It was a Different Time!

While ads in the 1920s warned women that they would be lonely if they were too heavy, many Depression-era ads chided women who were too thin. Advertisement from the August 1935 issue of Motion Picture courtesy of University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Library.

  

 Source: cw.routledge.com via Linda on Pinterest

Hmmm, a project without an intended recipient.

Give Thanks

Finally Finished!

Jacob and I have taken up woodworking as a hobby and a way to spend time doing something (other than watching TV) together.  Something we are both novices at so that one of us does not feel inferior to the other. Lets face it, I can knit circles around him and he "pwns" me in video games. (Did I use that word right? I think its a verb.)

So we built ourselves a bookshelf:

We started with a basic box.

We even thought we were fancy enough to do dovetail joints.

Dave liked to help out.

At first we were only going to make two shelves, since I miscounted and didn't buy enough wood at the store.

But we decided we didn't have enough tall stuff to put on the top space and hadn't planned the shelves to be re-positionable. Note, here we have added some molding to the top and bottom.

And here it is, all stained and clear coated as we tacked on the back this morning.

And now I get to go fill it all up!

Embrace It

That is all. Thank you.

Saturday

Lily's finished gown. She loves it and hates to take it off!




David's ready for Easter. Poor kid can actually put them on all by himself.



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Babysitter

Using Nick Jr as a babysitter this morning. While I whip up a "princess dress" for one dress obsessed little girl who went to Disneyland last week.



Hopefully more photos later....

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My Dad Rocks

Tell us how you really feel, Lil.

Any Advice?

We are a pet-less family.

Not that we don't like pets.  I just go go go so much that I feel it would be really unfair to any animal that shared our house.

Having said that, its also really nice to not have another critter to pick up after. Doody duty/Poop patrol just does not seem fun to me.

So here's my problem. My neighbor's cat uses my backyard as her little box.

The same backyard I let my children play in.  And I will admit it, I am not always looking. (Sometimes sending them out is the only way to get dinner made.)

So here we are, not even enjoying the perks of having a pet and I still have to clean up after one.

What would you do?

Cheese Please

So I prefer to not feed my kids prepackaged shredded cheese. Ever read what's in that stuff? Potato starch and  cellulose powder for starters, and sometimes calcium sulfate, and natamycin (an anti-molding agent). All garbage my kids bodies don't need to be processing and/or storing away.

But I also HATE to shred cheese.  So I've taken to cubing my cheese for our homemade pizzas. Seems to work out just fine. :)

And E, if you're reading, yes, my organic mozzarella is from Wisconsin, lol!

Break Out The Sprinkler

It must be summer in the desert.

No Potties

So Lily was playing like she was cooking and I could see she needed to go to the bathroom. (What's with all the bathroom tales of late?) She's just dancing away, so I tried to send her, when she promptly told me, "There are no potties in the cooking store, Mom. Don't you know?"


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Never Fails

I step into the bathroom and there is David, two steps behind me, climbing the step stool to see into the sink. And he gets stuck.

Every. Time.

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Potty Post?

A friend of mine had a potty post the other day and while my post doesn't directly have to do with poop, it does have a little something to do with pooping.

One of the most irritating things about the house we moved into, is the cheep-ness of the fixtures.  (To include the dishwasher, but that's a whole other story.) The plastic toilet seats being one of the worst offenders.

Somehow I find myself sitting on the closed toilet A LOT; bathing babies, snapping pants, brushing teeth. And it is incredibly disheartening when the plastic lid pops in and flattens while I'm doing so. So what did we do? We replaced two of the three toilet seats in our house. (I never use the third bathroom for anything. Sorry guests.)

While at the home improvement store we discovered the toilet seat with the built in kiddo ring! Which we promptly installed in our downstairs bathroom, which Lily thinks is the coolest seat ever. And I dig because; a) we no longer have Lily crying because she's concerned she'll fall in because she, "doesn't have a big butt," and b) no more plastic potty ring floating around on the bathroom floor.

You toddler/little kid mom's know you're jealous. ;)

Almost There

Just a bit more.


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It's Growing!

My "new" rug as of this morning.




But I think I'm going to need more sheets.

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Lily is Mad

Kids say the funniest things:

Sometimes I'm instrated too. ;)

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Craft Overload!

So this fabulous poppy fabric arrived in the mail yesterday!!!

I'm so excited!

Now to just finish one of my many other projects, so I can get to this one. ;) (I mentioned yesterday that I hadn't had the energy to craft, which by no means should be interpreted as not having projects lined up!)



It's hard to see in this photo, but those are slightly different blues and I am trying to decide to go with the more vivid looking at the right, or the more subdued left.



What do you think?

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Back to Craft

I've been seriously missing my craft time lately. What with all the house organizing I'm too exhausted in the evenings to work on any of my projects.

But I haven't been able to find an area rug for the kitchen that I like/can afford so I've started a NEW project. I'm making a rag rug.

I spent four dollars at the thrift store on old sheets, tore them into strips and rolled them up.

Here's what I've got so far.



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Funny Face

Lily has discovered winking. And oh does she try!



Almost there, just a bit more practice. :)


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