Ten on Tuesday

1. What’s your favorite television show  for each day of the week?
Since Tivo entered my life several years ago I stopped watching live TV as much as possible.  So I therefore do not really know or remember when my shows come on.  So I will just list the shows I watch right away as opposed to the shows that can and will sit on Tivo or DVR for weeks before I get around to them.
The New Girl
Survivor
The Amazing Race
The Sing Off
Two Broke Girls
Modern Family
Dexter
The Big Bang Theory
Hoarders
Mike & Molly
CSI
Two & Half Men
True Blood

2. How many times do you wear your jeans before you watch them?
Usually 2 or 3 depending on what I do in them.

3. What is your favorite pasta shape?
Shells or bow tie.

4. Do you read newspapers?
We just started getting the paper delivered again.  Mostly because I got an amazing deal and I like to take it to work so my students can read it or look through it.  And to get coupons.

5. Do you sleep in socks?
NO!!  I can't stand to have socks on for longer than I have to period.  I will sleep in them if I have put lotion or petroleum jelly on my feet to soften my heels.  But I only do this a couple time during the winter and usually end up pulling them off at some point during the night.

6. Favorite genre of movies?
Romantic comedy and/or sci-fi.

7. How do you feel about wrestling?
Hate it and think it's really dumb.  Sorry honey.

8. Should men pluck their eyebrows?
If they have a uni brow then yes.

9. Do you have dimples?
Nope.

10. Do you like to camp?
Yes and no.  I went camping with my parents as a child and loved it.  I have so many good memories that I would love to do it again but then reality sets in and I realize what a baby I am.  I want a nice bathroom and not to have dirty feet or hair.  Or sleep on the ground.

Day 7 of 30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude

Day 7: Something Funny

I had a really bad day at work today and was not in a good mood at all.  But I have the most wonderful children.  My son kept telling bad jokes all all through dinner.  Not only were they bad (Why did the camel cross the road?  So he didn't get hit!) but he was cracking himself up!  I really wanted to get a picture of my hubby James for today because he is usually the one making me laugh but I haven't seen him all day because of work.  I don't normally work Mondays but I subbed for a class today so I didn't get to see him this morning and he has a night class so I won't see him until after 9 tonight.  But if it were not for my goofy, silly family I wouldn't laugh nearly as much, and man do I need to laugh more!

Day 6 of 30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude

Day 6: Books

I have a corner of my craft room with shelves and this is where I keep copies of all the books I love and want to keep in hardcover or just keep a physical copy to reread.  I now have a Kindle which I adore but I still want to have physical copies of the books I love.

Day 5 of 30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude

Day 5: Morning Sky (my interpretation: Morning Light )

I have always loved the light coming into my dining room in the mornings.  I was on my way to a ONE meeting early this morning and my kids happened to be sleeping in so it was a peaceful, beautiful morning.

Day 4 of 30 Day Challenge: Gratitude

Day 4: Leaves

 

The view from my front porch. So finding typical fall leaves is kind of difficult here.  The leaves have just barley begun to turn and we mostly have evergreens and shrubs anyway.  But I am still grateful for my house and my yard.

Day 3 of 30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude

Day 3: Happiness

Folding origami gives me peace and happiness! I am working on a custom order for Christmas ornaments in Christmas colors, which is reminding me that Christmas is coming!!  And that makes me even happier!!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude Day 1 & 2

I was clicking around on Pinterest earlier today and came across the 30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude on a blog called PositivelyPresent.  I thought it was a really great idea for November.  Plus I just got a new iPhone and I am a little obsessed with the Instagram photo app sharing thingy.  So this gives me a way to reflect on my gratitude for November and play with my new phone!

 Day 1 was Favorite Food

I really can't choose just one favorite food.  But I have always loved hummus and pita chips.  And I just found this awesome caramelized onion hummus!


Day 2 is Smile

My beautiful daughter Marley and her smile.

Ten on Tuesday

1. What is your favorite month?
I would have to go with April, since it's my birthday month and it's when spring is really really nice here.  It's just starting to get warm and the flowers are out but it's not too hot yet.  You can open the windows and it's just a beautiful time here with all the azaleas and other flowers in bloom.

2. What is the best candy to get while trick or treating?
I'm not picky  I just like getting a variety of good candy like Snickers, Twix, M&Ms, Almond Joy, Kit Kats etc.  What I don't like is crappy off brand candy, dum dums, or hard candy.

3. What kind of pen do you use?
Whatever is closest to me.  I unlike some people don't care what kind of pen I use as long as it works.

4. You go to a new Italian restaurant, what is your go-to order?
If I can find it I always order chicken scaloppine.  It's a chicken breast beaten with a mallet and cooked in a white wine butter lemon sauce with mushrooms, artichokes, and prosciutto and sometimes capers.  It's not a common dish so if I can't find it then I go with ravioli in some sort of cream sauce or something other than red sauce.  I have an aversion to red sauce.  I know that's nuts but I'm just not a fan.




5. If you could choose to have any celebrity’s hair, who’s would you choose?
It would be Alicia Silverstone's hair.  I love her anyway but she has beautiful hair and in my head my hair looks like hers (only in reality mine is too long and much thinner and stringier).  So this is what I would like for my hair to look like.

6. What’s your favorite board game?
I love trivia games like Trivial Pursuit, or Scene It but James refuses to play them with me anymore because he says I always win.  But I also love games like Apples to Apples or Sequence or just playing cards.

7. Do you know how to play poker?
I know the basics.  When it gets all fancy with wild cards and all the different types of poker I start to get confused.  Besides I don't play because I have NO poker face at all.  When I say I have no poker face I mean it.  You can pretty much read my mood or reaction to anything on my face.  It sucks for Christmas and birthdays when I am trying not to hurt James feelings.

8. What do you think about Old Navy commercials?
I think they can be clever but sometimes just stupid.

9. What hurts worse- a stubbed toe or a paper cut?
Paper cut since I use my hands a lot because of crafting and housework so getting a cut or wound on my hands to heal is difficult.

10. What’s your favorite kind of pie?
Any fruit pie a la mode.  I truly love strawberry rhubarb pie.

Happy World Origami Days!

So yes today and the next few days are World Origami Days!  Do I know exactly what that means ... ummm no.  But it's at least partly about celebrating origami.  And I certainly need and want to do that.  Origami and origami paper have become such an important part of my life.  I have always been drawn to the traditional patterns and colors of Japanese origami paper but I have now come to love the actual art of folding origami.  So happy World Origami Days!!


On another note I have been working hard on filling up my Etsy shop, doing a few custom jobs, working and being a mom.  So it's been busy.  Very busy.  But along with all that I have also been working on a surprise for my children.  I often hear one or both of my kids, when I am crafting say "I want one of those too!" And to be honest that is how my Flower Mobile came about.  Marley wanted some paper flowers like the ones I was folding.  I decided that instead of just giving her some flowers she would destroy, I clipped them on a mobile and hung it in her room (the long winded version of this story is here).  A little over a year later and it's my best seller!  But anyway my son Noa was watching me make an origami puzzle piece frame and declared he wanted one too.  But of course he requested a red one but with no pink.  I made his frame and decided Marley should get one too (oh and yes Noa has his own mobile .... a solar system one I made part of and bought part of).  So here is Noa's red origami puzzle piece frame.  I even searched through old photos to find a cute one of him to add to it.

 This is Marley's frame.  Hers is a bit different.  I was going to make her an origami puzzle piece frame too but then I remembered I had a bunch of scrap fabric my mom gave me from the quilt she made for Marley's bed.  So I thought it would be nice to have her frame match her quilt.  The fabric was already in strips due to the nature of the quilt my mom made so all I had to do was cut them down to size to fit the frame and decoupage them down.  I think it turned out really well.  It was also a good experiment because that was the first time I've ever tried fabric on a frame.  It worked really well so now I think I have a good avenue to explore.

Isn't she too cute!?!?!  This is one of my all time favorite photos of her.  She was about 20 months in this photo.  Where did my baby go??  She's going to be 4 next month, 4!

Oh and my newest addictions are the Hunger Game Trilogy books.  I finished all 3 books in 13 days.  They were so good!  So hard to put down! 

I am also addicted to Pinterest!  I have found way more craft projects to try, tips to try, recipes to cook and too many things I now want to buy.  It's hard to explain the site you just have to go see it.  So go now and follow me if you want!

Ten on Tuesday

1. How do you take your coffee?


I drink a skim Caramel Macchiato at Starbucks or the equivalent of it a Carmello Leche at Port City Java.  If pain old coffee is my only option I drink it with milk and 2 sugars.


2. Do you prefer soft or crispy chocolate chip cookies?
Really.... if you place a chocolate chip cookie in front of me I will eat regardless of weather it's crispy or soft.  But in a perfect world it would be soft.

3. Do you wear a belt everyday?
Nope, only when I have a pair of pants that are a tad big and I do happen to have a couple pairs of jeans I have to wear a belt with.

4. What is your favorite color combination?
Blue and brown.

5. Do you like sour candy?
Oh yeah!  One of my favorite candies ever is sour patch kids.

6. How often do you do laundry?
Once a week.  I know people say it's better to do a load a night or so but I just make big piles of every one's clothes according to color and do about 4 or 5 loads on Sunday.

7. Did you ever wear braces?
Yep.  I had braces for 2 years.  During junior high school no less.

8. Are you good at Roman Numerals?
Not at all.  I've got 1-10 down but I have no idea how to tell the years using roman numerals.

9. What is your favorite form of social media?

Facebook and/or Twitter.  I love both but use Facebook way more than Twitter.

10. How do you feel about chin dimples?
I don't really give them much thought to tell ya the truth!  I guess they can be pretty cute on the right person but then there is that whole butt chin name for a reason.