So remember this post? You know the one where our evening went to hell in a hand basket in about 5 minutes. So the next day was the zoo. It was an epic fail. I mean like #fail. We were there a total of 2 hours. There was no parking, we ended up parking in a residential neighborhood and hoofing it. Then it was packed. P-A-C-K-E-D. DC schools were out and everyone was at the zoo, so we saw the big cats. That's it before our good mood was shot and we said...we'll try again in a week or two. But here are some shots of our short 2 hour visit.

I have something bothering me. I have debated whether or not to tell all of you, my faithful readers, but I feel like its now the white elephant in the room. At least for me. My friends and family know about this issue. I talk about it, but I'm really kind of stuck. I will have to attack this issue in steps, but I am getting ahead of myself.

My issue is our master bathroom. It looks worse than it did when we moved in, because the walls have been scuffed from cars racing on them to our first hamper. I have several issues with our bathroom. All of which we did not notice while building our house, but now that we've lived here for 18 months....well, they're quite glaring and they're buggin' me.

I'm not ready to show you my bathroom because 1- its filthy, 2- our 2nd hamper imploded, and now some of my laundry is sitting on the floor waiting for its turn in the wash, and 3 - its filthy. I know I repeated myself, but Stephen and I really hate to clean bathrooms. I mean really hate. H.A.T.E. Its truly awful, and we should be better. The boys bathrooms stay clean because we manage to clean as we go and just clean in bursts. It seems to work, but for our bathroom. Not so much. It also doesn't help that our house has 5 bathrooms. Five bathrooms for a couple who hates to clean bathrooms. We used to have a cleaning service come in and clean our house every month, but we stopped that service because of its seemingly frivolous expense,  but I'd sell my kidneys to have them come back. Even once every 6 weeks.

I have waited all week to put this up, and I am so excited!

Saturday I went to my very first auction with my grandparents! The auction was down in Fluvanna County, so I went down Friday night and spent the night, because my grandfather wanted us to leave the house at 7:30.

We got a slightly later start, but by 8 we were all piled into his 1980 GMC Sierra. That truck is older than me!

Sorry about the blurriness, but the truck, or maybe it was the road, was a bit rough riding. :)

It didn't take long to get to the farm where the auction was being held. It was an estate auction and the farm had once been a dairy farm with a canning operation, and the family never through anything out. Yay!

So I know I've mentioned that this week is the week for paint, and I had originally intended on showing you guys my new painted barstools, but at the last second I decided not to paint the barstools and I will instead be staining them. So needless to say.....They're not done yet. :) So I have instead decided to show you gals what I plan on doing this weekend.

Bet is taking the boys for us this weekend, starting Friday, and while the guys are away Stephen will be cleaning up the basement in preparation for his 30th birthday, and I will be painting two of the bathrooms upstairs.

I never really finished Harrison's bathroom before he was born. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to do a beach theme, but didn't know exactly what direction to go from there. I ended up deciding to go with a Caribbean cabana type feel. Lots of bright happy colors set against a cool neutral backdrop. So I've been slowly collecting things for this transformation.

About a month ago, Dev tells me that he wants a Buzz and Woody themed bathroom. Ok I can do that, but instead of Buzz and Woody (don't worry...they'll still be included) I am taking a vintage cowboy take on his bathroom. We will have pictures of Buzz and Woody, but the decor will be decidedly non-Pixar. :)

Ok gals, I have a dilemma.....a lighting dilemma. Here are my issues -

As anyone who does any amount of crafting (of any sort) you know that you accumulate stuff quickly. It's no use to toss  this stuff because it can still be used or utilized in some fashion. So what do you do with this stuff? You stash it, and what do you do when the stash starts taking over your space?  I don't know about you guys, but my stash is starting to drive me crazy. I don't like that my craft room is a mess and dysfunctional....I can't work as well in there because of it. I knew that when we moved in my room wold be one of the last to get tackled and well we're coming to the end of the house  list. :)

So here's what I have now.....

I should probably introduce myself first, but that can wait. I've never had a blog and this is going to take a second to get my head wrapped around it. Ok, well that's enough of that.


My name is Heather and I am a stay-at-home Mom to 2 wonderful boys and wife of almost 7 years. Creativity runs in the family, mostly in the form of sewing (wonder where the blog title came from ;) ) but when the occasion calls for it we have been known to do other crafty things. I will mention several family members as they are my muses: Bet, my grandmother who I consider the best resource for information as she is not afraid to try anything; there's my mother, Debbie and she is also a wonderful source of information but she is also my best friend and shopping partner. I talk to her every day and usually is the first person I talk to outside of my immediate family. Then there is Stephen (Steve or Stevie) who is my husband. I love him dearly and even though I know he doesn't listen to half of what I say it's ok because at least I've gotten the ideas out of my head. :) He is also a big reason for the craftiness as he is more than likely one of the most tight-fisted people I know when it comes to money, but hey I love a challenge and I tend to go stir-crazy when I can't do something with my creative energies.