i'm lazy. . .

so i really do enjoy blogging...but i actually like looking thru other peoples blogs more. haha i don' t have a job and so what else do i have to do. i should just sit at home all day long and blog... right? no..instead i sit for house staring at the screen going thru hundreds of blogs... and when i find a blog that i really enjoy..i read the WHOLE thing...all the way to the first post. i recently came across My Life {as a Sugar Lander}. I absolutely LOVE this blog...she is very creative and gives me lots of good ideas for things i'd love to do here at my own home. She also makes me CRAVE a GOCCO!!! I've wanted one for months but with me having no job...it's kind of hard to throw out a couple hundred bucks to purchase one. I will have one..one day. But they stopped making them so they'll probably just get more expensive as time goes on. Anyways, check out her blog..i read it all the way back to the first post and it makes me want to be a Sugar Lander...
I also came across The Blissful Bride. After getting married I"m still obsessed with EVERYTHING weddings.. I don't know why.. It's not like i'm ever getting married again... I plan on being with this one forever. hehe :o) One of my bridesmaids is getting married next saturday...so i was thinking maybe I'm just still into everything wedding because I just got married and now she's getting married...yeah that's it. So i was thinking that after next saturday no more obessesive wedding stuff...but now... my best friend, tabby, and I decided we might be interested in starting a business together. I've wanted to start my own business since the age of 5. I'm just not one to have a boss. haha and i'm so creative and the usual 9-5 job makes me want to bite my fingernails down to the quick. haha i can't stand being inside a boring office all day long.. it drives me crazy. i'm not an "office" type of person... and if i was to have an office for my business...it's gotta have windows and colors and attitude... so anyways...i totally rambled on forever about weddings...anyways.. now that tabby and i are thinking about starting a wedding/event planning company or something..haha i find myself still surfing on any wedding blog I can find.. so when i came across The Blissful Bride I read it all the way thru and got some really good ideas on some things that I would love to incorporate if we do start a wedding planning company.
I then came across Arsty Farsty Shopaholic. When I saw the title i thought oh my gosh..that's me. haha So i started reading this blog...and once again read it from end to beginning. hehe I absolutely love her purse patterns. I just purchased one of her purse patterns and I plan on making a purse for myself of course..but also for a few people for christmas gifts. I'm trying to make everything handmade this christmas season. I know that's not a realistic goal so this year my goal is 50% of my gifts are going to be handmade...and hopefully next year 100%. I can't wait to get started on the purse. I received my pattern in the mail last week and it looks fairly easy to understand. And i know NOTHING about sewing.. so if I can understand it...if you have any bit of sewing ability or knowledge that it'd be a piece of cake for you. So I can't wait until I get some extra money to go buy some fabric because i'll be busy sewing....
So like i said tabby and i are wanting to start a business. I don't know if its a realistic goal or not but we'll see what happens. The thing is I have no doubt in my mind that i could start my own business. the thing is..it takes money to make money...and when you have no money to start with...what do you do? So slowly but surely i'm trying to purchase things here and there that I would need to make cookies, cupcakes, cakes...or invitations...etc. But I sat down and thought of everything I needed to be serious and with the purchase of products for my computer and products for cutting paper and baking and taking pictures.... ha..your looking at i need to spend around $3500 hmm....any ideas?

married life is awesome. i love jc more and more eachday.. we get along so well. i mean we got along well before we were married (obviously since we were together for 7 years) but i had heard alot of people say "oh marriage is different" which.. it is but in a good way. it's more forever. i mean we always said we'd be together forever BUT...there wasn't anything proving it. now there is. were married and were in love..and were gonna be together forever. :o)
Here are some cookies I made for my cousin's football game 2nite. They turned out really well. I need a better way of applying the icing to the cookie. I just used a butter knife but that leaves lines....i need to get a tip for my pastry bag where i can just apply it on there with that. It'd look much better. More professional. They turned out well though for my first time making little jerseys. haha I also made some footballs that you can see in the corner of the first pic. They turned out okay but the icing was a little thicker than usual and my hand was sooo sore from squeezing the icing out because on top of these i also made about two dozen pumpkin cookies... So by the time i got around to lining the football's and adding the NC to them...my hand was permanately in the squeeze position but didn't have any power left.. haha so i switched to my left hand but it's not as talented as my right hand. haha so they didn't turn out as well. Oh well..my aunt and my cousin likes them so that's all that matters. The number 34 is my cousin.. my aunt wanted me to make alot of those for all the family...and then the 45 and for his friend Dylan and the 78 is for his friend Caleb. I think for sectionals i'm going to make a cookie bouquet with green jerseys and white jerseys and footballs. I made the pumpkin ones to take to my moms get together she's having tomorrow. I think they turned out okay but I definately think with a large flat tip applying the icing it will look much better than flopping it on there with a butter knife.

well hmm...next week's unemployment pay is pretty much going all to bills....then the next pay i should have a little bit of extra cash which i'm hoping to buy paint and i'm going to paint my craft room. i took some pictures of it how it looks now but i uploaded them to my desktop computer and i'm on my laptop right now..so i'll post them on my next post. I can't wait to re'do that room. When my dad purchased and remodeled this house ...we gutted the whole damn thing EXCEPT for the two rooms that had been built on to the original house sometime in the 50's. So...dad put new floors in the two rooms but we used the original walls and ceilings. At the time it was saving us money on drywall and labor for someone to mudd the drywall.. so instead of painting we but beadboard halfway up with a chair rail and then wallpapered the top half of the room. It looked okay at the time and still looks okay. But it's very "countryish" and yes the rest of my house as a "country" feel... the craft room is too country.. bears and birdhouses...oh no. So... My plan is to paint over the wallpaper with a green color and then do a lighter green on top with a drybrush. I found the colors on Benjamin Moore Paints webpage and the closest store that carries this brand is 45 minutes away... So I'm gonna measure the room and find out EXACTLY how much paint i'll need..because I don't want to have to make another trip because I ran outta paint. I think it will turn out great.. The beadboard which is on the bottom half of the wall will just be white.. Then the top half will look like the walls in the picture... I'm so ready to do it now.. After the walls are painted I'm getting rid of my big hunky computer desk I have now and am going to build me a workspace/computer desk that will have room for my desktop, room for my laptop and room for my sewing machine...with lots of workspace. i'm so excited.. i have sooooo many ideas of things i want to do but i feel like i don't have a space to do it.. once i get this room organized and fresh just the way i want it... i feel like things will all fall together.