I've been back an forth to the TJ Maxx down the street a hundred times (well, maybe not a hundred) to return and find another shower caddy, both of which didn't hang correctly over the shower head in our bathroom so I moved on to Bed Bath & Beyond to find a corner shelving unit, which, after three tries, was assembled correctly for the height of the tub to the ceiling and installed it! It worked and so I took the second TJ Maxx caddy back and while I was there, I decided to wander around the kitchen/home aisles to see if there was anything I couldn't live without. I settled on a flat spatula, a veggie steamer tray (those ones that collapse into the shape of a UFO) but what my made my eyes widen was a 9-inch deep-dish ceramic Le Creuset for $14.99. The cartoon light-bulb showed up and the first thought that popped into my head was "Spinach Artichoke Dip!" I'm pretty sure I said it out loud, too. And then I thought of tomato pie, which I've been wanting to try, because who doesn't like layers of tomatoes and cheese? And of course dessert pies, etc. It's my prized find for the month! I was surprised that TJ Maxx had the assortment of Le Creuset that they did but I'm happy that they had it, and at a fraction of the price I would have paid at Macy's. I pondered the colors and settled on black outer-enamel with cream and headed for the cash registers.
It's gorgeous!
Bathroom shelves and kitchen gadgets acquired, we're slowly but surely getting our apartment well-rounded and organized. A week or so ago I helped haul in book boxes one day so Kris could help me unpack. We've been working on books ever since. We found a wonderful, lovely used book store/exchange last weekend and spent more than we should have on books and when we came home, I started thinking of listing all the Dean Koontz books I had and the ones I still needed/wanted (which is all of them, really!) and started making a list on my computer, then thought, "I should make an inventory list of all of our books in case anything happens." So we found this website Kris had heard of earlier called LibraryThing.com where you can sign up and type in the title, ISBN, or author of the book and make a list of all the books you have. So I've been scanning bar codes with the android and adding them to the list all week. My plan is to go through all of the boxes again and pull out any more books that might be hiding but I'm pretty sure we have 99% of them out on one shelf or another. I've been making a list of projects that I want to get done and would like to get done, which seems to me to be a better way to do it. It's on my laptop and I can change the color once it's accomplished, keep notes on the ones in progress, add new ones and have it all in one place. If you know me, you know I love post-it notes and notebooks, and I love writing things down and keeping "to-do" lists of things but it never occurred to me to keep a running tab of sorts! We'll see how well it works but so far, I thought of something while I was starting to do dishes yesterday, and I ran into the other room to add it to the list before I went back to the kitchen.
Speaking of things that need to be done, and things that HAD to be done, I've been promising Chloe's World of Beer Super Dog Cape and I finally got a chance to get it make it! The machine showed up the day after Kris was released from the hospital and so I got to "ohh" and "ahh" over having it back in my life for a few minutes before lovingly tucking it into a corner to deal with at a later date. The case cracked in transit which, being a $3 find at a garage sale, was no real loss but in terms of storing I'll eventually have to find another one. But the cape was my project a week and a half ago, and it was pretty successful for a first try! I do still need to alter it to include a strap with velcro to hold it around her little tummy, otherwise she runs and it falls to the side and she actually trips on it, so that's no good. But needless to say all the servers at WOB loved it and within seconds of us bringing her by to see them they were all out with their camera phones taking pictures of the intolerable cuteness! They're supposed to be up on the website sometime soon so I'll make sure to share the link when they let us know. But she looks so Super in her cape! And it gets her extra love and cookies ; ) Do you know how many websites are out there with instructions for how to make a cape for your dog? I can give you a high ballpark figure! I'd been planning on doing a "step by step" tutorial with pictures but my sewing machine has a tension problem with the bobbin and it was making me really rather Grr-y, not to mention that I kind of went my own way with the steps, so next time I make her a cape, I'll have to do it then, but here she is in all of her WOB-dog glory!
Doesn't she look heroic?!
And there are more projects to come. And a list of sewing supplies on my wish-list for the future. I've also gotten as far as paper for the printer, installing the printer drivers on my laptop so I can print via wireless and scan to my computer, which came in handy yesterday when Kris forgot his physical therapy authorization for his appointment. I called and asked if I could scan it and email it and of course it took about as long as his appointment lasted for me to figure it all out but now it's done! I think my next goal in furniture/organization would be some sort of desk for the printer or at least a mail-station. We bought a file box awhile back and I finally remembered to get hanging file folders for it and I tackled the pile of papers we were just merely laying in the box for the moment! I was thinking about it and while I love not working, I think part of my time writing needs a little more structure in my alternate goals. I realized that I missed doing projects like putting files in order and crossing to-do's off my lists for the day and making things in my space a little more efficient and neat. On to crossing more things off my list!
Happy Project-ing!
Enjoy,
Allie H.
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