weirdos

oh my gosh we are so weird. seriously. the other day, we cleaned the house and it took a while because it was dirty. it looks clean in pictures because i shove things out of the way. anyway...mark vacuumed out new rug and all the shag was neat and orderly and so pretty looking. then i went in to dust and i stood on the rug and mark was all sorts of mad about it because of my ONE footprint. so i climbed over the love seat and on to the couch and dusted the rest of the furniture while he vacuumed my footprint out. now i find that we are walking on the furniture instead of the blasted rug. what the?! still no footprints but come on!!
this one is just about me. i think that i think i am a pioneer. i am all about baking and cooking and sewing and the other day, i needed butter so i went to the store and thought, i bet i can make butter cheaper than this. seriously, i am NOT A FREAKING PIONEER! so i looked it up online and started shaking my cream into butter. do you have ANY IDEA how long that takes? REALLLLLLLLLLY long and your arm gets tired and you tell yourself how stupid you are about 1 million times and then make your husband finish up and then see the fruits of your (or his) labor and taste it and realize it is not that good and you are not a pioneer.
weird dorks, that is what we are. ps. i got a job. kind of. it is a temp job until christmas so i can go home for a long time. yee haw!!

furniture!!!

our furniture is finally here and we are loving having somewhere to sit besides our bed or the kitchen table. so here it is. i made those pillows and was thinking they were pretty cute until we had mark's friend over for dinner and he said, " oh going for a southwest theme huh?" well, not the look i was going for so please tell me if it looks southwest to you.

so here is a close up of the pillows.

southwest?
here is one of our three new lamps! totally on sale!our old bookcase in a new locale

coffee table...obviously needs some decoration. oh and the shaggy rug that is so soft

one of our 2 end tables.

the view from the couchi hung up these plates that i have been wanting to hang for awhile in the "dining room".
is this too circular? see the pumpkin for fall and the table runner my mom sent us. thanks ma.
now onto the guest room. here it is from the hallway. those are the curtains i made. still debating so i have not made the others yet.

the guest bed. very comfy so plan your trips soon.
and a fairly dark close up of the curtains. sorry.
and here is the fabric... just so you have a better feel. should i make the others or just bag these.

so to recap, i need your opinions on the southwestness of the living room, the curtains and the roundness of the plate display. thanks!

were you wondering?

were you wondering why my blog is so lame?
sorry, nothing cool has happened!!
were you wondering how spokane is? still not my favorite!! but it is growing on me.
were you wondering how mark is liking school?
he is liking it but is a little burned out. he is in the throes of midterms and there is so much reading!
were you wondering if i had any friends yet?
still no. sadly. i thought i was more likable. sigh. the good news is that mark has friends!
were you wondering if i had a job?
well...er....no. not yet.
moving on...
were you wondering if we had our new furniture yet?
no...but....IT'S COMING TOMORROW!!!!!
were you wondering if i had turned into a seamstress?
you betcha!!! i tried one project and failed miserably! seriously so bad but then i got back on the sewing horse and have made pillows! and curtains! whoa! i will post pictures soon.
were you wondering about our primary class?
well they are great. a little rowdy but oh man they are funny. mark laughs all the way through primary now. even when they are being naughty.
were you wondering about mark's neck beard?

still there and so long! kinda not my favorite but i am also a little intrigued by it. i think he may keep it until christmas to see how long it gets. also he may be abe lincoln for halloween.

well, that is all i can think you would be wondering about. i will be better about the blog now. promise.

Happy FALL!!

recipe blahg

hey, check out another blog of mine with recipes here : www.aforkandspoon.blogspot.com. it is relatively new so there are not many recipes yet but there will be. also please make the pumpkin soup recipe on there. it is so so good and will make it taste like fall!!!

i am finished!

this shouldn't surprise you but i finished the birdie sling!!! (i became semi obsessed with it's completion) it turned out pretty nice. there are a few things that i could improve on but I DID IT!!!! and i did it alone without handing it to my mom and having her do the hard parts and me sew the straight lines. i did have to call her quite a bit though. anyway, here are some pics! also i never finish projects so this is a big deal and also i have not sewed (sewn?) since high school and i can not follow patterns very well but this one worked out for me and i made pleats and gussets and i have no idea what a gusset really is!! (well kind of now i do but.... still!)

one sidethe insidethe other side (i know they are the same but i MADE this!!) call me martha. and i mean washington not stewart because i bet she was crafty too.

sew on and sew forth

this shouldn't surprise you but i am not crafty one tiny little bit although i would like to be and i pretend i am. so this week i am going to take up sewing again and i have a project and the lady at the store told me she was sure i could do it. so here it is:


the birdie sling

and the exterior fabricand the accent fabricthe lining fabric does not match at all but it wont show and is a fabric i love.
see, it's weird and i knew you would think that but it won't show and i think it will be cute!! wish me sewing luck (heaven knows i need it). and these may be your christmas and birthday gifts!

our house, thus far.

sorry kole, this has been hard because i am computerally challenged. so, here is our humble abode thus far! we are waiting for our new furniture and i have no pictures of the guest room/office because i want to do befores and afters. so maybe the next post. anyhow, welcome. here above is the front door and the wall of the front door. here below since blogger won't let me type there is the bookcase and the view from the front door to the dining room. the arched door leads to the hall and the bedrooms and the door next to the wreath leads to the kitchen. the tiny kitchen. and the last shot is from the dining room into the living room (imagine it with furniture and a rug!!!!!)


the dining area
<----------- here we have the kitchen. it is little but it works marvelously. here is the fridge and clementine then a little shelf we have, then the view from the door from the dining room, then our rad floor (which mark loves and also told me it was mauve before we moved in. i am so glad it is not mauve!!!!) so, that is the kitchen and if you come, i will make you whatever you want to eat. it might not be good but i will try my darndest.







next we have our bedroom. now please, please keep in mind that we need a lot of stuff on the walls and i know a lot of what we have is uber dorky but bear with me people. we are poor. bed. dresser, walls, blah. you know the drill.











the hall from the bathroom













and the bathroom. narrow and cool tile. sweet eh?

fit the part

so, this shouldn't surprise you but the other day, mark and i were sitting in church and one of the guys from the bishopric came up to us and asked if we would talk to him after sacrament meeting. so we sat there and wondered what he could want. mark thought he wanted to ask us to speak and i thought that he wanted us to teach primary. so we sat there and listened to announcements and such and then all of the sudden the man who had spoken to us earlier as asking from the pulpit if we would stand. so we did. and then he called us to be primary teachers. then he got really flustered and said, "um, you need to sit down now" and then he explained to everyone that we hadn't been asked to be primary teachers yet. he was so flustered and the whole congregation was laughing. it was quite humorous. anyhow, so that is it, we are going to teach the 4 and 5 year olds. i am excited but a little leery. do you think the kids are going to listen to this man?:
hello, he has a neck beard. more evidence. it might frighten small children. so, do you think they will listen??he assures me they will. wish us luck, but at least this will keep my mind from wandering in relief society as it is wont to do.

eye

dear friends,

thanks for the concern about the eye but what should have excited you about that last post was the kitchen aid!!!!! oh well. not all of us can get excited about kitchen appliances. anyhow, they eye is not a good story. i fell asleep with contacts in and i think there was something in my eye and it got scratched around all night. so i am still dealing with the effects (or is it affects?). let that be a lesson to you all. do not sleep in contacts....but i probably still will once this confounded eye heals.

loves, meg

oh man oh man oh man

she's here, she's here, she's here!!! my little clementine kitchen aid. oh wowie. now i must get to baking. except i scratched my eye last night and i look like the devil and can not keep it open or from watering in yummy treats so baking may have to wait. i am going to start a tally at the end of all my blogs now of all the things i need.
like this:
job: 0
friends in spokane:1 (mark)
good attitude:0
kitchen aid mixer:1!!!! yahoo
new living room furniture: in 2-3 weeks!!!! yeee
better attitude: it's coming
scratched eye: priceless (what the?)
lameness: in abundance!!!!