Doing What Wifes Do

This is fabulous. I was always pretty concerned about aesthetics as a wee young thing so I cleaned and crafted and cooked and crocheted and tried to sew and took lotsandlots of cool pictures and I loved it. I put most of that on hold when I graduated high school and actually didn't buy a single baking supply until about my junior year of college. Well, I am married and my inner June Cleaver is screaming to come back. I have again donned my pearls and apron and I'd like to share what I've been up, outside of work and school and handling all the post-wedding details.


Our home had no furniture, until last week. Mister knew I was interested in painting if we couldn't find any noteworthy pieces for free or very, very cheap so one day I came home to a sturdy, practical, plain-looking desk he found on the side of the road. I had never painted furniture so I looked for some direction and found this blog that gave a wonderful tutorial. We headed down to Home Depot and  purchased TSP, primer, high gloss wood and metal paint (in "Forever Black", haha), some $2 foam rollers, foam brushes, and a drop sheet. It came about $40, what we had agreed to spend on a reasonable desk. Cool.

Jeff stationed me in the clovers and I got to work. It took two days and six or seven coats between the paint and primer. Now it looks like this:

I am pretty pleased. :)

As for the food in my little home, recently we've made Taco Chicken Tortilla Soup. We even pulled out our Gorge Foreman Grill to add an extra touch. It's a favorite. We've made it twice. We made no bake cookies (which my mother-in-law lovingly dubbed "squat-and-leave-its") and while listening to conference talks, made orange, sunflower, zucchini bread. It was not meant to be quite so poignantly sunflower so that was weird. Nevertheless, it crowned beautifully and the texture was phenominal. Lastly, I made Thai Peanut Noodles in, mmm, twenty minutes and it was not bad. The recipe calls for Linguine noodles (we used whole wheat), honey, peanutbutter, soy sauce, Sriracha hot chili sauce, minced garlic and ginger, cilantro, green onions, limes, and chopped peanuts. 

What a stylish black desk that bowl is stationed on :)

I am so happy to be back into crafting and such full swing. It's an irrepressible part of my soul. How's that for drama?