Not very crafty...

I haven't been very crafty lately... too busy with the wedding, work, etc. BUT I do have a couple things going on that I won't be able to mention on my blog! After the holidays, I'll be posting a lot more stuff.

Speaking of the holidays, I'm excited that I finally got permission to decorate the Christmas tree HOWEVER I want it... and I'm starting a star-shaped ornament collection. I was able to find quite a few at Oktoberfest (and an ornament with snowmen... the lady wrote our names on it and "Our First Christmas"). I'm still keeping an eye out for some cool stuff. Let me know if you see any place that has some good star ornaments.

Anywhoo... just felt like posting because its been almost a month and I haven't had anything good to show on here. I swear I will soon. I will post the favors for the wedding once they're done, and any other cakes/crafts that get finished.

:)

Color IQ Test

Randomly, I stumbled upon this color IQ test at: http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

I thought I wasn't doing so well at first. You have to re-arrange these color tiles for the color spectrum to be completed, four different times. The rating scale is from 0 (perfect) to some really high number (you suck). Check this out:

• Your score: 0
• Gender: Female
• Age range: 20-29
• Best score for your gender and age range: 0
• Highest score for your gender and age range: 1409

SO now we know, having an obsession with Crayola as a child can really be useful... because I have perfect color vision/IQ.

:) GO CHECK IT OUT! :)

Update soon

Sorry I'm lame and haven't posted anything in a while... I've been very busy lately with all kinds of things.

I will upload and post a picture or two of Art's dad's birthday cake (I was VERY proud of it, and his mom still talks about it to this day), the thank you cards I'm making for the wedding, and a couple other projects I'm working on.

I'm also just floating along here at work... some people are really frustrating me because I would rather not talk politics at work while the rest of them are all loud and annoying about it. It's hard for me to bite my tongue, because I, for some reason, don't feel the need to discuss politics at work or in friendly social situations because people always get hurt for some reason or another. I'll let them all rally together and do whatever they want to do.

I actually heard from a few people here at work that they think I'm an incredibly calm person. Weird how I act at work compared to at home or anywhere else! They said that I never seem stressed, always cool and collected. My bosses even said that in my evaluation! So I'm not going to prove otherwise, I'll just keep on keeping to myself here, because flying under the radar is actually giving me REALLY high praise. :)

OK so that's enough of that. I'll post the cake and whatnot later tonight.

Eventually pictures, but now, more "blah"

Art left for Santa Clara for 9 days yesterday morning. I was fine until evening came around... about the time I normally make dinner. But then we talked on the phone and everything was cool.

This weekend I will be making some little applique ornaments (fall-themed) with mom (who is crafting with me all weekend), I'll be sure to take pics and put them up on here. I also found a cool beach bag idea in my new Martha Stewart Living magazine. If I make that, I'll put it in here (or save it for another post).

I've decided to do a lot of crafting for the holidays because I know money will be tight after the wedding. We decided on a budget for each other for presents, and I know what I'm going to be making for people. I won't write it in here because someone might be reading :D:D:D

I'm also going to work some more on my large Christmas-scene cross stitch project this week. I did a little bit last night, but my eyes were getting tired because there wasn't enough light. I think I'm going to bring a small lamp to the side table in the living room so I have enough light to stay motivated to work on it this week.

That's all. I'm at my boss' desk this week because she's on vacation, and although I have a little pile of work to be done, I get super bored because it's so quiet in here!!!!

Camping

We're going camping today until Tuesday morning. OJ and Nikki are coming with us.

We're going to Paso Picacho in the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, which is where we always go, and we're so excited :D Or at least, yesterday I was really excited, I wanted to go RIGHT THEN. Not so much anymore, but I know that once we get on the road, I'll be excited again. Usually when we get there, it's evening and the sun is going down. This time, we'll be there at check in... 2pm. That will be PERFECT because then we can really see what areas are best for the tents and put them up without needing flashlights and lanterns. I can get the "Kitchen" all set up too .

We got a new tent. It's an Ozark Trail tent... blue, two room, 13x10, 6 feet high. It sleeps 6... but yeah, we'd never use it for that many people, I don't think. BUT we can put Chompers' kennel in there and our stuff. Normally we have to keep all of our stuff in the car, and last time we brought Chompers, he had to stay in the car too at night. So now we have space for everything and don't have to bend over in the tent because it's so tall. It fits in a small bag, only a little bigger than our two person tent.

We also got a propane lantern. Problem is, nobody sells long matches anymore. Well, at least the Wal Mart in Lakeside doesn't. But the man I was asking about it said that he couldn't find them anywhere.

We decided not to bring the BBQ this time because we're not really cooking much food that requires it, since we're cooking hot dogs on our marshmallow sticks, and we're going to eat Pork Chops, which can easily be cooked on a pan on the stove.

Chompers LOVES camping too... he behaves so much more on the leash there. He loves running around, smelling things, and pooping in nature :D

OK so I'm going to go put away dishes now so Art won't complain anymore (hahaha:) ) and then get the cold foods together so that when OJ and Nikki get here in like an hour, we can just put everything in the cooler and head out! :D

Quicky Update

Tomorrow I will have pics up of the Creepy Clown Cake. I'm cleaning right now, and have been pretty sick all week, so I haven't had time to update much this week. I've had a fever for like two days, and today is the first day that I've felt OK.

Got the camping supplies tonight, so I'm excited and ready to go for Sunday! Just have to get through tomorrow somehow without getting too stir crazy because I'm so excited to go camping! :D

I'm a nerd. Whatever.

But we're packing everything up tomorrow so that it's all done. We should probably put gas in the car tomorrow too. Art's at his gig and I haven't really done anything on my little to do list yet... so I'm gonna get cracking.

Have a good night (to all of you out there who aren't reading this right now... LOL)

Ayy Babe!!!

Today was the big day... I got my personalized plates for the Murano!!!!Now all I need to do is get my USD Alumni plate frame and logo decal for the window. :D

This Weekend

This weekend I will be making another cake... not sure what flavor or what it will look like. Jeni's hosting dinner on Sunday and we're all going to play frisbee golf. So maybe I'll make it green or something. The Evite she sent out had a flamingo on it, maybe I'll decorate it with a flamingo.

I'm pretty limited in what I can decorate because I've only had those two classes and actually practiced in one class. But I can work on my handwriting, and I can make magic with star-tips!

I'm also moving along well on my huge cross-stitching project. It's a Christmas scene, but I'd like for it to be done by the wedding in November because after that, I want to start decorating (by the time we're back from the honeymoon, it's Christmas decorating time!). So I really have to get on that. I should treat it like it's work or something. We're going camping next weekend, so I can always bring it along there as long as I make sure it doesn't get dirty.

Have a great weekend! Hopefully I'll have more images to post by Monday.

About the blog, I guesss

I'm going to try to put any creative cooking in this blog so I can keep track of how I progress with my culinary skills and everything. Ideally, I can rank how tasty the food is, but I know how much I fall off of updating stuff like this. I will try hard though to get things posted and have a steady hobby. Since I do all the cooking in our house, at least I know half the work will be done-- dinner will be cooked. It's just a matter of taking a picture and writing down the recipe as I go along. I think I can handle it.

PLUS, who knows if anyone will even READ this blog, but at least I have it up and maybe I will be motivated to try new recipes and whatnot.

BUT before I can start cooking anything delicious, I need to find out what I'm allergic to (since a couple of weeks ago I had a bad reaction to my tasty shrimp pasta, and the allergist still isn't confident that it was a shrimp allergy, but may instead be a garlic, parsley, or chili pepper allergy).

ALSO, I want to take pictures of my scrapbooking projects as I complete them. I tend to make a lot of cards and little mini books, so I want to keep track of them before I give them away. As I finish projects and pages, I will upload the pics on here. Hopefully I can get ideas from other people and try to create my own style.

I guess I could go back and take pictures of the pages I've done already, but I don't like the way they look anymore. I think I need to keep them the way they are though because I should be proud of how much I have learned. I just need to get back into it. My next BIG project will be my wedding album, but I need pictures first!

Eventually this will be something interesting. Right now it kind of sucks. :)