Bad, bad bad.

Maybe it's a winter thing, maybe it's just a matter of some random firings of neurons, but whatever it is, I have a mega case of projectitis right now. Since I don't have a functioning camera, it's hard to show you, but I can share the source of the problem: Sunset Magazine. If you haven't seen this magazine, you probably don't live in the west. Because otherwise, it's pretty much the must have magazine for any home. If you're a foodie, it's got you covered. If you like wine tasting, sightseeing, shopping, gardening, or making crafty stuff, you're covered. The major problem is that one issue is so chock-full of fantastic ideas that your brain may very well explode. And we all know how messy that is.
Well, in my case, the mess of an exploded brain looks a lot like 50,000,000 fabric scraps all over the living room floor, and 15 balls of yarn on the couch.
I've been in a hat-making frenzy, crocheting up at least 10 darling, unique hats in the past month. Then yesterday I started one that is knitted, since I couldn't figure out how to do a spiral looking hat with a crochet stitch. I'm sure someone out there can tell me it's possible, but I was boggled.
In addition to the hats, I sorta went overboard with the cookie baking. As a person who doesn't eat cookies (much) 3 big batches is probably pretty ridiculous. But I can't help myself. They're so fun to make, and I enjoy wearing my darling little vintage Donna Reed apron that I got at Burning Man last year (some camp used aprons as fencing, if you can believe it and they were giving them away!)
So you can see, I was already pretty busy when I cracked open my Sunset magazine.


First I saw these rock paperweights, I thought of a million possibilities, and how fun and easy they'd be.
Then I saw little lavender saches, and etched glasses. Imagine, a trip to the dollar store and some fun designs! What an amazing project!
Oh, and then there was the yummy bath scrub recipe, and a "bath bomb" recipe, and really cute old silverware that was stamped with herb names to use in your herb garden. Easy-peasy to make, and just darling! And this terrarium! OMG is that not awesome!?
Okay. Enough. As you can see, I have a million things I want to do and about 15 minutes of spare time in the next few weeks. These will just have to be filed away, for some later date when I'm, I don't know. Unemployed and without any other responsibilities!?

Greenhouse!

Well, it's winter, and miss Monotonia needed a greenhouse. It's one of those things we've been talking about for a while, but the materials can add up to a lot of money, and it hasn't been much of a priority.
But just the other day a disassembled greenhouse came up on Craigslist, for free. We jumped on that and now Nitro's busy building. Kaya, of course, has been a great help.