Need a Bag?

Do you have some dish towels (clean ones OF COURSE)? Then you should make a bag! I found THIS super cutie pattern on THIS super cutie website. She has such great ideas, I check her website daily for new inspiration.

I actually wasn't really even thinking too much about making this bag until I saw these tea towels at Target one day while I was browsing and I fell in love!

You will have to buy 2 packs of them to have enough to make the bag but they are really cute for carrying around magazines or whatever you like to carry around or you can use them for Green Bags for shopping. Stuff like that. Here is mine...It looks really craptastic in this picture but what can you do? I think I made mine quite a bit longer than hers and I decided I was too lazy to make the little flower that she made but it still gets the job done.

OK now go print off the directions and make one!

Goals Goals Goals

Alrighty...we have a goal. Scot and I have started trying really hard to get back in shape. I have this insane fear of getting old and wrinkly and decrepit and I DO NOT like it. I just want to stay 26 forever. Oh dear did I just admit that I am 26 and that I am about to turn (gasp) 27 in August...I meant 23. I know I know it's stupid! I am afraid of two things OK fine it's more like 200 things but my main one is getting old and the other one is the texture of paper towels tearing off my finger nails (whatever don't ask. I have my weird things and you have yours). Back to the point. We are trying to get in to shape and put that stinking treadmill that we swore we were going to use because it was going to be SOOOO convenient, to good use. This weekend as I was day dreaming as I walked about how muscly my legs were getting (bahahhaahahah) I decided I needed to set a goal...I need to be working toward something or this will never work. I am not brave enough to sign up for a race...yet...so I decided that my goal is to be able to climb this...

...by the end of June. It's hard to find a picture that is good enough to show how hard this might actually be but this is the best I could do. I don't feel like I have ever fully acclimated to the altitude here so if I can I do this it will be a pretty big feat. It might take me all day but I am going to do it! Plus it's kind of exciting because it's illegal to hike the Manitou Incline (there are some really cool pictures on this site under the History section). We're so dangerous, young people do dangerous things...and that's what I am YOUNG...YOUNG FOREVER! OK OK but honestly 70 year old people do it everyday and it's actually a really popular hiking spot around here so the illegality (is that a word?) is sort of a technicality and one of those things that isn't inforced so no worries. Anyway I guess I feel like since I posted it here it's official now. Now we have to do it because all of our bloggy peeps know about it. Wish us luck!

I know, I know

OK so I KNOW I said in the last post that there would be NO MORE projects for a while. Well I lied...sort of. This project kind of went hand in hand with the floors. You know how one project ALWAYS leads in to another? That's what happened here. Our downstairs 1/2 bath was so incredibly BORING! I felt like we needed to do something with it. I really want to personalize this house and make it ours so here is what we came up with...let us know what you think...(The green doesn't look right really in any of these pictures but I think that the first one is the closest to the true color).

Now we just need to get a new mirror and figure out what to put above the Commode :).

The Floors are DONE!!

The floors are officially done and we couldn't be happier with the way they turned out. It was a long, tedious process but it was all worth it in the end! Scot worked so hard to get them done and I feel so lucky to have him! Here are some pictures!

We are going to slowly but surely go stainless steel with our appliances in the kitchen, that's why we have one random stainless dishwasher and the rest is black and white. We will just be a little mismatched for a while. Ha!

Check out those neon, glow in the dark bananas on the counter. That can't be healthy... So happy to have my house back! NO more projects for a while!!

What do you do?

This post is a little late but WHATEVA...

What do you do when your girls weekend is RUINED by snow, your husband is working on your floors, AND it's Conference Weekend?

SEW! (Well I do...did anyway.)

OK so I sewed this little lap top cover inspired by this pattern...I learned that I NEED patterns. I am so not sewing savy enough to make up my own plans. This project turned out OK but I still plan to buy the pattern eventually and make a better one. Totally NOT satisfied!

I also made another one of these as a gift. I love this project. It's so quick and easy and satisfying!
I worked on 2 other projects as well but I don't want to post them until they are done because I have a little bit of OCD like that.

I do want to say that I loved conference. I have so much love and compassion for the leaders of our church. They have so much conviction and love for the gospel and they truly believe what they are telling us, they KNOW it is true. How can that conviction not rub off on you when you watch and listen to their words? How can you not be inspired to go out and be the best person you can be? Anyway I loved it, I was inspired and edified! What more could I ask for?

Also, can I just say that I HEART watching conference at home. There is nothing better than being able to roll out of bed, go downstairs and be spiritually filled in the comfort of your own home, jammies on, with a big plate of waffles. Oh ya!

...and FINALLY I am soooo happy to announce that the floor is finished and I should be able to post pics this weekend! Yahoo!

P.S. Girlies, I am so sad that we had to postpone our girls weekend! I was so looking forward to seeing you all and spending time with you guys! Such a bummer that the snow decided to come THAT exact weekend! Can't wait to reschedule and see you soon! Love you guys!