So… I pulled a (nearly) all nighter for bread this past weekend… I think it’s safe to say I’ve lost any marbles I had left. To be fair it was sort of normalized because I’ve been working way too late for actual work the last few weeks. Good news though my bread came out GREAT. And as of today (Thursday because I’m behind on posting… on account of the working way too late thing) we have already polished off 2 entire loaves. I made soup just so I could have bread with it. Yum.
I get a freezer tomorrow too! Yes that’s right our downstairs freezer, the only large appliance in our house to survive the pandemic, has been slowly getting warmer and warmer. I’m pretty sure right now we’re approaching fridge temp. All this to say… more space for bread!!!
So I realized while I was looking thru my notes that I haven’t told you the bed story. So Will and I broke the bed. I know that’s not like a thing you’re supposed to admit in public but much as I wish this were a quirky story from a romance novel, alas, it’s not. Will and I were just sleeping in bed minding our own business when all of a sudden I woke up on the floor at the foot of the bed. I was having a near heart attack sitting there jogged awake from sleep when I realized I had a gash in my leg and the footboard had sheered away from the rest of the bed. Will’s story is slightly different. He remembers me shouting “oh my God help! It’s really happening!” So he jumped out of bed to turn on the light which is when he also discovered that the bottom of our bed had been ripped away from the sideboards. The next day we realized we were both covered in bruises. It’s a mystery what happened but I suspect I may have sleep-bed-destroyed (that’s next level sleep-walking).
This is the footboard that ripped off the sideboards. Not mending that sadly.
And the preferment!
And this beautiful wheat boule!
Ironically we kind of like the mattresses on the floor. It’s way less bouncy and doesn’t wake the other person up when someone gets in after the first has gone to sleep. I moved the footboard down to the headboard spot for now to make it not look so terrible. (Or maybe it looks worse now I have absolutely no idea.). Either way I sort of consider that a mini repair so I wanted to tell you about my new idea (that I haven’t had time to do yet): March Month of Mending! Next month is Earth day and the best thing we can do for the Earth is repair and reuse. I always have piles of mending and repairs sitting around that I never get to. For a while I was darning socks on airplanes but Will puts holes in socks faster than I can darn them so I started finding new uses for old socks. Since then I am trying to go thru my backlog of repairs and mending. I haven’t accomplished much so far but I’m holding out hope that I’ll make progress over the next couple weeks.
In lieu of mending I’ll show you a recycling craft! This is how I put together the lanterns for Patricia’s birthday. You can use any clear jar you want but I used these little twinings tea infuser containers that I got off the free site because they were plastic.
Mermaid Lanterns
- Clear jar with lid
- FolkArt Frost Effect glass paint
- black permanent vinyl
- battery operated LED fairy lights
- cricut under the sea silhouette cut outs
- Clean jars, then let dry.
- Remove lids then paint the clear portion with frost effect glass paint following bottle instructions. Let dry and recoat as necessary. I found it easiest to dab it on with a spouncer.
- Using your cricuit fitted with the standard cutting tool and lightweight cutting mat, mount your vinyl. Select vinyl and then cut.
- Weed the background material so the stickers are easier for little fingers to remove.
- Insert batteries in the lights and wrap the lights around the battery pack. Insert into jar.
- Let kids decorate to their heart’s desire!
