I’m absolutely horrid at both remembering to take pictures, and remembering to get what I do take off the camera.  Since I managed to do that today, here’s some of the pictures that were sitting on my camera for the last month or so. 

I redecorated my bedroom.  It was extremely depressing before.  Nothing on the walls (which were a mid-dark grey.)  Black curtains.  Black and grey bedspread.  Mismatched furniture, enough of which was black to add to the cavelike feel of the room.  I’d been wanting to re-do it for two years, but every time I walked into the room the black got me so depressed I couldn’t think.  I think this is much more cheery.  Of course, a funeral would be more cheery than what it looked like before!  Say…want a closer look at that artwork?  I’m pretty proud of it if I do say so myself.

I thought about doing a tutorial for it, but it’s really so simple.  And cheap – 6 bottles of craft paint (pulled from the colors on the pillowcases) at .50/ea, 6 cheap front-loading frames at $4/ea, and a package of two striped standard pillowcases at $8.  $35 in total.  Which, when you consider that it’s a set of six large framed pieces, is really reasonable.  I just removed the glass from the frames, cut the pillowcases a few inches larger than the glass, and taped them to the back of the frame.  My pillowcases had a border on the hemmed edge, so I took advantage of it when I was placing them on the frames. Then, I printed some images out and transferred them to the paper (if I had been less impatient, I would have dug out my iron-on transfer pencil, but I just colored the back of the image in pencil then traced them onto the fabric.)  Last, paint, trying to keep inside the lines.  Don’t look too close at mine.  At first I was grabbing bottles of paint at random, but since the colors seemed to match the image, I just went with that look.  And any of you who don’t recognize these shapes?  Go watch a movie! 

Cupcakes!!!  The girl had a graduation for her preschool class, and I made cupcakes.  Teeny mini cupcakes.  The pink are strawberry, and the yellow lemonade.  They were nummy!  The husband said they were like candy…he couldn’t stop eating them!  And also?  Why doesn’t anyone make things anymore!?  I was the only one who didn’t grab a plastic box from the bakery!

Hey!  Look!  Pictures of knitting!  On a knitting blog!  How novel! That’s the Big Girl Bonnet, for the big girl in the house.  It was a stashbuster.  The details are on my ravelry page if anyone cares to know, but I’m a bit too lazy to link right now.

Om-nom-nom-nom.  I’ve been bento-ing again.  Onigiri?  So easy to make once you use half a braincell and get the right kind of rice.  And nummy!  So far, I’ve mostly either mixed in furikake, used teriyaki _____ as filling, or done plain, but they’re so easy and nummy I’m going to be filling with other things soon.