Monday, July 2, 2012

Opportunities in work clothes.

Sorry I have been so busy! I know y’all have missed me. Well summer is finally here and I am home Ole Miss to be with my family and catch up on some projects I have in mind.  Two of my favorite things are to make money and to spend it; and what better way to do both and craft at the same time! So for my big summer project I am working on refinishing and recovering a vintage couch and chair set.  My precious mama found this set for me on the side of the road! Who would throw away such a thing?? Being the wonderful mother she is, she bought it for me for $50! Shocking I know, it really was a great deal!
Since this is my first major recovering project, I wanted to take baby steps and tackle the chair first.  The couch and chair itself were in fairly good condition except for the fact a litter of roaches scurried from under the cushions and totally freaked me out.  I knew then I had to gut them down to the wood so no babies would lurk out once I was done.  Yuck!

With a little coat of black paint she turned into a beauty! I was so excited and couldn’t wait to find just the right fabric to give the chair a bold look! That was until I looked for fabric.  My excitement went down the drain as soon as I started pricing fabrics.  I found the most beautiful black and cream pattern that was so perfect, until I saw that it was $39.99 a yard. What a buzz kill.

Discouraged I gave up looking and was positive that I was never going to find anything inexpensive to cover my chair. I mean hello, it would have cost more for three yards of fabric than it did to buy the entire furniture set.  But good ole Ya Ya came to the rescue with such a clever idea. 

Her pack rat hording ways can 99% of the time be a negative trait, but this time she gave me the best idea. She recently ventured to a discount store and bought fabric table cloths with bright flowers and bold patterns, just the look I was going for but only $4 per table cloth! A fabric is a fabric and you gotta do what you gotta do.  This was the perfect solution to my fabric nightmare and I was back on track!!
Ecstatic, I am back on the project and have learned that I if I think outside of the box, I can have everything I want.  I can’t wait to show y’all the finished product!

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
—Henri Kaiser


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Somebody Has to Say It.

Well hello dear readers I have missed you terribly! Today is a lovely day in Oxford to skip out on doing homework and do something really important like speak what is on your mind. But wait, I tend to do that everyday. I just have to say I have seen so many things in the past few months that make me say "Wait, what?" and I just have to tell y'all whats been running through my little mind. Here it goes!

How about that Miss America pageant?! Super lovely and talented representatives from each state, but the judges?! What the hell? I'm sorry but Kris Jenner you should not be able to judge class if your daughters have a sex tape. Lets put that in the pageant by laws.

Girls/women in general: Stop depending on guys. Here is some crazy advice that even I need to take, do what YOU want to do. When you are involved in things that interest you, you will meet people with similar personality traits. Odds are that's the guy your gonna want to marry. Not the frat star with excess swag and a trust fund.

Stop hating on the oversize sorority shirts and leggings. We just want to be comfortable while in class, sheesh. Besides, do you really want a bunch of hot Ole Miss sorority girls dressing up every day? No that means you would have to step up your fashion game. We will save the dolling up for the square/grove.

If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend be a doll and don't try to talk to anyone else. Its so annoying when a guy “likes” you but has a girlfriend back home. What am I second string? Thanks but no thanks! Also its super nice to not cheat. Chances are if that person back home has the decency to wait on you, they are probably the person who is either a) really stupid b) actually loves you or c) is possibly cheating on your dumb ass as well. But if they really do love you, don't lose the moon chasing stars.

Just because we are from Mississippi doesn't mean we are idiots; not all of us anyway. Stop with the negative southern stereotypes. However, if you are from Mississippi and you wear cut off jeans, John Deere apparel, and camouflage on the regular, then I'm gonna have to ask you to tone that down. Branch out a little bit. Please for the sake of our state.

Whew, that is all for now! I'm sure I will have to vent soon! Talk to y'all then!

“We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see.”―Robyn Silverman