Fighting the Sunday Blahs

I'm feeling rather blah today...probably a combination of the weather, too much to do (and so cannot decide on what it is I actually I want to work on), and PPD. I started to follow a tutuorial on a blog I found for turning a T-shirt into a shrug, but I got bored, so I stopped to eat lunch...and never made it back to the sewing machine. Instead, I decided to work on playing with Gimp with photos of my LO...so here you are!

Work In Progress

Well, I'm in the process of doing some crafty projects - I found a neat decoupage idea to make for LO's room, a shrug out of a T-shirt, and maybe up-cycling another old shirt, on top of some other ideas. I'm also thinking about making LO a pinafor for the 4th of July providing I can find some cute red, white, and blue fabric. Hopefully I'll be able to post some of these later this week.

Card Making

I love making cards for my friends and family. I make them for birthdays, for babies, weddings, pretty much everything. Which kind of makes sense because I LOVE cards so much in general. Hallmark is one of my favorite stores! Unfortunately, I don't always make them - either I've run out of supplies, or I'm not feeling creative, etc. Anyway, my Grampa's birthday was last week, and we went over there to celebrate (he turned 77!). Here's a pic of the card I made from myself and DH:

Front

Inside

And here is the front of the card that A "made" for her Grampa-pa:



Pretty simple, but I thought they came out pretty cute! I did both of these with my Cricut Personal Expression (I think that's the full name) - I love that machine! Definitely one of my favorite things to use for card-making and scrapping. I'll be posting a few more in the coming weeks for my boss' birthday and of course Father's Day.

Organized Chaos

I originally started this blog over a year ago. I needed/wanted an outlet for my need to be creative/crafty, what-have-you. And then I let life take-over, and I never used this space as I originally intended.So, this is it, my chaos re-starting. Why the name 'Organized Chaos'? Because that is what I am, to be honest. I've always had clutter, or a mess as my mom would say. But I could always find what I'm looking for in the chaos of stacks of paperwork, junkmail, etc. And with my now three and a half month old daughter, life is even more chaotic. So sit back, and enjoy the ride.