Craft Weekend at the T's!

Between Conference sessions, the hubs and I have been working on our (and by our I mean "my"... what a guy being so helpful!) little painting projects. You have to understand if you don't know this about me already, but I am SO not a crafty person. I did scrapbook for a while, but I have zero hand-eye coordination and lack most or all ability to make something cute. Plus, I had the understanding that crafts were lame as my experience was limited to stupid projects from Young Womens (my leaders would always scold me for making my own thing instead of a Young Women Value Mobile. Gay!) and seeing foo foo rafia crap in middle-aged LDS homes. I recently made some new friends in my ward here that do some stuff that is actually really cool. One of them repaints hand-me-down furniture to make them her own and they look really good! Seeing what she has done inspired me to rescue give-away items and some of the wah-wahhh stuff I already have a new, adorable life! We  are about done with contestant #1 aka tiny table. I think it just needs a lil inspection and a nice coat of gloss since I thought I wanted satin finish, but it turned out to be much more flat-looking than I expected. I decided I would like them to be glossy anyway. Next up are a mirror, a lamp and an old bookcase. I will update with before and after pictures after we are done!

The Kitty Surprise Has Been Resurrected

Does anyone else remember these from the early 90s?? Man, these things were so cool and all my (girl) friends had them. I remember asking for the bunny one, horse one, cat one, puppy one and whatever other variety they had for Christmas and my mom made me narrow it down to one. I got the Kitty Surprise for Christmas and was so excited to rip open the stomach and find that my kitty had X number of kittens! How exciting/creepy! I had forgotten all about this favorite toy until I was over at my parents' house and I glanced out the back door and saw it sitting on the rain-soaked back porch. It is so much creepier than I remembered. I said, "Ummm... WHAT is my Kitty Surprise doing out on the PORCH?!?" My mother responded that she was using it to scare away the birds and that it was working on the older birds, but the younger birds didn't seem to mind... To which I said, "Mom, you're super weird. I'm totally documenting this." HAHA! So hilarious! That mom of mine is thinkin' outside the BOX! A+.