I saw over at IHeartFaces they had a calendar template. There were variations and I was super intrigued. Until I saw that the template wasn't free. It was disappointing, until I realized that I'm savvy enough with my Adobe Photoshop 4.0 Program and I could probably make my own calendar.
Let the experimentation begin!
After an hour or so, this is what I had come up with:
It's just one month, and I wanted to do more, but then I got interested in trying to do the entire year on one page. I'm still working it, so for now you just get Kiss-Me-It's-February. But I think it's ridiculously adorable.
I was toying with the idea of creating actual calendars for crafty gifts or something like that, but I don't know for sure. It would be fun to attempt though, I think. We'll see how it goes.
And then I decided that I was tired of my background on my computer. So I made a new one.
It's composed of my favorites of the pictures I've taken so far on my Canon Rebel XS because I'm seriously in love with this camera. Besides that, I love making collages. With pictures though - not necessarily with magazine cut outs. But I'll have to make one of those for my Design Processing II class.
I seriously am not excited about that class. The main good point about DP II is that TheProf is my instructor and since he knows me, that makes it a bit easier. But tomorrow after class I have to go out and buy paints and paint brushes so we can make color wheels on Wednesday.
But for those of you who are on the curious end of the spectrum for how things turned out with TheOther officially, well he was given until Sunday to get his crap and get out. So he's gone now, and he's not allowed to have contact with LadiesMan, Prince Charming or me. It's a huge relief, to say the least. So thanks to all who were praying for the situation to right itself, because it's turning out to be okay. :)
So there's this thing called 'Arts and Crafts' and some of you may or may not have experienced this phenomenon once or twice in your life. I am all over the artsy side, but the crafty is a bit different for me.
I'm not a very crafty person, but on a whim Momma and I decided to make those hot/cold scented pads. You know, the ones you can buy in a mall or so and they go in the microwave or the freezer depending on how achey your muscles are?
Yeah, we thought we would undertake the task of creating one. Off to Hancock Fabrics we went to buy fabric and thread. All the fabric and thread has to be 100% cotton, and since we didn't have any of that just laying around the house, we jetted off to the store.
I picked out some blue fabric, because blue is my absolute favorite color. I couldn't decide between two of them, so I go both. We just got some fat quaters because it was cheaper.
The fat quarters we bought measured in at 18" by 22" so we cut them down to 18" by 9" for our intended size. Just big enough to span shoulders, stomach or back. You know, whatever strikes your fancy.
I got some blue cotton thread to match. Mom broke out her sewing machine and we double seamed the edges to be safe. Since we were filling them with a rice mixture, we didn't want one seam to break and then have a rice spill all over the place.
After we sewed the edges, it looked like this:
We sewed chambers to fill with rice. The tubes were filled 2/3 of the way with a mixture made from regular white rice and Bengal Spice Tea (which smells divine when heated).
After we filled the chambers with rice, we sewed the open end shut with another double seam.
We heated the new creation in the microwave for 3 min. It came out piping hot and nearly burned TheKeeper, who reacted by prancing around the kitchen as though he had ants in his pants.
Too bad I didn't get any video of that.
Anyway, I would advise only heating it for 2 to 2 and half minutes. It stays warm for a quite a while, smells good. It was only 5 dollars for the fabric, four for two spools of thread, and it took maybe only half a day to do.
I'm only guessing on the time because Momma left me for over an hour to take TheMechanic and DP to an orthodontist appointment.
TheKeeper enjoying the end product:
I had to take this picture while he was actually laughing. Otherwise you would have seen him throwing up a peace sign and making a weird face. Typical teenage boy. Ha, ha, ha.
