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I Just Can't Help It.

For those who know me...well, I'm not too impresssed with our democratic candidate who already thinks he's president. In fact, I might have to move to another country if he is elected! The media just LOVES him, and he is traveling the world as the next best thing to sliced bread! Or, more audaciously, as a "MESSIAH" to all of us little people who can't govern ourselves--we must rely on the government to control everything, because they know best...right.

I saw this picture and song on one of my favorite websites, http://www.glennbeck.com/:

Barack loves me this I know
For the media tells me so

Citizens with big doe eyes

We are dumb but he is wise

Yes Barack loves me

Yes Barack loves me

Yes Barack loves me

For the media tells me so

The prego belly...getting bigger! 17 weeks

So, next week I get to find out if it's a boy or a girl!!!! Here's how "pregnant" I am now:

The Elusive BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!

WOW! I have the BEST husband EVER!!!

So, when I was 14 and 15, living in Brazil with my family, I took some oil painting lessons. I have old paintings that I did, and of course, my parents love them more than I do :) But, I loved oil painting, and got pretty good. Well, the problem wtih oil painting is that it smells really strong, you kinda have to have a studio or art room, and of course, painting can be pretty messy. SO, I never thought I'd get INTO it again!!

And yes, I only have a garage at this point, but my wonderful, thoughtful, SUPER TALENTED husband built me, for my birthday, as a surprise...(at first I thought it might be something for the baby, but he said, "honey, everything from now on will be for the baby, so I wanted to do smoething just for YOU) Anyway, it's a wonderful easel that's really sturdy, adjustable, and has wheels on it... and then he got a ton of high quality oil paints to start out with for a really good deal, a color book, and he also made custom-frames--the wooden square frames done by hand with no table saw, so totally from scratch and stretched the canvas himself, stapled it together, and basically made these canvases by hand.
He's wonderful... he says the easel isn't done, but I don't care becuase I can't wait to post it!!

New chair! Well, sort of...

Well, I decided to redo my chair. This chair we got at the DI a couple of years ago, for $25. Well, at Downeast, I got this really awesome chair for cheap...a West Elm chair. So, I decided to move the old one upstairs to our bedroom, and the put the new one where the old one was! But to do that, I had to paint the old chair black and use some fabric from our bedding on the seat...and now it just looks GREAT!

OLD CHAIR:
REDONE CHAIR:

NEW CHAIR:

Jordan's sympathy-pregnant belly

Ok, this is just hilarious--Jordan is VERY GOOD at making his belly appear...well...pregnant :) All of that at like a buck 50. Maybe don't tell him I just posted that...sorry honey ;)

BEFORE:


AFTER:

What I found when I returned home...

So, I was at the cabin for more of the week, and while I was gone, Jordan had some "fun" changing the lightbulbs in our house! We got the compact florescent 100 or 150 watt bulbs that only use like 25 watts! That means we will save a lot of money in our electric bill! So, one of the reasons we wanted to change the lights is that the really high-up lights in our vaulted living room (like 22 feet high!) were just way too dim for the room, so we wanted something brighter.

Anyway, leave it to Jordan to figure out how to change the lightbulb (you couldn't use one of those light changer tall things, because they aren't can lights, they're in a pendant) with the problem that our ladder isn't quite tall enough... yes, this is the contraption that Jordan built with some plywood. Wow.