Saturday, June 11, 2011

Procrastination is what Anitra's do best!!

Hi my name is Anitra and I have a sever case of, "I'll do it tomorrow's".... sheeewww i am glad i got that off my shoulders! Now that i have admitted to my problem, i can start working on correcting it! But that is a project best suited for tomorrow ;) Any-who, lets talk about the past. these past few weeks have been spent tying up loose ends (OH so many loose ends) and, of course, starting some new things to put off!

Case Number... lets just call it one(to simplify things): The garden! I spent the last bit of winter building a nice looking box, and then didnt fill it till mothers day!  OBSERVE:

Honey Dew

pretty cucumbers all in a row

my Box filled with bug bait*

a view from the tomato cam
* it has been a fair amount of weeks since planting and apparently i am not the only creature in the back yard that likes egg plants, and they have since been destroyed MERCILESSLY. But all is not lost, metaphorically speaking (because they really are all gone) i shall take my revenge, i have made a purchase of organic insect torture--> ORANGE OIL. i shall melt the exoskeleton's of those pesky bugs and let them dehydrate to death, all without damaging what is left of the environment, behold the power of Citrus!

But really the garden has been quite rewarding, no food yet, but it is nice to get out of the house to water it and pull up weeds, or just go sit next to it and ACT like i am doing something, just so i am not in the house!

Case #2: Baby gear! i finally finished the EPIC ruffle binding on the baby blanket. Lets have a look at the evidence:

I didnt put batting in it, and my thinking was because little Paislee is a summer baby, so I didnt want it to be too hot. Though in hind site i should have, so she could have a cushy blanket to roll around on.
Also in the box of goodies a plethora of essential, and then a few more hand made bits of cuteness!
A knitted balloon bunny,  courtesy of a free lion brand pattern!

some wool soakers designed by yours truly 

This one is my favorite, Ruffled Baby Bottoms
pattern to come, as soon as i write it :)
Case #3: Board and Battened living room: It only too a few tantrums and more back pain than it may have been worth but I can finally chalk up a win for house insert my last name!

Heres a Before-ish photo
Carpet removed and holes being patched. There used to be this really ugly built in book case on the side wall, it was so old i think it may have been structurally significant to the house, we took it out the week we bought the house!

After:
new carpet and new blinds... and there is something else different,  I just cant put my finger on it.

a new perspective

a new light fixture(lowes), and some pretty hooks (ikea)
my new window frame!! My favorite feature!
Its the little details that make the biggest difference

a huge upgrade, multi directional air flow!!

Tamper Resistance built right in!!!
Now we have a few more projects going on, the first of which is removing all the carpet in the house and cleaning the floor underneath, on Husbands last trip out of town, some friends came over for what was suppose to be a quick project (i should know better by now, that no project is a quick one) we were going to pull up the spare room and hall way carpet. We wound up pulling up the stair well carpet and the upstairs hall way also, and then discovering the disaster that lay beneath, spent the rest of the day scrubbing what ever this stuff was off of the floor!


Thats all the finished stuff for now and the rest will wait until tomorrow... or maybe the day after that 



....well eventually 

1 comment:

  1. love all of the green!!! And the soakers are so cute! I can't wait to put mine on my little one when she gets here!

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