31 December 2009

How do I celebrate the New Year? (part 6)

By watching Matt try and open the champagne bottle!

How do I celebrate the New Year? (part 5)

By eating fresh popcorn and drinking a beer while watching Three Sheets!

How do I celebrate the New Year? (part 4)

By eating delicious chicken cordon bleu, sweet potato fries and steamed broccoli!

How do I celebrale the New Year? (part 3)

By setting the table all fancy for a date night!

How do I celebrate the New Year? (part 2)

By chilling in style with a new hair cut and a mint mocha!

How do I celebrate the New Year? (part 1)

By driving to Prairie du Sac to have lunch and gelato with Otto!
25 December 2009

3 days of driving in snow storms. I think we're done! This will be an unforgetable Christmas!
24 December 2009

Holy appetizers Batman! Gotta love traditions!

My masterpiece! Taco Dip!
09 December 2009

Snow Day!

Ridiculous amounts of snow! No wonder school was cancelled!
08 December 2009

Anyone want to get us a snowblower for Christmas?!
07 December 2009

Yummy cookies!
06 December 2009

How happy am I!
05 December 2009

Check out our colors! SO BRIGHT!

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04 December 2009

Just the way to end the week!
03 December 2009

Definitely bright colors!
02 December 2009

This is what happens when the heat kicks on under the toilet paper holder! Wonderful suprise to come home to!

What is it about bowling alley french fries that make them taste so good?!
29 November 2009

So how do you keep a cake from falling apart? If you're Diva Dar you just use colorful ribbon!

Our dazzaling tree!

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Our beautiful wreath that my Mum made!
28 November 2009

My goodness, my Guinness!

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Never been so disappointed in

Never been so disappointed in the Acoustic Cafe before. Not one, but two terrible mint mochas! I even asked them to fix the first one! :(
27 November 2009

Bento Box lunch! So tasty!

SUSHI

Check these out!!

I've enjoyed checking out this website for different ideas on how to use some products created by Ranger!

This is T!m Holtz, and he has videos that demonstrate some of his techniques with new products!

If you have a chance, click the link and check some of them out!

ENJOY!
26 November 2009

Chocolate Cake!

So I made a cake from scratch. It turned out super tasty! And the Andes mints on top were a good touch!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

24 November 2009

So how come my jello cookies end up flat and the ones in picture look well, less flat?

I absolutely love pho! I could eat it everyday! Want to make me happy? Give me pho and the world is good!!!

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22 November 2009

Check out the fancy new bed! I came home last night to find it all put together and made! I think I may start a new habit of taking naps whenever I can!

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21 November 2009

I don't care! I don't like tomatoes! Silly coaster!

Had a blast with Heather

Had a blast with Heather at the stamp & scrapbook show! Now off to catch some lunch!
20 November 2009

Yay new bed! And it fit up the stairs! Although we did need to take the front door off to make it work. :)
19 November 2009

Empty room awaiting a new bed!

Holy dustballs Batman!

This is what the swiffer looks like after I clean under both beds! Sad thing is that we cleaned under the beds just over a month ago, and we clean house regularly!

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15 November 2009

Behold! The newest edition to my studio! Now I just wish I would have a couple more!

GIVEAWAY!

Go check out this giveaway!!!
14 November 2009

I have never been this close to a wind turbine before! WOW!!! It's huge!
13 November 2009

Menacing so far on the

Menacing so far on the trip home? Menacing black van at the rest stop! Creeped me out!

THANK YOU HEATHER! YOU ROCK!
12 November 2009

I love homemade chocolate milk! Makes for a tasty study break!

Hodags on the loose!

This weekend I saw the elusive Hodag up in Rhinelander! Ok, so maybe not elusive considering they had monuments all over town and everything seems to be named after it. . . But still, I caught someone in a Hodag suit!

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10 November 2009

Since we were out shopping for new sheets for our new bed we also ende up getting another comforter too! And since JCPenney was having a huge sale we also decided to get some matching bedside lamps! I think they look super!!!

Nothing beats a good book and a tasty coffee! This makes my afternoon!
08 November 2009

Who knew Nickelodeon had all

Who knew Nickelodeon had all these crazy shows now! I've decided I don't much care for the show Ruby and Max. :(

Otto caught on the roof!

Already life is interesting! Guess who I caught getting down from the roof?! Not too exciting though, I knew he was up there. I was just waiting for the thump. Thankfully that didn't happen!

Here's the deal!

Since I don't have as much time to sit and post on this blog like I used to I'm going to start sending in posts from my phone! This has multiple advantages!
  1. I can post pictures! That's right! I can share with you what I'm seeing much faster and easier than before!
  2. I can post from anywhere! Half the time I think of great things to blog about, but then by the time I get to the computer I've totally forgotten what it was that I wanted to post or even to post anything...
  3. It cuts down on time! I don't think you realize how long it takes to post pics on this thing. I have to choose which pics I want, then I have to wait (forever) for them to post, and finally I have to write something so you know what you're looking at. Just takes so long... but not anymore!
  4. There is no longer an excuse for not posting more often! Unless of course I don't have cell phone reception...
I look forward to trying this type of posting out! Hopefully I can post some interesting and unique things!

Look at this wonderful pizza! We love eating at the Roman Candle! The date was definitely a success!!!

Then we shared a salad! Super tasty!

So Otto took me out on a date last night! We started with some Capital Oktoberfest!
04 November 2009

Check it out!

Bento Box Gifts!

How absolutely creative! You can even create custom orders!

I personally love the Warm Wishes box. How can you go wrong with chocolate?!

Take chance and head over to take a peek at what they have to offer! Could be some great X-mas ideas!!!
20 September 2009

Anniversary Vacation

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13 September 2009

Current Art Room Renovations, and a little bit more

Tami and Jeff came to visit last weekend! We had a ton of fun going around the Farmer's Market, walking down State Street, shopping at all the bargain stores, eating out at all the best places, then putting Jeff, the electrician, to work all day on Sunday... It was quite the adventure. Otto and Jeff woke up, ate a little breakfast then started up with the work, while Tami and I chilled in the living room... out of the way... and left the men to their own devices!

Well, here's their handy work!
Our guest bedroom now has an overhead light and fan!!!
And our master bedroom also have an overhead light and fan!!! They also went around and switched the outlets to the child safe outlets! And they even put power in the garage... and somehow they ended up putting in 6 outlets in our two car garage... a little excessive, if you ask me... but at least we have power! Wonderful job Jeff and Otto!!


In our home I am privileged enough to have an Art Studio!!! Thus, I've been working on it since we moved in... changing things around, adding new things, and taking things out. Here's some of the things I've been working on other than Art projects.
Here's the bulletin board we recovered with fabric last year at the apartment. Works great to hold all my loose papers!

This was a shelf that was over the sink when I moved in. It has a plate display ledge, hooks to hang something from and a bar for something... It was worthless to us. I, instead, had Da install a book shelf for cookbooks and a light attached underneath to see when washing dishes in the sink. So I had this thing laying around... I finally decided it could make a great addition to the Art Studio! It's very useful! I get a shelf to show things off with, and hooks to hang other things from... as for the bar... still working on some ideas for that.

This is a shelf I bought at Goodwill recently. It was stained... and badly... and it had fish for knobs... I thought, "I can do something with this!" I sanded it down, painted it matte black and bought new knobs for it! Looks super duper! And I get more area to display things!

But one shelf was not enough! I bought another one! This one was laminate with that plastic covering... so I just sanded it to give it a rough surface, then painted it matte black! Turned out awesome! And I have it over my work table to hold tools and displays even more things!!!

But most recently, Friday, I decided to stop at Michael's before heading to an event at Archiver's just to see what they had... well out in the clearance section they had this picture frame hook. It said it was only $1.97, but when I checked out it came to be $.01!!! ONE CENT! And once again I thought, "I can do something with this!"Today I painted it matte black. Then, since it was missing the glass and backing for the picture area, I used my new embossing plates for the Big Kick and just embossed flowers on gray paper. I then used a Veramark Marker to discolor the area around the flowers. I cut it to fit in the window and viola! I love it!!!
It works great to hold my Rotary Cutter!!! Now if only I could find some more...