Oh....coming soon! Harry Potter Hooded Sorting Hat Towels! (The drawings are on my work table now.)
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Skirts on Etsy!!!
LOVING this! Here's just a sampling of all the little skirts I've made and placed in my Etsy Shop.....http://www.etsy.com/people/TheSnuggledStitch?ref=si_pr
Oh....coming soon! Harry Potter Hooded Sorting Hat Towels! (The drawings are on my work table now.)
Oh....coming soon! Harry Potter Hooded Sorting Hat Towels! (The drawings are on my work table now.)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Desperate Housewife Confessional
Guilty! So darn guilty of cutting corners!
My list of offenses is long.
Give kiddos afternoon snack of pretzels and cheez-Its on area rug...YES, ON the rug. Trent is sure to dump the bowl out anyway. I just give it a quick vacuum later.
Run the dishwasher half full because washing sippy cups by hand is not happening.
I use a toilet bowl brush to clean my tile grout, because it's faster. This brush is ONLY used in the shower.
Vacuum off the top of the stove and kitchen table with an attachment. Don't judge! The vacuum was there and I thought, what the heck!
Piled all the shoes into a laundry basket to make the downstairs seem more organized.
Did the same thing with stacks of bills, now have a whole tupperware bin of 4 mths of paperwork....at least it's no longer scattered.
Handed the 4 yr old a rag and the Pledge...have fun honey!
My list of offenses is long.
Give kiddos afternoon snack of pretzels and cheez-Its on area rug...YES, ON the rug. Trent is sure to dump the bowl out anyway. I just give it a quick vacuum later.
Run the dishwasher half full because washing sippy cups by hand is not happening.
I use a toilet bowl brush to clean my tile grout, because it's faster. This brush is ONLY used in the shower.
Vacuum off the top of the stove and kitchen table with an attachment. Don't judge! The vacuum was there and I thought, what the heck!
Piled all the shoes into a laundry basket to make the downstairs seem more organized.
Did the same thing with stacks of bills, now have a whole tupperware bin of 4 mths of paperwork....at least it's no longer scattered.
Handed the 4 yr old a rag and the Pledge...have fun honey!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Sofa Shopping
We hate shopping.
Both of us.
Which makes the idea of sofa shopping, together and ON a holiday weekend almost unbearable.
It was just time to pull the trigger on this and put a swift death to the Salvation Army couch in the den. I've owned it for 10 yrs and at $300 it was my first independent, large furniture purchase. You might be asking why a Salvation Army couch was $300....because it is/was an Ethan Allen couch! No longer in perfect condition thanks to Phebs using the corners as a scratching post. Reason #4 or #5 the cat had to go.
Back to the post....
So the pain began. In a store, walk around, walk around. Out of store. Next store....thankfully, they are all in a row or across the street from one another over on Barrett Parkway. It kept us from getting into the car and saying 'I quit.' So easy to do after being verbally molested by a dozen salesmen in every store. They were almost leaping from behind furniture screaming '''Ooo oooo pick me, pick me!'' like Donkey.
There were a few guidelines we set for our adventure into Furnitureland.
No one wants to ride 'b****' on a sofa. There will be three cushions or the couch is immediately eliminated.
Oversize furniture is out, we are not giants and neither are the people we know.
Loose back cushions are out. Kids only throw them off the sofa and play trampoline on them, thus wearing them out LONG before they should be.
Deep sofas are a no. I'm not a midget but I'm pretty sure my femur is not 3' long.
Lastly, there will be no tufting that looks like a nipple on the arm, back or seat of the couch.
The good news is, we found a couch and two chairs that meet this crazy criteria.
AND
we got an exercise in marital communication and negotiation at the same time. Thankful to report both parties survived emotionally and physically unscathed until the next challenge.
Both of us.
Which makes the idea of sofa shopping, together and ON a holiday weekend almost unbearable.
It was just time to pull the trigger on this and put a swift death to the Salvation Army couch in the den. I've owned it for 10 yrs and at $300 it was my first independent, large furniture purchase. You might be asking why a Salvation Army couch was $300....because it is/was an Ethan Allen couch! No longer in perfect condition thanks to Phebs using the corners as a scratching post. Reason #4 or #5 the cat had to go.
Back to the post....
So the pain began. In a store, walk around, walk around. Out of store. Next store....thankfully, they are all in a row or across the street from one another over on Barrett Parkway. It kept us from getting into the car and saying 'I quit.' So easy to do after being verbally molested by a dozen salesmen in every store. They were almost leaping from behind furniture screaming '''Ooo oooo pick me, pick me!'' like Donkey.
There were a few guidelines we set for our adventure into Furnitureland.
No one wants to ride 'b****' on a sofa. There will be three cushions or the couch is immediately eliminated.
Oversize furniture is out, we are not giants and neither are the people we know.
Loose back cushions are out. Kids only throw them off the sofa and play trampoline on them, thus wearing them out LONG before they should be.
Deep sofas are a no. I'm not a midget but I'm pretty sure my femur is not 3' long.
Lastly, there will be no tufting that looks like a nipple on the arm, back or seat of the couch.
The good news is, we found a couch and two chairs that meet this crazy criteria.
AND
we got an exercise in marital communication and negotiation at the same time. Thankful to report both parties survived emotionally and physically unscathed until the next challenge.
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