Blogging is Cheaper than Crafting

The weather is really beautiful here. In the 60s, just enough wind, and just cloudy-enough blue skies. The weather makes me so much more motivated. I am so much more willing to stay away and get involved in a project when I have windows open and the house smells summery. You know what I mean right? The smell of open windows and breeze blowing through your curtains. Love it. 

Let me tell you, I have been crafting like crazy. Last weekend I had the blessing to help plan and decorate for my newest sister-in-law, Brigitte . I, sadly, don't have any of pictures from the day itself, but I did make pennant banner that had some of her wedding colors and we had fun vases of big happy Gerber daisies accented with bamboo kitchen utensils. Sounds a little janky but it was really cute I think! It was fun to be with all of the women in my new McCool family. 

Also I have been scrapbooking and organizing. I have worked on my SMASH* book a lot lately and you can see the pages I have finished here on Facebook. I am pretty proud of what I have done so far and will do March in April. Gotta collect the stuff for the whole month then put it in the book.

We also ordered this simple coffee table: 

I want to paint it some how to reflect our decor in our living room. We have grey/black furniture with some white pieces and mostly black-framed prints. I am totally on a chevron kick (we don't have it anywhere else in our house) so I am tempted to paint it on the top of the table. Stephanie sent me this photo for inspiration.

I think I want to paint it grey and turquoise with orange as the little stripe. Loud but in a small dose I think it would be manageable and colorful... But I cannot decide. Suggestions?

See I've been crafting a lot because teachers simply aren't needing substitutes. Whoops. It could be a crazy expensive hobby if I didn't only use coupons to buy things. The craft stores around here always have 40% or 50% coupons. And at Joann's I can get a teacher discount on top of that! Not too shabby.

But nevertheless I will need to get a job to support my crack craft habit. (Don't worry, I have not and don't do drugs). So I have been applying to jobs. Don't want to jinx it... so I'll post if something good happens.

Thanks for reading. I'm really getting back into blogging daily. Goes through seasons I guess. If it is cold and gross I dont want to blog-- I want to sleep. Now things are happier and warmer! :)