When Life gets you Down

So to say that life isn't always fair seems to be an accurate statement. When life gives you lemons, you need to make lemonade...another accurate statement. One that I am going to take to heart and really live by. In fact, I just may make a sign and hang it in my kitchen...that seems like a good place for food signs! Things are a little tough this week. We paid our rent and we paid the car payment....there is nothing left. Enough for a bridge pay on the phone and a half a tank of gas. We have next to no food in our house. In fact, there is a carton of eggs, cream cheese, grapes, oranges, onions, baked potatoes, and condiments in our fridge. That's it!! Oh, and I think a package of cheese. Not a whole lot to work with. I do have some frozen dinners...only 4, and a roast (but nothing to cook it in because my landlord didn't give us enough time to get everything out), and some ground beef. I like to cook and I like to have things that make cooking easier. When you take those things away, I can't do my job as a wife and a homemaker. I want to be able to provide dinner for my family (even if it's just Tony and I). I can't even open up a can of tuna because my can opener was at my old apartment....how is that going to work??? I don't have my sharp knives to cut up apples and make a fruit salad. Sometimes, life just stinks...That's why I am going to make my sign...in fact, I'm going to make it right now!!! I can do this! I can make lemonade out of lemons...even though I don't have any!! LOL! Away I go to make a motivational sign!! Just another way Tiffany gets to be creative!

An interesting perspective

Life has a way of changing on you whether you want it to or not. Tony and I still have our jobs, although he has been promoted recently to a lead position, at Barnes that we are pleased with. Mine is a little boring at times because I really don't have much to do but sit there and answer phones in the middle of the night. Sometimes it's a semi busy night, but most nights there can be a 10-15 minute lull in between phone calls so that's a lot of down time. Well, when I have downtime, I tend to get bored really fast. When I get bored, I spend money...money that we don't always have. So I have decided that I am going to go on a spending moratorium. Not for the basics of living but I'm not going to spend money on craft items...because let's face it...I have a TON of scrapbooking stuff that is just sitting in like 10 totes upstairs that need to be gone through and organized. I want to use it up. I want to be able to say that I am not wasting money anymore. Now, there are some basics that need to be kept up like adhesives and things like that. Those I know I don't have a ton of that will be used up and be replaced on a regular basis. I have had so much fun using some of the stuff that I already have. I made some really cute stuff already...and had a ton of fun doing it! I forgot how much I really like being creative. I feel so much happier when I have been able to have a creative outlet. Let's see if I can figure out how to download some of the stuff I worked on.... This is a bookmark that I made last night. I know my photographs aren't the best but it's all I have to work with! Anyway, this is made with 6mm swarovski crystals and copper headpins and daisy spacers. It's so freakin fun to make these! I love making bookmarks! A simple and fun creative outlet! Another thing that is fun to make are earrings. I have never really worn them but I like to make them. I must really like shiny things! Here are ones that I started last night but am unable to finish until I can get to a bead store to get some more crystals! So I'm still trying to figure out this whole picture placement thing on blogger...but at least you know can see what I'm talking about! These earrings are also made with swarovski crystals and are actually really really pretty. U can't really see the colors but they are lt violet AB, crystal AB, and lt sapphire AB 4mm crystals. I really like being creative. I like bright and bold colors too. What better way to be creative and have the color than making a quilt. I have actually never made a quilt before so this is a new experience for me. There really isn't much money in this quilt so far. I have been able to get everything on sale so far so it's been a ton of fun to work on. This is the only thing that I can spend money on until it's done. I could actually really use this quilt today....it's freakin cold here!!! This is going to be a fun project. I found a quilt pattern that I really liked and it seemed pretty easy to do. And since I have never done this before, easy is the way to go. Who knows, maybe I will rock at making quilts and really like doing it and will make some for family. You never know with me! So this has been a picture heavy blog but it's been fun! I hope you all enjoyed seeing my new projects!