Affirmative Master -- I need these slippers

Today in ridiculously amazing things I need to own, I bring you an amazing idea from Think Geek. I am an addict on their site and if I had my way, I'd probably try to own just about everything they have up for sale. As my bank account tauntingly reminds me that no, I can't do that, I am reduced to just window shopping on their site but oh-- is it worth it!

While looking around at their new collections I found these amazing things:

If these don't bring you joy, then I can't help you.

Not just dog slippers, K-9 slippers and my Whovian heart just grew three more times. Oh! They are adorable and look so warm that I may have to add them to next month's wish list (not to mention, I'm pretty sure the plush head will drive my mother's dog crazy and that will just be an added bonus of fun for me).

If you're like me and love these foot warmers and desperately need to get yourself a pair, head over here while they are still in stock!

Time to stop and smell the ... bluebonnets!

Springtime in Texas is a gorgeous thing. There may be parts about living in this state that I am not a fan of (mosquitos the size of horses I am looking at you) but what I do love? Springtime!

While it never gets cold enough here to have the trees die in winter and bloom back to life like much of the east coast does. Washington D.C. (my previous locale) even had a corner on spring with their gorgeous cherry blossom trees and Cherry Blossom Festival (if you live near DC and haven't experienced it you really need to! It's almost over!). But despite all of these lovely spring events, central Texas does have it beat in my opinion.

100 of My Favourite Books, Movies, TV Shows and Games: #5 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

The nice thing about The Lord of the Rings is that if done right, it can be 6 different entries! For this one, we're just doing Fellowship of the Ring the movie version. We'll get to the other 5 versions at another time. 

SXSW 2014

Collection of awesome photos of my time at SXSW 2014

Procrastination is an art form

An art form that I have perfected!

But really. Life is crazy and I just had a recent one on one showdown with my arch nemesis Accounting. It was touch and go for both of us but I fear I may have been the loser in this battle. Alas.

Additionally SXSW is just about to start which means running around putting schedules together and planning meetings and making sure everything is perfect for a 9 day "What the hell is sleep? I don't need sleep I have coffee!" extravaganza! (I'm putting my coffee in IV form for convenience of toting it around and quickness into the bloodstream.)

Because of these things the two posts I have are still in drafts because they are epic and awesome and apparently I can not focus when trying to do 683, 000 things. It is something I'm working on.

In the meantime, while I procrastinate on those posts and lose sleep at SXSW, lets all watch this viral video and giggle:

 

video by: artistwithouttalent
Link to video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk

100 of my favorite books, movies, tv shows and games: #4 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

{100 of the best books, movies, TV shows and games in no particular order}

Relining a Trunk

I mentioned a bit ago that I was working on this project but hadn't finished it. Well, I just did the other day and holy crap it was a project and a half. Let me preface everything by saying, I'm not the most crafty of people. I would love to say I am and I usually have awesome ideas but my ability to follow through and have them look like how I want? Yeah not so much. However, as grad school drives me into a slow form of madness brought on by debits and credits, I find my creativity needing to come out somehow (you can only make debits and credits and amortization so creative after all). Enter this project stage left.

My grandfather was a big trunk collector. He liked to pick them up cheap at flea markets and garage sales in various conditions and then take his time to revitalize them and turn them back to how gorgeous they were. He hasn't done any trunk restoration lately but my mother still has some of his earlier projects and a few of the trunks he picked up and I was able to play with one of them.

There are multiple ways to seal and restore trunks and many different How-To's online for those. I decided to go with a (what I thought was) very simple route and stick with fabric. To start, you need:

     .: fabric

     .: trunk

     .: sharp fabric scissors

     .: cloth tape measure

     .: spray glue

     .: fabric glue