A New Crafting Room

I am so excited! Eventually I'll edit this and add a picture or two. But, for now...I just wanted to share my excitement. I have a crafting room! Since I started making my greeting cards and gift boxes almost a year ago, I have been working in my living room. It cramped things a little and really always annoyed me that I didn't have a better space to designate as My Crafting Room. Today, after sort of an impromptu conversation with my hubby, we decided that one of our spare bedrooms would get a lot more use if I turned it into a crafting room. So...I did. I disassembled the queen sized bed and I moved this and that behind that and this. Then I started the arduous task of moving all of my crafting supplies, table and just general stuff, up the stairs and into "My Crafting Room"! It is fantastic. I do want to add to it in the future. I would like to add some shelving and some more storage but...it is, at last, my room for all things crafty! I think I will eventually replace my crafting table too. The one that I have is ok but, frankly, if I had the crafting room when I first bought it, I would have gotten something different. The one I have has wheels. I bought it because my plan was to be able to close it up and move it into a little space off of my foyer when I wasn't using it. Eventually, my supplies got so cumbersome that moving it wasn't really an option anymore so, I moved the Sofa Table from one wall in my living room, to another one and crammed my crafting table against that wall, allowing me some 4 feet (if not less) of room in my living room with which to work. I have a really pretty living room. I'm not bragging. I just like it. It is cozy and it makes me feel like home. But, when you add my crafting table, it becomes something less. Even though he never said it, I found out today, after a sigh of relief from both of us once my crap was all in my "Crafting Room", that both the hubby and I were not at all happy with my crafting stuff being in our living room. It...and this is my quote..."crapped it up", and the hubby agreed.

So...now I have a cozy place to chill and watch some TV. And I have a cozy place to craft...and make as Craftacular as I want! Yay!

Ready, Set...Take Off!

I am so excited! About 2 weeks ago, the woman who got me interested in being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and making my own greeting cards and gift boxes, emailed me to ask me if I wanted to take over her clientele. She has a full time job and is a very busy woman because she lives a very social life. She hosts and demonstrates for a Stamp Club once a month and she asked me if I wanted to take it over. She is exhausted and has been thinking about retiring her Stampin' Up! business. I am thrilled! I have had a few of my friends buy Stampin' Up! products from me. I also taught one woman and her daughter how to make a card a few months ago. I've also had a few orders from people of cards and crafts that I make. But, it has been a bit slow. So, taking over for my friend is just what I needed! My friend asked me to demonstrate for her last Stamp Club in about 3 weeks. I already have one project I will be doing and am going to be meeting with her to hammer out the details on a second one. The card above is the one I will be demonstrating at Stamp Club using Stampin' Up! products. I designed it myself. There are similarities to another Demonstrator's card but, there are enough of my own ideas to call it at least half my own.

Then today, I got another email from another friend asking me to do a demonstration for her, her daughter and 3 of her daughter's friends for her daughter's birthday. She's the same woman I mentioned above. I taught her how to make a card which she now makes several of to send to her Father-in-law to give as Thank You cards. It was so fun when she and I worked together on that project a few months ago. I find that I kind of like to teach people. Not that I would ever want to be a teacher. But, I do like to help people. And, with something I am so passionate about, I really do love it! I can't wait!

So...that is what I've got going on right now! Wish me luck!

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song [Official Video]

It's been a little while...or a long one...since I posted anything fun so...without further ado, here is something so fun that I have watched it 3 times in the past hour or so! Seriously...this is my new favorite music video of all time! I love Bruno Mars! Love his music, his sort of outside of the box style and...because I happen to think that a good sense of humor is an outrageously sexy trait...I love his sexy!

Enjoy! I know I did, have and will!

If You Get Away With It...

I don't know why the show Sister Wives bothers me so much. Well, I guess I do. But, the thing is, I do pride myself on being pretty open-minded. But, there are just some things that are so rooted in my knowledge of right from wrong and, I think that plural marriage is morally wrong...and illegal. So, when I watch that show and I see Kody Brown boo hooing and trying to garner sympathy from his viewers because he might go to jail for breaking the law, and his family might be separated, I can't feel sorry for him. Where does it stop? If you get away with breaking the law, shouldn't other people get away with it too? If someone kills someone else, they broke the law so, shouldn't they get away with it if you can get away with breaking marital laws? I know that is a pretty extreme comparison but, it is how I see it. So, let's go a little less extreme. Kody breaks marital laws, gets caught and gets away with it. I break into someone's house and get caught having broken the law of Breaking and Entering. It is just as much of a law as the one against plural marriage. But, if Kody can get away with breaking that law, why can't I get away with having broken into someone's house? We have laws for a reason. They protect the innocent. They maintain balance in society. By breaking the law of singular marriage, Kody has caused pain to his children...a.k.a. "The innocent". They are hurting and struggling with the fact that their father might go to jail and that they may be separated from the kids that they have grown up with as siblings. It's simple...don't break the law to satisfy your junk, have some 18 or whatever kids, brag about it on TV and just assume that you can get away with shitting all over the laws that are the foundation of this country, and you won't go to jail. And for God's sake...don't cry about the results of the bad, law breaking choices that you have made and look for me to feel sorry for you.

Yes...I know this is judgmental as Heck but, I obey the simple laws of this country so, I feel justified in passing judgment on this particular case.

Kody, either love the ONE you are with or dump them and start over.

Choking on Hypocrisy

Ugh! Have you ever had a day where you are proud of something but others keep ruining it by their hypocrisy? So...I thought I was done with this subject, at least on here. But, I have so much to get off my chest. Again, I want to reiterate that I am so very truly deeply proud of the military. Fantastic, outstanding job on taking down Osama Bin Laden. There is no way for me to show my gratitude to its fullest extent other than to say 2 simple words...THANK YOU!

But, again I think that our President deserves some credit. However, instead of swallowing pride, Republicans are practically screaming at his supporters to give credit only to the military. I have repeatedly heard that Obama had nothing to do with it simply because he didn't shoot the gun that took Osama out. So...let's go with that train of thought since you seem to want to argue. If that is the way you feel than the military shouldn't get the credit for it, one man and one man only on this entire planet should get that credit because one man gave the kill shot. So, let's step away from that argument because, I don't believe that. I believe that it was a collective effort by our government and the entire military organization. So, let's go down another path of argument since, it doesn't end as far as the Republicans go. In one breath they say that Obama doesn't deserve ANY credit. In the next breath they say, "Thank you, former President Bush, for staying the course, getting this started, and following through with the promise to bring Osama down". So...am I to understand that you can't give any credit to our current President because all of the credit belongs to the military...however, Bush deserves some credit because he started the war? What the fuck? Here's another nugget I have heard for the past 3 years, since the day Obama took office..."get our troops back home". Obama has taken the blame for us being at war. Obama has taken the blame for everything that Bush started. Obama has been give shit for not getting our troops home yet. Fine. I want them home as bad as anyone else. But, really? Fucking really people? It was ok that they were at war when Bush was in office but, as soon as he was out, it wasn't ok anymore? So let's dissect this...they are still there for so many reasons. One reason was as part of an effort, because it is what Obama was trying to have happen, to take down Osama. So, if he had pulled our troops out, they wouldn't have been there to take down Osama. Let's go deeper. Now it is good that the troops were there BUT they weren't there because of Obama. They were there because of Bush. FUCK YOU ALL! What more does our CURRENT President have to do to make you happy? Let me tell you something, Bush started the war. He broke the economy. He jacked shit all up in all kinds of ways. He isn't in office anymore. He doesn't have any control over our military anymore. He doesn't get a say in a damn fucking thing as far as our government goes ANY FUCKING MORE! Obama did this. I will give credit where credit is due. Bush put things in motion. But, Obama OBAMA finished it! He gave the command to our military to take Osama Bin Laden out. That phone call...that correspondence...that command did not come from the lips of former President Bush. If you want to give credit to Bush, that is your right, but you really should give some damn respect to EVERYONE that was involved over the past 10 years in the efforts to bring down that mass murderer. Get over yourselves. It shouldn't matter that you wish that there was a Republican President in the Oval Office right now. All that matters is that our current President was instrumental in taking down Osama Bin Laden as he is the current Commander In Chief over our military. Stop hating. Open your hearts. Realize that what you are saying, how you are acting, is making you look ignorant and frankly, a lot less grateful than you are trying to come off.

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS EVERYONE WHO HAD A HAND, OVER THE PAST NEARLY 10 YEARS, AND EVEN AS LONG AS 20 YEARS, IN RELIEVING THE WORLD OF THE DANGER IMPOSED BY OSAMA BIN LADEN. And, I do mean EVERYONE...regardless of what side of the political fence they sit on.

Osama Bin Gotten

The first thing I want to say is THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! To our military for taking care of business and putting an end to the most horrible person to ever walk this Earth. As the men from one of my favorite shows "The Buried Life" said on their Facebook page last night "Osama Bin Gotten". To the men and women of our military, do your thang! You deserve a Klondike Bar, a drink, or even just a nice long nap. What I really want for you is to be able to come back to your own country but, there is still much work for you to do wherever you all are so, for now, I wish for you whatever comforts you want and can get wherever you are.

That being said, I want to also credit the man in charge of our military for his role in this American victory. Thank you to President Obama! I know that the fact that I think he deserves some credit is not popular with those on the other side of the political fence but, if they could set aside their hatred for him, which is based only on the fact that his political affiliation starts with a D rather than and R, they could probably see that he deserves a modicum of credit. No, he didn't pull the trigger and fire the bullet but, he gave the command. It was under his leadership that our military took care of that business. Believe me when I say that I am not only crediting our President. It was our military who sacrificed so much. It was their expertise, training and dedication that got the job done. But, President Obama had a hand in it as well. His dedication and expertise was necessary to help get it done as well.

So, all I ask...all I want...is for everyone involved in this victory for America, to get their due credit. Stop hating for no reason. Open your minds and your hearts. I can guarantee that if Bin Laden had been taken out under a Republican President's leadership, the Republicans would have been happy to give him or her some credit along with the troops.
And, I would have been happy to give a Republican President a pat on the back for a job well done. I could do that because I know that it takes a cohesive unit in any business to get a job done and to do it well. Guidance, many fields of expertise, hard work and dedication may start with one person but behind one person is the same kind of guidance, expertise, hard work and dedication of everyone around them that lends its supportive hand to ensure that the job is completed. I literally don't know a single business in the world that is made up of only one person. So, failures and achievements are shared by everyone in a business.

Ok...to avoid any other rambling, I'll simply say this...Thank you to our military, and our President for doing what was necessary to keep us safe and to end Osama Bin Laden. You are loved. You are brilliant. You are strong and courageous. You fill me with pride. God Bless you and congratulations on a job more than well done!


Note: I made a wordart file on my Mac to use as a picture for this post but, I haven't been able to attach it, no matter how hard I try for the past hour or so. So, just know that it was awesome and I would love to share it with you but, I can't...at least for now.