breakup..

Sorry for my lack of posts.. I've been going through a rough breakup season.
First it was with my blog, due to the sucky-ness of blogger,

second was with my hot gluegun.
(& i'll tell you, that was a sticky one..)

I had been feeling like my posts were becoming more of a chore than an alternative stress reliever so I decided to just stop. But when the blogging stopped, the crafting was still in full swing. That was until the second breakup, with my gluegun.

A few people had asked me for a tutorial for the lamp that I made recently, so I figured I'd do a nice little tutorial for my first post back. Welp, that's what I get for thinking, lead to one of the worst breakups of my life. I literally stuck my left ring finger DIRECTLY into a freshly squeezed line of VERY VERY HOT glue. (I now see why they offer low & hi temp guns..)

After the finger was insterted into the glue, lots of screaming, laughing then crying followed. I cursed at the glue gun & told it I was DONE. So, sorry Jen.. The tutorial will have to wait, my finger is currently bandaged up & refuses to go ANYWHERE near anything that has the name HOT in it.

Until then, I figured I'd leave a few pictures for aesthetic purposes.

both my supervisor & sisterinlaw are pregnant..
PERFECT bridal shower if it's a GiRL!

i'm looking for the perfect word to put above our bed,
Dream is one of the top candidates!

what a perfect picture for the "first night of summer"
i wish i could be in this picture.

So that's that. Check in soon.. The blog & I are in the trying to "work things out".. It's looking pretty good.

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder.

snapshot!

I've been checking projects off my "to-do list" lately, but the reason I've yet to upload them is simple.
My camera is in my car.

So until I either remember to bring my camera up, or am not too lazy to walk down to the car when I do remember, you'll have to be patient!

I posted a picture of my most recent lamp today on my facebook/twitter.

crackle paint, love it.

I got a few different requests for how I made the base and also the shade, so I'm going to do seperate tutorial posts soon! I'm bad at doing tutorial posts because I get so excited during projects that I forget to take pictures!!

Anyways, tomorrow's going to be a great day.. we are going to be VERY productive.

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder

so excited..

((I'm so excited.. & I just can't hide it!))

Gabe & I were visiting my parents last weekend, went with 1 suitcase.. left with 4. Can someone tell me how that happens? I took some pictures that I've yet to upload because life is life, but the weekend was basically filled with eating food, shopping & eating more food. There's just something about my family, all we do is eat together.

Anyways, the suitcases that we came back with were filled with plenty of goodies such as new clothing, my jewelry making goods & a sandwich press.

A typical girl would be most excited about the picture below coming back with her:

brand new, Michael Kors watch..
such a beaut.

However, I think my excitement is equally shared with bringing the object below home:

my little precious Interlude 435.



I spent about an hour last night trying to remember how to use it,

but IM SERIOUSLY SO EXCITED TO HAVE IT BACK!

I've already got the first project picked out, I hope it's not going to be too hard..

this beautiful little poof, found at design.sponge

Off I go to pick out the color scheme for my beauty.

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder.

ain't nothin but blue skies, baby.

I have been in constant thought about what our apartment is going to look like & something that has really been on my mind is our living room. When we first moved down here we were finding that couches were REALLY expensive & we didn't want to blow $700 for one little piece of furniture.

I.e. our couch:



$300ish from Ikea

it's just okay. it's a dark purple, brown color. it's pretty comfy, but nothing fabulous!

So I've been looking for ways that we can spruce it up, and I came across this:

Kinda boring, sorta scary that it's WHITE.. not sure how long it'd be kept that way! but it's only $50, when the colored covers are as much as the couch cost!

So we have 2 options:

Keep it white, but add blue trim.

OR:

Dye it a color & I'm LOVING this dark grey.

So that's what is on my mind these days! Any of your opinions would be greatly appreciated!

Off I go to get ready for work. I'm so looking forward to saying,
"Thank you for calling Geico.
My name is Teressa Grinder & I'm happy to help you.
Can I have your policy number?",

about 100 times.

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder.

HuRR TRENDz.

I will say that one of the qualities I have to own up to would be my indecisive-ness, if that's even a word. Before going to college, my mom never let me change my hair, so when I went to college that was the FIRST thing I started wreaking havoc on. And that continued for the next four years. Pictures below to prove it..

perm & dark..

blonde with bangs

blonder with extensions

blonde but natural length

 dark brown

highlights in the brown, on my way back to blonde

blonde with extensions

I had more pictures to put on, proving that I've literally gone from every length & color in the books, but my computer has a mind of its own & doesn't want to open amy more files.

Anyways, the MAIN point of the story is this.. I found the blog my.yellow.sandbox. & I'm regretting recently cutting all my hair off. (To get an idea you can see my profile picture on my blog..) I just found Abby's blog & liteally I'm OBSESSED! Right now she's doing a different hair style, every day, COMPELETE with tutorials, for 30 days. Seriously, this is amazing! It's going to challenge me to actually do something with my locks before I go into work! 

So, I'm not sure what you're doing here still, get on over to her blog & check out the amazing tutorials. If I still had long hair I'd be rocking DAY 18, the HAIRbow. Seriously Abby, this is amazing. You have BEAUTIFUL hair & I'm loving your blog! Thanks for inspiring me!!

Off I go to work on some more projects for our new apartment!

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder

kitchen dreaming..

So we found a new apartment, I love everything about it.. except for the kitchen. The cabinets & counters are WHITE! so is the floor, and the doors. I am just a big fan of dark floors & dark cabinets, but I'm getting over it.

I've done some searching on the internet for white kitchens & I've found some pretty inspiration pieces:

So I think it's safe to say it's VERY possible to pull of an all white kitchen & apparently the color to use is going to be GREEN! I love everything about it, I've already started making new pieces.

See you tomorrow! Off to Geico!

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder.



i promised

I promised yall I'd be better with posting! Here's some pictures of the cabinet that I made over the past week. I used the technique found here & this is what I came up with!

before:

In the process...

After...

isn't she a beaut?

i took out the glass windows
& lined the inside with paper from the $1 bin at Target

Don't ask me what I plan on using her for, I haven't quite got that far yet! But I do know in our new apartment I am planning on having more of a cozy, romantic, rustic theme rather than the modern, here's-the-craft-I-just-made-vomit feel of the apartment now!

Off I go to purchase the new table that will fit PERFECTLY in our new apartment, along with grocery shopping for the first time in 3 weeks. Dont you dare judge me.

GodisLove,
Mrs.Grinder.