What happens when Peter goes out of town for almost a week and leaves me to my own devices? Muffins for dinner, a whole lot of silliness, and many crafting projects.
It started with me reading yet another great review about Frog Tape. “OK, Frog Tape,” I thought, “if you’re so great with your paint block technology then surely you can help give me a french manicure. “
Let me begin by telling you that I am terrible at painting my nails. Seriously, I think I’m lacking some sort of girl gene, honestly it’s quite pathetic. I started out doing all the pre-painting preparation. OK, I may have skipped the soaking and pushing back of the cuticles but I trimmed and filed my nails.
Then I applied the Frog Tape directly to my nails. When this resulted in strange looking lines, I tried to trim the tape so that it mimicked the natural curves that you have on the tips of your nails. The most important part is to make sure that your nails are completely clean and dry. During my first attempt I realized that my nails had a bit of lotion on them and the tape wouldn’t even pretend to stick.
I painted the exposed portions of my nails with two coats of white nail polish and removed the tape while the second coat was still wet. The result?
Well, Frog Tape isn’t made for nails. It did a pretty good job but I did experience some bleed though. I followed up with a coat of clear polish. My friend, Leanne, and I decided that they look fine from far away. I just won’t draw attention to them.
What do you spend your time doing when your significant other is away? Are you a crafter like I am? Or do you stay up late watching movies that s/he would hate? I’m not going to lie–I did the latter as well.
I’ve been between a headache and a migraine for four days now. Each day I wake up hoping that it’s gone and then feel a horrible pain. Each day I desperately hope that it won’t turn into a full-out migraine. But yesterday, despite everything, Meg was able to make me smile by giving me my first blog award. I’m so flattered and excited to know that someone out there enjoys the things that Peter and I are putting out into cyberspace.
So, here are ten of the millions of things that I’m happy about right now:
1. My darling fiance
2. My friends, family, and future family who always care about everything in my life, both big and small.
3. Our silly puppies (of course they fall into the above category as well)
4. Our cappuccino maker and homemade muffins
5. Silence–I listen to music all day every weekday for my job. It may sound fabulous but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate silence now.
6. Fondue–it’s my favorite food.
7. Thrift Stores and Vintage knick-knacks
8. Crafting and Refurbishing Furniture
9. Fun Blogs
10. Traveling
Now on to you! Here are ten of the blogs that I absolutely adore–other than House Notes, of course. (You know I can’t say “absolutely adore” without thinking of It Takes Two? Hmm…)
- Thrifty Little Blog
- Goths in Hot Weather
- The Yellow Front Door
- Russet Street Reno
- Sfgirlbybay
- White & Wander
- Little Green Notebook
- Adventures in Renovating a Brooklyn Limestone
- Welcome to my Humble Ablog!
- ~Ruffles And Stuff~
On an unrelated note, I’m using wordpress.org and for some reason my blog doesn’t recognize when other people link to me. Has anyone else experience this problem? I have a section of my dashboard dedicated to this but it doesn’t work. It’s bizarre. Anyway, if you have an answer, I’d love to hear it!
I hope everyone has a fabulous day!
I’ve been trying to think of what to do for Peter for Valentine’s Day, but instead I keep finding things that I would love to receive myself. My mother always taught me that I should always give people gifts that I would want to receive myself, but somehow, in this situation I don’t think that rule applies. Let’s take a look.
{Sarah and Bendrix}
{Paper Finger}
{Sew, Mama, Sew!}
{Pretty Peonies}
No, definitely not boy gifts, but they would be great for a friend and several of them could easily be reproduced. Head over to Sew, Mama, Sew! for a tutorial on how to make the hand-stitched valentine.
What are you giving your significant other for Valentine’s Day?
You’ll have to excuse me, I’m just a little bit distracted. You see I found this great new (read old) toy in the storage room at my mom’s house.
Don’t you just love the old manual?
I’m trying to make this project for my friend who recently hurt her neck, but I’m having issues with my bobbin. I’ve read a bunch of great tutorials but somehow when loading my bobbin the thread fails to magically bring itself up to the top of the machine. If you don’t sew then I might as well be speaking gibberish, but if you do and you somehow know what I’m doing wrong then please fill me in.
Before Peter and I moved in together, I read a lot of articles about difficulties that many couples face when trying to merge their decorating styles. So when I moved in I waited and waited until eventually I couldn’t stand it anymore. I needed our place to feel like a home. We decided to pick one room and focus our efforts on making it feel livable. We’ve had some detours along the way but I can finally say that it’s finished, or at least as finished as a room can ever be.
Last night while looking back on the before photo, Peter exclaimed, “How did you even live here?!” The funny thing is that he lived here for three years like this before I ever moved in, except without the TV or the coffee table. It was really bare.
(Sorry, I forgot to straighten out the cover on the chair before I took this photo.)
I would love to add a rug but, unfortunately, one of our dogs can’t control his bladder when he gets excited. We love him anyway.
You can read more about what we did here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. *Deep Breath* On to the next room.
