Etsy

I don't think that I've raved about Etsy much before, and I don't know why I haven't! I love Etsy. Love. There are so many great things that you can buy that are handmade and eco-friendly, what can be better than that? Another thing I think is great is that the shipping is always super reasonable. Its not like ebay where you pay $2 for the item and then $25 for shipping. I love it.

My most recent Etsy purchase were two soapdishes, one for my bathroom and one for the kitchen, from the seller Sumiko. They looked pretty in the pictures, but when I got them, the pictures did not do them justice! They are beautiful. Even my husband thought that they were pretty cool :)

Here is the one I purchased for the bathroom:

The seller actually pressed a real Hydrangea leaf into the clay, so you can see the veins and everything. It's beautiful.

This is the one that I got for the kitchen, and its equally beautiful. The picture does not show how pretty the flowers are.

So my point is, if you haven't had a chance to check out ETSY yet, you should. You'll be surprised at what you can find.

wahoo for sewing

I'm pretty proud of myself today. I am wearing a sweater that a few months ago I decided I was going to throw away. I just hated the buttons. They were shiny flower shaped buttons with Rhinestone petals. Ugly and Childish, so the sweater sat in my closet. I didn't throw it away because its the only button up work sweater that I own. Then it lost a button. More hmmhawing about throwing it away, nobody would want it anyways.
Then, last night I decided that I needed to wear a sweater today. So I pulled it out, and remembered the button Fiasco. Then I remembered I had some buttons in my sewing box from my sewing class three years ago. I found an adorable set of retro-fifty white dome buttons that have been around forever. I remember seeing them in my moms sewing box growing up.
So, I popped off the nasty flowers, popped the big white domes on and voila! My sweater is adorable! It looks like a 50's housewife sweater or something, and I love it. Its my new favorite.
So, I'm pretty proud of myself for recycling my old sweater instead of purchasing a new one.
I need to sew more.

Burnin' down the house

So last night I made pumpkin bread when I got off work. I only had about two hours between jobs, so I thought that I would make it count. After it cooked, I took it out of the oven and set it on a burner to cool.
Fast forward to 10 minutes later, I smell something burning. I run to the kitchen and there is my pumpkin bread smoking like a chimney. C had decided he was going to make a hamburger, so he had turned that burner on, and forgot about it. I didn't notice that it was on, because why would an empty burner that hasn't been used for days be hot?
Ya, it almost caught on fire. C insisted that it would still be good, we just had to scrape off the burned bottom. Well the smoke from the part that was burning filtered through the rest of the bread, and it was ruined. grrrrr.
We're just lucky we didn't leave the house or anything, it could have burned down.