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Hello Winter, you cold, heartless Bitch.

It's Winter here in Utah now. We've had the warmest Fall and it was nice but our good friend who we love to hate is finally upon us.Snow bunnies rejoice!

I haven't had a good heart-to-heart on here in awhile. I plan on talking about our move soon now that I've gotten over the jolt of it, finally after a month.

I have two our commute now to add to my day. I was spoiled before when I only lived 7 miles away from work. My commute was the. best. I cruised up and down State street watching all of the vagrants, hookers and addicts for entertainment. It was incredible. I loved it. Now, I get stew in my hatred of every Utah driver on I15 for two hours everyday. It's eating at my sanity. I'm not trying to over-dramatic but my mental stability is suffering due to this. It's not quite worth the free rent. By the time I get home I do not want to do anything. I don't work on my shop, I barely blog and I have not been slacking in the crafty department. That does not sit well with me. I sit at my desk all day and barely move unless it's to pee or go to lunch. Oh, I can't leave out the times I get up and pick up something form the printer.. I should be lucky I even get to do that. What am I complaining about? I''m so ungrateful.

My house has power and isn't under water so I should really shut my mouth. I know this. Our work has been directly impacted by hurricane Sandy and those of us on the west coast have had to pick up the slack with smiles on our faces. (That honestly wasn't mean to have any sarcastic tone, I feel like at this point in our relationship, since you've become to know me, I should clarify that.) The stress of the storm has been really hard to handle not being able to help co-workers who are struggling to get through it. I know helping out at work is all I can do but you want to be able to put your arm around them and help them face-to-face.

I do have good news on the cancer front as far as my FIL goes. It looks like they caught it early enough that they will be able to just remove his prostate and not have to go through chemo or radiation. Thank God!

Thanksgiving will be here soon, so that is good. A day off of work and a whole day to pig out. I love it. It's my second favorite holiday next to Halloween. I wish after it was over I could hibernate until March. Maybe by that time I will be moved out of my parent's house? I would love that.


I have to say that I'm so glad the election is over. The ads were slowly killing me and the many, many robo calls I received were driving me to Canada. I also have to say that I'm so glad I have a family where I'm able to have my own opinions about who I vote for. I'm thankful that I'm not persuaded or bullied in my own family into who I "should" be voting for and that I don't have to keep it a secret in order to keep from being ridiculed. We all have different opinions and are able to express them with out getting into horrible fights. So thankful. I honestly feel for those who do not have that freedom in their own families.

And Lastly, The Walking Dead...ohmuhgawwwwwd.

THRIFT SHOP!!

So I get this text from Ty just now while he's at band practice, telling me to check this song out because  "it is so you bubba"

My new theme song...Thrift Shop! He says, "it's your life song"

So, Halloween was nice

zipper face & Wednesday

I Kat Von D'd my mom all up, well her face but she did her outfit and hair.

It was really fun putting makeup on her. 

 Let's slap a bloody vag on that face...sorry couldn't resist, but really look at that shit. OMG.

my costume was last minute, I had planned going as a zombie hence the zombie lunch bag I made but when it came time to wake up at 5am to put the makeup on before work I just couldn't do it and since my outfits aren't totally off the mark when it comes to depressed little girls I thought hey why not? Wednseday Addams it is.

never want Halloween to end...

DIY Skull Patches!

My original plan for my old hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil tee was to just revamp it it's self  but my first attempt didn't go so well. It was starting to get sort of dingy because I wore it so much. I wanted to cut up both sides of the tee and and add lace each side but I could not get it to work no matter how hard I tried. Ok, confession, I didn't try that hard, I tried putting lace up one side and ended up gluing the wrong sides together and totally ruined the shape of the shirt. I couldn't totally let it go tot waist so I decided to make patches out the skulls and add them to a hoodie. I couldn't find the right hoodie to add them to but I did find this fleece peacoat at the goodwill and it was only $6 so I decided to march on with it. Besides, fleece is nice for cold weather and it really is one cozy jacket. The jacket is originally from mold navy.

This is not a Halloween jacket. I plan on wearing this till I hate it. I did wear it a lot in October so I think people thought it was for that but it isn't. Fools.

Here's a couple before shots of the jacket.

This gist: take a tee shirt that has a graphic on it that you love and cut it out, then either sew that straight on to whatever you want be it a jacket, another tee, a tote, or some cut-offs. You can make into a real patch by adding iron on adhesive to the back of it like I did here, here, and here.

 I cut out my skulls and added some backing to to make them appear really white and then I used fabric-tac glue to add them to a dark gray colored fabric to give them more dimension. Lastly, I pinned them in place where I wanted them then started sewing away.

{I didn't sew them in proper order...oh well.}

still some of my favs:
DIY Punk Vest
Tee Revamp - John Cusack's face
DIY Chevron Tee