glass jars

and the cute jars that are working so hard...



hard at work

Classes start back this coming Monday and I was in the mood to spruce up the cubicle. I converted a couple of small vegetable cans into pen holders and made the large one into a toilet paper cover. (I apparently can make a toilet paper cover much faster than Cottonelle can send me one). I made a small version of the paint chip garland that we have hanging in the living room, and moved my $4 Target lamp so it would be closer to all the new cuteness. My mom snagged the little glass jars with the stars around the top, which are working hard holding really small things.

I just realized you can't see the cute glass jars in the picture. I'll take and post that picture on Monday from work...during my break, of course!

Respect the roll!

I just ordered my free roll cover today! I got the one on the right. Too kute!!

The roll cover idea makes no sense to me but I'm going to cut a hole in the top and use it to pull tissue out of for Kleenex :) the case matches the living room better than any Kleenex box.

pillow preview

I've known for a while that I wanted to have the blue chair recovered, however I didn't have a color in mind. Ryan helped me decide to go with a neutral, but that just meant I was going to need a pillow with some real pizazz! I'm having the cushions done for me but I followed this tutorial, http://www.sailrite.com/How-to-Make-a-Throw-Pillow-Video and whipped out the pillow this afternoon. The pillow case is draped over another pillow as I've yet to buy the 20 x 20 insert that will go in it. So, this is just the preview...

First attempt at piping...glad you can't see the corners ;)

fabrik stores and san francisko!!

Ryan and I recently went to San Francisco to celebrate our two year anniversary. We were able to run the San Francisco marathon (just the first half), see family I haven't seen in years, go to a Giants' game (much, much cooler than the Rangers' games), go on a city bike tour, and enjoy the below 80 weather, actually mostly below 70 degree weather. This might be the first time in my life that having cold hands was not something I complained about.

Street Art we saw on our bike tour - Streets of San Francisco Bike Tours
highly recommend!!!

Most of the time we spent walking around, exploring different parts of the city that I had jotted down on my "to see" list, a list created after perusing San Francisco blogs, one in particular, http://sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com/. We loved the Mission district and Ryan was quite sure that the Dolores park would be a place I would take frequent naps, as I'm drawn to the sun and parks and naps. We also trekked up quite a hill to get to Noe Valley, but we weren't disappointed when we finally got there. Plus, by that point in the trip we had figured out how to use the transit so we didn't have to walk back to the hotel.


In Dolores Park - check out the girl doing tri-pod headstand! someday...



View of the city from Dolores Park

We weren't really looking for anything specific in the shops, but I did have fabric on the brain. Victoria from sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com suggested a few fabric shops and on our next to last day there, we set out to find them. While I was busy trying to look like I knew what I was doing in a fabric shop, Ryan took some cool photos.



Lovely fabrics!!



Gettin' down to business!

I've already "project-ed" with one of the fabrics I bought. I'll post pictures soon. The other fabrics destinies are yet to be determined.

It was a lovely trip!