For vegetarian meals!  I know, that sounds crazy, but, y'all, I have been eating really unhealthily lately, and I need to fix that.  I know for a fact that Mike and I do not get enough veggies in our diet, but there is an (over) abundance of meat.  We are such carnivores!  Here's the thing, though, I don't want anything that's too carb-heavy either.  I want meals that have some carbs and/or some meat, but the biggest part of it is veggies.  Does anyone have any good suggestions for websites?  Whole Foods' advanced recipe finder is okay, but I'm only finding some stuff on there that fits my bill.  Help!

For a very long time I have wanted to add some animal print to my home decor, but the hubs was not on board. So I did what any good crafter would do, I pulled out a blank lampshade and some puffy paint.

I drew some faint zebra lines on my lampshade and the spent a couple of days filling in my design.

I used white metallic puffy paint and I just say that I really like the effect of the metallic white against the white of the shade.

So here's the beauty right now. I love her!

Oh and when I explained my plan and then showed the hubs my creation he asked where it was going and if I thought it was too fancy. I guess if he thinks it's fancy then I did a good job.

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted anything up.

I feel a little bad because I do have stuff to share. It's just been hard to motivate myself. Well motivate myself crafty wise. I've been trying to focus on me and the other journeys we're on.

So anyways I wanted to share the yarn orbs I made along with where my dining room stands right now.

There are tons of yarn orb tutorials out there so I'm not going to share the how-I-did-it's. My problem is now what to do with them. I've wanted them hit I did not give much thought to what to do with them after I made them. Oh well. Not a bad problem to have.

I've also added some new color to the walls but I do t think it's the color in going to go with. I think I'd like to go a hair darker. The color up there is "Weekend in the Country" it's a color by valspar. I think I'd like to try "City Chic". Its a smudge darker but also with some purple in it, which I think will play well off of the browns, reds, and yellows that will be going in the room.

I'd also like to update the ceiling of the dining room. I want to go with a darker color up there. I really like the color "Shoe Polish" by valspar. It's exactly what you think it is. A nice ruddy brown and since my dining room has 10 foot ceilings the dark color will have no problem being above our heads. I also want to beef up the moulding on the ceiling.

Well that's all I have for right now. Tomorrow I'll share a lampshade redo that I'm really loving.

Linking up to:

3 tbsp butter
1 tbsp regular or GF AP flour (If you're using GF AP flour, I'd recommend just a little less than a tsp of cornstarch to help thicken it if necessary)
1 1/2 to 2 cups milk (depending on how thick you like it--I used 2 cups)
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1 large pinch of salt

Today was a wonderful day!

School was back in session!!!!!!!!!!  I know I was more excited about this fact than Devlin was. In fact, he told me this morning that he didn't want to go to school. Too bad!!!!!

This Momma needs a return to normalcy and that includes my big guy going back to school, so I can then head off to the gym with the small fry and I can get some me time.

Being as it was spring break last week, not much got done. I still haven't taken pictures of what I have gotten done, and well, at least that gives me stuff to post about tomorrow.

Today, I'll share some pictures from Easter and spring break.

Random afternoon watching Disney Channel. Too cute a pose not to snap.

Easter morning with his new shades.

Everybody got new shades from the Bunny-Man!

In their Easter best! Thanks to my mom for making their adorable outfits!

So that's a small view of our fun adventures last  week. Tomorrow I'll bust the camera out and show off some of what  I have gotten done. :)

Don't you just love it when you solve a major problem.  You feel like you just really accomplished something, beat an adversary even.  My adversary these last few weeks was gluten...or Celiac.  I mentioned recently that Mike has been diagnosed with Celiac disease.  Since then, I've been working, reading, researching, and experimenting (poorly).  But then I had a victory, a day of victory actually, and I finally feel like I'm over the hump.

So I'm almost to painting the vanity, and I can't decide what to do!

Its one of those cases where there are simply too many good ideas.

So I started a poll on the facebook page.

Here's the link!  Vanity Paint Poll!

Please go give me your input! BTW, its pinned at the top of the page, so hopefully there are no issues in finding it.

In other news.....Well there is no other news. Nothing is done. :)

Did you ever have a craft that you really wanted to do? Did you get it done? Maybe after a couple of tries?

Did you ever get it right and then have absolutely no idea what to do with it?

I have! I have! I have!

Its happened right now.

I made yarn orbs, after two attempts I got them right.

Now I have way too many ideas, and I don't know which one to use my orbs for.

Sigh.

Maybe I'll figure it out tomorrow, but for now I'll take suggestions!