We be pinnin'.

People?  I think I have a sickness.

Seriously.

I have been pinning so much lately that I have lost track of time.  And possibly thought it was Thursday two days in a row.

Neither of which was Thursday.

Oh.  Sorry.  Guess I should back the bus up a little.  Have you heard of Pinterest?

It's like an online bulletin board where you pin images of stuff you find online that you like, and the photo you pin to your board is a hyperlink to the original source of the image.

The result is a visual compilation of the awesomest stuff on the internet.

Here are a few of my favourite pins of late:

Made these last night.  So yummy.

I shall make many of these.

Save the books, people!

The Doors?  Plus stairs?  You had me at "hello".

No she wasn't.

How are people so clever?

Oooh.  Gettin' deep on ya.

Oh, the irony.  I must make this.

So, what do you think?  Do you pin?  Or are you disPINterested? 

Ba-dum-dum-CHING!

Bathroom reorganization.

Or, should I say, "organization".  See this "before" picture?

There's really no "re" about it.

In our bathroom?  We just have one big cabinet.

No shelves.  No drawers.  Just one big space of the throw-it-in-there-and-shut-the-door-as-fast-as-possible-so-nothing-falls-out variety.

But then? I got smart.  This cabinet needed shelving, I say!

Plus, I wanted to use my drill.

Oh...did I not tell you about my drill?  See, when we first moved in here? We had to put up a shower curtain.  And I wanted one of those snazzy curved ones.

So we needed a drill.
 
In this house, I tend to be the tool-wielder, although the shower-curtain-rod turned into a two-dude job.

Why wouldn't this picture turn upright?

And people?  This started a love affair.  I was looking for things that needed a hole in them.

Anyway, back to the cupboard.

I went to Totem and had them cut me a couple of shelves based on my very precise and mathematical directions.

Yeah.  Basically guesstimated using a little pocket tape-measure.

Then I put them up using 3/4" L-shaped brackets.  Clearly I don't know what they're really called.  I used five of those thingies for each shelf, because they are only held up on 2 sides.  Keep in mind, though, there isn't much weight on them.

I recently switched to flat storage for my cosmetics to help free up some space in the ole' water closet.  That office drawer-organizer on the upper right holds all my girly goo.

Also?  I figured out that there are special screws just for particle-board.  Go me!

Three cheers for crappy iPhone photos!

And then I made them look a little less homemade with the plastic edging that goes on particle-board shelving.  Hopefully that will distract from the very homemade cussing that trying to drill into awkward places produced.

Et voila.  

It looks better, n'est-ce pas?

Now, I want to add a couple of these to the doors to add a little storage for my curling iron and other hair-tamers:

A great idea from The Suels!  Click the picture to head to their post!

I'm linking up at Anything Goes over at Type A.

 

I saved this shower curtain from lifelong trauma.

So, my blogging's been a little irregular.  As in, underwear-from-the-bargain-bin-at-the-Super-Save irregular. 

It needs some Metamucil.  Or at least some prune juice.

Anyway, I've found a stash of photos on my computer from before my computer cord went missing (again!) and sent me on this most recent hiatus. 

Thus, I give you...my new shower curtain!

 
Yes, the photo sucks.  That's my iPhone for you.

Anyhow, see that green strip across this bottom?  That's how I overcame the "floodpants" effect of the curtain when I first hung it.

 See?  Floodpants.  If this was junior high, my shower curtain would be getting beat-up right now.

 So, here's how I did it.  I measured the gap from the bottom of the curtain to the floor, and then I made a strip that height by the width of the curtain plus about eight inches.  I also added some for seam allowances.

Here's me sewing:

(Why do I think I have to take pictures of everything?)

Since the fabric was too narrow to stretch the whole width of the curtain, I had to piece together two widths of fabric.

 This is where the extra eight inches comes in - I made a couple of basic pleats to cover up the seam.

 Et voila.  A shower curtain worthy of a long, hot shower.

Or at least not getting shoved into a locker at lunch.

This one's on the hot list.

Last month (or was it the month before?) I jumped in on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge.

I made a coupla' things.

Here's the last one:

 If only I could take better pictures of it.  Stupid blurry photos.

Since the kit is counterfeit, does that mean I could dabble in other kinds of crimes, as well?

Like, say, DSLR camera theft, for example?

Just a thought.

*pleasebefunnypleasebefunnypleasebefunny*

Umm...hi.

So, uhhh, I've been away for awhile.

*Bright, Teri.  Don't you think they know that?*

It's been busy here.  A couple of unpleasant vet visits, company, end-of-the-year school stuff.  You know how it goes.

*Excuses, excuses.*

So I, uhhh, haven't had much to say.

*Ok, Teri, get to the funny stuff already.  You've kept these people waiting for a month.  This better be good!*

Umm...I made this:

*Oooh, scintillating.  Bravo, you comedienne extraordinaire.*


 Ok, you.  I've had just about enough of your sass.


*You do realize we're the same person, right?*

Well, uhhh, yes, but you're much to curmudgeonly for my liking.


*It's not my fault you can't think of anything funny to say.  You're supposed to entertain these people!  No one's laughing!*

Hey!  Cut a brother some slack.  I've had a lot on my mind, yo.

*And you smell funny.*

Ok, now you're just being rude.

*Am I wrong?*

Well...maybe not...but still.  Besides, you're making everyone think we're nuts.  Not only am I talking to myself, but I'm answering.  There's some old cliche about that being the definition of crazy, isn't there?

*Yes, well, perhaps that will get them laughing.  If not in a funny-ha-ha way, then at least in a what-the-freak-is-up-with-this-woman way.*

...Well that's something, isn't it?

Another counterfeit layout. Please don't turn me in.

This counterfeit kit thing?  I'm seriously loving it.

(This one's based on Sketch #150 from Creative Scrappers, by the way.)

I mean, how awesome is it to be able to see new combinations in the stash you already know and love?

Plus, the layouts seem to come together in record time.  Not that I want my scrap time to go too fast, but lately?  If I want to scrap at all?  I have to economize on my time.

If any of you figure out how to counterfeit time?  Please.  Pass it my way.

This one's counterfeit.

Here's one of the first layouts I made with my counterfeit kit:

I love that this challenge gets me to try colour schemes I might not otherwise try and to use up some of that lovely paper that I
hoard
covet.

This one also gave me the opportunity to use one of the little embroidery-floss butterflies that I crocheted whilst sitting in a packed-up house waiting to move.

 Ain't it cute?  I started with a tutorial I found online, but I altered it a little.   I'll post a tutorial soon.

These little guys are too cute to
hoard
covet all to myself.