Martha.

I keep thinking how wonderful Martha Stewart is. 

I mean she's crafting and she cooks and decorates and does crazy cool crap. 

She seems like an angel from above with a hot glue gun in her hand. 

Until I was on her website and was looking around, in my pretty little head I thought Martha Stewart was shewoman. She knew it all and did it all, she even went to jail! Come on....

Except that Martha also has a team of thousands that do basically everything for her, craft blogs, makeup people, tv crew, chefs, I'm sure that if I had all that I could blog every day about how awesome I am too. 

So it took me like an hour to iron all of my fabric, learning from my mistake of don't wash reds with whites and I got some streaks.....but I'm not perfect

It does make me happy that my fabric collection is growing. and that one of my hardest projects is almost done. 

Not only did paint, erase, and repaint all of this like a thousand times. I free handed about half of it and this is only half of it. The middle is going to be a chalk/magnetic board with beer cap magnets. I've made a thousand of theses, but this is the first one I've made for a boy. 

I'm super nervous about his reaction. but we've been friends since forever. So hopefully he'll take that into consideration. 

I'll be posting the tutorial on this at a later date with prettier paint color and the backing intact. 

New Beginnings

It's a new year and like everyone else in the world I want to start over and work on myself....blah, blah, blah. 


well today I'm feeling the pressure of getting out of my college town and into a career, living on my own, paying my own bills, and FINALLY feeling like a real grown up. 

I couldn't be prouder of my best friend getting a job right after college. 

(she's on the left)

but it makes me wonder, what am I doing wrong or did I say no to the right opportunities? 

It could always be worse and I'm throwing the worlds biggest pity party right now. 

I'm trying to look on the bright side; I have a job, I'm not homeless, friends and family love me

so aside from getting into my career this year, I'm going to be positive and to start working out. 

but since I have no motivation and my self-esteem is like blllllaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

I'm failing at all three. 

Here's to the most depressing post ever. 

(I'm definitely not looking for comments on reassurance, just expressing my feelings)

Aftermath

I thought starting a blog after Christmas was a good idea, but then I realized that I didn't take pictures of anything I made (I'm a real genius like that). 


So here's what my craft room looks like weeks after I crafted everyone's gift

The weeks before christmas was a blur, trying to get everything done and my craft room reflects on it.