I am totally making myself these for my cookbook collection!!! Thank you to The Crafty Crow's Blog for finding these and posting about them. I have been looking for the perfect book ends for the books above my kitchen cupboards for 2 years now. Every time I find something I like they are too wide or heavy or not the right color... license plates are the perfect solution. I only have 1 right now (will post pictures later) b/c of course my hubby cleaned them up from the garage thinking we would never have a use for them. :(
I am going to recruit my family to save all their plates in hopes of ending up with a couple more. I usually get the yearly sticker instead of the new plate, but this year am thinking I'll have to mail in the paperwork in time to get the plate instead of driving to get the sticker the day my plate expires. :)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Friday, March 06, 2009
Warmer Weather Ahead!
Mmmmm... today is a beautiful spring type day! It's warmish and breezy and I love it!
The whole family has been sick for weeks and I am so ready to be over it. It seems to be settling in my chest now so I'm praying that it's not turning into bronchitis. :(
I have almost finished Cait's rug. I just have to weave in the bazillion ends and add a nice nonslip back to it. I ended up adding extra rows and circles to the existing rows to make it larger for her floor. The original doorstep size just looked lost when I laid it down on her floor. The pattern is from Crochet Me.
I'm also working on adding some long panels to Charlie's blanket (it was my 1st big project ever). I think it's going to take 4 of them, 2 for each side to make it wide enough to fit our bed.
Lastly I'm making yet another pair of star stitch handwarmers for my sister and then for me this time. I don't have photos yet of the project but I'm using the yarn pictured below.
The whole family has been sick for weeks and I am so ready to be over it. It seems to be settling in my chest now so I'm praying that it's not turning into bronchitis. :(
I have almost finished Cait's rug. I just have to weave in the bazillion ends and add a nice nonslip back to it. I ended up adding extra rows and circles to the existing rows to make it larger for her floor. The original doorstep size just looked lost when I laid it down on her floor. The pattern is from Crochet Me.
I'm also working on adding some long panels to Charlie's blanket (it was my 1st big project ever). I think it's going to take 4 of them, 2 for each side to make it wide enough to fit our bed.
Lastly I'm making yet another pair of star stitch handwarmers for my sister and then for me this time. I don't have photos yet of the project but I'm using the yarn pictured below.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Stars In My Eyes
It's been an eventful past few weeks. I've made several sets of arm warmers
This one for my Mom.
and a matching set for my devilish daughter...
an attempt at knitting (it's a dish cloth) find pattern here
A kneck warmer for my little man
a Kick ass pair of star stitch arm warmers for Sara
Besides all the craftiness flowing forth...
My Uncle had his hip replaced on January 31st and he went home from the hospital TODAY!!! Yeah Uncle David! He'll be rockin' the new hip in no time.
The kids and I have been sledding a ton, I'm always scared they'll bowl me down (and ruin the camera) so we don't have pictures :(
We've made friends with our new neighbors down the hill. They're only 18 and 21 and I was worried they were going to be so immature... but it turns out that it's nice to have someone close by to have over to hang out during the day while hubby is at work and the kids are at school or to play games and watch movies in the evenings. It makes me think back to when Charlie and I were 1st married. :)
Oh to be young and stupid again... No Thanks!
Charlie got a new tattoo about a week ago. I'm uber jealous.
This one for my Mom.
and a matching set for my devilish daughter...
an attempt at knitting (it's a dish cloth) find pattern here
A kneck warmer for my little man
a Kick ass pair of star stitch arm warmers for Sara
Besides all the craftiness flowing forth...
My Uncle had his hip replaced on January 31st and he went home from the hospital TODAY!!! Yeah Uncle David! He'll be rockin' the new hip in no time.
The kids and I have been sledding a ton, I'm always scared they'll bowl me down (and ruin the camera) so we don't have pictures :(
We've made friends with our new neighbors down the hill. They're only 18 and 21 and I was worried they were going to be so immature... but it turns out that it's nice to have someone close by to have over to hang out during the day while hubby is at work and the kids are at school or to play games and watch movies in the evenings. It makes me think back to when Charlie and I were 1st married. :)
Oh to be young and stupid again... No Thanks!
Charlie got a new tattoo about a week ago. I'm uber jealous.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
DHL Sucks Butt
I bought a "new" car on October 13th. Usually dh takes care of all the tax tags, title, registration stuff. This time he has been working a ton and neither of us thought about plates until November 13th when I realized my tags had expired... oh beautiful.
Friday morning I called the Auto Group and questioned themas to why I had not received an Ohio title so I could transfer the car to West Virginia. It had slipped through the cracks and I was assured that they were sending it via DHL overnight and it would be at my front door Saturday morning. On Saturday I waited all day and finally when there was no package at I called and was told that she tracked it and it was marked delivered to my front door.
Monday I called DHL and they assured me it had been delivered it said so right on the screen in front of them. I let them know that there was no access to my front door b/c we have not replaced the front steps to that porch, it was not at the side door, the basement door or the garage door... so unless they had delivered it to the wrong house it had not been delivered.
After many calls back and forth that first day I was told that the driver claimed he had stopped at my Post Office to get directions and in the end decided he would just leave it with them to deliver to me. Me being the un-trusting soul that I am decided to call the post office and ask them if this was true. Maybe I could just drive down and pick it up? They had no idea what I was talking about. He had not dropped it at my post office after all. I called DHL back with this information and was told they were contacting the driver and would call me back.
Tuesday I called them back and got the supervisor on the phone. It hadn't been dropped at my post office it had been taken to the Wheeling Post Office. When I asked why he said the driver forgot to deliver it when he was in my area, so realizing that while in Wheeling he decided to have it sent to me from there. Not like interoffice mail send it my post office... he mailed it to me from wheeling. Not only did he mail it to me he opened the package and mailed it to me. I have yet to be told why he felt the need to open it before mailing.
Tuesday evening I received the envelope in the mail and in that envelope there was a check for the taxes paid in Ohio... but no Ohio Title to my car. I called the dealership to verify that there should have been a title and they said yes. I called DHL to let them know there was no title and there should have been one, and to ask why was there not one and when was I going to receive it???
At this point I have been driving on expired tags for 5 days now 4 of which were due to DHL.
After many heated convos with Mike the Supervisor I am informed that the driver opened the package to fit it into a USPS envelope and didn't realize that there had been 2 pieces of paper in it and so only mailed me the check not the title. But the title was still at the post office in wheeling and he personally would pick it up and make sure it got delivered to me by 11am on Wednesday.
REWIND he didn't realize there were two papers in the envelope, but he didn't throw the envelope away he saved it at the post office that he doesn't work for. They just hold onto empty envelopes for people all the time right??? Who knows what he was doing with the title, identity theft, loan fraud... whatever just so long as i get it now.
That evening I had to run to the store and on the way home at the bottom of my hill I pass a local cop and a Deputy Sheriff... no joke. I'm driving expired tags around and have to drive by 2 cops on the same road. Shit. I make the turn drive up the hill park in my space get all the bags send the kids across the road and am scurrying my ass as fast as possible... not fast enough he pulls into the space beside me and gets out asks who was in the car with me. Ugh my kids and me. Who was the man in the car miss? Ugh no man, sorry. Are you sure there was no man in the car with you tonight? ****at this point I have had such an awful day and am so ready to just blow up on someone**** so I answer My husband is at work at the Federal Prison so I'm sure that there was no man in my vehicle, just me and my kids as I told you once before so how about you tell me what the problem is? ***in my head I'm repeating shit goin' to jail, goin' to jail***
He finally lets me know there had been a domestic dispute down the road from and me and someone spotted my car and thought it belonged to them so I got followed home and accosted. Of course he told me they had been looking for a green explorer... really? Does my fucking car look green??? You didn't notice when you were gooning me up at the stop sign that I was driving a blue explorer?? Thankfully he just said sorry about the trouble and left. Phew.
Wednesday- Today- I finally get the 2nd envelope at 12:30 yes 1-1/2 hours late... and I make the DHL guy stand there while I open it and low and behold it contains my Title, but it has been torn in half and taped back together.
Now I want to kick the DHL guy in the balls and tell him to pass it on, but instead I am an adult and ask for a number to make a complaint against the original guy (who I'm told has been fired) and the supervisor who has been obviously covering for him all this time...
I'm given the # to the office who has been fucking this shit up since Saturday. How do you file a complaint about people to the same people????
I give up I now have the check and the title and tomorrow I will maybe be driving legally again.
This is my life.
Friday morning I called the Auto Group and questioned themas to why I had not received an Ohio title so I could transfer the car to West Virginia. It had slipped through the cracks and I was assured that they were sending it via DHL overnight and it would be at my front door Saturday morning. On Saturday I waited all day and finally when there was no package at I called and was told that she tracked it and it was marked delivered to my front door.
Monday I called DHL and they assured me it had been delivered it said so right on the screen in front of them. I let them know that there was no access to my front door b/c we have not replaced the front steps to that porch, it was not at the side door, the basement door or the garage door... so unless they had delivered it to the wrong house it had not been delivered.
After many calls back and forth that first day I was told that the driver claimed he had stopped at my Post Office to get directions and in the end decided he would just leave it with them to deliver to me. Me being the un-trusting soul that I am decided to call the post office and ask them if this was true. Maybe I could just drive down and pick it up? They had no idea what I was talking about. He had not dropped it at my post office after all. I called DHL back with this information and was told they were contacting the driver and would call me back.
Tuesday I called them back and got the supervisor on the phone. It hadn't been dropped at my post office it had been taken to the Wheeling Post Office. When I asked why he said the driver forgot to deliver it when he was in my area, so realizing that while in Wheeling he decided to have it sent to me from there. Not like interoffice mail send it my post office... he mailed it to me from wheeling. Not only did he mail it to me he opened the package and mailed it to me. I have yet to be told why he felt the need to open it before mailing.
Tuesday evening I received the envelope in the mail and in that envelope there was a check for the taxes paid in Ohio... but no Ohio Title to my car. I called the dealership to verify that there should have been a title and they said yes. I called DHL to let them know there was no title and there should have been one, and to ask why was there not one and when was I going to receive it???
At this point I have been driving on expired tags for 5 days now 4 of which were due to DHL.
After many heated convos with Mike the Supervisor I am informed that the driver opened the package to fit it into a USPS envelope and didn't realize that there had been 2 pieces of paper in it and so only mailed me the check not the title. But the title was still at the post office in wheeling and he personally would pick it up and make sure it got delivered to me by 11am on Wednesday.
REWIND he didn't realize there were two papers in the envelope, but he didn't throw the envelope away he saved it at the post office that he doesn't work for. They just hold onto empty envelopes for people all the time right??? Who knows what he was doing with the title, identity theft, loan fraud... whatever just so long as i get it now.
That evening I had to run to the store and on the way home at the bottom of my hill I pass a local cop and a Deputy Sheriff... no joke. I'm driving expired tags around and have to drive by 2 cops on the same road. Shit. I make the turn drive up the hill park in my space get all the bags send the kids across the road and am scurrying my ass as fast as possible... not fast enough he pulls into the space beside me and gets out asks who was in the car with me. Ugh my kids and me. Who was the man in the car miss? Ugh no man, sorry. Are you sure there was no man in the car with you tonight? ****at this point I have had such an awful day and am so ready to just blow up on someone**** so I answer My husband is at work at the Federal Prison so I'm sure that there was no man in my vehicle, just me and my kids as I told you once before so how about you tell me what the problem is? ***in my head I'm repeating shit goin' to jail, goin' to jail***
He finally lets me know there had been a domestic dispute down the road from and me and someone spotted my car and thought it belonged to them so I got followed home and accosted. Of course he told me they had been looking for a green explorer... really? Does my fucking car look green??? You didn't notice when you were gooning me up at the stop sign that I was driving a blue explorer?? Thankfully he just said sorry about the trouble and left. Phew.
Wednesday- Today- I finally get the 2nd envelope at 12:30 yes 1-1/2 hours late... and I make the DHL guy stand there while I open it and low and behold it contains my Title, but it has been torn in half and taped back together.
Now I want to kick the DHL guy in the balls and tell him to pass it on, but instead I am an adult and ask for a number to make a complaint against the original guy (who I'm told has been fired) and the supervisor who has been obviously covering for him all this time...
I'm given the # to the office who has been fucking this shit up since Saturday. How do you file a complaint about people to the same people????
I give up I now have the check and the title and tomorrow I will maybe be driving legally again.
This is my life.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Where does the time go?
In my case it seems to all go to my new fav game Fashion wars. I absolutely love it and can not pull myself away. Of course that does not account for my being MIA for the past 4 months now does it???
Updates:
July was a good time, summer picnics, swimming, hanging with the fam.
August sweet vacation with my Mom, Sister and kids to Myrtle Beach. I'm not a super beach fan (sand in the cracks is not my thing) but the kids had an awesome time.
September I turned 21... no really I turned 34. I feel 21 still though that counts right?
My sister got me an awesome book (that I actually told her to buy me)!!!
October Halloween of course...
My Zombies
Oh and throw an accident in there too.
Though we were fine the car was totaled. Bummer I know, but I got to upgrade from a 1997 to a 2004 so not all bad. ;)
Updates:
July was a good time, summer picnics, swimming, hanging with the fam.
August sweet vacation with my Mom, Sister and kids to Myrtle Beach. I'm not a super beach fan (sand in the cracks is not my thing) but the kids had an awesome time.
September I turned 21... no really I turned 34. I feel 21 still though that counts right?
My sister got me an awesome book (that I actually told her to buy me)!!!
October Halloween of course...
My Zombies
Oh and throw an accident in there too.
Though we were fine the car was totaled. Bummer I know, but I got to upgrade from a 1997 to a 2004 so not all bad. ;)
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Summer Projects
In the heat of the summer (though the temps haven't been too bad here in West Virginia) is the time I always end up starting and hopefully finishing all my big projects. Painting, staining, refinishing furniture...
This summer is no exception. I have 2 bedroom doors that are in serious need of some paint! Trim that will need painted if it ever gets mounted to the kitchen walls. :(
Maybe he was waiting so he could swear at them all together. ;)
On a slightly happier and much less whiney note I am working on the new "bonnet" for Paula and I think it is turning out nicely!!!
Just a few more rows of shells and it should be complete. Maybe I'll take it out on the porch swing tonight and finish it up whilst listening to some Siouxsie & the Banshees...
PS
Check out that cute ass airbrushing on my thumb
Thanks to Steph the owner of Dazzlin' Dezignz in East Liverpool, Ohio.
She doesn't have a website :( but is opening a new shop!!!!
She gives me a fab set of nails every 2 weeks and these are one of my favorites!!
This summer is no exception. I have 2 bedroom doors that are in serious need of some paint! Trim that will need painted if it ever gets mounted to the kitchen walls. :(
I've started the staining process for 3 thresholds. 
This is one of the doorways in question...
This is one of the pieces I finished staining!!!
(It still needs a few more coats of polyurethane.)
Actually the one was finished last summer, but never put down in the doorway... I really need to figure this carpentry shit out if I want this house to ever be finished. Since I already did the 1st one last year I now have to mix the stains to match it up to the original. You would think I would have written the recipe down or saved some from last year-- but you would then be wrong. I had no thoughts of doing the next 2. I was so excited with thoughts of the 1st one being put on the floor, I seriously blocked out the fact that there would be 2 more. Well now I am working on the next 2 and the 1st hasn't even been put where it should be |:(
This is one of the doorways in question...
This is one of the pieces I finished staining!!!(It still needs a few more coats of polyurethane.)
Maybe he was waiting so he could swear at them all together. ;)
On a slightly happier and much less whiney note I am working on the new "bonnet" for Paula and I think it is turning out nicely!!!
Just a few more rows of shells and it should be complete. Maybe I'll take it out on the porch swing tonight and finish it up whilst listening to some Siouxsie & the Banshees...PS
Check out that cute ass airbrushing on my thumb
Thanks to Steph the owner of Dazzlin' Dezignz in East Liverpool, Ohio.
She doesn't have a website :( but is opening a new shop!!!!
She gives me a fab set of nails every 2 weeks and these are one of my favorites!!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Cotton Bonnet
I was asked by a good friend (who is a knitter) to make her mom a crocheted chemo cap. It didn't have a complete pattern, but I contacted the girl who originally made it and she offered her help.
I finished it the same day I started. :)
ehem, the only problem is that I made it about a zillion sizes too small. It is like a toddler sized hat. I have several friends and cousins who have young daighters that I can gift it to... but I can't believe I finished the damned thing before I realized it was too small. :(
On a much happier note I bought these fabulous hanging baskets at a flea market close to us a couple weeks ago and just remembered to photograph them... the best part was that they were ONLY $10 EACH!!!!
I know what a fantastic price for such huge and lush baskets!!
Ohhh and in the 1st picture you can just see my hubbies kool-aid colored truck in the bottom left corner... how funny is that.
I finished it the same day I started. :)
ehem, the only problem is that I made it about a zillion sizes too small. It is like a toddler sized hat. I have several friends and cousins who have young daighters that I can gift it to... but I can't believe I finished the damned thing before I realized it was too small. :(
On a much happier note I bought these fabulous hanging baskets at a flea market close to us a couple weeks ago and just remembered to photograph them... the best part was that they were ONLY $10 EACH!!!!
I know what a fantastic price for such huge and lush baskets!!
Ohhh and in the 1st picture you can just see my hubbies kool-aid colored truck in the bottom left corner... how funny is that.
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