My mini morning rant-something better later today

So yes, I know I am the worst kind of ex-smoker but well, here goes. I hate it when I am at a party and having a great time and dancing my head off and then...someone lights up a cigarette right next to me. I mean YUCK I am exercising my lungs and feeling happy and healthy and then that cloud of nastiness is getting sucked into my lungs. I had a sore throat for all of Sunday because of the above happening at a party this Saturday night. Just as bad is when I am just walking along the street and all of a sudden someone lights up in front of me or somewhere up ahead. what they don't even give a second thought to is that all of a sudden their smoke billows up and back behind them.Right into my face and lungs. I have taken to carrying a hankerchief to cover my nose and mouth. Pitiful, yes, but needed!

Rusted bits and pieces and the color of the sea

Can I live here? I am sure it would be cold and dank and not really a lovely place to live but in my head it would be just loverly. Not sure why-maybe the overcast skys make me feel this way.

Today I have been thinking all about sewing rusted washers to pieces of paper with colored string. Not sure how that would work visually but would like to try it. Or maybe to pieces of torn paper and felt and old fabric layered together? On the rusted metal route-in my head- I have been figuring out how to make the dining room table I would like. I need to take another look at the photo I have for inspiration. Not sure where I would find the weathered wood I want to use for the table either but it might not be such a good idea to use weathered wood anyway due to the splinter factor. Would look cool though. Need to think on it. Still loving the idea of a box with sand in it and the pieces of rusted metal, stones and sticks I have collected over the years in there covered by a piece of glass. Totally unique.

I have been working on redoing my upstairs bathroom this past week. I painted the cabinets high gloss white and am going to be polyurethaning the top of the vanity and the doorhandles this weekend. The color I painted the walls does not match the color swatch from the store-I am pissed about this. It is totally a different color. I like the color-kind of a grass green but it does not exactly flow with the old baby blue tiles in there. Got a bunch of new swatches, going to hang them up and have another go at deciding on what color the room should be. Still need to paint the ceiling. Next to put some plants above the mirrored cabinet in there, hang the owl linen towel and figure out some cool art for the space above the showers back wall. Maybe a series of 3 or 5 of something-but preferably not seashells or something cliched like that.

Thinking about putting up some wood lattice fencing on the back wall of the garage and planting Dutchman's Pipe Vine to scramble up it. The leaves would make the backyard look so nice. Perhaps some climbing up the back wall of the house too? It is a cool vine-often used to shade porches.

Here is some info on it: http://www.abnativeplants.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_id=14

Here are the most recent pictures of Feena and Mush playing. She plays rough for a 13 week old!

http://zekeman.com/Pictures/v/Feena_and_Mush/

My first blog post! So excited.

Ok so this is my first blog post. Loving it. A place to put my photos, ideas and all of the other random crap that I come across.

6 things that have been floating thru my head lately:

1. I need to sew the 50's & 60's dress/suit/blouse patterns I bought off e-bay. Need to buy the fabric first!

Here are the patterns I bought:

Simplicity Jiffy Wiggle dress # 4884

Simplicity Jiffy Shift dress # 5960

McCall's full skirt Dress #6080

Butterick blouses # 8206

Thing is I think I am going to have to learn how to do a 'full bust adjustment' on each pattern because after teaching myself more about sewing a dress I learned that patterns are made for an average B cup size-way not big enough for my DD's! I also have to get up the courage and learn how to put in a zipper and use fusable interfacing to give shape and structure to the dresses.

2. Get to know my sisters and mom better-I sent them each a little questionaire to find out stuff I didn't know about them-I got the questions by doing a google search for 'get to know you questions' and cobbling together a list that seemed appropriate. The answers I have received back give me a nice insight into each of them.

3. Use up what I own instead of buying new things - I own way too much 'stuff' and am trying to reduce what I own. For too long I have had the urge to buy buy buy but now all I want to do is reduce. It makes me feel weird to look at some of the stuff I have bought in the past and think to myself 'Why did I buy that?'

4. Mop the kitchen floors more often-I really hate that chore-in fact I would love to pay someone to do it for me-I hate it that much.

5. Exercise because I am getting older and my body is telling me so-problem is I am lazy like so many other people.

6. Missing my friend Diane in Australia something fierce