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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Pinterest Project Week: Day Three

It was bound to happen. 2 of 3 of the projects I had planned for today bombed. Brutally. First, let's talk about what went right today. Thanks to my Mom and her sewing skills and confidence boost, I was finally able to hem the curtains in ours and Colin's bedroom. This item has been on my list since we moved in and for some reason, was difficult for me to just get done . Almost 1 year ago to the day I hung those curtains and pinned the hems and not until today was the job complete. If there is something I learned from having my first baby, is that you don't mess around with the darkness factor in their bedrooms. The darker, the better. Bottom line, no excuses, you make that room as pitch black as you possibly can. For us, that means a black out shade, black out curtains, and just for good measure, another layer of black out material between the two. That room is dark.

I was also able to find the key piece to the project that I am MOST excited about tackling this week. I have been on the hunt for this piece for quite some time and just when I thought I might have to give up hope, the basement of a local antique store saved the day. Just like that place always does.

So now for the brutalness. I had originally planned to make these today. I wanted some new prints to frame in our dining room and thought these would be nice. In my defence, I have no experience with acrylic paint and boy did it show. My prints looked like a goopy mess and this project was quickly abandoned. At least I already owned the paint therefore it only cost me a stock of celery which was cut off at the paint end and turned into a snack.

The next project on my list today was this. Again, it did not turn out at all. Jason and Jordan (Jason's brother) did their best to choke it back...I chose not to and ate leftovers from last nights stacked vegetable enchiladas instead. I am a big fan of substituting items in recipes that I may not have on hand and clearly, that is not possible in this recipe. I don't have a deep fryer or a wok and it showed. I didn't have any rice wine and again, it showed. Needless to say, this one will not be made again. It also probably didn't help that right in the middle of the cooking, Colin somehow found a dishwasher soap tab thing and ate a small part of it. I noticed pretty quickly and tried to get the grain out of his mouth but the vomit that came after (strategically projectiled onto one of only 2 pieces of carpet we have in this ENTIRE house) proved that I was too late. A quick call to poison control assured me that there was no problem and we moved on, however I will blame the suckiness of this meal on Colin. It's easy to blame things on him anyways :).

At this point in the day I was feeling pretty defeated until I remembered the last project I was going to tackle. This one I KNEW I couldn't screw up and I was right. How could you ever screw up these? I will now drown my sorrows in these all night long and am sure that they will do just the trick to catapult me into a new day of Pinterest awesomeness.

I will now go and eat my cookies and cry in Colin's extremely dark room. Actually, check that, I have about 400 feet of decking to stain and a few hours of daylight left. The cookies will have to wait.

1 comment:

  1. Can't believe that you don't remember doing vegetable stamping when you were much younger. I am sure we used celery, along with potatoes, carrots, broccoli, and anything else you can find. You can be sure that Colin will experience that at Grandma's house this year, so expect a lovely Mother's Day card! As for the cookies, they look yummy. It's a good thing I didn't eat your double stuffed Oreos yesterday! I was tempted!
    I don't want to tell you how many failures I had , mostly with a sewing machine but sometimes with a paintbrush, earlier in my life. Carry on - your success to failure ratio is pretty good!

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