Ideas
Saturday, October 30, 2010 by Amy
Yes, I know I start thinking about the holidays before the average person, but that's how we roll. With our budget, and two birthdays around Christmas, we just have to start early. Especially when I am planning on making quilts! I am making this quilt for the girls, with Woodland Wonderland for Riley (which I'm fully aware that most people will find ugly, but I find it delicious, so there!) and Garden Friends for Avery (again, perhaps ugly by some standards). The fabric was on sale for $2.50/yd, so that's what I'm going with. It'll be a fairy gaudy and busy quilt, but I think the girls will like them and that's what matters, right? Neither of them have had a quilt made for them in years. About 4 years to be exact. And they need covers for their beds.
I also discussed with Rudi making the girls each a hardcover photo book from Shutterfly on their lives so far. Neither have baby books, and I'm the world's most inactive scrapbooker. Seriously, Mt. Vesuvius is a more active volcano than I am a scrapbooker. I think they'd enjoy having a real hard-bound book about themselves. The hard part is going to be using photos from before the digital age! I don't know if scanning them will be good enough. We'll see!
Riley has also become quite a prolific author/illustrator. I may collect her best work and have it "published" in a book. Those are pretty easy to come by, and I don't think they're that expensive.
I have my suspicions about our mailman. Why can't we ever get a good one? The one in Colorado Springs drove like a bat out of hell and nearly ran me over on several occassions. Not to mention that he blasted Rush Limbaugh to the point where I could hear it inside my own house. The one we have here looks like Gorton's fisherman. Seriously. Complete with odd hat and pipe. He parks the mail truck waaaaaay down the street and walks the neighborhood, since we all have mailboxes attached to the front of our houses. Anyway, I ordered a lot of bento box supplies from Japan (because I bought this book on a whim and fell in love with it!). I eagerly awaited their arrival. We checked the mail two days ago to find a "Sorry we missed you" note, when I knew that I had been home. But I shrugged it off, thinking that perhaps I didn't hear the knock. I picked up the package the next day at the post office. Today, we received another "Sorry we missed you" note for the same package. Obviously he didn't actually have the package, because I had it! This dude never intended to actually give us the package, just routinely leaves notes. Turd. Oh, and he doesn't pick up outgoing mail either. That's nice to know. Could have used that information before I tried to mail our rent check last month, only to have it sit in the mailbox getting wetter and wetter with each rainy day. Dur. (Note to self: try to find a mailbox that doesn't let mail get wet!) So, since I have to go to the post office to mail anything, or to pick up packages, I think I'll request UPS next time I order a package.
I also discussed with Rudi making the girls each a hardcover photo book from Shutterfly on their lives so far. Neither have baby books, and I'm the world's most inactive scrapbooker. Seriously, Mt. Vesuvius is a more active volcano than I am a scrapbooker. I think they'd enjoy having a real hard-bound book about themselves. The hard part is going to be using photos from before the digital age! I don't know if scanning them will be good enough. We'll see!
Riley has also become quite a prolific author/illustrator. I may collect her best work and have it "published" in a book. Those are pretty easy to come by, and I don't think they're that expensive.
I have my suspicions about our mailman. Why can't we ever get a good one? The one in Colorado Springs drove like a bat out of hell and nearly ran me over on several occassions. Not to mention that he blasted Rush Limbaugh to the point where I could hear it inside my own house. The one we have here looks like Gorton's fisherman. Seriously. Complete with odd hat and pipe. He parks the mail truck waaaaaay down the street and walks the neighborhood, since we all have mailboxes attached to the front of our houses. Anyway, I ordered a lot of bento box supplies from Japan (because I bought this book on a whim and fell in love with it!). I eagerly awaited their arrival. We checked the mail two days ago to find a "Sorry we missed you" note, when I knew that I had been home. But I shrugged it off, thinking that perhaps I didn't hear the knock. I picked up the package the next day at the post office. Today, we received another "Sorry we missed you" note for the same package. Obviously he didn't actually have the package, because I had it! This dude never intended to actually give us the package, just routinely leaves notes. Turd. Oh, and he doesn't pick up outgoing mail either. That's nice to know. Could have used that information before I tried to mail our rent check last month, only to have it sit in the mailbox getting wetter and wetter with each rainy day. Dur. (Note to self: try to find a mailbox that doesn't let mail get wet!) So, since I have to go to the post office to mail anything, or to pick up packages, I think I'll request UPS next time I order a package.
Here the mailman only delivers small packages that will fit in a mailbox, otherwise we get one of those we missed you notes and have to pick it up from the post office. Maybe you guys got the same deal going on?