doing not much. Just getting back to normal after vacation.<\/p>\n
Hollace started day camp this week and now has a sunburn. I am a little miffed by that. Though I am not diligent about sunscreen unless we are the beach or pool, she has never had a sunburn before. They say to put it on before they get there and RAW does this and that they<\/em> will reapply as needed. Hollace has been doing this herself. She isn’t asking for help and on Wednesday they spent all sunny day at a water park.<\/p>\n By Friday she had too much of a good thing and that day promised to be another one at the pool. She wasn’t feeling too good so she stayed home. She is having fun though and she has a new friend. Her name is Faylin or Faylyn or who knows how to spell it but I have been loving that name even though it kind of sounds like Failing.<\/p>\n Coming back from vacation I was dreading what was waiting for me at work. We had a big project and the co-worker who remains nameless here is on vacation this week so it all was falling on my lap.<\/p>\n It wasn’t too bad and I made a good go on it and came far. Unfortunately the client isn’t coming up with the content and this high profile project has a ridiculously intense deadline. Next week is promising to be hell. Then I am on vacation again.<\/p>\n This week during lunch I had nothing to do and instead of going to Walmart or sitting at my desk I decided to sit in my car with the windows down, the tunes up and brainstorm on whatever.<\/p>\n On my one wall in the living room I have a curtain hanging, no window, just wall. I was using it as a little photo studio or at least that was my intention. During my lunch time brainstorm session I came up with an idea to make “windows” with molding and strips to make panes then mount a 26″x19″ photo behind it. Kind of make those curtains relevant. I can take my window down if I want to do a portrait.<\/p>\n I thought if it turns out well, I can make a bunch and sell them at art fairs or something. I thought it sounded unique but who knows, I don’t frequent art fairs so who knows if they are well seen there.<\/p>\n We finally got the drapes up! I was worried they wouldn’t be long enough so I mounted the drape bracket below the molding which turned out not to be a good idea since the center brackets wouldn’t do any good. Because this is a big window I put in 2 center brackets like they suggested but then it became apparent that I wouldn’t be able to close the darn drapes so out they come. I put one in in the center. The drapes are perfect in length but the width is a problem. They don’t seem to close all the way and the shears in the back are 5″ less wide. At this point I don’t care, they are up and I am done. RAW is dissapointed. I then rehung the rings and gained 5″ on each pane and now all fits nicely and all is happy.<\/p>\n My next project is planting flowers in the big red pots I bought yesterday. I am all about beautification lately You should see my brainstorm session on how to dress up the newly draped window. I am on the hunt for large round bulbs to hang. I guess I have to wait until Christmas for those (I am looking for red).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" doing not much. Just getting back to normal after vacation. Hollace started day camp this week and now has a sunburn. I am a little miffed by that. Though I am not diligent about sunscreen unless we are the beach … Continue reading