Summer DIY Plan

Among painting the apartment, re-waxing the floors, and outfitting the garage space to become a good art studio. I'm all about doing DIY projects. I've grown up in a DIY home where you tile the floors, lay your own wood flooring, re-paint the cabinets, and scrape the nasty texture off of the ceilings.
This is why I love gardening, and is possibly where my apreciation for art and love for making and creating things came from!

The first project I want to get to is dying our couch some lime green or orange color.

I'm pretty sure these are my two favorite colours. I'd really love to have it be a plum or fuschia color, but Joel will instantly poopoo those too girly colors :) So I can live with that. I can understand.

This is our couch

I want to dye it one of the orange or green color. If I go with green, I will probably try and mix in some of the golden yellow to give it a deep lime green look to it.

 

 

Project Tools

1. Wooden Dowell Rod (this is to stir and agitate the fabric, at least to help do things while i'm wearing the gloves too.

2. 2 large rubbermaid containers. Like these .

3. about 5 boxes of the appropriate fabric dye color

4. LOTS OF WATER you're supposed to have 3 gallons per lb of fabric. Heh. We'll see how this goes. I'll be boiling lots of water and immediately dumping it into the containers outside to keep the temp right. This is also why i'm gonna be doing this during the summer. It should help with keeping the water at the right temp since it should be in the high 90s. I may have to wait until late in July or August to achieve the goal though.

5. 1 bottle of dye fixative 

6. Scotch guard for overkill :)

*I wonder what it would be like if i used 2 different greens? I'm not against color. The more the better in my opinion.*

Jo

Photo Credits:

1. http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
2. http://www.decorpad.com/
3. http://www.ritdye.com/

Trying to keep myself sane for the next 10 days.

My husband is officially at the airport and is about to fly away to Lusaka, Zambia which is in Africa. I know nothing about africa that isn't shown on the news reports about genocides, christian killings, etc.
According to my husband, Zambia is the Switzerland of it's region. I'm going to trust him in this and pray that he has a good time over there and that he comes back to me in one healthy piece.

In the meantime, I am going to keep myself so busy that I won't dwell too much on my lonliness.

Thursday night.
1. Go buy groceries
-eggs
-milk
-powdered sugar
-frozen strawberries
-2 8oz containers of mascarpone cheese
-vanilla cake mix
-candied cherries
-laundry detergent
-paper towels
-dress

2.Clean kitchen
3.Clean bathroom
4. Put camera onto charge.

Friday.
1. Pack
-Dress
-Silver Heels
-Makeup
-Jeans
-PJs
-Tshirt
-Flipflops
-Groceries for cupcakes
-Mom's cake carrier

2. Go straight to the Davis' to hang out with good friends
3. Go to mom's and make cupcakes

Saturday.
1. Fill cupcakes with strawberry mascarpone
2. Ice the cupcakes and top with cherries
3. Decorate house for Erin's shower
4. Get ready


Sunday.
1. Possibly go to Erin's sunday shower
2. Go back to Denton and start laundry

Monday.
1. Continue with laundry
2. Prep paper for painting.

Tuesday.
1. Laundry & Paint

 

1.Permanently delete my facebook account.

++This will be happening on March 23rd. I have set the date. I'm actually emotionally already prepared to do this, I'm just waiting on a couple of my facebook events that I'm hostessing to finish up (Erin's Lingerie Shower/Bachelorette & My church-wide yard sale.) That's a random mix for ya.

2.Cook & Eat healthier foods.

++I plan to take existing recipes that I love, and attempt to make them better for me.  

3.Start one crochet project.

4.Finish Vicki's Painting :)

 

GROCERY LIST

-Bell peppers

-zuchini

-sandwhich bread

-milk

-eggs

-1 package of mascarpone cheese

-frozen strawberries

-vanilla cake mix

-maraschino cherries

-2 limes

-stuff for breakfasts at work.

 

• Clean apartment
• Make tortillas or buy some good ones at Taco Cabana
• If making tortillas, use new press
• Vaccum / air out living room rug
• Shake out bathroom and kitchen rugs
• Heat up taco stuff in skillet
• Buy laundry detergent. 2x loads of laundry.

Falling down on the job.

So, I haven't done Kettle Bells in the last 2 days.
I am quite determined to do a workout before my Church @ Home group tonight.
That way I will have worked out at least 3 times this week.
Wednesday night I had an excuse because I wasn't feeling very well at all.
And last night, well I could have turned down last night's activities but it was to go hangout with my friend heather and her dog and her husband, with my husband, to eat good foods, and watch House & House Hunters, and play this really fun RPG called Dominion.

Funagain Games: Dominion (AKA: Game X)


So all in all. I COULD HAVE worked out 4 times this week, if i work out this evening when I get home from work. We'll see what I can do.

I need to return my library books.

A List if you will.

1. Write more in this blog.
2. Do more crafts in my free time rather than surfing the internet.
3. Delete my facebook permanently, causing more crafts to be done and more posting of said blog.
4. Lose 25lbs (Kettle Bells)
5. Purge my home of things I don't need.
6. Inspire, Help, Learn, Love, Grow. I want to be a better person than I am.

Joey.