Wasted is a duo of ladies from my hometown of Muscatine, Iowa who get sad at the thought of old furniture wasting away in landfills and garbage dumps. So they refurbish, recycle and reinvent old throw aways–like they are literally trolling the alleys and street corners of Muscatine for their next diamond in the rough. They do great work and display much of it in the empty storefront next to Baar on 2nd. Like them on Facebook. look at the photos, and claim your treasure. I bought this mirror!
Memorial Day weekend! Ever since I started dating the hubs, I’ve been going to The Cottage–a friend’s mother’s lakeside cottage in Grand Haven, MI–for Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day. This year we drove up on Thursday afternoon to make the most of our long weekend.
Because we generally go to The Cottage on holidays, the group is never the same. This Memorial Day two new friends came who had never been before. One, Allison, in true art teacher form, brought a craft for us to complete as a group. She had an impressive craft box full of paper, glitter, beads, twine, glue, scissors, and other fun stuff.
Then she taught us to make origami boxes. That’s pretty cool. I’ve never made them before, but, the super fun part, she had us decorate the tops with different gold beads giving the boxes a fun, 80’s vibe. Here’s mine:
It may sound kind of weird to do a group craft project with your friends on a long weekend, but it was really fun. Everyone just did it, no complaints. And everyone had fun.
Today I designed and ordered the T-shirts for Team Year of Fun for the Chicago Arthritis Walk!
At first, I was disheartened by the lack of mint colored shirts or fonts on all of the design-your-own T-shirt websites. When I finally found one that had a minty font, the shirts ended up being really expensive. Then my fellow walker (leader of Team Psoriatic Arth-Fight-This in New York) told me about ooshirts, a really affordable site.
I compromised a little on my color plan but ended having a lot of fun designing and ordering shirts for my team. I can’t wait for them to arrive!
Oh, and I ordered extras in case more people want to join the team…
This is the oldest post I never wrote. Day 212. April 24. APRIL TWENTY FOURTH?! It was a Wednesday. According to my calendar, I had my regular Wednesday work meetings. Nothing else.
Well I hope Barbara Streisand had a happy birthday!
year of fun 