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Today I unmade and remade the closet that my husband and I share. As I mentioned on Day 1, my husband got a job! This came with much shopping for clothes and other prepping. And of course, the nasty realization that my clothes were taking up um, almost all of the walk in closet we shared. My camera battery was dead, so no before pictures, but let me just say there was a dresser in the back that kill a quarter or more of the hanging space and clothes I never wore took up probably half of what was left. After a few hours of hard work I had this:
A HUGE bag of clothes to give away. Plus a pile probably half that size of clothes to be put up–mostly to be put into quilts or photographed before they were given away. Plus a smaller pile of things to be put away in drawers and not hung.
After some rearranging and sorting, my side of the closet looked like this:
Probably a quarter of what I started with, with plenty of space to sperate work from casual wear. And my happy hubby? He now has the same amount of space on the opposite side of the closet. Amazing. : )
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A few months ago, I found a set of metal letters on clearance at Target. Being the text junky that I am, I simply had to get them. Once I got home, I was delighted to find that the box was fairly heavy weight matte board. Then and there I decided I needed to collage it and it needed to be a rainbow. Cue letting it sit. And sit. And sit some more.
Today, I felt like playing with paper, so I pulled it back out and took a first pass. It’s a lot less elaborate than I initially envisioned, but I realized that too much more was going to seriously compete with the letters. The letters still need to be affixed. They are pretty heavy, so I’m thinking a heavy duty epoxy or something. But for now, step one is complete! Woot!
(We’re just going to ignore the fact that my crafting area looks like a hurricane hit.)
More pictures on My Flickr Account if you want to see.
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In my Etsy shop I sell dragonlings (as I mentioned yesterday) and flower cards. Today, I began work on sets for the shop. After folding 70 cards, I started in on tonal sets–blue, pink, brown, orange, and purple. Each card has a different saying, but each set also has a theme–birthdays, wedding/anniversaries, love, friendship, and thank yous.
This was a big step forward because usually I prefer to do single cards. I’ve decided to make a concentrated effort to get more sets up in the shop and this was step 1. The cards still need their leaves and appropriate labeling (maybe tomorrow?) before they can get their beauty shots taken and get listed, but hey, baby steps! ^_^
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On one of my blogs I was tagged to do a handwriting meme. I spruced it up with some doodles of my little dragonling muses. One is holding a pen and another a sheet of blank paper. I sell my dragonlings in My Etsy Shop and they are always turning up on my notepads and post-its. I love the little critters, they never fail to make me smile. : )
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Today’s making was delayed by very, very good news– my husband is now gainfully employed! *tosses confetti*
So in honor of his new job I made brownies. and they totally count for my thing-a-day. Since I’m new to wordpress it took me a few min to figure out how to post to this durn thing, but I prevailed! : ) Since immediate food transference through the internet has not yet been accomplished, here are tasty, tasty pictures for your consumption. ; )
First up, the ingredients. It may be box mix but they are consistently good (and complimented) brownies–just don’t overmix!
Next up, tossing them all together. I love the way egg yolks float around when you bake.
All mixed up and ready to go in the oven (and it only took 6 minuites to get to this point, even with photo documentation, I ♥ box mixes)
And…the end result. Mmmmmm.
