Do SomeTHING: day 2

Today...I planned.


My 14 year old son has one of these kinds of pillows (only a cylinder)...




..only it has seen much better days. 


I have decided to dig though the fabulous fabrics my sister-in-law gave to me after she cleaned out her craft area. I probably shouldn't have taken them. I don't really have any room...but I couldn't resist. There are some great simple prints. I found a piece of a fat quarter that would fit around the dead pillow perfectly.


I have planned to make a pillow for my living room. I will actually have a printed pillow in there. Yay!


I wonder what Pete'll say when he sees it? He doesn't seem to like many prints. Tough! It's my living room too and it's only a tiny pillow.


Once the fabric comes out of the laundry I will whip up the pillow. It should be pretty simple. Then you will get to see it...sitting on my couch.



Do SomeTHING is a month long of creativity, project finishing, exploration, and imagination.  What was your THING for today?  Leave your link in the comments for us all to see.

Do SomeTHING: day 1

I am going to "Do SomeTHING" every day this month. My friend Carrie started it on her blog. In February we did something inspired by "Thing a Day" on Posterous.com. We did call it "Thing a Day". 


Here's mine if you want to see what kind of things I did before. Not everything was creative. I was having some health problems that month, apparently.


 I would love for you to join us on your blog and spread the word or if you do not have your own blog just comment on mine with your task. Both of us got so much creative "stuff" done that she decided to do it again, to help inspire (and to force ourselves to get our shops filled for Christmas).









So...I started by organizing my linen closet. (My sewing supply stash may be next.) You can tell that everything is now lined up and small things are in boxes. Everything is easy to see and easy to find. Sorry for the bad picture. There is no light in the closet...thus the camping lantern. 

I have also found out that my kids have enough shower gel to last them 2 years.

 My husband has enough shower gel to last him about 3 years.

And I have enough deodorant to last me 5.

Oh well...better too much than running out, right?

Do SomeTHING is a month long of creativity, project finishing, exploration, and imagination.  What was your THING for today?  Leave your link in the comments for us all to see.

Peaches

What do you do with over-ripe peaches? On a cool summer morning?

Make peach cobbler!

Of course I didn't have enough peaches so...I threw in a nectarine and a few plums.

I just need to put the crumb topping on.

Then...YUM!

Bugs...the VW kind

 

Yellow One!



Silver one! With a really cool rocket coming out of the back of it!

Last summer when my family and my sister's family went on vacation, my sister and her daughters were doing the Punch Buggie game. But instead of punching they would just yell it out, including the color, of course.

D loved it and kept doing it when we got home.

Now I even do it without D in the car. It makes me think of him and (sometimes my sis and nieces) when I wouldn't ordinarily. I like it.

I did it when only A was in the car...he thought I was nuts.

I was having fun!

Next stage

  

The next stage is picking a color and painting.  That is our shower curtain that we found online. I think we will be using that color towards the bottom of the picture.

Then tiles...plumbing...and finally, electricity.

Then we get to have our bathroom back to ourselves!

New Everything

Not only do we have a new floor...We have new walls too. And for some strange reason, the floor is grey.

 

And the walls are green. (Even though the contractor says they are blue. I don't know...I think he's color blind.)

Yay! They are almost done! It will have taken almost 2 weeks...and the bathroom is still empty.

We are definitely waiting for fall before we do the 1/2 bath (which btw, needed the remodel more than this one). I want to have some sort of summer besides hanging around the house waiting for contractors to finish up.

Sharing

I like friends that share!

I can't wait for this to take root so I can plant it!

 

And this will be a new bush in the front flower bed...I think my "accountant-type" hubby will like it. I hope!

Thanks C!