GlassAngel at Home

Is my wedding day! So have patience with me as my thoughts mostly turn to wedding planning (and finding a new job to pay for it) in the coming months. As craft projects get started and completed for the wedding I will post about them. I am currently working on the design of our pocket fold invited and the save the dates (STD's) have been printed for months. Soon it will be time to start addressing all the STD's so we are working hard on getting the guest list together.

I can feel the Kitchen Series winding down as I am having a hard time coming up with new topics, but I am sure there will be a few more post on it before I go back to my normal ramblings on cooking. I am hoping to start something interior design related soon as I can complete a few thoughts on it.

Please stick around to see what the next year holds!

Posted in: Craft, Decorating, General Life, In The Kitchen, Wedding on Friday, June 27, 2008 at 11:43 PM 0 comments    

So I had a awful night where I got no sleep (wow it's quiet at 4 am) and then was woken up early (ummm 7:30am, thanks Mom) by a phone call. So I thought today would be a good "research" day. So I spent some time doing a little blogroll reading. What you may ask is that? Well I go to some of the blogs I like to read and check out their blog rolls, the list of people they read. Sometimes I find the best things there so I thought I would show you a few of them today.

I tend to try and follow the FlyLady method for cleaning and organizing but ran acrossed this post from I'm a organizing junkie about How to get organized? Follow these PROCESS steps…. They are very sound and her PROCESS makes a lot of sense.

SimpleMom has a great article on Decorating:Using your skin that is part of her decorating while using your 5 senses as a guide. The entire series is really good. She also writes a great post about Home Management Logs and gives some building blocks for them. Her posts remind me of FlyLady in a more modified way, but a lot of the terms are the same. Her take on it is similar to what I have been trying to do so I can't wait to go back and read the whole series on it. She linked to D*I*Y Planners who have a large list of planner pages and setup info, think Franklin Covey but free and printed on your printer.

I also found a kick ass tutorial on making some cool bags on Kerri Made that I am so going to have to try...infact I am thinking they would make great gifts for my bridesmaids. I have a whole year to make 4 for them and 1 for me!

Also a interesting post on Is Recession Preparing a New Breed of Survivalist? has a good list of things to put in your emergency kit.

Want to take a class at MIT? You can now take webclasses from them at no charge. It is part of their Open Courseware Program. Only catch is you don't get college credit for it.

So what webites & blogs do you turn to for some fun stuff? Let me know in the comments so I can check them out too!

Posted in: Craft, Decorating, General Life, Website Report on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:47 PM 0 comments    

Well maybe not a spot but...I have been trying to reduce my clutter and have been cleaning for the last couple of weeks a area a week. Then I found out I would have visitors from back home this weekend in the form of friends who have never seen my apartment here. Oh boy, and here a sit with a small pile of boxes in my entry/dinning area that are waiting for me to take them for donation.
So I thought...great thursday will be the day to get it all gone. I was a mad woman since sunday and cleaned out so much more stuff that it turned out to be a much bigger load for goodwill. I went through my clothes and was brutal, I dug out each and every book and decided weither or not to keep it. In the end my pile that I donated today was....


Darn good I think...and am I glad to have the pile out of my rooms!

Posted in: Decorating on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 7:33 PM 0 comments    

My bathroom has been one of the rooms I re-did as soon as I could. Luckily the colors of the tile went with the color towels and shower curtain I already had so it was just a matter of a little pale blue paint and some accessories to make it right as rain.

Before


There was quite the mass of towel bars so I took a few out (the one over the WC and one you can't see on the wall across from it) and moved up the towel ring so my towel just brushed the counter top now.

After


A shelf was added to the top of the lightbar to add space for a few plants and decorations.

Posted in: Decorating on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 11:02 PM 0 comments    

Since I have been home so much, with no money to go out and do things I have been plotting a home reorganization and decoration. In July I will have been here for a year, and I am just starting to get things in shape. The kitchen has gotten a bit of a makeover with one wall getting painted a dramatic orange red.
Before After
I am thinking to now extend that color into the living room wall and redo a few things in there to go with those colors.

I did finally recover the awful blue chair into something much cooler!

Before

After
I used a spray paint that is dark brown with a bronze metallic fleck in it for the frame and a upholstery fabric I got a few years ago after a clients reupholstering project was complete.

I still don't know what I am going to do with the living room....or my bedroom for that fact. I have a few ideas for both, but not the funds to make the a reality. I do have some small ideas that I can do with existing stuff so I am thinking of starting those and then see where things go from there.

Posted in: Decorating, Wedding on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM 0 comments