Reefs, Crafting, and Other Random Things

Hello everyone, and welcome to my craft room!!  Actually, it's a multipurpose room that also holds my desk, two fish tanks, craft supplies, plant stand, cat tree, and litter box cabinet! It's a pretty crowded room, but I make it work for my needs!  So this is really just one corner of the room where I keep most of my crafting supplies. As you can see on the table, I still have everything out for the bottle cap project I have been working on the past few weeks. I've run out of super glue and only have a few magnets left. I'll have to make a trip to the craft store soon!  The white cabinet is where I keep most of my supplies: fabric, thread, beads, paint, clay, knitting needles, and much, MUCH more! Once I'm done with the bottle cap magnets I will move on to the next project - I am thinking rock necklaces, as those are pretty easy to get done!  I also have a lot of ready-to-go projects (as I call them) taking up space on my sitting chair.  These...

It's the First Day of Spring and I feel down. There's no real reason I should feel this way - it is actually a decent day outside. The recent snow has melted, flowers are starting to bloom, and the grass is getting greener everyday. I do think it might have to do with the monotony that's been my life the past few weeks. It's the same exact thing every day; wake up and go to work, come home and take care of the dogs, clean up around the house, maybe make dinner, go to bed and repeat. My wonderful fiancé has been working very long hours for the past 8 days - over 100 hours last week. He should have had a day off today, but he went in to be prepared for the next two weeks, which will be another period of late nights and weekend work. Not that it's his job or responsibility to entertain me, please don't misinterpret what I'm trying to say! As I sit here at my cushy desk job, I just wonder if there's more I should be, could be, doing. I went to college,...

What a great month to start off 2017! The bad news: I rang in the New Year with a hangover. The good news: my wonderful fiance took care of me by bringing me water and food throughout the day. It actually wasn't too awful, and I kind of enjoyed vegging out on the couch all day. I started a new job at the very end of December, so this month I am really getting into it. The person who I took over for has moved out of state. I didn't get much time to train in person with her, so luckily she has made herself available via email for any questions or issues I have over the next few weeks. It's difficult communicating that way though, but hopefully I start catching on. Our wedding planning is coming along nicely - we have the venue, officiant, photographer, photobooth, and DJ booked. We have picked out our colors, invitations, favors, cake, guestbook, and a few other things we have to go out any buy. In a few weeks we will be getting the dresses for the girls. It seem...

I read a statistic recently, that over   40% of couples get engaged   in the months of Dec, Jan, and Feb. There are even a few articles floating around on places like The Knot and Wedding Wire that back this up. Tis' the season for wedding planning! It makes me really glad that my FIANCE (awwww) proposed when he did! Within two weeks we had the venue, officiant, photographer, and DJ booked! It really helped that I had sneaked a peek at a few venues before hand. Shh! We looked at three venues a week after our engagement and it worked out that all three had open appointments within a few hours of each other - we knocked them out in one afternoon. I had a two page list of questions for the venues, but at the first meeting I really only went through about a third of the questions. Some questions are need to know and a "wrong" answer could make or break the decision to have the wedding at a particular venue - How many people can you accommodate? What is the price ...