American Idol RETURNS! January 25, 2007

and so does this blog. Ha, hello, and welcome. I know I said I’d blog more this year, but my time has been mostly consumed because LP has decided to crawl EVERYWHERE requiring my non-stop attention, and she’s also pulling herself up on everything she can. She’s going to be a climber, let me tell you.

We’re glad that Idol is back, because it’s been a great crop of entitled brats who think they are the best of the best when in reality, they suck pretty badly. This is what happens when no one has the guts to criticize these kids in the past — they grow up thinking they are SuperStars and should be recognized by the world as such. Luckily, not everyone is like that, but still.

Most of my time these days is also spent working on Zelda; it is an amazing game and while I’m close to completing it, it’s non-stop fun. I’d play it again if it wouldn’t consume all of my time. In my other spare time I’m working on the uvScene; we’re overhauling our entire site. So that’s going to take a while, but we’re switching over to WordPress from blogger and we’re soooo much happier with it.

That’s the latest — more soon I promise!

I’m Crafty January 3, 2007

Altoids Tin Bluetooth Headpiece Holder

Originally uploaded by bakebakebake.

…I get around. This week has been spent going around the house, cleaning, picking up, organizing, throwing away, freecycling (oh yeah, gotta list some things), as well as playing with the Lil Pumpkin and playing with the Wii. In throwing things out, we said goodbye to the old 2006 calendars and hello to some nice new 2007 ones. I’ve been saving this Altoids tin for a while now, knowing that I’m “going to do something with it someday” and that day came on Monday. I spent about 30 minutes cutting up an old weather calendar and gluesticking on all sorts of little pictures and crops onto it.

I then used Mod Podge to give it a final gloss and to seal it all up. What is it for, you ask? It’s a carrying case for my phone headset. I wasn’t about to spend $20 on a little velvet bag when I could have a shatter-proof one custom made for free. I glued some foam on the inside, slapped a business card on the inside lid to identify it, and it was dried and ready overnight. Link to more photos.
I loved doing this, probably more than I should. Helina asked me how I could make a living doing decoupage, and I said, “well, I could just decoupage everything.” Which is true, really. I could, and I would love it. I’ll look into this as a good hobby and see if anything garners selling. Ha!

In the meantime, send me your Altoids tins! Seriously.