What's Wrong

Sort of like what can happen while redoing a floor. Poor guys

Ponder Post

This was placed in a yard in my neighborhood. What a fun addition to the scenery. I like when people do something unexpected and I look forward to seeing the new ponder for the month.

Seals

A sample of what I was up to last week at this time. Rockin it at the beach with the seals!

What's Wrong

I am I not a fan of minivans because they don't look good and people driving them drive like morons. I had to drive one this weekend while on vacation with some awesome people. While driving, I discovered why all people driving them drive like idiots. The mirrors are too tiny and there are crazy blind spots. I constantly kept adjusting them, hoping for full visual of the road and my surroundings. Nothing.
For how big the car is, the mirrors are like tiny ears on an elephant, they do almost no good. Look at the photo, it is like they just stuck them on the side because they had to and called it a day. In the future, I hope designers figure out a way to add in mirrors on minivans that are at least the size of truck mirrors. It isn't like the mirrors are what makes the car ugly. Then there will be less blind spots and I won't have to adjust the mirrors every damn time I want to parallel park.

Happy Voting Day!

I hope you all remember to get out and vote! It is such a great honor to have a say in our elected officials and laws.

Plus you get a sticker!

What was in the boxes?

I learned to crochet solely so I could make these:

Cupcake Bears!!

I saw the idea in a book and I would have bought them from her, but they were too expensive. So my lovely neighbor helped me figure out how to make my own. I was SO excited to give them to everyone as a thank you for helping me celebrate my new decade!

Here is a close up of a box. 

 I got the design for the boxes from don't eat the paste. They were a bit too small for the bears, so I enlarged them in photoshop and printed them on 2 8.5x11 sheets of card stock.

 A view of a bear in its box:

Close up of some of the bears. I used wool of the Andes, some colored google eyes and  sparkley pom poms to make the bear. The body is a cupcake liner from Ikea. 99 cents for 65, you can't go wrong!

Aren't they cute?

A new "need" in my life

I was browsing howaboutoranges blog a few days ago at  5am looking for the link to the cute boxes you can download, print, cut out and assemble, when I found this new must have for my life.

http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/

Why do I need this? Well for one, it would have saved me an hour or two of cutting out boxes and two it is just fabulous and I could do at least 7,000,000,000 projects with it, as it appears to do what you want within reason (although my in reason sometimes doesn't match up with other's in reason). It is that awesome!
I was hoping to win the giveaway, but I didn't. Now I just have to hope for Christmas elves to be listening.

Stay tuned for why I was up at  5am making boxes on a Sunday morning.