Dear Future Sick Me: Read when the plague hits... AGAIN.

As soon as you feel it coming on: drink a gallon of orange juice with a fist full of echinacea & RUN like Forest to get provisions for what will feel like the longest week (hopefully less) of your life. You most likely have t-minus negative 30 seconds between when you are finally willing to admit you are sick & trudging through a store miserably trying to remember what you didn't put on your list so MOVE.

While you're out:

1. Get medications... the ones to help you sleep when its time to sleep. Don't waste precious moments of acceptable rest & get the stuff to dry you up, shut you up & knock you out.
2. Get more medications to keep you awake/functional.... if you actually find these update this blog post.
3. Get more "medications"... the herbals, the vitamins, the oils & the drops. At least the burn of what you lovingly call "the brew" will at least let you feel like you're doing something.
4. Get more "real medications"... call your doctor & get in asap to avoid horrid encounters with "not your doctor" & "not a doctor" that just add "Write a complaint letter to the Urgent Care/ER" to your to do list when you get well.
5. Buy more soap & remember your OCD flare ups (basic plague training 101)... wash your hands A LOT (nothing like a good scrubbing with what is probably a carcinogenic blend of chemicals guaranteed to kill germs to put your mind at ease)
6. Buy more tissues...there aren't enough in the world much less your home... & honestly get the ones drenched in lotion (your face is going to look war torn enough without the help of Dollar Tree sandpaper)
7. Put all the lazy groceries in your cart. We are aiming for low effort vs. high nutritional value... the medications will tear up crappy food just as well as it will tear up the good stuff... 

When you get back:

1. Pray that no one else in the home gets it.
2. When everyone in the house gets it.... don't panic.
3. Take all the Medications & power up the Netflix cartoon movies for the long haul.

We Made it Through!!!
Future you CAN DO IT
Thanks for prayers peeps. :)

Painting the Recliner: It Finally Got It

Everyone has that one Pinterest project. It may be just one pin that you keep forgetting that you want to do or it might be an entire board that you've created that is dedicated to getting a particular project done. For me, it was my recliner. This lovely recliner is going on what has to be it's 15th year of life... well since it was brand new to my mom. We inherited it not too long ago (5 ish years) & I've been planning to give it new life for 3 of those years. 

Original Color within the first year that we owned it.

Nothing is wrong with it... I think it is still crazy comfy... but if you know me... it was just a little to "normal" for me. Most everything in our home is antique, vintage or weird/eclectic & it just didn't seem to quite fit. (See pics of the rest of our Living Room Here) So I started a board on Pinterest & eventually pinned This Pin. I am very happy with the outcome... although I think my Husbie is a little stuck on the new texture.

New Happy Recliner!

It is a little more "crunchy" crunchy than I would like it to be but really not NEARLY  as bad as I thought it would be. I definitely recommend doing a test piece of fabric first if this is something you think would REALLY bother you. For us though we were teetering on the edge of getting a new (to us) recliner so it was worth the risk.

& I'm super HAPPY to check this off my list & delete the board (after 3 years!!!)

What do you think of it just looking at the pictures?! (the texture doesn't bother me, and I'm really the only one who sits in it... lol)

Window Display Happiness

Window Displays?

Why yes! Many of you already know that I have been designing window displays for Northwest EyeCare Professionals in Upper Arlington for quite some time now. It started while I actually was a receptionist there (I started that job nearly exactly 3 years ago in February of 2012... TimeHop told me so). My first window display was in March (I made my own rainbow...) & the Bosners have let me do it pretty much since (brief break whilst I tranistioned  into a new job, had baby & life altering decisions to stay home etc etc). I LOVE IT!!! 

1. They give me a budget each month/window & I try to reuse items from year to year, purchase items that can be used from window to window & get CRAZY excited when I see an item while out at a thrift store or yardsale that would be perfect for one of the window themes.... 
2. They pay me well for my time & effort shopping, crafting, printing, tearing down & putting up the windows :)
3. It is a fun & low key creative outlet for me!

Since Blogging I decided to take pictures each month of my displays.... So I am very proud to FINALLY share with you:

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF THE WINDOW

January 2015
"Black Tie Affair"
Show Featuring Jimmy Choo & Tory Burch

February 2015
"Our Eye-Candy is Sweet"
Featuring lots & lots of Candy Hearts

March 2015
"See the Rainbow"

April 2014
"Take Care of Your Peepers"
Featuring a plethora of "Peeps"

May 2014
"Spring Fling"
Sunglass Show Featuring Kate Spade

June 2014
"Welcome to Our Eyeland"
Featuring a Fun Tropical Theme

July 2014
"Oh Say Can You See"
Happy American Window

Aug 2014
"C You Soon" EyeChart
Advertising Our Presence at the
Taste of Upper Arlington w. a Picnic Theme

September 2012
"Glasses for Classes"
Complete with Apples Colored by Patients

September 2014
"Go Buck-Eyes"
O-H-I-O

October 2014
"Keeping an Eye on You"
Ready for Trick or Treat!

November 2014
"Thankful for You"
B/C I Just Haven't Figured Out How to Make
"Welcome to Our Cornea-Copia" Work

December 2014
"Do You See What I See?"
Sparkling for the Holidays

Each Year that I repeat a particular theme the better it gets & it makes me proud. I am figuring out what does & doesn't work in the space, how to make the presentation more dynamic, where the budget money is best spent to make the display pop & many times what mistakes to avoid (see November's window... it needs more love next year lol) Taking pictures this year has really helped me look at and decipher where & how I want to amp up the displays for next year... So I am very excited to share this post from now on, on a monthly basis so that we can compare this next year's displays to the past.

What I want to work on this next year:

1. Backdrops/better ones for each window
2. Something in the upper space of each window
3. Different yet still legible Lettering techniques (someday I want the lettering on favorite every year themes to be laminated for easy reuse... instead of having to print/make new letters each 1-2 years)
4. Better Pics of the Displays

What are YOUR opinions? Which lettering do you like & why? Which Window is your Favorite!!! Any tips to work on my Window Display goals?