September

So we're two days into one of my favorite months of the year. I'm not sure exactly why. My birthday's not in this month and Christmas is in December. (Last I checked at least.) Maybe it's because I still associate it with going back to school and I liked school. Summer really was a bit overrated after the first few weeks. (I'm the kid who played school, strictly, at home. )



I listed these today. I know, I never list on Sundays. But I sold my PIF so I figured I'd list something else. Yeah, blew through that $.20 like nothing. Ha!
*is cracking herself up*

I'm almost done spackling my room. Redoing my bedroom is becoming the second longest project of my life, next to finishing writing a book. I'm not really sure why there's been so much work stoppage. I'd really like to at least get the walls painted this month. One of my aunts is coming next month. She's never been to the house, and if you could see my room, you'd understand why I really should work on it.

I made so super-scrumptious lemon bars for myself. And my brother. We're the only ones who like them. Did I do that on purpose? Maybe. I finally got a texture I'm pleased with. Soy creamer...that's all I'm saying.

Okay, I'm going to pretending to be productive. I got to raid mom's corduroy stash so I should make some new wristlets. Now that I changed my shop name, though, the labels I have aren't right. Maybe I'll just use them anyway. Ha. I have a cool idea using a metal stamp, but that would involve a custom stamp, (I'm uber glad I didn't order one with my old name), and cutting tiny pieces of metal, and rivets. I don't want to get into all that now.

Plus I have magnet ideas. I drew the cutest squirrel. Okay, no, this is the cutest squirrel. (That word 'squirrel' is a link. Click it!)

FYI: Ha is my new word. Sort of my 'booyah'. :P And lately parathetical phrases rock. (see what I mean)

*throws confetti for those who made it to the end of this long post*

Thanks to Etsy

This started as a forum thread today. Then magnoliastreet put it on her blog. I figured I will too. *is copying, oh no :P*

Thanks to Etsy:

-I've discovered how much I really need to be creative.
-I've found out that I really love photography, whether I'm good at it remains to be determined.
-I look at everything wonder how they made it. How could I make it?
-I've 'met' a ton of super-cool talented people, artists of all kinds.
-I've decided that I want designing and making things, my interests are too vast too narrow down, to be a part of my life forever, what I do when I grow up. :P
-I've loaded up my room with more bits of paper, string, beads, and fabric.
-My family asks about my Etsy friends regularly. I still live at home. It's funny.
-My family asks if I can use things for packaging or reconstruction before they throw them away. I love FREE!
-I don't get much done sometimes. The ETC sections of the forums is addicting.
-I've found lots of other cool sites: Flickr, Blogger, Deviantart...to name a few. I was pretty sheltered.
-I desperately want to try about a dozen new techniques, that I knew nothing about prior to Etsy.


Etsy has seriously opened up so much to me. It's made this time when I don't have a job easier. (Though honestly, I quit my job with a lot of happiness. It's just the regular money that I miss.) I don't get to buy as much as I like...I like a lot.

That's it.

You can answer, now. :)

ILL

I have a cold. Who gets colds in summer? The weather went from really hot, to not, and back. Plus it was humid. Now, my nose is broke.

I credit my brothers for finding this video. I think it's funny. Maybe it's my side-geek. My dad loves the original Star Wars.

Star Wars Yo Momma

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I can explain

ICING!!- I can explain
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Knead tube before using. I totally didn't see that line on the icing tube. It may have saved us from the following story, but it wouldn't have been as funny.

My mom, and dad after he found out, decided to throw an impromptu graduation party for Bro1. They ordered pizza and a cake and got soda and balloons. The grocery store where we got the cake would add a message on the cake for free. My mom wanted 'Congratulations, Bro1's realname'. The lady in the bakery spelled congratulations wrong. She wiped in out and spelled it correctly but it looked bad. Mom and I decided to remedy this ourselves at home.

We bought a tube of icing. Once home we scraped off ugliness and smoothed out the remaining frosting, it's a good thing they use so much. I had done a little bit of cake decorating at the art group I was in a few summers ago. Plus, I know how to spell.

Missing the 'knead tube before using', I jammed a fork in the end. You really were suppose to cut the end off and attach a Betty Crocker decorator tip. We didn't have any of those. The fork hole would be big enough, I thought. It wasn't.

So I cut the tip off. That proved to big. The stuff was thicker that toothpaste.

We squeezed it into a pastry bag we did have a tip for. That was messy but we did it. Still the icing was really thick and hard to squeeze. I got to the first 'a' in congratulations when we decided to microwave it.

I put it in for 20 seconds. Yeah, I don't microwave a lot. I've never
microwaved icing. Twenty seconds was too long. The stuff got super-heated, at least it felt that way, and it ran all over the place. We stuck it in the freezer.

That proved too much for the bag. It got to small holes in it. We only left it in the freezer for a minute, but the icing in the tip got really thick again while the icing in the bag stayed pretty hot. We squeezed in some more from the tube. I scooped on the globs from the tip and tried to work with it, though now it was oozing all over my hands.

Then the bag tore...totally tore. As a last ditch effort we put the torn bag in a plastic bag. We poked a small hole in the plastic bag. No dice. We poked a big hole. One squeeze and that bag tore.

I didn't make this up. Could you make something like up? All through I was laughing. It was just too much.

In the end the cake had no special message. We hope Bro1 isn't damaged for life. We tried. We really did.

Hoy

The title is 'Today' in Spanish. :P

I went to our church picnic. I generally don't like them. Large gatherings of people just aren't my thing. My wedding should be interesting. Not that that's happening for a LONG time, at the moment at least.

How long is it supposed to take wisdom teeth to come in? Mine have been coming in for the last four years. Yeah, not fun. I really hope I don't have to get them pulled.

I'm writing a book. There I said it. I've been struggling with it, just like I've been struggling with everything else, for a while. Suddenly though, I'm writing a ton, not sure how good it is. I'm supposed to me writing now. But I'm blogging...which technically is writing correct?

I've also been making over my bedroom for a while too. See, I stall. And my mom's always like, "That walls fallin' apart we should jackhammer it out." So I think that's the reining opinion until I ask my dad and he's like, "No, just spackle it." My mom is prone to exaggeration.

The sucky thing about the room redo is that I picked out fabric a long time ago. And now I'm not really a huge fan of it. But my mom bought so much. I don't have the heart to tell I don't really like it.

I really want to go to college. I need to go away from my parents. I'm tired of telling people I'm not in college. Plus, then, maybe they'll believe I'm older than Bro1. Maybe.

Okay, I'll go now. I'm sure this sounds really teenagerish. I go back and forth with sounding extremely mature and extremely not. When I figure out why, I'll let you know.