A Little Bit of This, A pinch of That.

I am at a loss right now, and maybe this blog is the best way for me to maybe get my thoughts in some kind of sane line of it all. Almost a type of at least get it off my chest my thoughts. My husband was active duty for 14 and half years until he couldn't re-enlist to try to finish out his career in the army. Cut backs with the troops and the like made things harder for people to stay in, but that isn't the point. He spent that time in, learning how to fight, how to go to war, and how to do army type things, but never in those years in did they do things to prepare him for the life on the other side of the military, or how to adapt to civilian life. Yes, they had acap classes, but an hour or two, and nothing actually to help him understand how the outside world works, or getting skills to find jobs, or how to interact in the civilian world. They prepared him to go to war, but not how to live.  He has been out of the army since the very end of October of 2015, but he st...

Welllll, Lets give this a go again.  Man, looking at it, it has been forever since I wrote here.  But I have been here and there and everything again.  Hubby left active duty and that has been the biggest adjustment.  He is still in the army, but now as a reservist, and it just feels so weird.  Transitioning into a civilian world has had a lot of ups and downs.  I miss my army wives being around me and knowing  understanding what is all going on. Thankfully, a couple of close friends of mine have hubbys that have retired so they understand the transition as well and we all talk through so much of the changes.   I am still crafting, but doing a bit of all kinds of things.  I have dived off into glam planning head first.  I have always had a planner to keep me organized on and off.  Now I am getting to have fun putting a lot of glam, and creativity into what keeps me organized.  I promise to show some of my weekly and mont...

Happy New Year !!! New year, new you.   Yeah, yeah, yeah.  It's the 3rd  4th of January now, how many  resolutions have you broken already?  I totally decided to make NO resolutions, and I still haven't chosen my word for this year's one little word.  I figure after doing Live for like what 2 years in a row, maybe my word for the year will come to me.  Maybe in, say Mid November?  Ohhhhh I know.  Snark, my word can be snark.  Oh wait, it is suppose to be something you change.  Wellllllll, crap.  Off to think of a new word.  Anyway, back to new years.   I just actually finished up doing a month of stamp carving for #CarveDecember over on Instagram and had a fun time being creative and forcing myself to making something, and I think I am going to carry that onward onto this year.  Last year, I put up an album in my Facebook world, and I think it should be my mantra for this next year.  2015, the year o...

I will admit it when I am wrong, and I am one to give things a second chance.  Third chance at times, but remember my last bad experience with plaid??  if not then go here  .  I am beginning to think my luck with anything plaid is like the crafter's version of a black thumb.  I got a couple of bottles of mod podge,  One of the Sparkle, and one of the Glitter.  I was all excited to get to test them out and not have to worry with the house looking like a glitter factory exploded everywhere.  Well I set them aside for a couple of months and when I open one to try it out with a wire idea, it was like I opened a tub of cottage cheese.  The water had separated and I was left with this blob of stuff in the middle.   I took a plastic knife and stirred it around thinking maybe I could mix it back up but no luck.  Wellllll crap...  So I open the other one, and same stuff.  I was seriously like wh...

So the princess has a 4H meeting tonight and the subject of tonight's meeting is Karate.  I figured what the heck, I would do snacks this month and of course as much as I try not to be one of those kind of moms, I sometimes end up being what I try not to be.  Of course my crafty side tends to take over, and suddenly I must go with a themed snack.  I figured since its July, I would try to do a cute cake pop I saw on instagram featured on Michael's.  after a little search I found the blog they came from originally at pint sized baker. simple enough right???  Wrong..... everything worked fine until I went to melt my white chocolate.  I think it was some weird stuff I have left over from Okinawa, and it just didn't work right.  It is definately a pinterest fail......  and no I didn't take any pictures of it.  It was nightmarish. So onto my other idea.  Candy Sushi. To make it, you need fruit by the foot, Swedish fish...

Everyone who knows me knows I love to craft.  That is why I started this blog, so I can share my love of crafting, art and the like, and explore this being the year of crafting dangerously (figuratively, not literally people).  Normally I adore plaid crafts (for the non crafters, they make mod podge and the like).  But I have found something they have made that is so far below their standard its pitiful.  I bought some square frames from my go to normal craft store.  I needed some more, and because I was out at Walmart, I saw the Plaid Crafts ones.  Awesome, now I dont have to travel to downtown asheville to get them.  I bought 7 of them, and they were just a bit cheaper the others.  1st mistake.  I get them home, do some minor sanding (which I never had to do with the other ones), and paint them up, and do the detail work.    I decide to put the little dowel rods in them to take a picture for my crafting albums and my future b...