Early Valentines

After being snowed in for a week my artistic inspiration has been taking shape in drawings such as a bottle with a human inside that has their face pressed uncomfortably against the glass.  I didn't really want to subject you all to that bizarreness.  This is my online sketchbook, afterall, not a therapy session.

I did, however, get bored enough to find an exacto knife to make myself a stencil (damask, of course) out of scotch tape covered paper.  Here are a few products resulting from cabin fever, my love for vintage wallpaper, a perfect husband, a gold paper plate (on which the paint for the stencil was), and a black sharpie.

Early Valentines for Mark.  He is, by the way, the greatest possible husband that can exist.  He - in his boredom - (while I was stenciling paper), managed to wash and fold everything in our house.  I mean everything.  Our clothes, towels, the dogs, the couch, everything.  He's the greatest.  As Holly Hunter said in Raising Arizona: "I looove him sooo much!"

Er...babe, if you're reading this...."I loooove you soooo much!"

Nakedness Prevention.

Mark and I try hard to be adults, but sometimes we don't quite nail it.  We currently have every single item of clothing we own in piles on our bedroom floor.  They are mostly clean...just not put away, and certainly not folded.

Every so often after spending too many hours on cleaning the house just so guests won't run screaming, we decide we've got to get it together.  One of these well-intentioned planning sessions took place at least 6 months ago, and I decided to get creative with a ruined placemat and little hand-drawn cards to create a chore chart for us.  Well...quite on par with who we are, this unfinished project ended up in a plastic bag in the closet in the computer room underneath piles of gift bags, a slinky, and a hot pink wig.  Since we recently cleaned out said closet, I found the remnants and decided to put it to work immediately.  Scrapping the original plan, I found a wire hanger, added the charms, and voila...a chore abacus.

Whoever gets to it first gets dibs on what they want to do, whether it's to be the "Top Chef," do a little "Dust Detection," or follow through on both the washing AND folding of "Nakedness Prevention."  Once we've completed the few chores for that day, we slide the charms from the "Bring it" side of the hanger to the "Oh it's already been broughten" side.  Now if only the actual chores were as fun as the keeping track.