The sparrows are waiting for me….
Cakes, Cupcakes and Cookies Galore!
I got married just over a year ago, and the wedding had to be assembled pretty quickly.
Luckily I had some great friends who helped me get everything together.
Our friends Aimee & Jean made us a fabulous wedding cake and now Aimee is trying to make her way in the cake industry.
Check out her website: http://bakingaimee.wordpress.com/, this was our wedding cake: http://bakingaimee.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/calla-lilies-wedding-cake/.
Thanks guys it was a beautiful cake!
10 Tasks that are tough to do with one hand
- Putting your hair into a ponytail.
- Opening a peanut butter jar.
- Putting on a bra.
- Hitting ctrl-alt-del.
- Pulling out a sofa couch.
- Washing your good arm.
- Estimating how much shampoo you’ve put on your head.
- Wrapping a gift.
- Opening popsicle wrappers.
- Tying your shoelaces.
Courtship in the early centuries
An oldie but a goodie.
The Irishes 1, Backsplash 0
Ever since we got the house I’ve wanted a kitchen back splash. We went to the outlet store earlier this month, and found a nice tile for 1.99/Sq Ft. What a great deal!
So the following weekend, we applied the thin-set, and put the tiles up on the wall. Easy peasy.
Then came the horror that is paper faced tiles. The internet says, if you just spray it with water, and let it sit, the paper will dissolve and you can easily peel/wipe it off. Not true. Maybe the glue was too old or something, but it took us one full day, and 5 nights to remove all the stupid paper. Not fun at all. So if you’re ever thinking of getting tiles, and they say its paper faced, THINK IT OVER.
After that was all done, we grouted, which was easy enough, and then we could not get the grout haze off. So in about 10 days, we’ll be able to use grout haze remover to completely clean off the tiles.
It was a lot of work, but I think it looks great. I’m hoping my husband will post a better step by step with the pics, but for now, here is the before and after:
Out with the Old…
With spring coming, a lot of those ‘we need to do…’ projects for the house are cropping back up again. So far, nothing major, just some redecorating going on.
Project 1: Re-doing the front/back door curtains
I forgot to take a ‘before shot’ of my previous curtains for the front and back door, but they were pretty nasty. I was using material from old curtains in the condo and had just trimmed them down to do the necessary covering. Last time I ever work with sheer fabric; it’s super slippery material and back then I had no patience to iron the hems first. My mom has been complaining about them since I put them up, and last week she was over again and, on cue, brought up their ugliness yet again, so I visited the fabric store, found some $2/m fabric, and voila! For a mere $6 dollars we’ve got much better looking entrances.
Project 2: Kitchen chair covers
My old chair covers I did a long time ago, and really didn’t know what I was doing back then. They too were a quick fix, so when you sat down your butt bones wouldn’t eventually end up grinding into the chair. I have become a better seamstress since then, at least I hope I have. I was visiting the fabric store while waiting for my husband to arrive from the subway, and saw this incredible fabric. I thought nothing of it then, until I got home and realized what I could do with them. So the next day, I head back to the store, and it was gone from the clearance section! We searched and searched, and luckily, we found 2.25m left in the clearance section but at $4/m. So for $12, I got our new kitchen chair covers with some material left to spare. My husband’s one request was that they don’t slip around on you anymore when you sit down, so instead of doing ribbon like before, I created velcro straps and sewed the non-slip material to the bottom of the cushion (you can’t see that part). But I think they look a lot better than before, and I had him test them for their immobility. Worked like a charm!
That’s about it for now. I think I’ll go back to sewing non-house related things!
The Highway of Heroes
While I was driving on hwy 401 today, the bridges above were filled with people and Canadian flags. Sadly, I’ve been seeing this more often.
It always brings me to tears, as I’m filled with a feeling of sadness over the death of the soldiers as well as a feeling of patriotism and pride for the soldiers who sacrifice their lives for our country.
I am very glad that we have the highway of heroes, for I hope those who have lost their loved ones see people waiting on the bridges and know that we’re all very proud and honoured to have had them serve our country.
So long Olivaw, and thanks for all the fish
The Lich King came out a while ago, and I recently finished using my 10-day free trial. It was hard to not continue to play, but if I did, I wouldn’t be able to get anything else done.
So sadly, I bid adieu to my characters and will probably not play a video game for a while – until Diablo III but I am hoping by then I’ll have accomplished a lot more, so feel free to delay Blizzard! The WOW armory only keeps characters up for so long, so here’s a tribute to my mage. You sure died a lot but only because you were dealing out so much awesome damage.
