So I got some flowers at a wedding I was shooting a while ago. They were beautiful and came in a lovely vase. I let them sit on my desk to simply look pretty. They did just that for as long as they could, but then they died. The thing is, they still looked pretty. So, I kept them there. Some thought it was weird, I thought it was beautiful. Then, I noticed one day that they had all fallen in such different and perfect directions and since they had died, they were frozen there. A couple of days ago decided to display them in a different way...on my wall. They are spaced perfectly each looking in a different direction. And now, I am loving them here so much! Who knew how long this little bouquet would bring me so much joy! Its still happening!

What do you think?
 

Awesome Day 29: Craftin 'Stumes!

Being the day before halloween, naturally it was the day to start thinking about a costume. I know, most of you had probably already bought, made and/or carefully planned out your costumes by now. But me? Well, I work better under pressure. So after work I met up with the boyfriend and we were off to buy supplies for our "stumes." We decided to be dinosaurs! We went to goodwill for hoodies and to JoAnns for everything else! Oh how I love JoAnns, the best, possibly biggest craft store in the world!

When we went home to start on them, we found that we were not the only ones still working on stuff. I had an apartment full of crafty halloweeners. I think at one point there was over 10 of us there all working away and fight over the glue guns. It was a beautiful mess! Our dinosaur stumes quickly transformed into monsters and I couldnt be more happy with the out come! I hand stitched each dot (and each dot on each dot) and all of the other wonderful little aspects of my monsta 'stume! The boyfriend gave up a little earlier and ended up hot gluing his spots. They both turned out beautifully!

Scary right?

Awesome Day 25: Crafty Cheer Up!

Today was a normal gloomy day in Portland. The clouds have officially moved in and they had been hanging pretty low today. I was in a gloom myself. I just felt heavy, and I was hating it. I didnt want to give in to it, I didnt want to give in to the gloom. So when I got home, I pulled out my craft box. I was going to create my way out of this gloom. I decided to make a necklace. I have had this beautiful tank top for years now that I have never been able to get rid of. It doesnt fit me anymore, but I just love it. So I decided to make a necklace out of it.  Just added some additional material and some feathers! It is beautiful and I love it.

There she is.

What do you think?

Awesome Day Four: S Meet Crafts, Lacey Meat Man!

So, my mondays are the only day during the week that I work with both of the littles all day. Sometimes its more tiring and sometimes its way more awesome! This day was AWESOME. Little O had been running a bit of a fever so her mom stayed home for the morning and I got to take S for an outing, just the two of us. S and I decided that we would have an AWESOME CRAFT DAY! We hopped in my jeep and headed to....JoAnns! Ive told you about JoAnn. She has the greatest most wonderful craft store ever! I told S that it was the biggest craft store in the world (a small fib) and he was soooo excited to see it! We ran around and looked at everything! We chased eachother and yelled way too loud! After we got our supplies we headed home. And after a quick nap, S and I made these ghosts! Soooo fun. We made a family! It was awesome.

A smaller, but still awesome, anecdote came from the door to door meat salesman. Yes, you read correctly. While the Littles were napping a guy knocked on the door and asked if we were interested in buying any steaks and having him deliver them regularly. I told him I was just the nanny and didnt think that my bosses wanted his steaks. He then inquired about where my home was located and asked if I would be interested in his steaks. I told him I was a veggetarian and figured this would be the surest way to get him out of the doorway. He said alright and left. However, 15 minutes later, another knock at the door and it is Mr. MeatMan again. He proceeds in acknoledging my veggetarianism while handing me a piece of paper with his name and number on it and then tells me to call him and he will take me to a particular veggetarian resturant in the pearl district by my apartment. It was very sweet actually. He was a bit nervous but very very bold. He wasnt bad looking by any means and had a bit of charm about him. I was in a bit of shock about it but told him I wouldnt be calling him because I have a boyfriend. He was a little bummed but I gave him heaps of credit on his approach. It took a lot of guts and I love those kind of bold gestures. Anyways, I thought it was pretty awesome.

Before I left, S showed me his new halloween costume! A dragon! So awesome and im so jealous.

Also, while the Littles napped, I made my own ghost! I meant for him to be a sleepy ghost, but everyone else thinks he is a stoner ghost.

What do you think?

Craft and Video Game Awesome Day One!

So yesterday I launched my 30 days of awesome! Let me tell you, it was awesome. The begining of my day was pretty standard, not a whole lot of awesome happenin on the work front. However a chill day of work is pretty awesome to me. After work I had a major decision to make...should I drive to JoAnns, or not? See, this JoAnns Fabrics is not your typical craft store, its a craft super store. It is the epitome of craft awesomeness and I just had to get there. It didnt matter to my that Mr. GPS (on my Ipod Phone) told me that with the friday after work traffic it would take me a half an hour just to get there. I had made up my mind and JoAnn was in my sights.

After purchasing more than I should have, as JoAnn always makes me do, I began the awesome journey home. Because of the awesome location of JoAnn and the awesome traffic still looming, I consulted Mr. GPS again to give me the best most awesome route home. He pointed me in the opposite direction of home and gave me an awesome 40 minute time estimation (I dont actually live very far from JoAnn on a regular day). After yelling some awesomely obscene words at Mr. GPS and perhaps giving him a bit of a beating, I decided to trust him and make the Uturn away from the route I was just gonna wing it with. Im so glad I did.

I was lead on an awesome trek through southeast Portland where I discovers awesome new neighborhood and awesome parks I never knew existed.  Then, while following an order from Mr. GPS, I steered my jeep onto a new road. I had never seen or heard of it before, it was big and had a highway feel to it. As I awesomely switched into freeway drive mode, pushing hard on the gas,  whipping my head from side to side making sure not to swipe anyone as I zip through lanes, I came to the top of an awesome hill. When I looked up I saw it, the sun setting over my wonderful city. I was looking at a side of Portland I had never seen. It was beautiful, I could see almost all the bridges all at the same time ( a huge feat, as one of Portlands nicknames is Bridge City). I could see the awesome Big Pink, the tallest building on the west side that is 4 blocks from my apartment so I can always gauge where my awesome dwelling is. It was just so beautiful. The frustration I had been feeling from being gone for 2 hours for a simple craft store run simply drifted away as I made my way over one of the bridges back to my side of town. It was awesome.

Once in my apartment I started on my awesome craft. I wanted to make an earring tree, or whatever those awesome things that hold your earrings are called. You see, I have this problem. Its not awesome. Its an organizational problem. I am the epitome of a creative mind, one of those people that have so much going on in their head at every given moment that I can never calm it enough to keep my surroundings in order. This is true for so many aspects in my life. Anyways, I have been particularly bugged by my disorganized jewelery lately and thought there was nothing more awesome than creating a space for it yesterday!

I made this awesome earring holder with some awesome lace and two awesome sticks. All held together with my favorite kind of glue...HOT! Hammered 3 nails in the wall for my necklaces too! I went through all my junky jewelery and got rid of everything that wasnt awesome. I made a tiny awesome step in the direction of organization! Yay for me!

 

After my awesome craft, we, my roomie Kait, Taylor, and Adumb, decided to go meet a couple other friends at the most awesome bar in town that just happens to be right next door to my Apartment 513! Ground Kontrol is the local Barcade! Thats right, its a bar AND an arcade. Im totally awesome at PacMan and I know and love all the dudes that work there! It was awesome, even when everyone left and I stayed to talk with Johnny and Aeden, two of my fave bartenders there. An awesome end to Awesome Day One!

This is me and Tay tryin to be hard waitin for the elevator.

Killin it at PacMan! Bad pic but you get the gist.

Mini Awesomes of the Day:
1. Chill day at work.
2. New route and view of Portland.
3. A guy sang a song out the window of a car to me about my beauty and boots on the way to GK.
4. Talking to Johnny and Aeden about their girl drama.
5. The boyfriend showed up at GK to have a midnight beer with me!

Oh and I have 2 awesome followers that have decided to GET AWESOME with me! Please follow their awesomeness too!
Lacey at Lacey in Love! (she also supplied the awesome pic at the top of this post!)
and
Angie at so called chaos!
And here is my awesome roommate Kaits awesome blog!

What did you think of my awesome day one? There's still time, anyone want to join in on the awesome?