Just a peek of a project I'm working on...if you are the recipient (you know who you are) - act surprised!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
WIP
Just a peek of a project I'm working on...if you are the recipient (you know who you are) - act surprised!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Giveaway!
Natalie is participating in a blog giveaway carnival, so I figured, there are 400+ people participating, I'll be generous, too!
Here are the rules:
1. Leave a comment on my site with your name, and if you don't blog/have an account, leave your email address.
2. Leave only ONE comment. Multiple comments will be deleted.
3. This is open to ALL people, any country.
4. Please visit my Etsy Store and see if there's anything you can't live without! I love being marked as a favorite. Also, product details for what you'll win are there!
Here's the winning part:
I'll use a random number generator to pick a winner. Again, enter only once or I might just delete all your comments! Comments must be left by 11:59pm MDT on Feb 2nd. I'll pick a winner on Feb 3rd and notify the winner.
I'm giving away this AWESOME Quiet Time for Little Ones Finger Puppet Bag, which I made from a Martha Stewart Template (hard to find!). As you can see in my shop, that's a $20 value, FREE for one lucky person.
Good luck! and visit the Bloggy Giveaway site for a list of others being SUPER generous.
Here are the rules:
1. Leave a comment on my site with your name, and if you don't blog/have an account, leave your email address.
2. Leave only ONE comment. Multiple comments will be deleted.
3. This is open to ALL people, any country.
4. Please visit my Etsy Store and see if there's anything you can't live without! I love being marked as a favorite. Also, product details for what you'll win are there!
Here's the winning part:
I'll use a random number generator to pick a winner. Again, enter only once or I might just delete all your comments! Comments must be left by 11:59pm MDT on Feb 2nd. I'll pick a winner on Feb 3rd and notify the winner.
I'm giving away this AWESOME Quiet Time for Little Ones Finger Puppet Bag, which I made from a Martha Stewart Template (hard to find!). As you can see in my shop, that's a $20 value, FREE for one lucky person.
Good luck! and visit the Bloggy Giveaway site for a list of others being SUPER generous.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Before and After (and a little more)
BEFORE
This is our old entertainment center
AFTER
This is our new one. Makes the room seem so much bigger (and more bare, actually...hmmm)
aren't they lovely floors?
new entertainment center - we're working on getting a piece of carpeting bound to cozy up the floor by the couch.
the living room
from the hall
I overproofed a batch of cinnamon rolls on Wednesday night and my bowl wasn't big enough. This was the mess I found when I went to add the last cup of flour:
Also, Tuesday afternoon one of my coworkers came inside with this monstrosity of an icicle he chopped down:
Okay, all for now. Kronk out.
This is our old entertainment center
AFTER
This is our new one. Makes the room seem so much bigger (and more bare, actually...hmmm)
aren't they lovely floors?
new entertainment center - we're working on getting a piece of carpeting bound to cozy up the floor by the couch.
the living room
from the hall
I overproofed a batch of cinnamon rolls on Wednesday night and my bowl wasn't big enough. This was the mess I found when I went to add the last cup of flour:
Also, Tuesday afternoon one of my coworkers came inside with this monstrosity of an icicle he chopped down:
Okay, all for now. Kronk out.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Bargain Maven
I'm happy to share as many deals with you as I can, so I have a few that I just emailed to a friend and thought, eh, everyone could benefit:
1) www.retailmenot.com
I'm all about coupon codes for ANYTHING I buy online. This one seems to have a great number of coupon codes. Usually if I can't find anything just through a google search, I try Retail Me Not. which leads me to #2
2) www.ebates.com/doublebonusoffer/index.htm?id=33318165
If you sign up through the link below:
www.ebates.com/doublebonusoffer/index.htm?id=33318165
I'll get $10 when you sign up and YOU'LL get $10 when you sign up through my email address: chelseacc@hotmail.com and then make your first purchase. (Typically you get a $5 bonus from a referral but they're running a promotion.) So Ebates is an awesome site where you go shopping online at the same stores you usually do, but if you go to ebates and then to another site (overstock, for example) and follow the link to Overstock, you'll get an additional 4% rebate on your purchase. AND you can use promo codes (retailmenot.com) in addition to this option. The $10 referral is only available until Feb 14th, so sign up your first account with my email address and then send out referalls to all yours and get bookoo bucks after they make their first purchase through Ebates. *if you want more details on why they'll give you money, go here: http://www.ebates.com/help/how_ebates_works.htm?navigation_id=18452
I gave my sis this bargain yesterday and instead of spending $420 on an armoire, she got it for $379, PLUS she'll get a check in the mail from Ebates for $15 from her purchase at overstock and $10 referral signup: she's getting it for $355! How sweet is that - I should be the favorite sister.
3) http://www.todaysdod.com
This is an awesome site that shows all of the hot bargains of the day from a number of sites, including Woot and Ihavetohavethat.com. They tell you how many hours are left for the deal, what the sellout likelihood is and how hot the link is.
So, I hope these help all you bargainistas out there on saving a little bit more money. AND, please use my email address (chelseacc@hotmail.com) when you sign up for ebates! then you can send out to all your contacts and get some sweet sweet signup bonus action.
1) www.retailmenot.com
I'm all about coupon codes for ANYTHING I buy online. This one seems to have a great number of coupon codes. Usually if I can't find anything just through a google search, I try Retail Me Not. which leads me to #2
2) www.ebates.com/doublebonusoffer/index.htm?id=33318165
If you sign up through the link below:
www.ebates.com/doublebonusoffer/index.htm?id=33318165
I'll get $10 when you sign up and YOU'LL get $10 when you sign up through my email address: chelseacc@hotmail.com and then make your first purchase. (Typically you get a $5 bonus from a referral but they're running a promotion.) So Ebates is an awesome site where you go shopping online at the same stores you usually do, but if you go to ebates and then to another site (overstock, for example) and follow the link to Overstock, you'll get an additional 4% rebate on your purchase. AND you can use promo codes (retailmenot.com) in addition to this option. The $10 referral is only available until Feb 14th, so sign up your first account with my email address and then send out referalls to all yours and get bookoo bucks after they make their first purchase through Ebates. *if you want more details on why they'll give you money, go here: http://www.ebates.com/help/how_ebates_works.htm?navigation_id=18452
I gave my sis this bargain yesterday and instead of spending $420 on an armoire, she got it for $379, PLUS she'll get a check in the mail from Ebates for $15 from her purchase at overstock and $10 referral signup: she's getting it for $355! How sweet is that - I should be the favorite sister.
3) http://www.todaysdod.com
This is an awesome site that shows all of the hot bargains of the day from a number of sites, including Woot and Ihavetohavethat.com. They tell you how many hours are left for the deal, what the sellout likelihood is and how hot the link is.
So, I hope these help all you bargainistas out there on saving a little bit more money. AND, please use my email address (chelseacc@hotmail.com) when you sign up for ebates! then you can send out to all your contacts and get some sweet sweet signup bonus action.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Wants vs. Needs
So I've been browsing blogs and found a link to Urban Outfitters, stumbled upon this beaut.
Details here.
Maybe someday when I have a studio where I can create and craft to my hearts' content, this would be the perfect addition (and perfect COLOR) to the room.
Sigh.
Details here.
Maybe someday when I have a studio where I can create and craft to my hearts' content, this would be the perfect addition (and perfect COLOR) to the room.
Sigh.
A Week Later...
It's Saturday night and my lovely husband is on his way back home from a long (for him) and stressful (also him) weekend in Nebraska. From our conversations it sounds like things went well with his graduate school interview(s) and his chances for acceptance are good. Of 100 applicants, they asked 13 to come interview. Of the 13 they will accept 7-10 candidates. Of those 13 that interviewed, he was 1 of only 3 men. His chances are pretty good, but still, cross your fingers and keep us in your prayers!
He said the city (Lincoln, NE) was small and quaint, reminding him of Provo. Good and bad things, in my book. Remember when you were in school and you were tired of being in school and just had to get out of the city? That's how I've been with Provo/Orem. Orem's actually not that bad. But man, I had to get out of Provo :)
Anyways, our floors are done! I need to take a few pictures, but I'm going to wait until all the little details are done and put away. I am going to repaint our baseboards and add some shoe moulding and THEN it'll finally be done.
After my parents left this morning I started vacuuming up all the sawdust, tossing the leftover wood/cut materials, and SWIFFERING. Oh my gosh, I think I've gone over this floor 3 times already. Finally I grabbed my trusty old kitchen broom and did a lap around the floor, vacuumed up the pile and used my Swiffer Vac (Thanks, Hill!) one last time.
So, after I finish adding felt pads to all the kitchen chair legs and our ottoman, I need to hurry and put away the laundry from our bed and straighten up the house before Ryan comes home and just collapses from exhaustion.
He said the city (Lincoln, NE) was small and quaint, reminding him of Provo. Good and bad things, in my book. Remember when you were in school and you were tired of being in school and just had to get out of the city? That's how I've been with Provo/Orem. Orem's actually not that bad. But man, I had to get out of Provo :)
Anyways, our floors are done! I need to take a few pictures, but I'm going to wait until all the little details are done and put away. I am going to repaint our baseboards and add some shoe moulding and THEN it'll finally be done.
After my parents left this morning I started vacuuming up all the sawdust, tossing the leftover wood/cut materials, and SWIFFERING. Oh my gosh, I think I've gone over this floor 3 times already. Finally I grabbed my trusty old kitchen broom and did a lap around the floor, vacuumed up the pile and used my Swiffer Vac (Thanks, Hill!) one last time.
So, after I finish adding felt pads to all the kitchen chair legs and our ottoman, I need to hurry and put away the laundry from our bed and straighten up the house before Ryan comes home and just collapses from exhaustion.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I'm Tired
My mom has been such a saving grace for this flooring project, I tell you. (it's not finished and we're running into so many problems it's starting to get funny) She and Ryan have been such troopers - I, on the otherhand, have had enough of everything.
I think really I'm just ready to be creative. I'm ready to set my own hours and make pretty and useful things. I'm ready to make my house a home. I am ready to be a mom, dang it.
Ryan's heading to Nebraska on Thursday evening. He has his first grad school interview Friday and we're crossing our fingers. Pray for us - I think I have a few things to start fasting about! This is the number 3 school in the nation for his program. The cost of living is significantly less there, meaning I could probably stay at home and start being a stay at home wife, if we can buy a multi-plex and rent out the other units, fixing one up at a time. (sorry for the terrible grammar -I'm not in the mood to think about what I type)
I have so many projects on my to-do list. Ryan commented the other day when I told him about said list that there's not enough time in my life to do everything I want to do. I have ambitious dreams but they rarely get passed that. Although, I think my problem is that I get bored of one thing easily and jump from project to project. Etsy's been great for that. If I want to sew one say or papercraft the next, who cares?! It makes me happy just to be creating.
Okay, this post really makes no sense and has no connecting points, but oh well. That's how my mind is today.
I think really I'm just ready to be creative. I'm ready to set my own hours and make pretty and useful things. I'm ready to make my house a home. I am ready to be a mom, dang it.
Ryan's heading to Nebraska on Thursday evening. He has his first grad school interview Friday and we're crossing our fingers. Pray for us - I think I have a few things to start fasting about! This is the number 3 school in the nation for his program. The cost of living is significantly less there, meaning I could probably stay at home and start being a stay at home wife, if we can buy a multi-plex and rent out the other units, fixing one up at a time. (sorry for the terrible grammar -I'm not in the mood to think about what I type)
I have so many projects on my to-do list. Ryan commented the other day when I told him about said list that there's not enough time in my life to do everything I want to do. I have ambitious dreams but they rarely get passed that. Although, I think my problem is that I get bored of one thing easily and jump from project to project. Etsy's been great for that. If I want to sew one say or papercraft the next, who cares?! It makes me happy just to be creating.
Okay, this post really makes no sense and has no connecting points, but oh well. That's how my mind is today.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Still Not There Yet
So, as many days as we've been working (or attempting to work)on this silly floor project, it's still not quite finished. My cousin got baptized early saturday morning (who schedules baptisms for 8:45?!) and then afterward we all went to aunt lorie and uncle brian's for a lunch of sorts - she has THE most delicious recipe for chicken and wild rice soup - and then we were going to get started on our floor. Well, Ryan and I headed back here and waited a few minutes and then decided to take a little nap since neither of us had gotten much sleep the night before. The next thing I know I'm being jolted awake from the sound of the kitchen table ends slamming together as Ryan carries it into our bedroom. He's starting the demolition process.
Needless to say, it doesn't look as complicated as it really is. We have this little alcove area that had to be fitted first and between dealing with bowed and uneven walls and working in a small space, we're halfway there.
I haven't been much help, really. I'm the foreman-ish and my mom is co-foreman and she and ryan are the muscle. My dad is the errand boy - running to this and that store for a widget or a gadget - and yesterday I made the meals (I made rolls/biscuits again to which I've renamed Riscuits because of their likeness to both breads) and for breakfast we have cinnamon rolls.
Sidenote: need to call my HOA and complain about a certain lack of ice/snow removal. Saturday night my dad was in the parking lot and the whole thing was a sheet of ice. He slipped and fell and my mom seriously thought he'd get up with a cracked head because of the sound his head made as it hit the asphalt. He's fine, but has an ongoing massive headache and a few bruises on his backside. We woke him every few hours for concussion watch.
K, so here are a BUNCH of pictures.
This is our gross nasty carpet. It's riddled with stains much like this.
Ryan starting to pull up the carpet for demolition
Puppers watching avidly and not really knowing what's going on.
All carpet ripped up and a layer of Underlayment taped into place to prevent moisture from the concrete seeping up and ruining our floor.
hallway - residiual glue from carpet pad
Thunder again in the midst of the excitement
the first bits of flooring - hooray! this took way longer than you would think. The bay was such a booger
the MUSCLE - their pay is a meal of pot roast and roasted vegetables
the mess that still remains - my mom's saws and air compressor - brooms, scrapers, and the like
As I'm blogging Ryan's scraping the rest of the linoleum in the kitchen and we'll be moving the fridge and oven out today to get the floor in the kitchen. I've got to hop in the shower so I can be of some help today.
More pictures later.
Needless to say, it doesn't look as complicated as it really is. We have this little alcove area that had to be fitted first and between dealing with bowed and uneven walls and working in a small space, we're halfway there.
I haven't been much help, really. I'm the foreman-ish and my mom is co-foreman and she and ryan are the muscle. My dad is the errand boy - running to this and that store for a widget or a gadget - and yesterday I made the meals (I made rolls/biscuits again to which I've renamed Riscuits because of their likeness to both breads) and for breakfast we have cinnamon rolls.
Sidenote: need to call my HOA and complain about a certain lack of ice/snow removal. Saturday night my dad was in the parking lot and the whole thing was a sheet of ice. He slipped and fell and my mom seriously thought he'd get up with a cracked head because of the sound his head made as it hit the asphalt. He's fine, but has an ongoing massive headache and a few bruises on his backside. We woke him every few hours for concussion watch.
K, so here are a BUNCH of pictures.
This is our gross nasty carpet. It's riddled with stains much like this.
Ryan starting to pull up the carpet for demolition
Puppers watching avidly and not really knowing what's going on.
All carpet ripped up and a layer of Underlayment taped into place to prevent moisture from the concrete seeping up and ruining our floor.
hallway - residiual glue from carpet pad
Thunder again in the midst of the excitement
the first bits of flooring - hooray! this took way longer than you would think. The bay was such a booger
the MUSCLE - their pay is a meal of pot roast and roasted vegetables
the mess that still remains - my mom's saws and air compressor - brooms, scrapers, and the like
As I'm blogging Ryan's scraping the rest of the linoleum in the kitchen and we'll be moving the fridge and oven out today to get the floor in the kitchen. I've got to hop in the shower so I can be of some help today.
More pictures later.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Finally Here
We're laying our floor tomorrow! (well, technically today)
Yay. I'll post pictures when it's in. Not really a big deal, it's only the front room/kitchen/halls but I will be so happy when our nasty and stained carpet is out of here.
Yay. I'll post pictures when it's in. Not really a big deal, it's only the front room/kitchen/halls but I will be so happy when our nasty and stained carpet is out of here.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Time to Update
I'm tired of looking at the picture of the tree so I figured I'd update.
I didn't make any resolutions this year. I'm hoping just to be more neat and clean and declutter - but I'm not making a resolve.
I realized I didn't do much of a Christmas recap: It was fun. There. Done.
Christmas Eve Ryan worked until 11pm, which is fine by me. Nothing really too exciting happening. With my parents spending Christmas in UT this year I got to hang out with my brothers and dad while my mom and Tara were up in SLC doing something or other; shopping is my guess.
So Christmas we spent with my in-laws in South Jordan - who still have a 10 yr-old. So our day started QUITE early. I woke up around 5am so I could curl my hair and get ready for the day and woke up Ryan around 5:30 so we could leave at 5:45. We probably should have left sooner. The snow was HORRIBLE and since it was so early in the morning and Christmas, for that matter, we were the first ones to make tracks in the freshly fallen snow. I don't think we went above 40 mph until we left Utah County - and that's in a 4-wheel drive vehicle!
Everyone was up and waiting for us when we got there just before 7am (it took us an hour to get there - usually is 30 min door-to-door) and then we did the normal gift opening and lounging and caught a movie at 2pm.
Good day. We got home around 9 pm and just did nothing. My parents came by around 10:30ish so we visited with them a bit and went through this awesome 72-hr emergency kit my mom & dad gave us for Christmas. They spent a few weeks gathering everything and putting it together. Anyone that knows my mom knows she travels with everything (including the kitchen sink) so it's quite an awesome backpack chock full of anything you could need.
I got Ryan Guitar Hero 3 and we've been playing it since. I got these awesome books for Christmas that I asked for:
I'm excited to start making projects from them. I'm going to clean up my spare room this week for my mom to stay with us for the weekend but also just to reorganize all my supplies (i have tons).
We're also going to tackle my floor laying project, I'm hoping. Cross your fingers. I'll take pictures of the befores and afters.
Also, one of my bestest friends is going to be in town this weekend. It's going to be a busy busy weekend.
I didn't make any resolutions this year. I'm hoping just to be more neat and clean and declutter - but I'm not making a resolve.
I realized I didn't do much of a Christmas recap: It was fun. There. Done.
Christmas Eve Ryan worked until 11pm, which is fine by me. Nothing really too exciting happening. With my parents spending Christmas in UT this year I got to hang out with my brothers and dad while my mom and Tara were up in SLC doing something or other; shopping is my guess.
So Christmas we spent with my in-laws in South Jordan - who still have a 10 yr-old. So our day started QUITE early. I woke up around 5am so I could curl my hair and get ready for the day and woke up Ryan around 5:30 so we could leave at 5:45. We probably should have left sooner. The snow was HORRIBLE and since it was so early in the morning and Christmas, for that matter, we were the first ones to make tracks in the freshly fallen snow. I don't think we went above 40 mph until we left Utah County - and that's in a 4-wheel drive vehicle!
Everyone was up and waiting for us when we got there just before 7am (it took us an hour to get there - usually is 30 min door-to-door) and then we did the normal gift opening and lounging and caught a movie at 2pm.
Good day. We got home around 9 pm and just did nothing. My parents came by around 10:30ish so we visited with them a bit and went through this awesome 72-hr emergency kit my mom & dad gave us for Christmas. They spent a few weeks gathering everything and putting it together. Anyone that knows my mom knows she travels with everything (including the kitchen sink) so it's quite an awesome backpack chock full of anything you could need.
I got Ryan Guitar Hero 3 and we've been playing it since. I got these awesome books for Christmas that I asked for:
I'm excited to start making projects from them. I'm going to clean up my spare room this week for my mom to stay with us for the weekend but also just to reorganize all my supplies (i have tons).
We're also going to tackle my floor laying project, I'm hoping. Cross your fingers. I'll take pictures of the befores and afters.
Also, one of my bestest friends is going to be in town this weekend. It's going to be a busy busy weekend.
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