running through my mind all day

I have a whole bunch of embroidery thread. I don't embroider, and I don't make friendship bracelets, so I had to find a new use for it. I really like peacock feathers, so I had the inspired idea to make one out of embroidery thread. The background is basically a collage of cream colored pictures that I cut from magazine glued onto wood and lightly painted gold. So gorgeous!

It was rainy today and the view from our window was spectacular. There was a light shining on the rain droplets, and tree branches were shadowed onto the window. And a snowman :)

24 before 24 - the List!

I'll revisit this post in November...let's see how far I get. Maybe it'll be a picture post, depending on how lucky I get.

1. Go to an Ohio winery

2. Put something for sale on Etsy

3. Take an impromptu road trip one weekend (I think stating it here makes it !impromptu, but oh well)

4. Go to a wedding (I'll need your help with this - I don't get invited to weddings. I can be a date! I'm willing to travel.)

5. Have a picnic at the park

6. Go to the Olympics :)

7. Attend a yoga class (no, I have not done this ever!)

8. Make out in a museum

9. Buy a guy a drink

10. Read at least 5 classic novels (suggestions?)

11. Go salsa dancing

12. Write a short story (about what?)

13. Audition

14. Do all the free/discounted museum things with my brand new Case Western ID

15. Go rock climbing

16. Grow/plant something

17. Make Limoncello or similar

18. Dress up like Lady Gaga and go in public

19. Go shooting

20. Make a music video

21. Go to the beach

22. Try belly dancing

23. Run a 5k in less than 30 minutes

24. (A secret one)

24 things to do before I turn 24

I'll be turning 24 in approximately a long time (10 months?) and I decided I need a "24 things to do before I turn 24" list.

What should be on my list?

It can be anonymous, and it can be far-fetched.

Please comment.

They are going to write a romantic comedy about my life someday

Romantic. Comedy. It will be funny for you, but unfunny for me. Yes, you will all be rooting for me to get together with Zac Efron at the end. But along the way, I will meet some vampires who are incredibly pasty and frail (and glittery). They'll just be bloodsuckers. But it will be ok. It will end with a leather-studded kiss in the sand!

Anyway...enough about me. The break was a busy one, craftily.

I found these cute little side tables. But...with my new obsession with paper mosaic (and dark brown furniture) I had to do some mosaicking.

AW so cute! I'm such a fan of paper mosaic! It's so pretty!

Also, with my love affair with seatbelts, I made a seatbelt wallet. It's pretty damn sweet. It was for a white elephant and it came with tea and 4 (FOUR!) (an excited number four, not four factorial) romance novels. I hope the stories are more entertaining than my romantic comedy of a life.

Maybe it will keep his/her money safe. I say his/her because I have no idea who ended up with it.

I found a face in my lunchbox!