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I was hoping a patterned paper background would help make a stupid injury look a little cuter.
Last night I cooked a steak...seared it and then put the saute pan in a 400 degree oven. I took it out, put it on the stove, forgot the pan had been in the oven, grabbed the handle, lost my ever-loving mind from the pain, and went to the urgent care with second degree burns.
Since I will be one-handed for a little bit, there will probably be very little typing around here. I'll be back soon...
Tonight was our first concert in the park for the summer. We might not be able to get to many since both cities right by our house have concerts on Wednesdays and Mac has competition cheer team practice scheduled on that night. But Sean and I got to see a U2 cover band, break in the camping chair love seat he got me for Mother's Day this year and had a dinner that pretty much came straight from the grocery store.
I gathered together roasted garlic bread, turkey, salami, prosciutto, provolone, olive tapenade, goat cheese and crackers. Dessert was also picked up the grocery store...coconut macaroons and brownie bites. Then there might have been a bottle of raspberry hard cider too.
I wrapped up a gift card for my brother-in-law in the turquoise striped wrapping paper, added the birthday cake circles, and tucked into a pocket card I put together.
Well Wishes...a homemade card shared on Wednesdays.
Last week I hosted the cheer booster board meeting that kicks off my final year as the president. I put together binders for the half dozen board members this year...which is one of my very favorite tasks. I feel that cute office supplies make everything better.
This week I am working on the welcome barbecue coming up on Saturday and the big fundraiser when we host a booth at the city's 3rd of July fireworks show.
It's taken two solid years and a 1,000 hours of work to feel like I might finally have a little knowledge and capability. My goal this year is write as many notes & lists as I can, so the next booster president is as prepared as I can possibly help them be.
With the Ten times Eighty-Two attempt (still going strong, although I inevitably missed a couple days already), I wanted a little journal to make collages (which was inspired by this project) or to smear watercolors around in. Some cardboard, watercolor paper, and loose-leaf rings turned into a book very quickly.
Then I just added a few details to the cover including a favorite stamp, one that even helped me figure out what to rename my blog several years ago now.
Hopefully I'll have it all filled up with "not art" by the end of the summer.
Last year's summer list was a bit of a bust, but that won't stop me from making a little one for this summer. Here are the few random things I would love to do...
1. Take off in the car and just drive somewhere for the day.
2. Making homemade pudding pops. Whatever happened to the jello pudding pops we ate as kids?
3. Learn how to play one card game. (Since I know how to play zero card games.)
Well Wishes...a homemade card shared on Wednesdays.
Sean's dad is staying with us this week, so we are enjoying a little more fun than usual. Tonight was an Angels game and tomorrow is the beach.
Summer is just way more fun.
It was actually last weekend that I noticed my phone photos were looking a little weird and cloudy.
So I grabbed one of the dozens of lens cleaning cloths that are around the house, since I have to wear glasses every minute of my life, and started carefully wiping the lens on my phone.
It's completely obvious, yet I never thought to do it. I wanted to mention it in case you might not have thought of it either.
Mac finished school Thursday, Sean finished school Friday, I start summer school Monday, and Sean starts summer school the following Monday.
The schedule is still way lighter though and I am grateful for that to start this weekend.
Weekend Brush Set from Life. Love. Paper
Mac's junior year meant taking a zero-period class, being on the varsity cheer squad, earning a 3.8 GPA in the first semester (we all have our fingers crossed because he has a chance at a 4.0 for the spring semester...his art class has been the nemesis), having his first job, being awarded as the outstanding junior from the educational support department...and, as you can see, a lot of hair growth.
I found out earlier in the week that today apparently is National Iced Tea Day. Between the three of us, we usually drink water (Sean), sparkling water (Nora) or milk (Mac &/or Sean because Nora thinks that's gross) with dinner. However since I love a holiday celebration, regardless of how random, I made iced tea to go with our turkey burgers tonight.
I picked some mint from the yard, tore off the leaves, rinsed them well and let them dry a little. Then I made a minted simple syrup by simmering one cup of sugar with one cup of water together with all the mint leaves. I let the syrup cool, strained out the leaves and poured it into a small pitcher before putting it in the fridge. I then brewed ridiculously strong decaf Irish Breakfast tea and stuck that in the fridge to wait for dinner.
I wonder what tomorrow's random national holiday is?
Actually I looked it up...it's National Corn on the Cob day...another good one, but we had fresh corn with those turkey burgers tonight.
Well Wishes...a homemade card shared on Wednesdays.
One of the things I made for my mom for her Filofax birthday gift was a board for the back of the planner so there was a more even writing surface. I cut apart a cardboard box and covered it with patterned paper on both sides so it was reversible.
Did I mention when I purchased my mom a pocket planner that I also ordered myself an aqua patent leather one? I couldn't resist.
I actually made one for my full size planner too, since the board creates a much better writing surface.
June 4th until August 23rd is 82 days (if I counted correctly). That's the time between the spring semester ending and the fall one starting.
Even though I'll be teaching summer school and doing a lot of class preparations, if I am ever going to spend time crafting, now would be the time. So I have set a goal of just ten minutes a day doing something...anything crafty. Paper, stamps, photos, lettering, paint, yarn, coloring, beads, digital, watercolor, fabric and every other craft supply I've got will be pulled out at some point.
This everyday stuff is kind of a lofty goal and it might not happen 100%...but I sure as heck am going to have some fun trying.
1. Using the Week End brush set.
2. I learned about Fig & Olive crackers with goat cheese...you have to try it.
3. Painting a little project this weekend...I made Sean promise he wouldn't make fun of me for my next crazy idea.
Tonight I graded 75 cumulative finals, uploaded course grades, wrote up the analysis of my Student Learning Outcome data and wrote a letter of recommendation for a student. With those tasks finished up, my spring semester is finally done.
I have twelve days off before an eight week summer school class that starts on June 15th. It's at 8am and I am so excited to see what kind of hard-core, dedicated students are willing to sign up for an early morning summer school course.
With one class, I have no real reason to make a planner, but in addition to teaching I have three new preps for the fall semester. Having all these classes I have never taught before means a heck of a lot of work this summer.
So I have to do lists galore. A four page master to do list for the fall semester...
And then each of the eight weeks I have one page for the summer school class and one page for all the class planning stuff.
Fingers crossed that this little sunshiny yellow book is the key to me cranking out work this summer.
This is class planner number five...here are one, two and four.
Well Wishes...a homemade card shared on Wednesdays.
Just like last year, I gave little gifts to the cheer team booster board members to try to say thank you for everything they worked on this past year. This year I made up little boxes of cute office supplies with a pun about keeping everything together. Get it? Because paperclips, binder clips and washi tape can keep stuff held together?
Goodness gracious, I am cheesy sometimes.
We had one dad as a board member so he got blue office supplies to make sure the gift was extra masculine. I stuck a note on each box, wrapped them all up and stamped names onto a tag for each person. If you need to give a cheesy gift too you can download a sheet of Keep Everything Together Thank You Tags.
