New projects on the horizon...

Step # 1 of rearranging my life...new work space.

Meet my new desk thanks to Ikea. 

 

I work at home and currently I have this desk minus the shelving unit that is built in.  This desk is bigger and has more storage so I am going to be using this desk as my home office desk and use my old desk as my crafting desk. I'll post pictures of my office once I get it done!

New found obsession: Craigslist craft section.  There is so much stuff on there for cheap. 

Things I will be picking up in the next few days...

Wall hanging plate display minus the plates for $10.  I am going to find neat plates at goodwill to fill it and paint it to match the plates and try to resell. 

Also I am getting this small bookcase.  $5!  That is a steal!  I don't know if I will be able to paint this or not, but we'll see what we can do with it.  IF anything, I'll put it under my desk and use it for storage. 

And the last thing I wanted to share...a quick craft I did last night that I saw on Pinterest

The pencil/makeup holder, super easy.  Got the bottom rocks from Ikea and the top rocks from Hobby Lobby.  They have several different colors.

Crazy about Crafts!!

Things in my life lately have been hectic to say the least.

Like I had mentioned in my previous post, boyfriend and I  had plans to rent to own this house.  We were a half hour from signing the lease when things fell through.  I'm not going into details as to why, and I'm not saying they are bad people or that anything was their fault, however unforeseen things happened which prevented us from moving in.  They also had a couch which they said when we moved in we could have, and we had threw our old couch away.  Since we were no longer moving in, that also meant no couch.  So at the end of the day there we sat with our apartment piled high with boxes full of our things and a couch-less living room.

We have 3 months left on our lease and plans are to stay put until the lease is up.  People tell me that since we don't have long to go, we should just keep everything packed up.  I don't know about you, but I don't want to feel homeless or in a transitional phase for that long. I want to feel at home.

The landlords also had inspections and after a year of telling them there was mold under the tile floor due to leaky pipes, they have now ripped up all the tile in our kitchen and have moved all the appliances into our living room.

No living room.  No kitchen.

Essentially we have been living upstairs for 2 days and probably will continue this for another 2 days until they finish.

Since I have completely no control over my life for the past few weeks...I have become addicted to Pinterest and addicted to the idea of crafting.  Now if you knew me personally you would probably be trying to pick yourself up off the floor due to falling down in a fit of laughter, but I am going to try this.  I have always wanted to own my own business but I have never really been good at any one particular thing.  I'm great with talking to people, but that will only get you so far.  My goal is to find crafting classes and inexpensive cheap items at goodwill and flip them into something totally different.

I also plan on organizing my life, and things in my home so I will be less stressed and de-cluttered.  There is another blogger "The complete guide to imperfect homemaking" and she has a 31 day blog on organizing and I thought it would be cool if I could do that.  Every day, organize something different and blog about it. 

So here I go, obsessed with another hobby.  Let's see how long this lasts :)

Here are some pictures of what I have done so far...

                                           $5 mirror from goodwill with chipped gold paint.

 

 Spray painted brown.  Will provide picture once hung. 

 

Cheese grater from Ikea for $3.99

                   
                                Spray painted it to make it an earring holder I found on Pinterest.

 

 Plain magnetic board from Ikea. 

 Fabric from Hobby Lobby

Finished

Fabric from Hobby Lobby

                                                                 Finished Cork Board

More to come!  Please follow me!

"You know you gotta go through hell before you get to heaven..." 

 

I haven't blogged in ages, so please excuse the mess while I'm dusting off the old cobwebs.

I'm Alli!  These blogs are going to explain who I am, what I've been through, and what I look forward to doing in this crazy, wonderful life.  

I have been on this earth for 25 years.  Within those 25 years, I've experienced alot.  I've got married, I've gotten divorced.  I've owned a home, I've had a home be foreclosed on, I've had a semi-abusive boyfriend, I got my head on straight and got the eff outta the situation.

The mind is a mysterious thing.  I believe it makes you forget some of the truly horrible things that have happened in your life, so you can go on living.  Some truly horrible things have happened and after all was said and done, I sat licking my wounds when things finally occured to me.

Now you know how they all say that when you aren't looking for love, it will find you?  Mannnn I hate that saying!  But boy-o-boy is is true.

Like I had mentioned, I was finally impervious to the whole situation, on men, on marriage, on the whole shabang.  I had come to the conclusion that life would be far more  fullfilling if I worried about me and myself alone.  I had even talked myself out of wanting kids.  I went to a psychic which was my last attempt at getting any insight into my future, because odviously I couldn't handle picking one out for myself.

That $25 for Mrs Pauline to look in her magic crystal's was the best money I have ever spent.  She looked at me and said...stop online dating, stop trying so hard, you are destined to have children, you are destined to have a family but the person who is meant to be for you will fall onto your lap through mutual friends.  I scoffed at the idea when she said it because all my friends and their friends I know and would not date EVER ha-ha.  But it gave me the hope I needed.

A few months go by.  I cancelled all my online dating handles, and was content being by myself when my brother (who is 17 at the time)  says one of his good friends has a brother who is 2 years younger than me, and I should go on a date with him.  So I do and we have been dating for almost 7 months and even though I was married before this is the closest I have ever felt towards a human being ever.

He treats me like gold and I do the same for him.  I don't know how I lived without this man and I cannot wait to spend forever by his side (so he better hurry up and propose already!!)  and I can't wait to start a family with him. 

Now that you know my story here is what is currently taking place our life....

My 5,000 lb self starting dragging my butt into a Weight Watcher meeting every Wednesday.  After 3 weigh in's I'm happy to announce that I now weigh 3 lbs less and next week I hope to meet my first goal of 5 lbs.  My overall goal is to lose 120 lbs and be the weight it shows on my drivers license.  I'm sick of being this big!

And the last and final thing I am going to mention on this first blog is in April we are moving from our ghetto fab apartment into a rent to own home close to our friends and family.  I could not be more impatient but  am going to use this time to gather some new decorations and start saving money to buy new things we need.  I've lived on my own since I was 18 so I have everything we need, but it never hurts to upgrade things every once and again.  The house we are renting is only $50 than what we are currently paying and it has been newly renovated.  I'm hoping the beginning of Feb all the renovations will be complete and we can go in and take pictures that I can post.

New and exciting things are headed our way and I can't wait to share them with everyone!!

Happy Blogging!