Shoes Off + Filling up the Nail Holes

It's Friday Friday, gotta get down on Friday.

It's that time again! 

It is raining too, I thought it was going to be hot out today.

 

There's a blog/Facebook page called Tip Junkie which I really think is great, and  today's post reminded me of my sign. I have this sign on my door. 

I got the clipart from The Graphics Fairy. She lets people use her ancient pre-copyright graphics... 

which is an amazing collection of vintage images she's scanned in from books she collects which were printed pre-copyright laws. This means they're that old.I put my name on this not because I added the text but because when I export my thingys, Picasa automatically does that and I'm too lazy to go back and remove it.

You don't have to shut the door right now, the air is off. 

I have the windows open. I always have the sign up but they forget to shut the door anyway and so I give them the Lecture about how Air Conditioning Costs Money, and do they have any extra money? Because I don't, and so if they are going to let the air out, that's energy they are letting out the door which costs money which is just like letting dollars fly right out the door...so they owe me some Air Conditioning Dollars, you'd think they'd be tired of hearing that lecture. 

It was supposed to be in the 90s but hey, I'm not complaining. 

The boys' dad picked them up this morning so he could bring them to their grandparents for "dad time" or so I thought!But he doesn't do that ...This is interesting, I found this out the other day, he doesn't even have to drive them across town to his parent's house, his dad just meets him down here on my side of town. So actually I thought they were getting to spend with their dad at least the amount of time it takes for him to drive them to the other side of town, but no. The younger two are convinced their grandpa just always goes to that particular store and happens to meet them. Now the grandpa used to come to my house and attempt to pick them up since it was "dad's day" but, I objected. If they aren't with their dad they should be with their mom, I think. But that's me. I'm their mom. So now on dad day I have to wake them up early so they can go with their dad for the amount of time it takes for him to drive them to the hardware store and leave them with their crabby Grumple Foreskin. But at least he actually has to show up and pick them up. He even walks from his vehicle to my door instead of just calling. Hey, that's making an effort I guess. About this, yes I'm complaining.

I should pack for our trip but I think today I'm not going to do it.

I am going to walk just one mile today instead of three because I still want to walk but I need a rest day. The other day I walked a lot. 13,300 steps in one day. 6.65 miles. My feet are complaining.

After I re-organized my room and moved all the furniture I had this space behind my bed, because I moved the bed into the corner. Which is why I had such a hard time figuring out where to put all the extra stuff, but luckly for me, I managed to do it. This was accomplished by moving a huge armoire thingy into the living room, which I put where the chocolate table was. This meant I had to move a book case into my room and the chocolate table into the space where the book case was, and strangely both rooms now look like they have more space not less.  So there's the corner worth of space, behind the bed, remember from the beginning of this aimlessly meandering paragraph. Well I disguised it (the corner). I put two tubs of craft stuff back there, added an ugly lamp and hung a length of vintage yardage from the canopy rail. What is that stuff called with the holes in it? Not dotted Swiss, but what? I just had it! It is called... eyelet lace? Maybe?

So then I noticed I had a lot of nail holes in that wall. Several more blue plates were hanging up there but they came down so I could hang dry erase boards up for planning while I was at school. Then I took those down when I made the chore charts. So I have lots of stuff anyway, not a big deal to hang stuff instead of having it sit around on the shelf or the floor or, where did I get all this stuff anyway?

The carrots came from a thrift store. There was a pane of glass in the frame but it broke. The yellow sky painting came from J's mom's garage. There was a painting hanging in the garage.Who hangs a painting in a garage? So I took it. I couldn't leave it when we sold the house. It's been on my bedroom floor I think, for about a year now. The little bird to the left is my styrofoam printing plate from Elementary Art Methods. That was fun. Here's how I hung it up:

(All my photos are blurry. I wonder if I should clean the camera lens? )
This is a screw back earring! The pair are holding up this styrofoam sheet, and then in the loops, I strung a necklace I never wear, it's one of those illusion ones where you don't see the string (sure you do) you only see the pearls? Anyway, it's such a light thingy, my grandmother's screw back earrings are doing a great job holding it up. But they're so beautiful, I might do something else with them.

I had this little tiny 2x2" frame, my friend gave it to me a zillion years ago, I think she found it on clearance at Hobby Lobby, and by zillion I mean at least 8 years ago. Maybe just 7 years ago. Anyway it is tiny. It has been in a drawer waiting around for how long? Finally I needed it to hang in a spot where there was a nail hole. You can't see this one because it is behind the pole of the bed. I took the glass out, and put a little square of fabric in the frame, then squished the back into the fabric to hold it in there. Then, since I have this pin I love, SomeBoy gave it to me for mother's day a long time ago (more than 8 years ago!) I pinned the pin to the fabric, like this: 

It's okay that she's not centered in the frame, don't be afraid of the edges! 

Then I had some black and white ribbon for my ponytail so I took a snippet of that, tied a bow around the hanger, and there we have something else cute to hang in a spot where there's a nail hole.

I do know how to fill nail holes with spackle 

or toothpaste 

(I learned about toothpaste in the college dorm!) 

or whatever's handy. 

But. 

I thought some crap on the walls would look better than that.

Ribbons are the result of a Great Idea I had to get all the stuff on the wall with good amounts of space between each object while avoiding making any new nail holes.

This gold frame is broken, but I liked it for the postcard of the lady on the scooter J. sent me. 

The hunk of creamy florist ribbon has been hanging out at my house for quite some time. 

It was adorning the dry erase boards in an effort to make them look like they belonged in my room, but I took it off once I turned the one board into a chore chart. So okay where was I?

Oh, since the frame is a stand up frame, it doesn't have a nail bracket for hanging. I could put in a bracket, but this whole "less effort is more" thing really has taken hold of this project. The stand-up part is broken, I threaded the ribbon thru the hole in the hardware where the stand-up part used to be. Then I thought the ribbon was hanging weird, so I found an old lapel pin, I think it was J's mom's, and pinned that around the ribbon. I may re-adjust. Also, since I don't like the nails to show, I looped the ribbon over the nail, and poked a pearl-tipped floral pin into the spot where the nail-head is hiding beneath the ribbon. What do you think?