Crafting Happiness, One Day at a Time
Work is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s. ::re-reads sentence to ensure I spelled bananas correctly:: How's it going? Work has been pretty crazy. I finally had to do a little work last weekend/stay late on Monday to finish up some reports, which is fortunately not something I have to do often. I'm playing catch up this week with… Continue reading An “I Should Be Getting Ready for Work but Decided to Blog Instead” Post
A friend of mine invited my husband and me to a Geeks Who Drink trivia night last Tuesday. We'd only played once, back in 2012 in our hometown, with a group of friends and my brother. We won that night, and split our prize with a person playing by herself, Tracey Individual. While we had… Continue reading Trivia Night
We live in a success-driven society, and I find myself falling right in line with its expectations. I work hard at my job; I exercise; I try to cook healthy dinners at night with my husband (I don't like cooking, but my craving for home-cooked meals wins); I have a multitude of crafty projects I… Continue reading The Tonic of Self-Care
Good evening everyone! It's a beautiful, sunny Saturday here in Texas, and I wanted to spend a little time catching up with you guys. I've already been married a month now, which is a little surreal - we spent so much time and effort planning for this wedding, and it was over in an instant. … Continue reading A Handmade Wedding
I know it's only Monday, but is it Friday yet? Most of my mental energy has been occupied by work and wedding planning. But I've had some time to sneak in some crafting. As usual, there is not any real kind of logic to what I'm doing and why. And of course, right when I… Continue reading Wedding Procrastination Part 2: Craft Mania
I'm not going to lie - my default mode is being a procrastinator. It's hard to feel motivated for something when it seems so far away, right? It's why I waited 5 weeks before my test the first time around to study. I've gotten better over the years, though. You get burned enough to learn… Continue reading Wedding Procrastination
Every time a new year begins, I feel conflicted. -Cautiously optimistic about the year ahead and what I can potentially experience or accomplish with a piling heap of -Wanting to accomplish ALL THE THINGS with a dash of -Morbid fear about what kind of sadness the new year will bring with an extra side of… Continue reading Welcome, 2018 or: Waiting to Get January Over With
