Little Projects Everywhere!
As I told you last week, I went home to Monroeville to help my mother with packing and to do some visiting. What I didn’t tell you was that I left Baby Bub with her for the weekend AAAANNNDDD Bub… Continue Reading
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An Appliqued T-Shirt Mod
I couldn’t write today’s post without acknowledging how moved I was by the outpouring of love regarding Coralie’s post yesterday. Our readers really are the best, and I just wanted you guys to know how much it is/was appreciated. I’m sure… Continue Reading
DIY Fall Wreath and Front Porch Clean-Up
Bub said, Babe- did you see the house down the street with the pumpkins? I near about lost it! My friends have already started posting on their blogs and on their instagram their front door decorations (ahem, Laura and Courtney)… Continue Reading
Wallpaper Removal… Finally got it figured out!
Today was one of those days where I didn’t let lack of sleep or a sicky baby slow my roll! Baby Bub has a cold… again- this time, it is accompanied by a cough. I just feel so sorry for… Continue Reading
Hinged: The Tale of a Thermostat Cover
Once Upon A Time…. there lived a maiden named Regina Leigh. She lived in the fantastical realm of Burbank in an area famed for it’s lake of Toluca. Regina Leigh was a funny girl who liked certain things a certain… Continue Reading
Back to the Lab! Re-Trying to Remove Painted Labels from Plastic Containers!
One of our more popular posts on FTTDWYW is a post I did pintesting a pin from Pinterest about removing paint from plastic containers. Coralie and I are always amazed at what posts resonate with the world, and this one struck a chord. In… Continue Reading
A Natural Home Remedy from Our Fully Furnished Home
The movers came and went on Thursday. They delivered *most of* our stuff. We won’t be able to assess the full spectrum of the event until everything is unpacked which will take a while… because not only did they deliver… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Part 4
I’m sure y’all are about as tired of hearing about my apartment painting as I am of painting… but Jojo and I finished the master bedroom and guest room/hobby hacienda this weekend and I had to share the most awesome… Continue Reading
Twelve Wall Painting Tips “They” Won’t Tell You on the Internet*
As I mentioned Monday (and several posts before that), I’ve recently begun painting our apartment room-by-room in preparation for the movers arriving with our stuff. I researched and scoured the internet for tips to make painting easier. But, let’s face… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Part 3
If you are playing along at home, you’ll know that we’ve been planning on painting our apartment before our furniture gets here. Well, as you read this (hopefully) all of stuff is FINALLY being loaded onto a truck. It should… Continue Reading
Homemade Dishcloths — A Guest Post by: Sheila
We’ve been pretty bad here at Fun Things To Do While You’re Waiting this summer about keeping up with playlists and guest posters. Summertime is just busy… for everyone… and no one likes to be shaken down for a guest post-… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Part 2
We have been in our apartment for a little over a week now. A few days after we moved in, Jojo and I went to Home Despot and got some paint-sample, colored cards. One of the suggestions I’ve read in… Continue Reading
DIY Laundry Detergent Powder
One of my favorite things to do while I wait is to save money. I went through a whole phase where in which I tried to catch on to the whole couponing craze— and in theory, couponing is awesome but,… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Let’s Get Painting!
Hooray!!! We’re moving into our apartment today!! One of the only advantages of us getting an apartment and not having furniture in it for a month is that I can paint! Painting is such a cheap and effective way to make an… Continue Reading
A Star Trek Onesie: Make It Sew
Baby Crafting: the Final Frontier. This is the tale of the crafter Leigh. Her two-month mission: to explore strange new techniques, to create something for new life in her civilization, to boldly go where some people have already gone before. *Cue Star Trek music of your choice*… Continue Reading
Hide the Garbage!
Bub and I really do love our house. It is certainly a work in progress and as I have mentioned before, as we mark one project off our list we add about 3 more. It is a constant work in… Continue Reading
Homemade Shaving Cream, Did my Carbon Footprint just get Smaller?
Okay, so there is a substantial hippie part of me that keeps my consumerist side of me in check… most of the time. I absolutely think that perhaps we, as a human race, are taking for granted our planet and… Continue Reading
Chandelier Make-Over.
I have mentioned several times before that our house is a work in progress. Bub and I have a list perhaps a mile long of stuff that we want to do. And we have a pretty decent sized list of… Continue Reading
#operationweddingcake
I had the absolute pleasure, this weekend, of helping my awesome friend Erica make a wedding cake for our mutual friends Elizabeth and Bryan who married this past Sunday. The whole adventure started a little over a month ago while I was… Continue Reading
Paisley Stamped Shower Curtain
As I mentioned before, our house has been a work in progress. We have removed wallpaper from 5 different rooms and in every room there were multiple layers of wallpaper. Seriously. There were 5 layers of wallpaper in the kitchen… Continue Reading