For the Love of VINATAGE!

I absolutely LOVE anything old.

I adore vintage and retro items--especially if I happen to find them for a great price.

Just the other day I went "thrifting" a.k.a. thrift shopping and I found this really really cute spoon holder for the stove. The thing that really got my attention was the fact that it was in such a great condition. It even had the original sticker on the back. I thought "No way! This is so awesome and in such great condition that I can't believe that somebody else didn't pick it up before I did." Plus the fact that it was only one dollar, so of course I brought it home.

 

So know you have to understand my delima of where to put my new found treasure. This is a problem of my own making because I have a lot (seriously-A LOT) of kitchen items that I keep in my room since I still live with my parents. I am always joking that I have my own kitchen-it's just underneath my bed. Ha-ha-ha.

Well, I ended up putting it in a box with a set of really cute owl glasses that I have. So I did find a spot for it but I need to be careful 'cause I am running out of room.

What is your view on thriftiness?

FIRST BLINGY THINGY

I made my first bling project!! It was AWESOME!!! My sister has a long shirt-p.j. style that my mom wanted me to make an embriodery design on.

The shirt was red and it was around Christmas time (o.k., technically after Christmas, but hey! we had family dinners and all that going on.) so I decided to put a snowflake on the knee area in the front and three little snowflakes in the back.

So I finished the snowflake with my sewing machine and then I put the crystals on it and this is how it turned out.

 

Pretty good I think!

 

I'm writing a book!!

Yay! I am going to accomplish one of my life-long dreams!!!

I am going to publish a book!-about me.

And not to sound selfish, no, it hasn't been a life long dream to publish a book about myself, it's just been a dream to publish a book.

(Yeah, the day I turned two, I calmly looked at my mom and said "Mother, I believe that I would like to publish a book about my life, because I am such a prodigy that people will want to read about me in the years to come)-HAHAHAHAHAH- I crack myself up!!

In all seriousness though, I am going to publish a book. I am taking a class called "Advanced Electronic Publishing" and we are going to publish a book about our lives up to this point. Which I think is going to be an interesting endeavor.

I made a book about myself when I was in sixth grade, but it wasn't really "published". Actually, I am not even sure if we still have it....hmmm....anyway, we are going to be publishing it and I believe that other people can actually buy it off the site-more details on that later.

I am a little excited/nervous/curious about the whole process and I think that this class is going to be quite interesting

I just need to think up a title for the book. Any suggestions? And no, suggestions like "Corissa the Airhead" are not going to be accepted!!! Although, I know all of you would NEVER suggest something like that. :)

Sorry, I can't spell

Okay. So my little sister just pointed out that I grammered (yes, I know that's not a word!) wrong.

I posted about chips forever ago and she pointed out that I made a mistake in the first sentence, but it is fixed now. :)

Early classes

Yay! It's back to school again.... And why does there have to be early classes. I have a class on Mondays and Wednesdays that starts at 8:00. Now, I know what your thinking- 8:00? That's not early! Well, let me tell you this, waking up at 8:30 or 9:00 during a month break can certainly throw you off your game.

Anyway, so I wasn't a lazy bum this morning and I did get up at 7:00 ( I just laid back down again for about ten minutes.). And I had my breakfast, scraped all the ice off my car and drove to school all the while seeing my breath INSIDE the car. Got to class. And low and behold- the door is locked and the lights are off! So I went to the office and asked the lady if the had moved the class. "No," she replies. "The class starts at 8:30". And I think to myself. "And I got up early!!!"

This ever happened to any of you? Leave a comment and let me know.

Joann Coupons

Yay! Joann has a 50% off this week! I can't wait to use it! I also saw on their flyer for next week two more 50% off coupons!  Hip-hip-horray!

Usually Joann just has their 40% off coupons, but occasionally I get lucky and find a 50% off one. I usually use the 50% off ones to buy embriodery interfaceing, hand-embriodery patterns, or other fun stuff.

This time though I am going to get a crystal thingy (so scientific aren't I?) It attaches crystals to material. I have been wanting one for a while so I'm going to get it. Last week there was a 40% off coupon and I got some crystals, so now I just need the attacher thingy that puts them on the material and off I go.

FYI: I will post whatever I decide to bling up!

WATCH OUT WORLD, HERE COMES THE GLITTER QUEEN!

Selling Crafts

So for a long time now, I have been wanting to start selling some of my crafts. So I was talking to one of my co-workers yesterday and she said that I should bring them into work to sell.

And I thought to myself "Hey! Why not?". So I go brave and decided to take some to work.

So today I took one of my hat boxes and set up a "stand" for my crafts. I took clips, headbands, and scarves. 

;) Hopefully they will sell quick!


Here are some examples of the things I took to my work.