The Trials of a Busy Mom

A few photos

I’ve had a few days of craftiness lately. Not that I’m not crafty, but craft-y in the sense of finally finishing some projects I’ve had going on for quite some time. First of all, I made myself a clock. I’ve been eyeing those large 24 inch clocks but they’ve all been so expensive (over $100 seems excessive for a clock, in my cheap and humble opinion). So, when I saw a wonderfully personalized one at my friend linda's clockLinda’s, I was fascinated and asked her how she had done it. She told me it was quite easy and she could get me all the instructions and even the letters and numbers through her company, Just Stick em up
So, I’ve been working on this clock, and then anxiously waiting for the actual clock parts to arrive so I could put the whole thing together. Well, I finally got everything done, and it looks like this:
clock

My sister did some drawings of my kids (for Christmas), and it’s taken me a while to get frames for them, and decide where they were going to go, but I finally got those hung, too. This isn’t the greatest picture, but it looks kind of like this:
pics

And with the clock there, too, it looks kind of like this: clock on wall

So, I’m pleased with the whole thing. I will probably move that clock to a bigger wall when I figure something out, but that’s the joy of decorating, it’s never done, and since I live in this house and see my walls all day, I get tired of them, and need to change things out frequently.

Oh, and I also painted my kitchen bench red, and will someday paint the whole table (don’t hold your breath, I’ve got 5 kids coming over for playgroup today so there will certainly be no painting right now). But the bench is fun, so far, and it looks like this: bench It’s a bit on the orange side in that picture, but when I get the black glaze over it, it should tone it down a bit.

And just to show you that I’m not exactly the picture of efficency as you may think from all these lovely photos, I’ll just show you this one, of a mishap that demonstrates what can happen when diswashers go awry.

knife

I’ve almost got that burned plastic smell out of the kitchen by now.

Oh, and one more–I know, I know, stop already. But now I have to brag about my children, who were in a DARLING play on Saturday. It was called “Once upon a lilypad”, and it was the culmination of a class the kids have taken through Highland City. Megan was a snake, and Natalie was a turtle. How cute it this?
girls

2 Comments

  1. Mich

    Love the bench color, love the drawings (she’s so good!), love the clock, love the darling children, love that I’m not the only one who inadvertently melts things–LOVE YOU!

  2. Mel

    Wow! Send some energy my way, please. I’ve got a stack of stuff THIS BIG . . .

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