DIY Scarves!

It's a long story, but I ended up with scarves by means of Pinterest.  Are you on it?  You totally should be!  

I had no idea what Pinterest was (nor did I care) until Wednesday morning on the way to school.  The radio hosts on the station I was listening to were raving about Pinterest.  Basically, it's like a pegboard.  You get to look at other people's photos that they either uploaded or found and you can pin them to your own boards to look at later.  Seems cheesy, which is probably why I never was really interested.  One of the radio hosts mentioned, however, that she got this brilliant recipe from Pinterest and it was the most delicious thing she'd ever had.  Mmmmm...recipes?  I decided it must have been more than I originally thought, so I promised myself I'd check it out when I got home.

So you need to be invited to Pinterest in order to get on.  I didn't want to wait around for the site people to add me, so I pled with my Facebook friends to add me and (after several hours) I was on the site!  It's wonderful!  I've got boards on crafts, house ideas, food, accessories, and so many other things.  

Well, on my accessories board, I found a link to DIY scarves.  I decided to try it out for myself because the pictures looked great!  I made seven scarves earlier today from old t-shirts:

Infinity Scarves

Band Scarves

You can jazz them up with pins!

They look great!  This one's my favorite!

 If you're interested in watching the tutorial, here's the link: DIY Scarves.

Pinterest is a great thing!  Where has it been all my life?  I've only been on for 3 days and already  my wardrobe is more interesting!

Christmas Break?!

Wow...it's been an awfully long time.  Well, blog-readers, as usual, when it's busy around here, you know my blog suffers!  I can't believe I'm already on Christmas break and our first semester is almost over...!  And believe me, I celebrated pretty hard last night!  I went to bed at about 7:30 and slept until 8 this morning, waking up only when Kyle warned me he would eat all the dinner he made.

There's nothing really new to update anyone on, since both of our lives have mostly consisted of going to school, working out at the gym, eating dinner, and going to bed early.  I would have to say that's one crazy thing about being an adult with an adult job--you can't stay up past 10 anymore!

I guess I can only think of 2 real changes in our lives since August.  The first is how much Keebler has been growing.  He's eating about 3 times as much since August and is about 4 times as big!  He's about the same age Tiger was when we found him and is a little smaller than he was, so we're assuming he won't get as big.  But he's definitely gotten longer, fluffier, and if possible...sweeter :)

Before--scrawny and dirty from climbing underneath the couch.

Before--Is you my brother?

After--Naptime!  Keebler stretches out and Tiger curls up :)

After--So fluffy!  We call him Keebler Van Buren.

After--Keeb's a lazy cat who doesn't like to turn his body around to follow your movements.  Instead, he turns his head like an owl.

After--Playtime!

After--I read somewhere that they're only really fighting when the loser is whining.  So if no noise is being made, we usually let them carry on like this until they're bored with it.

 So there you have it!  Keebler is growing up!  And what's more is that these photos were taken some time ago, so now he's even bigger...


The second thing that's changed slightly is how much stuff my classroom is accumulating.  I didn't start out with too much on the walls, but now I'm getting a ton of stuff put up!  I still have two large walls that I'm saving for a surprise project (whenever I get around to it), but otherwise, the inspiring "artwork" is getting put up everywhere.  What's more, you ask?  Kyle made them all on the computer!  Check them out:

This break he's also promised to undertake some Shakespeare pictures and an Odyssey life-size map.  Maybe they will be part of my Christmas present?  I love my husband :)


Merry Christmas everyone!