Fall Discontent

It's that time of year... I'm itching to do some crafts.  I'm feeling a good fall cleaning comming on.  I'm ready to purge my household.

I started re-organizing and purging our horrendous back room last week.  I should have taken pictures!  I'll get some soon.  I've already started organizing my craft supplies.  I even labeled things!!  It feels so good already!

Today's craft, re-painting our house numbers.  They've been the same ever since we moved in.  They're weird 80's country things.  When we bought the house, I slid out the tile with the house on it, and painted a star, but it's time for the whole thing to be changed!  Pics to come.

links

A few things I've seen around lately...

Toca Boca apps! I got several of these for the kids. They are PERFECT for baby M! I love the way they look, and they're really fun for the kids, too. I even spent lots of time doing the haircutting one, and doing all of the doctor levels.

Saw this today via swissmiss... The Art of Clean Up: Sorting and Stacking Everyday Objects.
I love, love, love this. I can't say exactly why, but it's very appealing to me.

BTW- those temporary tattoos I linked to a while back- RJ surprised me with a pack of them! I wore the color wheel one to our annual VW weekend, and got lots of compliments!

Liquid Sidewalk Chalk

Yesterday, while browsing Pinterest, I came across several posts for liquid sidewalk chalk. It's equal parts water and cornstarch, with a little food coloring thrown in. I made mine too thin, but it worked anyways.

In progress...


The aftermath...

The whole porch was covered. They painted the columns, the chairs, the swing. We even tried painting the trees.

Covered head to toe...

Links!

I'm almost done with my very geeky cross stitch! However, I've been distracted lately by the Lego Star Wars III video game lately.

In other news... I've added a few new links to our sidebar...

Not Martha- has some fun tutorials, but I love her links posts the best. I always find something interesting through her!

Chez Larsson- Swedish blogger, loves white. I love seeing what she's doing with her spaces.

Enjoy new links!!

Like I said a few days ago, I've been inspired by some things I've found on Pinterest! Yesterday, I got started on a sampler inspired by this embroidery piece by GeekySweetheart. Hilarious, no?! She has the pattern available on her website.

I'm not so confident in my embroidery skillz, though, so I decided to go the cross-stitch route.
I think I need smaller graph paper...

Shorts Update

After a disastrous first pair, I bought a pattern. The last three turned out great! He loves his orange pair!


The red racing stripes turned out especially well!


Of course, wiggly Baby needed to get in on the photo action.

Pinned

I finally joined Pinterest, and I'm a little bit obsessed. I'm getting lots of crafty ideas, and I don't know where to start!!

There's an awesome scarf, a very funny embroidery piece, jewelry display and some button hairpins that are at the top of my list.

Also, I've been seeing some very, very beautiful tattoos!

I've been in a small crafting hiatus because of very busy life things, but I'm excited to have some new ideas!