Latest Projects

Recovered cafe chairs

Cafe Table Cloth

Clutch. I don't like the colors I chose(too grandma-y) and the construction is a bit sloppy, but this was a good learning experience. Next one I make will be pretty and I know what I'm doing so it will be much better, and I want to include a zipper so I can actually use it! I think I'll use this as a makeup bag or something.

Madelisms: June 30

"Ben has a peanut just like Daddy has a peanut."

"Happy birthday to my birthday, happy birthday to you!" (She can't wait for her birthday, which is a long ways away still...but she talks about it every day.)

Movies

In my Netflix queue to watch soon:

Mighty Ducks
Hook
Free Willy
Ace Ventura

need I say I'm feeling nostalgic for some of those awesome childhood movies??

TREES!!

Our trees came this morning. About 10 Mexicans ran from hole to hole and installed these bad boys in about 15 min.
(okay, obviously we're going to move the two pines, we just haven't gotten around to it yet)

Put our Lemon next to Orange

These one in the back are HUGE! It makes me so happy! Like instant gratification for trees. It's worth the money. Now we just need to really clean up and plant crap in the rest of the yard..and grass.

Little nectarine tree by the garden already has fruit on it!

bee



I like pretty plants. Can't wait for these trees to get giant!

Trees

Acacia Willow

Ficus (these are the huge shady trees by the duck pond behind sweet tomatoes)

AZ Ash

On Saturday we bought some trees!!!!!!! This will be the best investment for our house so far! And make the backyard pretty and not a barren wasteland! They are getting delivered and planted next week and I'm excited woo woo!

We got 6 trees total-
1 Arizona Ash
1 Acacia Willow
2 Ficus
1 Nectarine
1 Lemon

I got some pictures off of the Moon Valley website of what our trees will look like in 20 years...ha! Actually they are already medium sized trees and all of them are fast growers (except for the lemon). So hopefully in 5 years we will have some decent sized trees that actually provide shade! The nectarine tree is already producing fruit too! We were planning on getting an orange tree but they grow so slow we though it would be better to just nurse the one we have back to health.

Trees 4 life yo.

Zoo Haiku

We went to the zoo
It was way too hot outside
We went home to sleep

Flag

I drove up to flag by myself last weekend. Never have I seen AZ so green, or maybe I just havn't ever been in the spring. It was pretty.

This is Lindsays new house, it's really old, pretty, and right in the downtown area. Even though she doesn't have a room she only pays $200. I was very jealous!

She made us an artichoke/ricotta/lots of other stuff pizza on sat

We did some walking around and lots of hanging out at Mia's, the bar where she works. It was good to see lots of old friends and I had a great weekend! Just doing the drive by myself and having the time to think was a good break from two little people..

Rainbows

It was a good start to the day when I realized I'd hung my laundry in rainbow order.

The best thing ever

these people are the best thing ever

and so is this...

found an awesome bread machine at goodwill on Sunday. It was $10 but it happen to be 50% off which I was not aware of until I paid, so I got it for $5!!!

Yesterday I made this bread and we ate it in 5 min flat. So I made another one just now...

It smells soooooo gooood. and tastes good too (what. this is totally raw)!

I slathered on some jam and I'm already on my second piece....I'd better take it easy.

But the best part is that it is super cheap to make this fresh bread...like 60 cents or something I don't remember exactly. A loaf from the store is almost $4...so...I win!!!!

1070

I've been reading up on the new immigration law, mostly on Huffington Post...I saw an interesting comment on one article and it lead me to look up some stuff about the man who actually wrote the law...AZ Senator Russel Pearce. ...

• In October 2006, Russell Pearce forwarded an email from National Alliance, a white separatist group, to a group of supporters. The email titled "Who Rules America" ^[8] criticized black and white intermixing and Jews in the media for promoting multiculturalism and racial equality, for depicting "any racially conscious White Person" as a bigot, and for presenting the Holocaust as fact.^[9] He quickly apologized. The article reports, "He does not agree with the sentiments in the article, but that the title and the first paragraphs about media bias appealed to him. He said the article had been forwarded to him by someone else and he would not have sent it if he had read it in its entirety."^[9] He stated in one of his apologies, "Ugly the words contained in it really are. They are not mine and I disavow them completely. Worse still, the website links to a group whose politics are the ugliest imaginable."^[9]

• In April 2008, Pearce sponsored a measure, Senate Bill 1108, that would prohibit students of Arizona universities and community colleges from forming groups based in whole or part on the race of their membership. Pearce said he didn't want students indoctrinated with seditious or anti-American teachings. The bill would ban groups that serve minority interests such as the Mexican American study program and the Black Business Students Association. ^[10][edit] Personal life

Russell Pearce lives in Mesa, Arizona^[11] with his wife, LuAnne. He has five children, Dodi, Sean, Colten, Justin, and Joshua.^[1] In 1980, LuAnne filed a petition for dissolution of marriage alleging that he: "is possessed of a violent temper, and has from time to time hit and shoved the wife, the last time being on February 3 [1980], when he grabbed the wife by the throat and threw her down." ^[12]. However, LuAnne reconciled with her husband and they remain married to this day.

I find it very disturbing that a man who is possibly a white supremacist wrote this new law. I don't support this law in the first place, but I was starting to get sympathetic when Jan Brewer claimed she spent weeks trying to "strengthen it's civil rights protection" and I heard the opinions of people who actually support it. But this whole thing is ridiculous. Illegals are not taking our jobs...they are doing the low paying, hard labor that many Americans think they are above. They are not hurting anyone. I'm truly dissapointed at the lack of respect Arizona is currently showing it's Latino population. What's next? Are we going to make them sew pictures of Mexican flags on their sleeves?!? Damn this stupid bill. I'm going to protest. I think about my good friend Karen, who is an illegal (I think her family is too). She's lived here since she was 12 and recently had twins in AZ (who are American citizens of course). They travel between AZ and Texas a lot so I hate to think what will happen when They get asked for "papers" at the border (you know they will get asked at the border because police probably think many illegals are fleeing AZ because of this law). Will they be deported without their children? Will they be afraid to take their children in for doctors appointments for fear that they will get asked for their papers?