Well Hello there! If you've stumbled your way to this blog WELCOME! I'm a widwestern gal who is darn crafty. I love taking all kinds of pictures, but taking funny ones of myself are my favourite. I am a t.v. and movie addict who can remeber all kinds of movie history, actors names, dates and trivia, however, I cannot seem to remember where I put my purse, keys and sometimes my children!
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Recently I have started watching the show Hoarders. This show has now made me crazy with wanting to go through my whole house and purge everything.
The contrast between watching the hoarder show and then turning on the news and seeing the people of Haiti with nothing has left me with this desire to get rid of alot of stuff.
Yesterday, I was furiously tearing through my kitchen and now have bags and boxes ready to donate.
On the show I heard one of the Hoarders say she felt like she was drowning, and though I am not a hoarder, when I heard that I said to myself that's it!
That's what I am feeling.
and I started to think of my mom.
My mom was a funny lady. She was definetley not a hoarder. She was always very anal about her things. Everything had it's place, and was neat and tidy. She would come over to my house and help me organize my pantry or my linnen closet and when I didn't know what to do with something she would always say...
GET RID OF IT!
Growing up we had this one closet in our house that she always maintained. It was stocked full of household supplies and toiletries. It was organized like the shelves of a grocery store. When we would tease her about it, she would always respond that if anything ever happened to her my dad would be able to take care of himself for a while. Well, it's been over a year and I don't think he's had to buy anything but bread and milk!
Another funny thing she did was collect pretty litte things. For example, in this same closet there were towels we could use and towels we were NEVER to use, they were there so that when she opened the closet she could see something pretty.
When my mom passed I was the one who took care of her things. The summer before she passed I had taken her to see SEx and the City, the movie. She loved it, and left the movie saying she could'nt wait to go shopping, and that she wanted to buy and wear clothes like the character...
Samantha!
I know your thinking ... the sex pot one?
Yes, but, she didn't want the sexy so much as she wanted to mix and match clothes together that didn't neccessarrily go together.
That was not possible for her. Everything she EVER bought matched. Because we shopped so much she had quite the wardrobe. Purses and matching wallets, more accessories than you can imagine, and they all had matching outfits.
My mom never got to wear all the outfits she had put together.
I took all of her unworn things home with me.
I couln't let them go.
They were more than just clothes,
they were our unfinished buisness.
Dates, and events, places and times of things she looked forward doing that would now, never be done.
Before she left I told her I would wear them for her,
but I haven't.
Slowly I have given away a couple things here and there.
I think it's time to let them go.
I think it's okay with her too.
Mom passed on the 26th, yesterday was the 26th and I dreamnt I saw the most brilliant rainbow, so beautiful that I remember gasping aloud in my dream.
Today, I will gather the rest and remember the beauty and strength she showed as she gave her pretty little things away to those who had come to say goodbye to her.
Perhaps the people who recieve them will...
Have a change of clothing...
have something to put their belongings in...
have something new to wear to a job interview...
that wonderful feeling of a new outfit...
or maybe just to look at...
a pretty little thing.
I finally managed to "get er done"
These are my newest creations
They are
Audrey ( my fav ) Love her, love Breakfast at Tiffany's, and of course Eliza Doolittle!
Oscar One of my favorite nights of the year
Glee My FAVORITE show on t.v.
Blue jeans Babe My butt is permanently dyed blue from wearing them everyday.
Smitten With my husband (and Michael Buble')
Queen of Hearts Messing around with Valentines Day ideas
Darla Always wanted to be named Darla, after the girl from Our Gang.
Eliza The best character I ever played.
Calliope Inspired by the movie The Princess Frog! Just in time for V-day!
I'm going to spend some time this weekend putting out some V- day decos. I have a couple cute V-day projects I want to do too. So, hopefully that is what I accomplish and then I can share them with you!
Just wondering...
Am I the only one in the world that watches Masterpiece Theatre? It is one of my favorite things to do. I cannot get enough of the opening music to the Classics series. It makes me want to walk around talking with a English accent!
Sunday is the first episode in a four part series of Emma!
Love, Love, Love this! I Can't wait!
Have a wonderful weekend!
I've been MIA because I've been working on some new convertables. I'm excited about the response to them, and to all of you that have ordered them... Thanks so much!
Excited to announce that a local boutique; Angelina in downtown Barrington has asked to have some convertables in her shop.
I thought I'd give you a little sneak peek. They are not actually all complete, and may look different once up on Etsy.
I was thinking about my creative process as I was taking these photos, and i realized I make the convertables the same way I scrapbook.
I wish I could say I am a "glue and go" kinda girl, but I'm just not. I like to look at the piece for a while.
My process is like this:
Gather all materials
Run up and down the basement stairs about 500 times ( totally great for my behind) to get all the things I am have now thought about... and that I could add.
Lay it all out. I get a convertable card just like I would a piece of paper and start laying out rosets and embellishments.
I do not sit either. I stand to scrapbook and had my scrapbook table installed at my hips height so that I didn't have to bend over. I stand to eat too. You'd think my butt would be alot smaller since it isn't squished out flat all the time, but unfortunately it isn't.
My favorite thing to eat while scrapbooking twizzlers red licoriceand way too much diet rite.
Music... show tunes, love them and love singing them at the top of my lungs while noone is home... whom I kidding I sing them at the top of my lungs whether my family is home or not!
I play around with the stuff, leave, come back, futz, leave, come back,futz, tweak, and eventually I come up with something.
My biggest problem is I have a creative kind of ADD. I can say that because unlike Tom Cruise I DO know what I'm talking about.
Sometimes I am counter productive because I keep jumping from one idea to another.
Eventually I can rane myself in, tie up the loose ends and have a finished product.
And that's how I roll!
Speaking of ADD, here's something that has NOTHING to do with the above post.
You may remember my friend was getting married at our home last weekend. Here are some of the shots I took. I am obsessed with picnik!
Some look a little grainy here, but not once printed, maybe too many processes.
If you would like to see more of where I create, you can click on the prop room button on the right side of this page and see some pictures of my scrapbook room.
That's what I've been up to in my world. Feeling like I've been running and spinning since October, but now I have time to take a deep breath, focus and
as my sister would say...
I just need to...
Slow my Roll
How do you Roll?
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 10:06AM
