The Crafts

Calling all pinners... Spending a week on vacation has revitalized my mind, body and spirit. I feel re-energized and ready to tackle some projects. Who knows how long this new energy may last so I need to capitalize on it. So far I have decluttered several areas of the house and found FOUR bags worth of trash to throw out. Gross and awesome. My next plan is to tackle a Pinterest project. Like most people I pin and pin and pin but rarely do I complete a project. Sure I try lots of recipes from Pinterest but that is about as far as I go. I imagine many people out there are in the same position as I am so I want to extend a challenge. Let's all take on one project. One project you have pinned to a board. One project you would love to complete but have never found the motivation to start it. My goal is to complete one project by December 1st and share the finished product on my blog. I hope you will join me. You can send me a photo of either the item you pinned or what your complet...

I'm going to keep this short and sweet because I write way too often on this little blog of mine. Oh, I am funny today. Last week CJ and I hopped a jet plane with my parents and sister. We disappeared from the Iowa chill for an entire luxurious week of sand, waves, a backyard pool, fishing in the Gulf, shark petting, dolphin watching, manatee gawking, sea turtle oogling, and sun soaking in one of my favorite places in the world...Florida. Marco Island to be exact. It is a hot spot for our family. I have been to the Marco beaches six times in my life and that is without mentioning my numerous other trips to the sunny state. Yes, I am Florida groupie. Year round I am a full fledged lover of summer. My favorite scents are sun tan lotion and chlorine. I prefer sitting in sand over sitting in a lounge chair. I would honesty live most of my life if a swimsuit if I called Florida home. But my family is in Iowa and I love my family. Quite frankly I really like Iowa too so I call Iowa hom...

This past week, while laying on a gorgeous beach, I had a lot of time to think. (More on the beach part in a future post.) I didn't do any deep thinking, rather I planned. I spent time plotting out action steps to accomplish several goals I have sat on for a long time. Namely those goals are to get organized. Throw out junk (one of my guilty pleasures) and find a good, solid method to organize the remaining stuff in an eye pleasing manner (something I am quite terrible at doing.) So where does the modern woman turn to first for help and inspiration? Pinterest. Oh, Pinterest. I love you and I hate you. Who, I dare ask, has a house that resembles the beauty found on Pinterest? I will tell you who... Only those people who live in the homes on Pinterest. No one else. If someone did have a house with fantastic entryway benches, perfectly ironed bed linens, adorable chevron, quilted, tot-sized headboards with manicured fingers and Martha Stewart stew in the kitchen then they would take...