed...

I come from a long line of crazies and packrats. With that said, here are pictures of our house as it is right now. Keep in mind that we are supposed to be out of here within a week.

Living room and dining room

Not that bad right? Pretty much just furniture. The kitchen also just has the essentials in it.
Lets make our way down the hall...

Laundry room and bathroom. Still a lot of stuff that needs to be gone through and packed.

Parents room

TONS of antique furniture and dad's closet full of clothing that has not been touched in 4 years (when he moved to the farm). Why do we still have them? I don't know, but I'm absolutely positive he has a nike jogging suit from the 70's in there.

My room

God help me. I have packed a ton of boxes and this is still what remains in my room. I shudder to even think of what's under my bed. Oh and it may be best to mention here that I talked to the apartment manager about a two bedroom and she has one available now. I move in tomorrow! I seriously am going to need to take myself to Norman after this. All of the boxes I have packed have pretty much been craft related. Thank God I'm going to get a room devoted to crafts! Its also a good thing that I'm a devotee of the shove it in a box and go religion. Its going to be that way for my room. All of my other stuff is in the garage in convenient "kitchen, living room, bathroom" boxes.

The room of death (otherwise known as the office/sewing/treadmill room)

Not much has been done in here either. Mom has gone through her crafting stuff and her closet but that's about it.

Now that's just our house. My dad had his own business in our two huge garages out back. He aslo had about 10 storage van boxes (you know those trailers on the back of semis) in our back lot. He still has 4 that haven't been emptied and a whole ton of "treasures" back there. The smaller of the two garages is packed to the brim with my stuff and my dad's woodworking and leatherworking stuff not to mention a whole house's worth of antique furniture he just can't get rid of. Just so you don't think any one in this house is lazy... We've lived here for 23 years and my dad has taken about 20 huge trailer loads of stuff to the farm already... 20!!! There's going to be a lot of gas used this week. The farm is two and a half hours away. Thankfully my new place is only 10 minutes away. I just hope we're all alive after this week.

Labels: life

Its official...

The house is sold and I'm moving next weekend! I get my very own apartment. And maybe just maybe, a two bedroom. Woot! So things are starting to get crazy my friends. I probably won't be online very often since I don't know if I'm going to be able to get it in my apartment and I don't have a laptop yet that will allow me to steal wireless. I can't get the laptop until my student loans come in. I'll just have to use the computers at the library I work in, even if it does smell of stinky hobos.

The only crafty thing I've been working on is my second sock. I'm halfway done with the foot part. That's probably as far as I'm going to get until after I move and then I'll be really busy getting my apartment cuteified. I love decorating I can't wait!

We went to the arts festival tonight. It was really fun! We ate way too much, looked at some awesome art, and watched some performers. Good times! Ok I have to go do laundry now.

Labels: life

I'm a glutton for punishment

Maybe its because I'm moving out on my own soon or because I'm just a crazy shopaholic, but I've really been spending too much lately. It seems like every time I try to save because I am moving out, I end up saying, "screw it, this is your only time to live so you better do it now." I really do tell myself this stuff. Even though I am trying to save and even though I know I'm kind of emotionally on edge lately, I did the unthinkable.

I drove by the Hancocks store that is going out of business. I've been avoiding it like the plague since the announcement of liquidation and tonight I caved. I had to get off the highway because of traffic and really did need to go down the road it was on, I promise. While driving by I only happened to peer in the window to see if the discounts were low enough for my taste yet. I went to dinner with my friend and then politely asked her if she wanted to go since she had recently bought a sewing machine. Discounted fabric is something she could really use, who was I to keep her from it?

So we went together after dinner. My friend was feeling bad after our rich dinner and had to leave. I'm sure I could have used her there to stop me. I spent about fifty bucks. I would have spent over $100 if it were regular prices. I'm pretty proud of myself.

Sorry the picture is pretty crappy. Nope I didn't buy very much fabric. Since I really am not that fond of sewing I kind of get overwhelmed when I look at fabric. I really need my mommy there to help me with that. I did get a cute retro dress pattern and lots of buttons and yarn though.

I made more cupcakes. These weren't vegan because I left the book at work. They have dark chocolate ganache icing. They went over well at work today. I'm pretty sure I've been baking lately because I've been bored and kind of down in the dumps. I did this in college when things were stressing me. Our apartment was always filled with baked goods during finals week.

Labels: food, life

I did it!

I sold stuff! It was a big leap in the life of Dana. I sold quite a few rings and earrings and marble magnets. There really aren't too many people that can pass up a marble magnet. I like that. I also made a few networking connections. I like that as well. I'm sick today, probably from being outside all day on Saturday and then being up all night in a house with cats after that. I'm not complaining... I made some great new friends. I just think I'm sadly becoming too old for all night parties. Does that stop me though? Probably not. ;) (side note: it probably didn't help that I had stuff to do on Sunday which kept me from being able to sleep) Oh well I'll learn eventually.

Labels: life

As promised... pictures

So I don't have much time to write because I'm a horrible procrastinator and still have stuff to make, but here's the flickr dump for the day.

Button and guitar pick jewelry
from this mess :

To these beauties:

Button Barrettes

Button magnets

Vegan cupcakes
These went over amazingly at the office. And OMG they were soooo good!

The end!

Labels: buttons, food, jewelry

I will do it again

Promise pictures and not deliver that is... They are coming I promise.

Tonight I made cupcakes! Vegan cupcakes even, from the This book! They are incredibly yummy. Tomorrow is my supervisor's birthday so I offered to make the cake. I made the basic vanilla and chocolate cupcakes and the chocolate butter cream icing. I filled them with some store bought raspberry filling that I like. The book is awesome and the recipes all look amazingly delicious. And as a side note... no, I'm not vegan, but I am lactose intolerant and dairy free kind of makes my heart skip a beat. My mom makes cakes and decorates them as a side gig, she would be proud if she were here to see them.

Labels: food

Another little reminder

Saturday is the OK PunkScene Punk show garage sale. Its from 3-midnight at The Conservatory. I'm selling stuff! Come see me and my other friends that are selling stuff as well.

I've been working pretty hard on some jewelry which I will show sometime soon if I can get the stupid macro setting to work properly on my camera. Boo technology!

Now I just need to go through my room and get rid of crap. I am the worst pack rat ever! I've inherited it from both sides... I don't have much hope. God bless the man that one day marries into my piles of junk.

Labels: life

Sad Day

So I was planning on writing about the untimely death of my ipod this afternoon, until I started listening to NPR today. Now it seems stupid to be sad over an inanimate object's dead hard drive when real people have innocently died at the hands of someone else. May God's presence be with those who are suffering and those who are mourning the loss of loved ones.

Labels: life

San Antonio - Part 2

Now that I've had a little time to recover I can post a couple more pics and tell you about my favorite parts of the trip. The parts where I found stuff to buy. haha

We walked along the river walk on Saturday and ended up going to River center mall. I took a gander at the mall directory to look for a Torrid. It was a pretty small mall and they didn't have one, but they DID have a Sanrio! I was so stinkin' excited. We only had about twenty minutes for me to find it, shop, and get back to the river walk to meet my mom's friends for lunch. I turned in to the fastest speed walker ever! I found it and bought quite a few things. The only really awesome thing being an ice tray. hehe. I also found out that they had a new frog in the picture named Pickles so I bought a notepad with him on it. Then, the girl working there told me that Kerroppi was coming out of retirement in May!!! He's my favorite character. I'm so happy about this!

After dinner and some more walking around the river walk, we decided to go back to the hotel. On the way back I asked my mom if we had time to find the antique store that I saw on the cab ride to the hotel. She said we had about 45 minutes until we had to call a cab back to the airport. So again, I was off. It was really quite funny. We made it there (the Alamo Antique Mall) within 10 minutes or so. It was three floors and I hardly had enough time. Its a good thing that they are way overpriced and booth rented or I wouldn't have left San Antonio. I seriously found a james avery bracelet with four charms (new but a little tarnished) Selling for $150. You could have bought it brand new for less geez. AND... I couldn't find a single button for sale anywhere! I'm sure if I did find a jar of buttons they would have been new and $20 bucks. Oh well. On to the good stuff. I did find an awesome apron and I did pay too much for it considering that the kind of places I normally buy my aprons sell them for about $5.

But this apron was super unique and I really really liked it. So I did shell out the $19.50 that they had on the price tag. I wouldn't have done it if I were in Oklahoma. All of my rules go out of the window when I'm out of the state. I'll buy the most expensive stuff and never think twice about it on vacation. I bought a Vera Bradley bag from the Pentagon a few years ago, seriously I'm crazy.

Tonight I had a craving for doughnuts. When I get this way there's really nothing I can do until I tame the beast. So I donned my apron and made these lovelies.

Doughnuts all around at work tomorrow! I only ate two, I don't completely give in to my cravings ;). I used the Italian doughnut recipe on food network by Giada De Laurentiis. They turned out really really yummy. I even made dark chocolate ganache for them. I was quite proud of myself. hehe. We just got in the Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World book at work. I'm seeing quite a few cravings coming into play soon.

Labels: aprons, food, hello kitty, life