Why Does It Always Happen, Part II

How did I KNOW that as soon as I went into the Pit of Despair my office/sewing room that something was going to come toppling down? I swear, Murphy is a dead man. Dead I tell you!!!! Eleventy!11!

I promise, I'll post pictures. I swear I will. I have over 100 photos on my Nikon D70 waiting to be uploaded to my hard drive and then PhotoShopped ever so gently and then posted.

In the meantime, I am going to take some pain pills for my right S-I joint from where I pulled SOMETHING terrible while moving a filing cabinet. Did I empty it? No. But it wasn't "that" heavy. Except for one small problem... The darn cabinet is almost as tall as I am...

Brief Update

As I'm sure you've noticed, the look of this blog has changed dramatically. Instead of the frenetic and sometimes psychotic color and theme changes of the past, I've moved to a more stylish, sleek and "less is more" look since I just don't have the time - or inclination - to keep up with the other way. I hope you enjoy it!

In other news, I've joined the Iron Cupcake: Earth challenge and though I missed out on the last one (Coffee), I'm excited to get involved in the next challenge. Check it out here. I'm proud to display the badge on my sidebar.

Also, please do check out the links under the heading of My Cafe' Press Shops. I have a lot of fun designing stuff and it warms the cockles of my heart when I see people order things I made. I'm an artist at last!

On addition to art, I've been working on screenplays and that has taken a lot of my time churning out pages like there's no tomorrow. I imagine that in the next few weeks, I'll be back at it again working on the rewrite.

On a more personal level, we're almost 2/3 through first grade homeschooling. I'd like to say that it's easy and fun and whatever. But it's been difficult and emotionally draining. Partly because the child in question has emotional outbursts that we're working on with a counselor and partly because my patience level has been at -10 for a VERY long time due to chronic health issues. Thankfully, we're weathering those with a great pain management specialist and regular injections into the affected joints.

We're also in the midst of putting in a vegetable and herb garden. This was inspired by last year's 100 Foot Diet challenge. I never was able to get in on it then, but I did a lot of reasearch and finally was able to make the investment out of this year's tax return. Thanks in part to Ray at GardenWeb and other online friends, I was able to plot out what I wanted and where I wanted it to go. I'll blog that adventure separately.

The Younger Princess Ella turned 5 on the 20th and I'm wondering where the time went. All she wanted for her birthday was a "Rapunzel" cake like her "Sleeping Beauty" cake. I'll blog it separately, too. Prince Lorenzo is slated to turn 3 on St. Patrick's Day and has requested either a "pincess" cake or a "thomas" cake. Three guesses which one he gets.

One more thing - a stream of consciousness list so that I don't forget the things I want to blog later:

Yatta!
Cats
Gardening
Cooking Vegetarian
PurseBuzz
Health

The Royal Refurb

Every once in a while I get a wild hair to CHANGE something. Usually it's something as innocuous as my hair color or the length of my acrylic falsies (nails that is). THIS time it was to finish what I'd started in the Royal Bedchamber. You DO remember what it looked like, correct? If not, I'll refresh your memory forthwith:






The Royal Bedchamber had previously been situated in the "middle" bedroom but we chose to abdicate that position in favor of the front bedroom (fka The Den) in favour of our 3 children having the back two rooms for their own use. Quite unselfish of us, I know. Howsoever we decided to move, here we are in the Front Bedroom now.

Not so long ago, I Feng Shui'd the Royal Bedchamber so that we could get some decent sleep (Yes Virginia, it DOES work). I realized a few days ago that even though I'd applied the principles of Feng Shui to the room, it was largely the same as when it held a big sofa and bigger tv. In other words, even though our bedroom FURNITURE resided there, it didn't feel like the restful place it was supposed to be. So I hied me down to the local SuperTarzhet and acquired a few little things to make it nicer. Most notably, the red and white sheers ($9 for two panels!!!). That's four packs of sheers if anyone is keeping track. See below to witness the transformation:

The only thing that has not been finished is repainting the delightul little yellow picture frames. They will be black in their next life.