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Though I don’t think I’ve ever made a specific post about them, when we got new windows I went the cheap-n-easy route of using tension rods, curtain clips and tea towels as curtains. (You can see them behind Lloyd here.) They turned out to be the perfect size, and saved me a heap of bad sewing and fist-shaking.

Well, back in December Lloyd received a present in the mail from his Aunt Margie – a box full of tea towels that she had embroidered with different barns! It was accompanied by a lovely hand-written letter, a rarity these days. Lloyd admired them and then said, “They’re too pretty to use.”

I disagree. As tea towels, yes. As new curtains, no!

Have you seen this story yet? Please, please click on the link. It shows an art installation in Australia where they painted everything white, then gave children stickers to cover every surface. It fills a hole in my heart and makes me cry out for color, much like this commercial from long ago.

I’m sure at some point I’m going to try a small prototype of the white area/colored dots – probably at school – but tonight I wanted to do something now.

What’s white?

My kitchen is white.

Hello, favorite striped contact paper!

Meh. It’s great up close, but from far away it reads a little ‘fast food restaurant’. I’ll take it down right after I get the rest of the Christmas stuff put away.

It did save me from drawing on the counter with permanent markers, though, which was a close second.

Nothing is happening today, either. I’ll update this later. Sorry, guys.

I spent most of the day asleep due to the powerful effects of Chlorpheniramine Maleate and Phnylephrine, so nothing interesting happened on my end. What did you do with your Wednesday?

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Christmas is nearly here, and I’ve actually felt a little festive this year, especially at work.

The thing I like best about my job is that the bar for art is set pretty low. Where else can you work with some kids to make a tree out of masking tape and all who see it ooh and ahh?

Or construction paper trees? Ho ho ho – Merry Christmas!

I do recall a craft from elementary school that caused me some shame. We glued dried beads all around an eggshell then dipped it in wax. I remember just hating how it turned out, and how each Christmas afterwards there was a special sort of agony I went through, begging my parents to throw it away.