4/13/2015 0 Comments DROP IT T-SHIRTTWO OF THREE pipetting shirts. If you get this, we should be besties. GENERAL DISCLAIMER: Maybe someday, someone will come along and buy my shirt designs from me. Until then, any individuals who would like to class themselves up with my awesome styles may do so freely. All I ask is you share a picture of whatever you make.
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4/13/2015 0 Comments Nanodrop T-shirtone of three pipetting shirts. If you get this, you're cool. GENERAL DISCLAIMER: Maybe someday, someone will come along and buy my shirt designs from me. Until then, any individuals who would like to class themselves up with my awesome styles may do so freely. All I ask is you share a picture of whatever you make.
4/13/2015 0 Comments Eco ShirtOk, this one isn't likely to reach too many, since its excruciatingly specific. On top of that, the idea came from lurking over my husbands shoulder as he looked at science-y things. So I can's speak to how much sense it makes. I made it a long time ago, and any research I did in reference to it has floated out of my brain. GENERAL DISCLAIMER: Maybe someday, someone will come along and buy my shirt designs from me. Until then, any individuals who would like to class themselves up with my awesome styles may do so freely. All I ask is you share a picture of whatever you make. (although, if a company came along and wanted to use this design, i'd be flabbergasted)
4/13/2015 0 Comments band T-shirtThis line always sticks in my head. This is one of my favorites. Its cool if you're a classic rock fan, or a Marching band buff. GENERAL DISCLAIMER: Maybe someday, someone will come along and buy my shirt designs from me. Until then, any individuals who would like to class themselves up with my awesome styles may do so freely. All I ask is you share a picture of whatever you make.
4/13/2015 0 Comments DABO! t-shirt designThis idea has been on my mind a while. I don't have unlimited resources to print every shirt that comes to mind, and keeping the design to myself doesn't make much sense either. Maybe someday, someone will come along and buy my shirt designs from me. Until then, any individuals who would like to class themselves up with my awesome styles may do so freely. All I ask is you share a picture of whatever you make. Here's one for the Trekkies:
4/9/2015 0 Comments Snowball logicUg. I need to do dishes. I can't do dishes because there's a bag of garbage in front of the sink. I can't throw the garbage out because no pants are clean. I'm just gonna sit here until the laundry is done. Wait! How about I put the garbage by the front door instead! I can't put the garbage by the front door because there's a pile of clutter there. The clutter is dirty dishes. Well, I can't wash those.... 4/9/2015 0 Comments Balancing life with dreamsI have such good intentions. And a to do list the length of my arm. Part of the curse of the creative brain is when you're flooded with ideas that would be awesome if you had endless 1)time 2)money 3)focus. Life endlessly gets in the way. And if you manage to grip tight to one idea, the challenge becomes fighting off other ideas that either detract or distract. In addition, the ideas that often seem the best are the ones that don't mesh with who I naturally am, as an individual. I've had to come to terms with a few sad truths, and in doing so, it's made the projects I have started working on more fruitful. We need to be more purposeful in our decisions, and know when to force out those creative thoughts. They're a blessing, and a curse. A few of my inexcapable truths: -I'm messy. I want a clean house so bad, but to get it is a constant battle. I will never be a Monica Geller. I need to prepare myself, that even the simplest of maintenece, will be a struggle to finish. And I can't allow myself to slack even a little. -I'm cheap. If it costs a lot of money to get done well, I won't do it. Especially if it's something that has uncertain outcomes. I want some things to be splurged on, but even when I save up I can't pull the trigger. Nothing ever seems worth it. -I'm lazy. If I can't blog on my cell phone, I likely won't do it at all. If I have to leave the house to do it, there's even less of a chance. I choose the path of least resistance every time. I keep thinking I'll have motivation to prioritize whatever it is, but siting on my ass wins Every. Single. Time. -I'm shy. I want to be able to "put myself out there." In my head, I'm a dynamo. I'm confident and funny and loud. But in reality? I won't speak up in a group of there are more than 4 people. I won't dress up to comicon because I don't want people looking at me. Being the center of attention makes me shrink. But despite knowing all this, I walk through stores that don't exist. I watch movies that have never been made. I dance choreography that I wouldn't physically be able to do if I tried. I see all these brilliant, and funny, and beautiful things in my mind as if they existed. Sometimes it becomes so distracting that I forget to see the things in front of me, like two growing babies that won't be little forever. Like a husband who works hard all day to provide for us, and doesn't have the luxury of wearing sweatpants all day. Like a teenager on the cusp of becoming an adult and moving away, that I should appreciate while she still has a shred of respect for me. My life is so much richer than I give it credit for. I need to remind myself to take a step back periodically. I'm not even talking about making great art, (which in itself is a crushing task if that's what you start out working towards), I'm talking about making or doing ANYTHING. I keep seeing funny little videos on YouTube, or comical/cartoonish photoshop creations. And all I can think is "do you know how many HOURS of work that fart joke took??" Knowing what's worth putting the effort into and what's not is my struggle. Knowing when to focus on the creative vision and when to focus on a productive and functioning family is another struggle. I'm always saying to myself "if you have 2 hours to spend on a doodle, you have 2 hrs to work out." Which turns in to "if you have time and energy to work out, you have time and energy to tackle the dishes" which turns into "aw man, I hate dishes. I guess I'll just sit around in my sweatpants." So here I sit. Fat, in a messy house, with nothing to show for the last 2 hrs. This doesn't seem like the best solution, but it's my 'go-to' logic. I need to find a better way of balancing all the things I want to do, and find a way to get the motivation to do it. 4/8/2015 0 Comments Star Trek blanketsIt was very exciting to find a collection of Star Trek fabrics at Joanns. Yes, it's TOS (not my fav series), but it's still a symbol of our familial love of all things Star Trek. So, with my budding little ensigns in mind, I snatched up a couple of yards. I think I specifically asked for whatever the width was in inches, so I would have a square for each of the smaller kids. 45 maybe? I get frazzled at the cutting counter. and I got a fancier fabric with a little more length for my oldest. I bought a cheap fleece, one red, one blue, and one gold for the backs, in lengths to match. So, as for TOS, my oldest got command gold, the one obsessed with the alphabet got science officer blue, and the googly eyed confused one got red-shirt red. (Since, she has become my bold one, so I think the red still seems appropriate). As far as sewing, I centered the print fabric onto the fleece, and stitched once around the square. Then I folded the fleece over and stitched an edge of the fleece over the raw edge. (The fleece was wider than the Trekkie fabric and allowed for an edge overhang all around).
Here red are the pics I took a year ago for this post, which has been sitting in my drafts folder ever since: 4/6/2015 0 Comments Fort structureYou're never too old for a giant, awesome fort. The issue just becomes making one big enough to fit in as you grow older. My oldest specially requested a fort in her room, but we wanted to make it especially roomy and cozy. I hoped to make it so she can sit on her bed and still watch tv. The solution? creating a multiple clothes line structure over her bed to pin sheets to. I decided to just screw into the wall, because ain't nobody got time for concerning yourself with consequences. We put 4 screws up, then used rope with slip knots to make a cats cradle zig zag of rope. Here's the issues we ran into: -The screws ripped out of the drywall when excessive weight was applied to certain sections of fort wall. -the screws didn't always hold the rope well, depending on the size of the screw head and the angle we put it into the wall Other than that?? It was awesome. We hung sheets and curtains and light weight quilts from it and she left the fort up for over a month. She wanted to do everything in the fort. We even had Christmas lights up for a little bit. I might try getting some dry wall hole reinforcer thingies to solve some of the issues. The other idea I had was to just get her a 4 poster bed, which would pop into a fort as quickly as anything. #forts4life #myfortisbetterthanyourfort #lifeinafort |
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