Today I cleaned the study. No small feat that. I battled the stacks of comic books, found my child's secret stash of old used spoons and trash, vacuumed, dusted, and shoved all of Marshall's visible unused tech crap in the general area it belonged. I also created a fun place for Em to draw and she immediately used it. Hurrah!
Now I'm feeling antsy for reasons I don't understand. Could be because I exposed myself to massive amounts of Spray Mount and Spray Paint while trying to figure out how to make an origami chandelier with stuff I already have. Could be because I refuse to let myself sit still for any length of time without trying to conquer some kind of cleaning project. Maybe I should let myself chill tomorrow. Not drive myself as hard. Yeah right. We'll see. Oh yeah! We got the truck back from the shop...now I can make a run to the dump this week.
Things I did today:
Cleaned Study
Got Dressed
Remembered to change the calendar
Worked on the January Cross Stitch Sampler
Made a bunch of origami cranes for the chandelier
Two loads of laundry
Put Emily's laundry away
Avoided the dishes like the plague
Things I'd like to do this week:
Take down the Christmas tree
Tidy the living room
Iron Marshall's shirts
Make a trip to the dump
Clean the downstairs bathroom
Sleep in
Finish making the chandelier
Things that need to go to the dump:
Old entertainment unit
Broken shutter
Dead inflatable mattress
Old full mattress and box spring (which as a child I believed to be pronounced Buckspring)
Trash if there is any
I think I'll need Marshall's help to load the truck tomorrow after he gets home from work.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Home again Home again, jiggity Jig...
to market, to market, to buy a fat pig
Or perhaps, to the in-laws and back with a rather fat and pig-like beagle. We went to visit the in-laws to help with random tech support. I slept for over 12 hours, which I really needed because when I'm home I don't sleep. Instead I run around doing laundry, cleaning, and doing random projects. I used to spend hours playing on Yoville and chatting with "imaginary friends" online. One of my new year resolutions was to not spend so much time online. I'm doing pretty good, but I do miss my imaginary friends. I hope they're doing well.
When we got home I immediately started doing laundry and cleaning up my studio. I can now use it! I'm still working on the sewing room, but I've decided to call it quits until after the Inaugurock party. Marshall installed two new light fixtures in the basement so now it's not quite the death trap it used to be. Go him! Ok, now to get my thoughts together.
Tomorrow is Grace day, I'm going to try to woo her to my house to do crafty things in order to get ready for the party, wish me luck!
Things I want to do for party:
Silver origami crane garland
Gift baggies
Banana cupcakes
Brown sugar poundcake cuppies
Roast beef (crockpot)
Milk punch
Salad?
Brie cheesy thing with fruit
Look up other fun nibblies
Re-arrange furniture for fun Rockband activities
Possibly break out dance dance revolution in the other room?
Things that need to get done to make house presentable:
Clean office!
Dust and vacuum
Tidy up Ex-sewing room
Tidy up guest bedroom
Make Emily tidy up her room
Take down tree
Tidy up "coat room"
Clean up vanity
Clean downstairs bathroom
Groceries
*sigh* I'm so disorganized. All I really want to do is shut myself up in my studio and make stuff. No such luck. Ugh and then, I realized that I'm making a complete shambles of my cross stitch January sampler. I think I don't know how to count. That's not so good when you're doing counted cross stitch. It looks ok when you just give it a cursory glance, but when you really give it the hairy eyeball and compare it to the chart...not so much. I'm off here and there by a few stitches. Too late to pick the stitches out (trust me, when I do catch a mistake, I do just that). I'm certainly not going to give up on it either, I'm almost half way through. I'm just going to brazen it out.
Oh yeah...here's a thought. Why is it that everyone (ok, not EVERYONE) is soooo very good at selling their stuff on etsy and I can't sell anything? What am I doing wrong? Perhaps I should rephrase. What was I doing wrong? I listed a whole mess of stuff, but I got no love. Maybe the stuff I make isn't so good. Maybe I'm just not meant to make money off the stuff I make. It's quite a blow to the ego though. People make such a fuss over the stuff I make when I wear it or gift it. Why don't they want to buy it? I dunno. I thought I'd accepted the fact that me and making things for money just weren't meant to go together. I lied. I want people to pay me for my stuff. I'm jinxed. I'll try again some other time. Right now, I need to finish what's on my plate.
g'night ya'll.
Or perhaps, to the in-laws and back with a rather fat and pig-like beagle. We went to visit the in-laws to help with random tech support. I slept for over 12 hours, which I really needed because when I'm home I don't sleep. Instead I run around doing laundry, cleaning, and doing random projects. I used to spend hours playing on Yoville and chatting with "imaginary friends" online. One of my new year resolutions was to not spend so much time online. I'm doing pretty good, but I do miss my imaginary friends. I hope they're doing well.
When we got home I immediately started doing laundry and cleaning up my studio. I can now use it! I'm still working on the sewing room, but I've decided to call it quits until after the Inaugurock party. Marshall installed two new light fixtures in the basement so now it's not quite the death trap it used to be. Go him! Ok, now to get my thoughts together.
Tomorrow is Grace day, I'm going to try to woo her to my house to do crafty things in order to get ready for the party, wish me luck!
Things I want to do for party:
Silver origami crane garland
Gift baggies
Banana cupcakes
Brown sugar poundcake cuppies
Roast beef (crockpot)
Milk punch
Salad?
Brie cheesy thing with fruit
Look up other fun nibblies
Re-arrange furniture for fun Rockband activities
Possibly break out dance dance revolution in the other room?
Things that need to get done to make house presentable:
Clean office!
Dust and vacuum
Tidy up Ex-sewing room
Tidy up guest bedroom
Make Emily tidy up her room
Take down tree
Tidy up "coat room"
Clean up vanity
Clean downstairs bathroom
Groceries
*sigh* I'm so disorganized. All I really want to do is shut myself up in my studio and make stuff. No such luck. Ugh and then, I realized that I'm making a complete shambles of my cross stitch January sampler. I think I don't know how to count. That's not so good when you're doing counted cross stitch. It looks ok when you just give it a cursory glance, but when you really give it the hairy eyeball and compare it to the chart...not so much. I'm off here and there by a few stitches. Too late to pick the stitches out (trust me, when I do catch a mistake, I do just that). I'm certainly not going to give up on it either, I'm almost half way through. I'm just going to brazen it out.
Oh yeah...here's a thought. Why is it that everyone (ok, not EVERYONE) is soooo very good at selling their stuff on etsy and I can't sell anything? What am I doing wrong? Perhaps I should rephrase. What was I doing wrong? I listed a whole mess of stuff, but I got no love. Maybe the stuff I make isn't so good. Maybe I'm just not meant to make money off the stuff I make. It's quite a blow to the ego though. People make such a fuss over the stuff I make when I wear it or gift it. Why don't they want to buy it? I dunno. I thought I'd accepted the fact that me and making things for money just weren't meant to go together. I lied. I want people to pay me for my stuff. I'm jinxed. I'll try again some other time. Right now, I need to finish what's on my plate.
g'night ya'll.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Today
I exchanged that oak board for two pine boards, exchanged the brackets for the correct ones, got screws, waxing strips, suet holders, a bird feeder and nail files. Then I came home, put all kinds of holes in my walls, broke a drill bit in the brick wall, put the shelves up and half way tidied up my mess. My best moment had to be when I used the circular saw to cut the shorter board to the perfect length...and I don't have a saw horse. BOOYAH!
My worst moment was breaking the drill bit. I know those shelves are up half assed and you know what? I don't care. They're a stopgap. A temporary thing until the attic is done and I can have a well made studio space. Preferably by someone else, or by me being supervised by someone else. Sure I can build stuff, but I need instructions. The last two tables I made are so wobbly I wouldn't lean on them if my life depended on it. Why? Because they have no cross bar or support. The legs on those things list like a drunken sailor. One day I'll go back and put the thing together the right way. Not today though. Considering that I made the thing to be a display case, it's doing pretty good. Of course that means that tomorrow someone will lean on it and the whole thing will go to hell.
Tomorrow I go to the inlaws. I don't really want to, what I want to do is stay home and finish cleaning my studio and sewing space. But I love my in-laws and it's kind of nice hanging around in their AMAZING home.
Other things I got done today:
Got Dressed
Visited my adopted-cat-to-be at the adoption center
Finally took the twin bed set to Missy's house
Forgot to eat
Got a migrane
Ate something
Took a nap
Remembered to change my Cross Stitch a day calendar (woot! I remembered yesterday too)
Watched part of the 1970's version of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. (wow it was...kitschy)
Watched 2 episodes of Pushing Daisies (LURVE that show)
Waxed my lower legs and underarms (you have no idea how much better I feel, I think I was inspired by EFPA, all those hairy costumes *shudder*)
Today Marshall told me that he really loves to get a rise out of me. He says even he doesn't understand that bizzar compulsion. I wonder if it's my reaction he likes or if it's just the prankster in him. He's not much of a prankster really. Just where family is concerned. Lucky for the both of us, I couldn't find my cell phone earlier, otherwise there could have been a nuclear meltdown when he told me that he'd be going to a movie with the new intern on her last day. Of course that's not at all what he was doing (he was getting the car washed) but like I mentioned, sometimes he says things to get a rise out of me.
It's not that I worry about him hanging around with female co-workers, or even females in general. He's so oblivious to women that should a woman try to pick him up they'd have to go about it with a sledgehammer or possibly a very blatant billboard. He just doesn't get it. What would really get me is him leaving me home alone last minute. That would send me through the roof. I hate it when my routine is disturbed.
Ok, now I'm just blathering. I'm going to bed so I can be bright eyed and bushy tailed for my four hour trip to the in-laws...which I usually sleep through.
Goodnight ya'll
My worst moment was breaking the drill bit. I know those shelves are up half assed and you know what? I don't care. They're a stopgap. A temporary thing until the attic is done and I can have a well made studio space. Preferably by someone else, or by me being supervised by someone else. Sure I can build stuff, but I need instructions. The last two tables I made are so wobbly I wouldn't lean on them if my life depended on it. Why? Because they have no cross bar or support. The legs on those things list like a drunken sailor. One day I'll go back and put the thing together the right way. Not today though. Considering that I made the thing to be a display case, it's doing pretty good. Of course that means that tomorrow someone will lean on it and the whole thing will go to hell.
Tomorrow I go to the inlaws. I don't really want to, what I want to do is stay home and finish cleaning my studio and sewing space. But I love my in-laws and it's kind of nice hanging around in their AMAZING home.
Other things I got done today:
Got Dressed
Visited my adopted-cat-to-be at the adoption center
Finally took the twin bed set to Missy's house
Forgot to eat
Got a migrane
Ate something
Took a nap
Remembered to change my Cross Stitch a day calendar (woot! I remembered yesterday too)
Watched part of the 1970's version of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. (wow it was...kitschy)
Watched 2 episodes of Pushing Daisies (LURVE that show)
Waxed my lower legs and underarms (you have no idea how much better I feel, I think I was inspired by EFPA, all those hairy costumes *shudder*)
Today Marshall told me that he really loves to get a rise out of me. He says even he doesn't understand that bizzar compulsion. I wonder if it's my reaction he likes or if it's just the prankster in him. He's not much of a prankster really. Just where family is concerned. Lucky for the both of us, I couldn't find my cell phone earlier, otherwise there could have been a nuclear meltdown when he told me that he'd be going to a movie with the new intern on her last day. Of course that's not at all what he was doing (he was getting the car washed) but like I mentioned, sometimes he says things to get a rise out of me.
It's not that I worry about him hanging around with female co-workers, or even females in general. He's so oblivious to women that should a woman try to pick him up they'd have to go about it with a sledgehammer or possibly a very blatant billboard. He just doesn't get it. What would really get me is him leaving me home alone last minute. That would send me through the roof. I hate it when my routine is disturbed.
Ok, now I'm just blathering. I'm going to bed so I can be bright eyed and bushy tailed for my four hour trip to the in-laws...which I usually sleep through.
Goodnight ya'll
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Yet more productivity
Today was much more productive than expected, although not in the expected way. My plan was to drop off stuff at Goodwill, go to the hardware store and pick up some supplies to make shelves in my studio and clean up the mess in there and in my new sewing area. I also needed to pick up waxing supplies and a bird feeder. What happened was this...
I made my dropoff, went to the hardware store, got distracted by massive amounts of cool stuff and ideas, picked up the wrong kind of wood for the shelves, picked up too many brackets and the wrong kind of screws, spent too much money and then promptly forgot to get the waxing strips in my rush to get home and start on the shelves.
Once I got started on the shelves I realized I had the wrong screws and said "No Way am I going back out right now" and decided that there HAD to be the right kind of screws somewhere in the tangled mess of hardware in the basement. 4 hours later all of my tools were neatly arranged, screws, nails, plumbing joints, finials and drawer pulls were separated and organized, and half the basement looked tidier. I did find the right screws. Upstairs I went with the right screws, installed the brackets I did have, and mounted the one correct shelf I did have. Now I just need two more planks of wood, 6 more brackets, 12 more screws and more time. Oh yeah, I'm still hairy like a wolf.
To Do Tomorrow:
Return oak plank for 2 pines
Return useless brackets for correct ones
Buy more 3/16 -3/4 drywall screws
Buy waxing strips
Install shelves
Tidy up studio
Not wax
I made my dropoff, went to the hardware store, got distracted by massive amounts of cool stuff and ideas, picked up the wrong kind of wood for the shelves, picked up too many brackets and the wrong kind of screws, spent too much money and then promptly forgot to get the waxing strips in my rush to get home and start on the shelves.
Once I got started on the shelves I realized I had the wrong screws and said "No Way am I going back out right now" and decided that there HAD to be the right kind of screws somewhere in the tangled mess of hardware in the basement. 4 hours later all of my tools were neatly arranged, screws, nails, plumbing joints, finials and drawer pulls were separated and organized, and half the basement looked tidier. I did find the right screws. Upstairs I went with the right screws, installed the brackets I did have, and mounted the one correct shelf I did have. Now I just need two more planks of wood, 6 more brackets, 12 more screws and more time. Oh yeah, I'm still hairy like a wolf.
To Do Tomorrow:
Return oak plank for 2 pines
Return useless brackets for correct ones
Buy more 3/16 -3/4 drywall screws
Buy waxing strips
Install shelves
Tidy up studio
Not wax
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
One Down, 32 to go
One Down, 32 to go
Originally uploaded by The Paper Doll
I'm feeling a bit frustrated and overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I need to get done. Instead of focusing on what didn't get done today, I think I'll make a list of what I did do.
3 loads of laundry (folded as well)
Got dressed (trust me, that's not always necessary when one stays at home most days)
Finished a pincushion I started about 6 years ago.
Put out food for the birds
Didn't strangle the dog
Took pictures of all the WIPS I could find and uploaded them
Blogged about them
Made dinner
Did some dishes
Compiled a pretty extensive list of WIPs (33)
Got frustrated and overwhelmed by said list
Made the bed
Ironed Vintage apron and put it on my new sewing form (she was nekked, it was embarrassing)
Moved pertinent craft books to their new locations (sewing books to the new sewing nook, needlepoint/ needle craft books downstairs to needlepoint nook)
Moved Needlepoint WIPs and supplies to needlenook.
Made said supplies look tidy in their new home
Remembered to change the calendar to reflect proper date
Ate three meals
Allright, before I really start to stretch for accomplishments, I'm satisfied with the ones I've listed. Anything else would be silly.
The 2009 WIP project
The 2009 WIP project
Originally uploaded by The Paper Doll
This is going to be the year I finish what I started. For me, that's no small feat. I bore easily and I'm just as easily inspired. What happens is I get to a certain point in a project, get distracted, and then the project gets lost under a pile of other projects.
I'm not sure what the exact trigger to do this was, but the final nail in the coffin was the fact that Marshall and I are beginning the first of the big renovations on our house. We're putting stairs in to the attic. In order to do this, I have to empty out my sewing room. Not cool. I had just gotten everything nicely organized. The payoff is that I'll be able to move my sewing room upstairs to the attic. More space, maybe more light.
In the meantime, I've had to move my sewing space into the guest room, which required me to move some of the furniture there. During all this moving I stumbled upon quite the pile of unfinished projects. 33 to be precise. I'm going to have to decide which ones to scrap and which ones to continue and at this rate, if I finish one a week it will take a little over 8 months to finish them all. Wow. Yeah. Maybe I should take some time to prioritize that list. I'm suddenly filled with project dread.
Wish me luck!
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Wasp WCS3905 CCD Scanner
Wasp WCS3905 CCD Scanner
Originally uploaded by The Paper Doll
I'm getting ready to go out on a shoot and I really really don't want to have a repeat of all the disasters of previous shoots. This would so totally help me keep track of all my wardrobe and makeup stuff.
Got one you want to sell?
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