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Crafts up my Sleeve

Angie Harms Stueve — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:54:59 +0000

Happy New Year!

You know how it goes: You make long lists of resolutions and then beat yourself up a couple of months later for not accomplishing them.

I’m not making any lists this year, I know I will feel the self directed pressure and quit anyway, so instead I am going to do fun things!

So I have a list of some crafts I want to make over the next few months. These are just small projects I’ve seen on the craft blogs I read {stalk} that have got me to thinking! I am determined to do my holiday crafts/ideas as the year goes on so I don’t feel so darn overwhelmed when the holiday comes up, because you know, Christmas comes at the same time every year!

I’ve gathered a bunch of ideas for Christmas that I am tucking away and making over in my mind. I picked up some fake snow at Michael’s and Target this week, so I can collect some apothecary jars and do up a cute little winter scene. Like ThriftyDecor Chick did!

Just you wait, I’m going to make some super cute stuff for next Christmas!! Yay!!

I’ve been obsessed with glitter houses and I received a Michaels gift card for Christmas. I can’t wait to go there {alone} and check out what paper mache houses they have! I would say I need to get a life, but I know some of you have the same feelings about crafts that I do! It makes me giddy! It’s a sickness really. I’m ok with that. There is even a Valentine’s Glitter house! It’s TDF!! {To Die For}. I love it!

And as far as my blog, I think I’ve found a wordpress template that I can actually live with. My resident Geek helped me take this one and actually make it work. It’s definitely pink and girly, but not sickening sweet, so I’ll actually keep it for a while.

We’ll see. I’m fickle and like to change things up every couple of months. I’ll never have one of those houses where the decor and furnishings stay the same for 20 years. I can barely hang on for 20 days. LOL!

I think I’ve also promised every new year that I am going to update more often. We’ll see how that goes too. But for now, I have a list of projects I want to do and if I do them right, I’ll document them and share!

Love and glitter,

“It just doesn’t feel right; it feels bendable”

Angie Harms Stueve — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:12:31 +0000

That was Michael this morning lamenting over his bowl of cocoa crispies that got soggy in the milk. I know you where thinking it was something else! Shame on you!!

Guess what? It’s Christmas time. Actually it’s only 1 day and 25 hours away!! I guess that’s technically 2 days and 1 hour away, but who’s counting? Can you believe it?? I can’t. I haven’t done any Christmas shopping either! I think I may just skip presents this year. It wouldn’t be that awful would it? Ok, well maybe just a few presents. Not sure when I’ll go do that though. Maybe tomorrow along with all the other slackers. Just got word that it’s supposed to snow tomorrow. Great. I need to drive around and buy gifts and it’s supposed to snow. Wonderful.

We’ve been so busy lately with home improvements that we poured all our time, money and effort into the endeavor. Don’t get me wrong, it was totally worth it! Our kitchen looks divine!! We were able to fix the lights, paint, and put down new tile on the floor. All we have left is the mouldings and drawer fronts. I may not put any doors back on at all. I like it open.

Here is the finished product.

We really love it. The rest of the house got a good dose of dusting and vacuuming. Lots of things were cleared out over the last 6 months. We still have more purging to do, since 6 people live under one roof. That’s a lot of things if you aren’t careful. And let me tell you, we love stuff. Who doesn’t?

My family is in town for the holidays and I am so excited!! It’s been a lot of fun and laughing so far. Lots of yummy food and hanging out around the kitchen table. We are even going to have a family talent show/pageant! I think I may need to empty my bladder before the festivities start. It’s been brought to my attention that my husbands only talent is to broadcast our festivities on the world wide web. Umm….I don’t think so. We’ll see if that really happens. I think Jon likes being married and sleeping in our bed together.

I’m too busy eating and making lists of fun things to do to blog anymore…and actually I’m tired and ready for bed. So go on…get outta here…skedaddle!

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you. I pray God’s peace on you and your family this Christmas day and may He continue to bless you into the New Year.

Love,
Angie

Procrastinators Unite….tomorrow.

Angie Harms Stueve — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:12:14 +0000

My sister did it, so I might as well follow suit. She asked the question: Where did November go? I ask the same thing, where did it go??

Seems like it just flew by, blown away by the wind. Or maybe aliens came down and kidnapped it? I know! A black hole opened up and November was sucked in and it messed up the space time continuum? What ever and how ever the reason, it’s gone. I missed a whole month to blog about my life. I guess I should catch you up.

Should I do this in a bullet list and spare you the boring details or describe each event and watch your gray hairs grow??Â Gray hairs it is!! Ready??

I forget. The End……just kidding, well maybe only a little. It seems I can’t really remember how November started off. Something about many days running together wherein I got nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing accomplished. I slept a lot. I played a lot of games on Facebook and got really far in FarmVille… here’s a snippit of my status updates from Facebook:

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ok, it’s 10:00am; time to pick a room and clean it. I think I will pick the kitchen. Seems to be the least messed up one!! Annnnnnd she’s off!!

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ok, just kidding. My back is screaming at me to just slow down and take it easy. I guess when you go from zero to 60 too quickly, the old bod says, “STOP YOU’RE KILLING ME, YOU OUT OF SHAPE LAYER DOWNER!”

tee-hee

November 3 at 10:37am Â·

and then I did this:

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I’m waiting for the electrician to come over and give me a quote to move my chandelier, fix the kitchen lights, and install a ceiling fan. I may just have more than a lamp on my dinner table, 2 lamps on the kitchen counters, and a hot playroom by Monday! And the Angels rejoiced!!!!

November 5 at 11:53am

Only that didn’t really come to fruition until later in the month. I’ll have to save that for another post. This one is just to catch you up on my whereabouts.

Thanks to my generous and light loving Dad for investing in our home improvement projects. Without his kindness, we would still be sitting in the dark on Christmas Eve eating Chicken and roasted cauliflower!

Instead, I get to have this much light in the kitchen! Behold!!

And instead of a single lamp on the dining table, we dine under the canopy of twinkling starlight….no not really, but it feels pretty cool!

Ta-daaa!!

November became the month for remembering. Remembering a dear friend who passed away 2 years ago on November 16th; Shelly Culbertson and for remembering the life of a brave and courageous woman who fought all her life against Cystic Fibrosis; Valerie Croy. She lost her battle with CF on November 17, 2009.

Laura her dearest friend/sister and I got to see her the night before she died. We talked with her and kissed her goodbye. She was ready to go, tired of fighting a losing battle. She asked her husband and family to be taken off the ventilator so she could go sit in the arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ. They respected her desire and at 3pm on Monday, she was taken off the ventilator and given sedation to ease her suffering from not being able to breath as her lungs started to give up. She was a fighter and showed her 2 girls just how much she loved her life and loved being their Mom by fighting as hard as she did for so long. It was time to let her go. I think I’ve lost about 2 weeks of November just coming to terms with her death. I think that is much of the reason I didn’t have a desire to blog. How do you communicate to the world when someone you love isn’t a part of it anymore? Love you Val-Val..miss you everyday.

Valerie CroyÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Angie Stueve

After Natalie and I drove to Abilene for her funeral, I came home and started to really focus on getting the kitchen lights done and painting all the walls and cabinets. The painting still isn’t done, but the lights are all in and look awesome and the floor and paint is the last thing to do. Well…that’s not exactly true. I won’t have cabinet doors for a while as I have to save up to get those replaced since we took down one upper cabinet to make another one full size. Confusing I know, but trust me, it’s WAY better than it was. I’m practicing patience.

Thanksgiving was spent with friends at their house here in town. This is our third year to celebrate with them and we enjoy it so much. We share cooking duties and bring lots of goodies to share. This year I brought a pumpkin pie, a pumpkin cake roll, a veggie tray, a relish tray, cranberry sauce, and sweet potatoes!! Oh and drinks.

I ate so much I thought I was going to bust a gut. I don’t think one should really eat continuously for 3 straight hours nibbling here and there and THEN eat a turkey dinner!! I would not recommend that in the future, I’m just sayin’. This concludes your PSA for the day.

After Thanksgiving we decided that this year since my family is coming here for Christmas we would put the tree up before December 1st so we could really enjoy it the whole month. It’s taken about a week to fully get it up and all decorated.

The house is coming together nicely and with a few finishing touches, we will be ready and waiting for my Sister to get here on the 20th!Â I can’t wait! We’re going to drink hot cocoa, play board games, laugh until we cry or pee our pants, make stuff together, eat and be merry, and give each other lots of hugs. Because that is what is important not only at Christmas time, but each and every day. To love the people you are blessed to be around. To share your lives together and make the most of every precious moment. And it’s fun too! Then as if that wasn’t enough fun we are going to pack into 2 days, my Mom and Dad both get in on the 22nd!!! I know, it’s almost too much excitement for one girl to handle!! Yippeee!!!

I think I brought you up to speed…this was the condensed version. I know! Hard to believe! What can I say, I’m a talker.

Happy December y’all!!

Sweetbippy » Christmas

Crafts up my Sleeve

“It just doesn’t feel right; it feels bendable”

Procrastinators Unite….tomorrow.

Angie Harms Stueve ok, it’s 10:00am; time to pick a room and clean it. I think I will pick the kitchen. Seems to be the least messed up one!! Annnnnnd she’s off!!

Angie Harms Stueve
ok, it’s 10:00am; time to pick a room and clean it. I think I will pick the kitchen. Seems to be the least messed up one!! Annnnnnd she’s off!!