Waxing Crafty

I don't do many crafts, but when my mother-in-law visited in March, she brought a Better Homes and Gardens magazine with a craft idea on the front cover that I just had to do. So I put it in my to-do basket and figured I'd get to it in a year or so. But Natalie saw an almost identical project on Pinterest, and dang if she didn't do hers right away, inspiring and provoking me to get mine done too. It was a little more expensive than I realized it would be - I figured I could get spray paint for $1/can, and I could've, if I wanted ugly colors. The nicer colors were more like $4/can. But the nice surprise was that the whole thing was done and hanging on my wall in under an hour.

 

I call this Fashion Corner, cuz that's where my fashion pillows, fashion lamp shade, and now my fashion wall art are.  Just about everything else in my house came from Walmart and looks like it.

Mormon Culture

Frank assembled a SWAT team in our Little People barn.  It was a motley crew (or is it crue?), even boasting a blue Avatar guy courtesy of McDonalds.  He introduced them to me as, "First Presidency: Spiderman and his first counselor Wolverine and his second counselor Luke Skywalker.  Second Presidency: Batman and his first counselor Beast and his second counselor Silver Batman."  I forget who was in the 3rd and 4th presidencies.

And earlier this week while we were listening to NPR in the car, we heard something about the next president being either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, and George said he thought Thomas S. Monson was the president.  Although at least back when he was 4 (he'll be 6 tomorrow) he did know Barack Obama was president.  He even used to do an impression of him...