People and their Trash

It's Monday, which means that it is trash day, and I get to see how wasteful people are. The neighbor with the biggest amount of trash has all of their black plastic bags lined up one the sidewalk and their son (thirty something has family of his own) backs over one of the bags and it gets stuck in the wheel well and drags the bag on to the street where he proceeds to drive away leaving trash in his wake. I would love to hear what you think about this?

A Little Elbow Grease to Bring it Back to Life

Before

I have an antique table that has needed some major love, since the cats have used it as a launching pad, I usually have a table clothe on top but since our house is going to be on a historical tour I wanted to show off this piece of furniture. So yesterday I sat down with the necessary supplies and went to work.

after

Spring Motto Less is More

Almost a year ago I posted pictures of my then newly organized studio, (above) here is my studio with the motto of Less is more! (below)



Having put our house on the market a few weeks ago and all the preparatory work that you do before it is ready to show for the public. Over the weeks leading up I started removing things and just clearing out all clutter, moved furniture to optimize the space, put color where color was needed. Our house is so much easier to live in now thus this is the year of Less is More!

Unfinished Piece

I really like the chain portion of this necklace, there are 5 different kinds which gives it some interesting depth.


I think I need to add some chunky wire to the ribbon part of the necklace to create a bit of contrast.

Duran Duran and Experimental Necklace Making

I just finished making this necklace and I am wondering what you all think? It's a new type of design that I am experimenting with, while watching Artist Main: Duran Duran on VH1

Time to get Creative

I am finishing up my contract job and have my house is immaculate so now I have time to get to work on more necklaces. A new Michaels just opened up and I have been meaning to check it out, it is huge as it was a former circuit city and packed with great craft ideas. I only explored the bead and chain section as I didn't want to empty out the checking account! Here is a snap shot of my work area and yes my mannequin is wearing a bra!

Woah how the time fly's

I spent the previous six weeks getting the house in tip top shape and ready to sell! Started back up at my contract job and am actually enjoying sitting on my butt all day with a walk at lunch! Hopefully I can get caught up on some much needed rest, the body is a wreck having fallen a couple of months ago and cleaning and moving stuff!

Anyway I am spending the morning relaxing in my super clean well organized house doing nothing for the first time in months. But since I have been extremely intent on organizing and always moving around doing something, I still feel like I should be doing something while relaxing...So I decided to work on getting my inbox cleaned out as it has a ridiculous amount of data in it. Using gmail has been super helpful, being able to batch label and the different filters have allowed me to half the amount of emails I have in my account. If you don't have a gmail account you really should have a gmail account!

Daily Dose of Inspiration...Outdoor Animals and the People that Own Them!

We are going on our 4th year of living in this house, with neighbors very close! For instance the side of our neighbors garage is part of our fence, so we get to sit and stare at their paint chipping, shingle spewing garage. I have gone over every spring since we have lived here to let them know it is getting worse and starting to rot and within a month my rose bush (that somewhat covers the side of the garage) will be in full bloom and a force to reckon with. They have said every year they were going to take care of it and every year they don't. I am being super stubborn about this but realize that I am the only person to get the job done!

Back to the title of this post, they also have a cat, who is pretty young and they just let him roam around, he doesn't know the law of the land, like their last cat. So this little stinker keeps jumping up on the fence when my cats are having a peaceful time outside in their fenced in area! Also, I have my suspicions that the cat hasn't been fixed, it has been spraying the bushes in the front yard! Yes, most disgusting I was out trimming the foliage and it reeked of cat pee!

So there are a few things wrong with this picture, for instance YOUR FREE ROAMING cat isn't FIXED! There are a lot of random cats in the neighborhood but most of them wear collars and are rather docile and not very street smart and FIXED. But there are a handful of alley cats that don't need to have anymore baby's! My second point is my yard smells like cat piss! Lastly, this backyard is MY kitties playground, not yours!

Furthermore, if you have dogs and live in our neighborhood, you need to walk them!!! We have tiny yards, yeah you over there with the flying shingles you have 4 dogs and in a postage stamp sized yard!

I could carry on for a bit longer but I will spare you the pain!