Goodbye wisdom teeth!

It's been a while, but I've been keeping busy! Last week I got my wisdom teeth out and while taking it easy for three days I got a lot of knitting/crocheting done. There was something about not really being able to eat or talk that made knitting even more enjoyable. I started off knitting for a day and a half. I've been in the mists of my first sweater the entire summer and finally got all the actual knitting done. It isn't really piecing together the way i wanted, and it's acrylic so I can't really block it very much. I'm just glad I used cheap yarn :)

After being disappointed with all that time wasted I grabbed my crochet hook. When I move out in a week I'll have a bedroom with hardwood floors (which is very exciting!) and I figured I would need a rug so I started working on this. It's just a huge granny square with fancy edging. The nice part was getting all of the square done in two days since I had nothing better to do. i was a little unsure about how it would stick to the floor but I put some of that tulip fabric paint on the back and it really does stick! I'm kind of surprised..


The ruler in there is 2 feet for scale. The next pic shows what I meant with the fabric paint.



I hope it goes well with my dresser/lamps from my last post!

New Furniture.. kind of.

This year I get to have my own bedroom at school and I wanted everything to match! The dresser I got last minute last year was pretty horrible. My mom got it from wal mart and when I think about it, it was probalby in the office section. I started painting it weeks ago but had so many different plan changes due to the cheap fake wood stuff on the outside I was going to tape parts to leave the wood with black but then the fake wood stuff came off with the tape.. so I ended up kind of hand painting this stripes on with gold. The black is some semi gloss spray paint so it's nice and shiny :) After all is said and done I'm happy with it. It had those really plain black plastic handles on it before so I got new gold ones



Here's a close up of the "character" the lines have


Next was a few lamps I had from target from way back. They were like a bright lavender before. They were really hard to get pictures of lol

here's the bottom (and my shadow)

and the top (with a shadow from a tree)


and the matching desk lamp, you cant see the design very well in the pictures but it's the same as the lamp



Just a few more weeks till i can decorate the rest of the room!