A Little Canoeing Does a Body Good

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After our Mother’s Day brunch, S and I went on our very first canoe adventure! We hopped in the car with some verbal directions a country mix cd in the stereo and smiles on our faces.

(not sure what S is doing in this picture…she looks so morose-I think she was hoping that the bubbles in the water next to her weren’t alligators!) 

Don’t worry…I paddled, too. In between taking pictures of course.

We only canoed for about an hour and a half. We stopped once everyone headed back from the way we were headed said, “Wow, there are some huge gators up ahead.” And whoooosh, we were headed back. Ha! We will be braver next time.

 

Mother’s Day

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We went to our dear friend’s house this morning for homemade Belgian waffles. Yum! 

I made these cards for the mothers in our lives. I usually make all cards that we give out for any occasion. I save all of my fabric scraps and just sew right onto the paper. I love the look. It becomes a little piece of art:

And I made this embroidery for my mom. I am perfecting my stitches…I still have some practicing to do. Good thing she loves me.

After our Mother’s Day brunch, S and I went on an impromptu canoe adventure! It was both of our first time canoeing and it was a huge success! We both have caught the canoeing bug! Tomorrow I will post photos from our trip!

In need of…

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I feel spent. Tired. Exhausted. Depleted. We live in a place where are neighbors are so close that we can hear their tv sometimes. We live in a city where finding a place to hike is nearly impossible. I want long, silent walks with my wife through the woods where all we hear is the sound of each other’s breathing and the birds chirps and the twigs creaking beneath our feet. I want to sit on our back porch (when we have a farm) and listen to the sounds of our animals in the pasture in the late afternoons. I want this all now though. And that is what sometimes makes life, right now, hard. Because we both know that we want a different kind of life in a different kind of place.

Do you ever feel misplaced?

*sheep pasture photo (bottom) from here

Pics from Houston

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I went a quick and dirty business trip last week to Houston, Texas. It was jammed packed with work (trainings, meetings, schmoozing, etc.) but I did manage to take a few pics with my iphone of the food I ate and snippets of my days there.

Airport food in Atlanta airport-veggie burger with guacamole and lettuce (and a beer):On the plane:The veggie option at dinner:The dessert the first night-yum!:Ready to go:Mojito…amazing!!!:Bought S some candy from Dylan’s Candy Bar:A red velvet cupcake to send me on my way back to Florida:

These were on instagram, too. Find me: ejsiege

DIY Headphone Covers

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So, S came to me yesterday and said, “My headphones are peeling. Can you be crafty and fix them?” And I said, “HELL YES!” Her headphones are darn good ones and she didn’t really want to chuck them b/c they still work but after using them she was left with bits of black plastic and rubber on her ears. Ew.

This was a very easy project. I took fabric scraps, a glue gun and a pair of scissors and VIOLA! Headphone covers! I am thinking that these may be good for keeping your ears warm(er) in cooler climates. Felt? Knitted covers? Fake fur? Change ‘em with your outfits?! Now we aren’t sound snobs but S did say that the sound wasn’t any different now that fabric was added but I am sure a sound engineer may say otherwise. Who knows!

  1. Take one pair of peeling headphones (or any headphones to make ‘em jazzy)
  2. Pick some funky fabric, scissors and hot glue gun (need about 1/2-1 glue stick-tops)
  3. Make sure you fold over the fabric a bit to prevent fraying before glueing around the edge of the whole ear piece
  4. Leave a bunch of extra fabric in the middle so you can tuck it under the ear piece, after the whole thing is tucked in well, start pulling it up as you go around and glue in each area so the fabric will stay tucked
S, rockin out with her newly DIY’ed headphones!
Me, hiding my uggy face!

Enjoy!

*If you make a pair of these and re-post this, please credit it properly and only use one picture and link back.

Always with the to-do lists

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  • make some bracelets
  • photo and list on the vintage etsy shop (can you saw DANSK?!)
  • re-photograph jewelry for other etsy site?
  • frame painting for master bathroom (and hang)
  • organize under master bathroom sink (aka-stop piling my stuff onto S’s stuff)
  • make BLTA’s for lunch (veggie bacon, organic romaine lettuce, huge, ugly tomatoes, avocados!)
  • read book this by Anne Lamott
  • begin to get stuff together for my Houston trip
  • hot tub?
  • weed the veggie boxes (never ending chore)
  • cuddle

Wish me luck with the extensive list!

Go, radishes, go!

Houston for Business

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So, next week kicks off my next 3 months of mucho travel-o. First I am off to Houston, Texas for the Juvenile Detention Conference (or whatever it is actually called) for 3 days. Then home for a month, then off to Washington, D.C. for another work conference for the Second Chance Act for Juvenile Re-entry (or something like that) for 4 days and then I come back for a few more weeks and then S and I are off to North Carolina and South Carolina for a week of family and beach! The much needed beach house will be wonderful! ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

I love staying in nice hotels. I am a hotel snob. I like clean and orderly with white sheets and towels and full of quaint charm or high polished amenities. No real inbetween for me. Either it needs to be a sweet and adorable bed and breakfast or I want the Hyatt (or something like) with way overpriced room rates. See? I told you. Snob.

(photo from flickr while searching for “Houston”)

Ever been to Houston? Any advice for thrifting? Good eats? Used book stores?