Gettin' Crafty

Every once in a while I like to get crafty... nothing extravagant or consuming great amounts of time, just a crafty craft here & there.  I'm not good at designing spaces or being visibly organized but I do like making things and being different when I can.

Everyone at work pretty much has the same standard pencil holders, there's a few out of the norms but for the most part - we all went to Staples.  Well I want to be better organized at work... not because it will help me, but because it will look all nice & neat & perty.  When you're desk is a mess & scattered it gives the impression that you too are scattered - no so much in my case, in fact it's just the opposite.  If everything is neat, tidy and "in its place" I'm lost... I don't know where anything is.  If it's a scattered mess, I can take you right to what you're looking for... and that applies to all area's of my life.

So long story short... I got crafty.  To start off with,  I wanted bright & colorful pencil holders but didn't want to spend all day making them or my whole paycheck buying supplies to do the project.  So I cleaned up a couple jars I had laying around the house, bought a couple $.97 bottles of acrylic art paint and voila!

Cleaned up banana pepper jar...

 Squirt some paint in the jar and a dribble of water, slosh it around to cover inside... be sure to put the lid on before shaking.

 Tip it over to let all excess paint to come out.

and here you have it... the finished product proudly displaying my pens at work.  Pretty don't you think?  

  I plan on making more brightful holders.  Everyone needs at least one of them and they're usually out themselves.  They were fun, simple and cute - how could i pass this one up?  I'll be making more of these in the future... won't the be delightful all colored up and fixing one another.

**NOTE - I just realized this whole last paragraph makes absolutely NO sense.  Why?  Because I was literally falling asleep as I typed it and you all know how thoughts can run and jumble when you're falling asleep... oopsie.

The Devil in Disguise

A quick bit about me... I'm married with two beautiful angelic children, hahaha.  No seriously, they ARE beautiful and they ARE angelic... it's just that when the Devil takes over, my boy runs the gamut full force and I swear he's going to give me either a heart attack or a stroke before I turn 50!

Here he is being all charming and debonaire...

Then if you look closely you can see that little Devil grin shining through... 

and right there on church grounds no less!!

 

So, lately he's become quite an escape artist... on the go, doesn't like to be cooped up in the house.  So what better way to fix that other than taking off outside when our backs are turned!  He's gotten outside before but it's never been this bad before.  One day last weekend I was literally in the bathroom doing my thing when my daughter comes and says, Where's the boy*?  So off I went and sure enough there he was in the front running up and down the sidewalk in the rain wearing only a t-shirt and pull up. And if that weren't bad enough, of course the dog went out with him and was checking out the neighbors dog too.  Heart attack #1 for the weekend right there... you just never know what could happen.  A stranger could come along and snatch him right up, he could run in the road and get hit - anything could have happened and that scares the bajeebers outta me!  Couple more times he snuck out and got into the car and was pretending to drive... then he snuck out with the dog again while I was vacuuming.  SERIOUSLY!!!  I was in the living room vacuuming, I turn around and see that the sliding door in the kitchen is open and there they both were, in the yard.  The dog was taking a dump so I shudder to think what could have happened had the boy got tangled in that mess.

Let's fast forward to Tuesday, day 3 o f Houdini's adventures.  The hubs works midnight's so the boy usually goes to daycare on his work night so he can get sleep, but then he's there on his days off even if it falls on a week day.  So Tuesday morning the hubs comes home at 6:15am super tired and hoping the boy will sleep longer... one can always hope.  Well long about the day apparently hubs fell asleep for a brief moment in the chair and when he woke up the boy & dog were gone and the back door wide open.  So he rushes to get clothes on and by the time he's outside to see the boy dog combo in the neighbors yard, the police had arrived.  Oh yeah, never a dull moment around here... don't know who, but someone saw him out there chasing the dog around.  I honestly have to assume it was a passer by because all the neighbors know us and have seen the kids out there running around and know we've had these issues of late.  HOWEVER, if you were a passer by and didn't know better I suppose it would only be natural to call the police when you see a 3 year old in a diaper chasing a pit bull through the neighborhood.  Yes that's right, I said pit bull and for all you nay sayers, bite me.  The sensationalized media hype about Pit Bulls is a topic for another day but for now I think these pictures speak big volumes in disproving your vicious myth.

So after that "little" incident we decided it was time to invest in a chain lock...

It wasn't long before he tried sneaking out again... from the living room I heard the door slide open and then a little voice say, hey guys door not open.  hehehehe... nope it sure doesn't.  But that didn't stop him from at least trying to squeeze out it... anyone want to take bets on how long it will be before he finds
a way around this little set back?

*Actual names omitted for security reasons