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friends, isn't this so pretty. well my friend susan is selling these in her etsy shop. she and he husband made them!! so cute for a kid's room so go order some. she also has some other really cool prints so check them out. here is the link to her etsy shop

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were you wondering how my day is going? oh thanks for asking. it sucks. here is why. i feel like crap and i have a nyquil hangover. also here is the best part. i was leaving for work this morning and i was carrying a pumpkin (already embarrassing). i was carrying the pumpkin to the garbage can and also my work bag. also i had on slippers. because they look like shoes and they make me feel cozy at work. (don't judge, they look like shoes!) so unbeknownst to me, jack freaking frost decided to come last night and make things all icy. well in his trickery, it just looked wet. so i went down the stairs paying no heed to their treacherousness. well of course i fell ALL the way down them and of course the pumpkin flew out of my hands and all the contents of my bag. and of course someone just happened to be walking by my house right then at 8 in the fricking morning and had a front row view. typical. i just sat on the bottom step in pain and embarrassment and then finally got up just as mark approached the scene of the accident. he laughed. he will regret that later. oh how my butt is so sore! so sore. there is going to be a huge bruise and you better believe i am going to blog the picture of it. i need sympathy people. then i got to work where i could really use on e of those inflatable donuts to sit on and realize that i have forgotten my phone and brought the wrong lunch. best. day. ever. good thing my laughy husband felt bad for me and remedied the forgotten things. what a guy, he would be almost perfect except for his penchant for laughing at me all the time. sigh. woe is me. woe is my bum.

a scroungy home is coming along

ok, i have done a few more projects around the house and so of course i need some opinions. please try not to be too harsh because most of them i like. here is our bed before. i liked this bed but the blues were really hard to find anything to match with so i changed them.......to this. what do you think? the whole time i was thinking of my friend darci who is not a fan of red and thinking she would hate this! but i like it and it made a lot more things possible.

there is a slight problem, the curtains look like bandannas (thank you matt) but i sort of accidentally miscalculated the amount of fabric i ordered. oops! so bandannas it is. sigh. oh well they still look better than boring windows. (sort of)

this little lovely is in a frame and a collage that for some reason i didn't get a picture of. oh well. these were my valentine cards last year and i loved them.

i was reading on a diy website to use ceiling rosettes as wall art. well i couldn't really find rosettes but i found ceiling tiles and they were 100% free!!! also they are big and make a blank wall not blank anymore. since we are poor, i have to make up my own wall hangings. frustrates me to no end since i lack the creativity gene.

this next homemade wall art is a collage of some of our many wedding cards. i thought it was a fun idea but maybe you might think it lame. not quite as cool as i had hoped but at least no more blank walls in the bedroom. i do not heart blank walls.
we got this huge vase for 2 dollars at a garage sale and it has been sitting empty for months so i bought some flowers and such at pier 1 and went to town. flower arranger i am not but oh well.
painted our star red. it was yellow before. also here is some of matt's photography from thailand.

and here is our pioneer quilt. just so you know how pioneer like i am. this is the ohio star pattern and my childhood neighborhood made it for us for our wedding. pretty. and so warm. so that is our new bedroom. now i will show you some "art " projects i made that are totally embarrassing and many of your pre-k children could have made them.

for the dining room. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

and for the living room (oh the shame). where did i get the idea i could decorate. (an emoticon who is giggling at herself while shrigging her shoulders and putting her hands up.)

stoner

last night mark had a tutorial for school so he was gone for the evening. usually after work, i am tired and not really up for doing much except hanging out or reading or watching a movie. for some reason last night, i was a cleaning whirlwind and i took pictures to prove it. here is my oven guts all ready to be cleaned. my oven!!! i hate cleaning the oven.

then to show you the truth of what our house looks like, here were the dishes we had left in the sink. i thought mark should do them and he thought i should so there they sat piling up for 3 days! gross.

here they are all cleaned.(but not put away because i HATE that job, not sure why.) also i put clean sheets on the bed, straightened up the rest of the house and got the oven mostly cleaned. there is still some thanksgving dinner baked on their pretty good so i will work on it tonight.

see how scroungy i look? i wish you could have seen the super sweet outfit i was wearing. it was so so hot. mark laughed at it when he came home. see my drugged out eyes and blank stare?

i did all of this in one hour. i was a cleaning lady on overdrive and do you want to know my secret? i was on speed. i haven't been a user for months and then i found this jewel in my fridge from my parents' thanksgiving visit. delish. i may become a regular user again.

i just read through this and it doesn't really sound like i did that much but it felt like it okay people, it felt like it.

insight

marriage has offered me a more personal glimpse into the life of my darling mark. it is funny to notice new things about him all the time. here are a few

1. he does this little hum thing under his breath a lot. i ask him what he is humming and he is like, "i am not humming. what are you talking about?" but it's it there, promise and it is cute.
2. he is the most thorough cleaner i have ever met. he scrubs our floors until they shine and our dishes are sparkling (no dishwasher ugh). in fact, when we do the dishes together he will rinse and will look at a dish i have cleaned for inspection and will toss it back into the sink if it is not to his high standards. so now he is the washer while i rinse and dry. this cleanliness also carries over to personal hygiene. he practically scrubs himself raw in the shower. it is amazing. also his hair. shampoos and conditions so thoroughly. then when he dries off, wow. i have never seen anything like it. i love it.
3. he talks to himself. he denies this up and down but it is true. believe me. also he makes really cute hand gestures as he is writing emails to people as if he is having a conversation. darling.
4. he likes to make fun of me. this is nothing new and if you read the last post, can you blame him? but i will ask him what he is laughing at and he will always say "i wasn't laughing?" i think he likes to make me look crazy. so he is more of a liar than i thought because he IS laughing.
5. remember my worries about our primary class and the beard? well have no fear. the class is in love with him. in love. even the boys. i will talk and they will be off in their own world and chatting and he will start to talk and they all snap forward, become still as mice and look at him with reverence and love. it sucks.

marriage is fun.
i like having someone to sleep with. if i move in the night he always pats me to make sure i am ok. funny.
i also like having our own place and our own stuff. our own messes and our own little life. i finally feel like more of an adult. especially with my funny little husband.