Don't Have A Hairy Canary

I am thinking about cutting all of my hair off like Emma Watson in Perks of Being A Wallflower (terribly sad movie, could not finish it, but her hair was cute)

Below is her picture, I don't own it, and her hairstyle. I was worried about looking too masculine with a short 'do but since I'll be at a sit down office job soon wearing pretty skirts and blouses and accessories I  think I can pull it off. Plus it is Florida, and it is hot. Hotter than hot and m-u-g-g-y. The less hair I have to deal with the better. Plus, this is the first time my husband has been on board for short hair! Like most men he likes it long but he liked it on her (who wouldn't?!?)

Handmade Booth

I have finished putting the glaze and protective coat on the booth. I have been hired pending background check. Luckily for me I do not have a dark and twisted past so we should be good to go! So besides the usual catch up on bills and buying an ac unit for the house (because its 90 degrees outside on a good day) I am going to buy the materials to make a table. I think it should be triangular. Any thoughts? Rounded corners of course because u am quite accident prone whilst running manic from room to room trying to accomplish all of the household chores. Anyways here's a pic!

Yellow, It's Whats For Dinner

What do you eat for dinner when you are poor as hell? Yellow. Yes my friends, yellow is what you have for dinner. Mac and Cheese and that can of corn from the back of your pantry that you forgot was back there and is a month out of date. It's not Julia Child but it'll have to do. I sure do hope I get hired soon.

Yard Cat

I have decided that come August I will be selecting a cat from the humane society. I want a yard cat because I have seen 2 mice so far. And what do farmers do when they have mice? They get a cat. So thats what I'm going to do. Until then I'll be looking at pictures of other lucky people who already have their yard cat(s).

Kitchen Revamping

Here is or kitchen when we bought the house:

No backsplash (except for the tiny, ugly veggie tiles behind the sink.), Green counters and walls, No fridge, no oven, and a hole where a light should be.


Here is our progress so far:


First we painted and bought a dining set.

 

Then I put in a glass tile mosaic backsplash.

 

Then I built a booth with just 2x4s and Plywood with no instructions or anything! Just straight out of my head into the physical world! I am so proud of it!  When I bought the kit to stain the cabinets, I bought 2 so I could eventually build this. It will have a matching table with matching tiles from the backsplash inlaid in the center once I have a bit more more to spend.

And here are the beautiful cabinets restained! I also painted the countertop but it will be granite eventually. Also our "new" flat top electric oven! We adore it!

Front Yard Fun

So we are chipping away at the front yard. Slowly but surely making progress. Adding a few new plants each week. I am trying to make an actual entrance to our home. Instead of the random square of concrete connecting the driveway to the porch. Currently I have time but no money to keep improving things. Hopefully I will be hired at the new job soon and that will be bigger paychecks and weekends off for home projects! I will include a pic of the overgrown state it was in when we bought it.

EEEEeeekkkk!

Who Wants to Make Their Own Laundry Detergent?

I got this great Laundry Detergent Recipe online from "Happy Money Saver". It is not my recipe but I sure do use it! The website with the instructions and cute pictures of the process is http://happymoneysaver.com/making-your-own-laundry-detergent-worth-the-cost/

Ingredients:
1 Box of Super Washing Soda 3 lb. 7 oz.
1 Box of Borax 4 lbs 12 oz. size
1 Box of Pure Baking Soda 4 lb.
3 bars of Fels-Naptha 5.5 oz.
1 container of Oxy-Clean 1.3 lb
 Purex Crystals 28 oz. for scent

All you do is grate the Fels Naptha and then add all the other ingredients into a tub and mix it up and BAM! For 20 bucks you have 500+ loads of laundry. All it takes is a TABLESPOON per load! Isn't that neat? And the little Oxi Clean comes with a small blue Tbsp scooper in it! My husband has sensitive skin when it comes to the harsh chemical detergents we used to use. But so far this has been great! He used his manly muscles to grate the soap for me! What a guy! In return he's got super clean shirts now for work. He works as a deli manager so there is grease and stains everytime he comes home. But this gets his clothes super clean for not a lot of money. It only cost us 20 bucks for everything and that is with no coupons. We'll probably be set on detergent for a year with just the two of us. That's great since the usual liquid sensitive skin type we buy is $10 a bottle and only last about 4 months tops.

Woah! Catch-Up, Ketchup, Catsup...whatever

Wow! It has been 4 months since my last post. Sorry about that! Real life got in the way of course. So to recap, I got deathly deathly ill. I had to go to the hospital. For anyone who has read George R. R. Martin's "A Dance With Dragons", just know the pale mare rode its way into our cast of Lysistrata. After that we got 2 new baby chicks. We got a Brahma and a Ameraucauna. Keeping with our floral names for the other chickens, we have named these two Sunflower and Gardenia. But my adorable husband was quick to christen them "Sunny and Gurdy". We have begun the process of introducing them to our other 2 girls Daisy Mae and Poppie. It has not gone well. Daisy Mae was pecking them til their feathers were falling out and Poppie was aiming for their eyes. So they are separate now. The big girls free range full time and have their hen house and the babies are locked in the run portion. That way they see each other but cannot touch! The internet had me believe if I stuck the babies into the hen house at night while the big girls were sleeping everything would be okay in the morning. LIES! So we're going to keep them like this until the babies get full grown which should only be a few more months. More to come I promise! I am hoping to get a new job soon which means more money which means more projects can be completed like a fire pit, a pergola, painting the house, rainwater catching system, replacing the broken sprinkler heads, tiling the hideous bathroom and the building of a big new coop! Also we plan to add three more veggie patches and several fruits. All will be documented here which should be good since I am positive we will make mistakes. But triumphs as well!