Happiness is...

New fabric to add to my stash...

Arizona Sunset...

The Great Paper Plane Fly-Off...

Last weekend we participated in

The Great Paper Plane Fly-Off at the

Pima Air and Space Museum. 

SO much fun!!!

2012 Home Goals...

Now, these may be lofty.

And some may not get done. 

But I find that I always accomplish more when

I've set goals for myself (duh).

Especially if those goals are made in public

 - like on this blog. 

So, here are my room-by-room goals for 2012. 

This will be the first of several posts. 

You know...just to spread out the happiness. 

These are the big ones...

there are lots of little ones, too.

But I'm not going to share them all with you just yet!  :)

#1

make a headboard for our master bedroom

There are so many amazing examples out there of

bloggers who've made their own headboards.

From upholstered or tufted...

{from Centsational Girl}

{Grace’s Upholstered Otomi Headboard from Designsponge.com}

...to upcycled and rustic...

{from Housetweaking.com}

{from completely-coastal.com}

Choosing a design is almost as hard as the actual

construction of the headboard itself.

Almost.

#2

make some interesting artwork for our master bath

I have a couple of cute, sepia colored pics of the

kids in our bathroom.  You can see the

bathroom from an old post here. 

And I also have this generic hotel-room artwork...

You can see it above...although this is a "before"

pic of my bathroom.  There's a big mirror above

the commode now, and the generic Asian artwork

hangs on the wall just to the right.

It's OK.  But it's generic.

Surely I can whip up something

interesting to replace it, right? 

Maybe something like this...

{from TransitDesign}

My husband bought me a shadow box YEARS ago,

that's just been sitting around in my store room. 

I live in the desert - far from the sea

 - but I know that Dollar Tree carries sea glass.

So what about something like this...

{from onewomenshaven.blogspot.com}

Or I could whip up a little DIY artwork, ala Lil Blue Boo...

Whew!  I'm tired just thinking about it!

And thats just two small rooms!

Next time...kids rooms!

Goal #2 for 2012...

I will take to the air again...

Craigslist Fail...

OK.  So my Mom made me promise not to do any more "Craigslist Fail" posts because she thinks they are mean-spirited.  And she's right.  But, I'm sorry, I just couldn't let this one go:

 

'nuf said.

My first goal of 2012...

...is to say this more...