HOORAY for D.I.!!

    It finally happened! All of the countless days and hours I've spent at D.I. (Deseret Industries, for those of you who may not know) all payed off today! Oooh I'm SO excited! First I'd like to share with you the fruits of my last D.I. trip, and how it turned out after I got through with it. I've been looking for a Family Home Evening board that's smaller than the one I have now, and then I came across this:

    I thought it was super cute, and all I'd have to do is add some more knobby hangy-thingies and it would be good as new! And at $3.00, it was pretty hard to say no to. It turned out I didn't even have to worry about exactly matching the existing knobby thingy (it had a dark brown stain on it). I was able to find those same round pieces--unfinished--at my local craft store for a couple bucks and I just painted them with whatever brown acrylic paint I had on hand. I just added a little more water to my brush if it was getting too thick.
   
    It turned out A LOT better than I was thinking it would. I reused the tags from my old FHE board (yes, I am that cheap) by writing whatever name I wanted on a white label and cutting it to fit on the tag over the previous word. Even up close you can't tell that's what I did.

    Yes, there are only 5 members of my family and there are 6 things to do on this board. So I added a MYSTERY tag. That will rotate each week to a new SURPRISE member of the family who gets to do TWO things for that Family Home Evening! Mystery and Surprise always make things sound more fun and exciting, don't they?

Okay, FINE!

SO, I have all this STUFF I want to share with you. Mostly it's just things I've made, or ideas I've come up with (yes, I know I'm a dork but I need to feel validated somehow). And now I have my soapbox (aka blaaaahhg) from which to spout whatever I think is important. There is something I do not have, and I sadly underestimated the importance of it. That would be a camera that takes good-looking pictures. It is really pretty ridiculous and kind of defeats the purpose of a blog, I think, to try to describe something without having any pictures to reference...not to mention horribly boring.

This lack of camera is the biggest reason I haven't posted since July last year. I have A LOT of pictures on my phone of: out-of-focus jewelry, badly-lit projects I've done, food that's disgustingly off-color, and a dessert that actually looks like something a dog coughed up. So...yeah.

I'm finally gonna post this now (3 weeks after I originally wrote it, cause I'm awesome like that), so I can write my NEXT post about what is new and exciting in my life! :-)

Holla