Runaway October

I have a con­fes­sion. I can be quite a slob.

The evi­dence: Exhibit A — My craft room, The SMOR (sewing machine oper­a­tions room), about 24 hours ago.

When we bought this house, we knew one of the rooms would be used for hob­bies. Unfor­tu­nately, we had been using the din­ing room table pre­vi­ously so we had no fur­ni­ture to set up in there. About the time we moved, I was given a very nice cut­ting table and sewing machine desk. They came from a fam­ily friend who had passed away. Sadly, she was a heavy smoker and smoked in her hobby room. The tables just ooze nicotine.

My father in law con­vinced me that I shouldn’t try to paint them, as they’re cov­ered in melamine. While I’m fairly cer­tain I would be able to repaint them, new fur­ni­ture would be eas­i­est. Of course I decided this after try­ing to clean one of the tables with bleach (Bleck!) and ruin­ing a per­fectly good skirt.

So I struck a deal with my hus­band. If I clean the craft room, could we build new fur­ni­ture for the room? He agreed, poor sap.

So this is where it stands cur­rently. Not “clean” per se, but every­thing has been gone through and sorted and I found all kinds of stuff I had for­got­ten about! Score. My M.O. was to grab what I needed, take it down stairs to craft, bag/box up what­ever was left and toss it in the SMOR when I was done. Bad bad. I had at least 15 empty boxes when I was done, and dou­ble that amount of bags to recycle

(I still need to vac­uum, obviously.)

This is the table I want we’ll be mak­ing, free plans cour­tesy of Knock Off Wood. It’ll go well with the IKEA Expe­dit book­case that’s in there currently.

I know that if I had a vehi­cle right now, me and the boys would be ter­ror­iz­ing Home Depot and Lowe’s. I’ll keep you posted on our progress. I’m super excited to make my own craft fur­ni­ture, and for so much less than Pot­tery Barn too!

Alright guys, I have a favor to ask.

Some­hwere along my inter­netty trav­els, I came across a sweep­stakes of sorts. Prilosec OTC, the heart­burn med­ica­tion, is offer­ing a spon­sor­ship. For any­one, for any rea­son. Accord­ing to the FAQs, it’s for around $1000, which isn’t much but is $1000 more than I can use on my hob­bies right now.

The selec­tion cri­te­ria has 4 sec­tions: Pas­sions, Cre­ativ­ity, VOTES, and Community.

So what I’m ask­ing from you is your vote for lit­tle hum­ble ol’ me. You do have to reg­is­ter to vote, but it should only take a few min­utes of your time to vote and leave a com­ment. And if your nice enough to vote and I win, most likely you’ll ben­e­fit in a round about way, come birth­days and Christ­mas.

Oh, and don’t read my dorky pro­file, I’m so bad at fill­ing out these things.

Thank you!