Linkage:: SCARF Tutorials

I have absolutely no patience for sewing right now.  I just got into minor fisticuffs with my Brother SE270 over a zigzag stitch gone ugly.  But I just know that will end soon.  Right?  

Right?

Right?

Yeah, that's what I thought. 

So here are a few scarves on my growing list of things to try before it's too hot to wear a scarf in Texas:

Make It and Love It

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Joy Beadworks

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Make It and Love It

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Hope Studios

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Lovely, aren't they?

Call it nesting...

No phone call yet...but I just know it will be this week!

Meanwhile, here's me playing on Polyvore, daydreaming of a girls' room...

The Girls' Room by kristensunna on Polyvore.com

What are you all doing this week?  Anyone else nesting?

Home Hair Cuts Gone Bad.

Man, I just casually mention I cut my bangs.  Never intending to ever post my bangs.  Ever.  Then you people have to comment about seeing them.  And I'm such a sucker for comments, that here I am posting a picture of me standing in my bathroom.  Sucker.

Yeah, so the side swept bangs lasted for oh, maybe, 6 hours when I gave myself whiplash from keeping them out of my eyes.  Really how do those Zach Efron teenager people live like that?  No fashion slave am I.

So I parted my bangs and this here is the look that is sticking.  Camera strategically positioned to cover my adult acne.  Nice.

Now, not even an hour after I took this picture, I walked in on my 6 year old daughter cutting her 4 year old brother's hair "just like Daddy's."  For those of you who don't know Daddy: Daddy shaves his head every Monday morning.   Awesome look for my man. Not so awesome for my little boy.

I called Daddy and told him.  He asked if I took pictures.  I blog, don't I?  So here's Boo before Belle got to far into her job:

                                            

Then I got the worst migraine I've ever had in my life.  Like thowing-up-with-an-eye-mask-on-migraine. Double nice.

And did I mention the phone rang?  Yup-heart was pounding, palms were sweating.  We won a 4-day, 3-night cruise to a wonderful destination, absolutely free.  As politely as I could, I asked the nice lady to take us off her list.

More New Years Cheer to follow.  Just got to get out of this funk first.

Two Calendars I Spent Money On This Year

Each year Judy, our lovely State Farm Insurance Lady sends us a Norman Rockwell Calendar.  It's nice and we do use it.  So it never occurs to me to PAY for a calendar.  But I came across these two calendars recently and decided they were worth the money to try them.

The Well Planned Day is a homeschool and household spiral planner published by Home Educating Family.  Their website has a fullscreen preview, so you can see all the planning you can do with it!  And because I ordered this one now in the middle of the school year, it was half price, $12.47.

I heard of The 2010 Day-to-Day Sewing Calendar from another blogger who has two of her patterns in the set.  This is $7.49, which was just enough to get another order to $25 for the free shipping.

Neither of these companies are PajamaMama sponsors (yet...).  I get nothing for promoting them, just thought you might be interested in my findings! I also thought I'd show you that I'm capable of having a thought not centered on our adoption this week.  See, I went almost an entire post without mentioning the phone.  See?

Do you spend money on calendars or planners?

How to Guarantee The Phone Not To Ring

Step 1: Never leave the house, even though your agency has every phone number you've ever been associated with.

Step 2:  Mentally calculate West Coast time, where your agency is, every 15 minutes.

Step 3:  Make husband leave family cell phone home, and keep checking for a signal and battery power on the hour.

Step 4:  Keep all house phones within reach at all times.

So far, this simple plan has worked for me.  

Yes, I'm going crazy.  But she is going to be worth it.  I just know it!

Repurposing Christmas Ornaments

The tree is in the attic.  The stockings are dehung with care.  All but one ornament is tucked away for next December.  I saved this one from the the storage bin to admire all year.

Do you have any lingering Christmas?

Salvation comes from the LORD; May your blessing rest on your people.  Psalm 3:8

Hello all, and Happy 2010!  We are just back from a wonderful holiday visit where we saw lots of snow and loved ones.  Once I get through unpacking and finding a home for all our new toys, I will be back to posting more...can't wait!

and no, the phone has still not rung. {not that I made mr. smarty keep the phone on his person the entire trip or anything....}

oh, and I gave myself bangs {side swept ones} using a youtube video by someone named Kandee. and I love them {my bangs...and Kandee's videos.}!

How were your holidays?

2010 Book & Movie List

I find myself always clicking on others' links to their book lists and movie lists in hopes to find either a good recommendation or a connection to those who have enjoyed the same things.

And I assume, if you have clicked on my list, you are looking for the same.

I hope you find both.


Books read in 2010:

1. The Time Traveler's Wife
2. The Kite Runner
3. Rees Howells: The Intercessor
4. Training Hearts-Teaching Minds
5. The Book Thief
6. Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance 
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns  
8. Creating Short Fiction  (in the process)
9. If God is Good  (in the process)
10. The Backyard Homestead (skimming)
11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
12. It's All Good Hair
13. A Case for Faith
14. The New Square Foot Gardening
15. Prayer for Beginners
16. There are No Accidents
17. Redeeming Love
18. Steady Days
19. The Help
20. The Color Purple
21. Where Are You Now?
22. Priceless
23. Scream-Free Parenting
24. Born to Run
25. Have a New Kid by Friday
26. Take Three
27. Take Four
28. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
29. My Father's Daughter
30. At Home in Mitford
31. Eat Pray Love
32. Little Bee
33. The Secret
34. The Missing
35. Choosing to See
36. Digging to America
37. The Telling
38. Suicide by Sugar
39. The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook

Movies seen in 2010:

1. Comedian
2. Away We Go
3. The Devil's Backbone
4. 500 Days of Summer
5. Fiddler on the Roof
6. The Importance of Being Ernest
7. The Conversation
8. A Serious Man
9. Good Hair
10. The Hurt Locker
11. Up in the Air
12. New York, I Love You
13. Monsoon Wedding
14. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
15. An Education
16. Where the Wild Things Are
17. The Blind Side
18. Fantastic Mr. Fox
19. Crazy Heart
20. Funny People
21. The Proposal
22. Captain Abu Raed
23. Invictus
24. Reign Over Me
25. The Last Station
26. Eclipse
27. The Last Song*
28. Cop Out*
29. Bounty Hunter*
30. Date Night*
31. Beautiful Losers
32. Fame
33. A Prophet
34. Youth in Revolt
35. Terribly Happy
36. Time Traveler's Wife
37. Do the Right Thing
38. Murder on the Orient Express
39. Paper Heart
40. Sin Nombre
41. Inception
42. New In Town*
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic*
44. The Back Up Plan*
45. District 9
46. Herb & Dorothy
47. The Baxter
48. Art and Copy
49. Paper Clips
50. Last Chance Harvey
51. My Flesh and Blood
52. Hot Fuzz
53. The Ghost Writer
54. Moon
55. Singles
56. Tin Men
57. Glengary Glenross
58. Precious
59. 8 Mile
60. Gigantic
61. Toy Story 3
62. The Purple Rose of Cairo
63. Moon
64. Eat, Pray, Love
65. Saving Sarah Cain
66. It's Complicated
67. The Other Guys
68. Priceless

*saw on 18 hour plane trip :)
*or saw while Mr. Smarty was out of town :)

Have a book or movie list?  If we're kindred spirits, let me know,