Still Sick

I thought I would go though some pictures this morning to entertain myself while I'm bed-ridden and I stumbled upon an old project I did.

Upon becoming gluten intolerant I was having a huge mental break down every time I had to find food because I could no longer eat what was comforting to me(for those of you who don't know what gluten intolerance is I will get violently ill if I eat any wheat/flour/breads/pasta unless made with a rice flour or substitute for wheat). Every night at dinner I would feel horrible and wouldn't want to eat anything because I would be depressed about my diet changes that had to occur.

I then decided to create a meal calendar where I could write down food choices which I know are acceptable for me and have my dinners schedules throughout the week, that way come dinner time I wasn't a starving mess that didn't want to eat anything. I had seen a similar looking one at a friends house which inspired me to get creative with it.

Its really a simple project, I bought all the supplies from my local Michael's Arts and Crafts store

The board itself is one of the Elmer's foam core boards(a little bit larger than 8.5x11)

First I bought a large book comprised of different scrap book papers to use

I hot glued the papers onto the board(to clean up the edge between the top paper and the bottom I used that burlap ribbon and hot glue'd that sucker on there)

I then used sharpie to write on the mini clothespins I bought, labeling them by week date

I got that small envelope(holding all the dinner cards) from the scrapbook section as well as all the stickers

At the end of this all I wanted it hanging up, so I hot glued some magnets to the back of the board(probably would have been easier starting off with this)

And its really that easy, all you need is scrap book paper, ribbon of your choice, clothespins, and you can even get creative and make an envelope origami style if you wanted.

Enthusiastically First Post

Like many of us I try to keep busy in my life.
When I get sick or catch a cold, nine times out of ten it drives me stir crazy. That being said, I am currently under the weather and wanted to show you a small life hack I have learned. By taking two tissue boxes and using a few rubber bands(or in my case a cheap headband I got from Target) you have yourself a very portable and bedside tissue dispenser and garbage can.

Each time I run out of clean tissues and the box is empty, I then will keep the box and buy a new tissue box. Using the empty one as the "trash can" so to speak. That way I will always have a place to put used(ew!) tissues and they wont ever have to touch my nightstand.

The Start to an Epic Journey

Living on this earth for 22 years I have gathered a lot of knowledge already. I have also realized that knowledge and craftiness doesn't just come easily. It is a long learning experience of trials, errors, and most importantly shared experiences.

The other day I had the idea stuck in my head to create a blog to not only share my knowledge but to make the lives of everyone easier. I know that we all sometimes spend countless hours throughout our lives attempting to find a solution to every day problems we have.

So here we are. Hopefully a few years from now this place will have made an impact on at least a handful of peoples lives.

I cant wait to start our journey,

Amanda