new bath and bedroom

So I moved into this house a year and a half ago.

Some of the rooms were really nasty. Like this bathroom, for instance.



The pink rug, the circular tub, the nasty shower to the left that you can't, thankfully, see.

My sweet husband ripped it all out and put new stuff in. I painted it. Here's the same shot, after:



Here's the right side of the room.



We redid the master bedroom also. Here's the bedroom before makeover:



Same nasty pink rug as in the bathroom, and pink stripped wallpaper.

Here's the room after. Notice the window: I made the window frame and window seat myself!



I love how the room and bath turned out and how bright the colors are. The two rooms are cheerful and clean and relaxing.

Now for the old bedroom: demo the closet and rebuild it, paint the walls, lay down faux hardwood floors and turn it into my craft room. Yeah! Then I can sew the bag for Fashion Herald that I promised her months ago. Don't worry, Fashion Herald! I haven't forgotten!

My cat hasn't been too disturbed by the construction:







In health news, I am almost fully recovered. I still have weird pings in my belly region every now and then, and the scars from the surgery are still fresh, but I'm healing just fine and will be back to 100% activity in a couple of days. I can't wait to go swimming again!

seriously?

lol -- a little attack of appendicitis put me in the hospital last Friday. Emergency surgery kept me there until Monday.

And here I am today, still recovering.

The scar is the shape -- the exact shape -- of a pitchfork. Appropriate.

Lordy Help Me

Me, as reinacted by my cat
Oh guys I need to pull myself together!

I feel like I've spent the last six weeks sitting on the couch playing Scrabble on Facebook and watching television shows. I feel exhausted and bloated.

I need to get organized. Back to blogging every day.

looking for a job

Just lost my job.

Boo hiss bad economy and all that.

on the other hand,

MORE CRAFTING!

so let's see what develops over the next couple of weeks.

If you are an author, or publish craft books, call me! I'm an excellent editor!

craft stoppage

So I go and announce how I'm nearing 10,000 views, and the craft comes to a complete halt.

Sorry about that, folks. I don't have a craft room!

We are currently in renovations at the Craft Cabana, and two bedrooms are torn apart as we renovate and paint the joint.

Hopefully it won't take too long (read: less than one month) to get the one bedroom moved into the other bedroom, and the other bedroom (which is my craft room) moved into the old bedroom.

Maybe I'll post pics of the progress. That'll help motivate me.

In the meantime, feel free to visit the links to the right of the screen. These are great blogs and websites!

9000!

Only 1,000 hits to go. And when that day comes (this week?) ya'll can leave comments and I'll randomly pick a name and send them an awesome gift!

Susan Boyle

Have you seen this yet?

Susan Boyle, 47-year-old Scottish spinster who lives with her cat Pebbles, walked out onto the stage of Britain's Got Talent, endured the laughter of the audience and the eye-rolling of the judges, then did this.

There's got to be a word that describes what just happened. I don't know what that word is, but my God, Susan Boyle. I, I . . . just, my God. That was miraculous.

invitations for donations

Do you need some super fantastic -- AND FREE -- invitations?

Abigail at Tangarang is giving away free invitations in exchange for a donation to Abigail's fundraising efforts for the National MS Society.

All the details are on her blog. What a deal -- gorgeous invitations and all you have to do is make a donation (tax-free!) to help Abigail raise money for a cure for MS.

Win-win.

web stats

I've just enabled webmaster tools so I can see who is visiting my site.

Why, you might ask?

Because according to that little counter at the bottom of the screen, I am nearing my 10,000 visitor. And when that happens, that visitor is going to get a surprise.

Does that sound threatening? Perhaps I should reword.

That visitor is going to get a gift.

muhahahaha

weekend jewelry making

I was busy improving my skills this Saturday.

My photography skills were not among them.

heh heh. Anyhow, I made some . . . things. Pins?


Focal beads? I'm not sure what they are yet, if anything.

Experiments.


These will become earrings.


These too.


They haven't become earrings yet, because, as it turns out, I don't know how to make earrings!

I always have the idea in my head that all I need to do is do it and it will happen. I forget that I don't know how to do things!

These I want to turn into button earrings -- posts.


These I did turn into earrings because I had the right sized hoop? round thing that goes into the earring and attaches to the things that goes into the ear.

See? I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.


And here's an action shot.


Much better than the first shot. I do need to improve my macro shots, though, so the backgroundd isn't gray and the color really pops. These colors are yellow, lime green, white, and black -- very springy.