Category Archives: Domestic Blitz

In which we don our aprons and putter about the house.

The next preschool design star

Poppy and I usually watch an episode of “Designers’ Challenge” on HGTV while NaBloPoMo!the babies have their naps. In addition to now being on a first-name basis with the host, the show seems to be giving her ideas.

“Mommy,” she said to me earlier today. “I wish a designer would come and design my bedroom.”

Oh boy.

So I asked her what she’d ask the designer to do with her room. Here’s her wishlist:

  • Pink walls, “because it’s my favorite color,” she said. Her room is currently blue. For sake of clarification, in the event that we decide to repaint, I asked her what sort of pink she was thinking. “Hot pink!” she said. “Very, very pink.”
  • A purple bed. She has a white bed now. We decided purple bedding would suffice.
  • Some blue blankets.
  • A red radio

Obviously, my girl is not afraid of color. Or opinions.

I wonder whether she’d be thrilled with something like this. Because I like it a lot, and we wouldn’t have to repaint!

Update!
I think I’m going to entirely copy these people. They even shared the paint names. Yay Internet strangers!

Sew cute. (Get it!? Ha.)

I’m sharing this with you for two reasons. One, because it is so stinkin’ cute. Two, because I want to make sure I keep the links so I can look at it every now and then and think, “I would really like to make one of those.”

Those what?

A playhouse to fit over a card table! The first one I saw was here. It includes a garden and an apple tree and all manner of cute cutenesses. Here are two others with crazily adorable adornments.

That is all.

Thoroughly annoyed

I’ve been working on a sewing project, friends, and it is driving me up the wall. Not the project itself, really, but my sewing machine. To be more specific: my lack of skill and knowledge regarding said sewing machine. The thread keeps going “thwang!” and snapping and tangling up and I’m ready to chuck this project — and the sewing machine. I’m thinking I need to find a new hobby to persue. Something for which I have a skosh of natural aptitude. Before I do that, though, I might try to sign up for a sewing class.

Until then, I’m going to watch some HGTV. Unless I can figure out how to watch “Project Runway” online.

(I think the “Color Splash” guy was shopping at TJ Maxx. Awesome.)