getting crafty with em

honey's out of town again.  he left for st. louis this morning and doesn't get back til wednesday night.  so instead of making dinner or something when baby got up from nap, we went to hobby lobby!  if you check out any pictures i've posted that take place in our front yard, you may notice our fall wreath hanging on the front door.  i never took it down.  left it there clear through winter and now spring.  well, on april 16th at 8:10pm, that wreath came down!  and then my door was naked for a few hours while i crafted something new.

while baby ate dinner, i came up with this...

but then realized that with my house being on the right side of the street, the door handle on the right side of the door, and our driveway and walk way also on the right... those flowers would be better placed on the left.    

so...

BAM.  i made it happen.

which really isn't impressive at all since you just buy a $6 grape vine wreath and a stem of 50% off flowers, cut, and place.  i didn't want to hot glue it because a) i'm lazy and b) my talents do not lie in crafting.  i decided securing  the flowers with bread ties would be best because a) i'm cheap and b) i have a million of them.  this actually didn't happen though because a) i'm lazy and b) i thought it would be too difficult for me to manage.  so if you come to my house and are critiquing my wreath while you wait for me to come to the door, feel free to just do a littler maneuvering with those flowers, they are literally just poked in.

there's a reason tutorials for this kind of wreath do not exist.  and that you won't see this wreath going viral on pinterest.  

total cost $11.  and now it's on my door.  hopefully it doesn't look too terrible in the daylight... i just wanted it out of my kitchen asap so i could clean.  seriously looked like i had a team of lumberjacks over for dinner.

while i made this wreath at midnight, i hung out with my single sister emmy.  on speaker phone.  it used to be skype but then my laptop needed charging.  speaker phone on my new razer phone.  i'll rant about that phone situation another time.  ps- tonight i found myself wishing for a bluetooth.

 

but i came up with an alternative solution.  i'm just glad the speaker phone comes out of those convenient little holes you see there.

and then emmy and i said goodbye and i proceeded to clean the kitchen (typical before i go to bed at night) and eventually found myself hand scrubbing the floors and baseboards (not typical... ever).  

so that whole a) and b) crap?  a lesson on why you shouldn't blog at 2am.

ps- i tried on that new blue dress so emmy could see it on skype.  and then, because i'm lazy, i never changed out of it.  in case you were wondering, it is just as comfortable as yoga pants and completely correct clothing for crafting and kitchen cleaning.  

now how do you like that alliteration?!

modern art

aka... kids and technology.

i swear these days kids come out of the womb knowing how to program computers and other fancy stuff i'm not even aware of.  over thanksgiving baby girl held her uncle's ipod for about 7 seconds before she had figured out how to unlock it and open music apps.  seriously?!  

recently, she's taken an interest in our little camera.  it's just a normal point and shoot but she realized that she can watch videos of herself on there and she thinks that's super cool.  

she knows the on/off button and the button to press to get the video to play.  it's kind of impressive because i still get hazy on these things.  and she's only 19 months old.  this morning i woke up when chris did.  he got out and showered, while i moaned about how i stayed up too late and why was i already awake?!  when he turned off the showered i lazed* "baby's awake" and so he quickly put on clothes and then got her out of her crib, changed her diaper, and brought her downstairs to our room to hang out with him while he finished getting ready for work.  i remained in bed.  i actually remained in bed for almost an hour after she woke up which is strange because honey left for work and i remained in bed while baby wandered the house.  i was especially lazy this morning.  that's extreme... even for me.  

anyways, around the time honey was about to leave, baby girl grabbed our little camera from my nightstand.  but instead of watching videos like she normally does, she decided to take some pictures!  so my view wasn't always great, but i kept hearing that picture taking sound over and over while seeing the flash blind baby's poor eyes.  she pressed onward though, photographing much of our first floor.  i remained in bed.  but eventually she brought the camera back to me and this is what i can deduce from the pictures.

close up of baby's face.  i saw it happen.

same and same.

ditto and ditto.  lots of face flashing going on. 

this is in honey's office.  i'm guessing she was following him around as he gathered stuff for work.

office chair and map on wall behind his desk.

same and same.

this is honey's arm.  his shirt is actually misrepresented in this picture because really it's blue and white with no pink undertones.

unidentifiable wall or ceiling.  only baby knows.

our entertainment center back in the master bedroom.  

entertainment center in the great room.

the ceiling of the entryway nook to the master bedroom.

kitchen ceiling and window above the sink.

kitchen ceiling

kitchen still.

for someone like me, who is   (fill in the the blank)  , this is what modern art looks like.  sooo, although i know there are a lot of people with a sincere love of abstract art like the great sara snow** who wrote about it here, i've never been able to get myself to be one of those people.  in case you were wondering.

but if you are a self described trendy, artsy, new york loft, creative, hip, right-brain, organic, wears boho/hobo clothes type of person, would you like to purchase one of my baby's deep, meaningful, trendy, timeless, one of a kind prints?  it would look awesome on that brick wall of your awesome 150 sq/ft manhattan two bedroom apartment that you share with your 3 aspiring writer/actor/musician/artist roommates.  convo me on etsy*** and we can talk about sizing, canvas, frames, and pricing.

*not sure of the real meaning, but i intend for it to mean that i laid in bed and snobbishly moaned to my breadwinner husband to fulfill my motherly and wifely responsibilities.
**  she's really super great.  seriously.
*** i do not have anything to do with etsy.  buying, selling, window shopping, browsing for inspiration... nothing.  absolutely nothing.  you should know better.

it's a sad day

my baby is sick.

she officially has her first cold.

it sounds like she's breathing snot.

my poor baby girl.

;-(