Steph's Simple Life

I know that this might seem a little strange (okay a lot strange) to most of you, but I just feel like I need to share this! After I retired there were some things that I really wanted to change around my house.  You see, for years I came home, opened the door and started complaining (okay, yelling) about all of the things that needed done, and apparently I was the only person that noticed.  Most of them were your standard house chores.  You know the things that you never have enough time to do, dust, vacuum, sweep the kitchen floor, laundry and changing the sheets.  Keeping things picked up and orderly seems to come easy enough, it's just all of that other stuff.  Well, once I was at home all day I started to get in a routine.  I know, seems crazy, after 22 years in the military....I STILL needed routine, even to get my house in order! My routine is flexible, but I get all of my stuff done in a week, and if I don't, I can do it...

I haven't been in a very creative mood lately, but I'm sharing my most recent creations.  The first one is something I made for my son and his wife.  I just purchase the $3.00 frames at Wal-Mart and use card stock, stamps, chipboard...whatever I have on hand.  They both really liked it and look forward to hanging it, when they eventually get their home. The second project was a little more fun. After my son saw the owl pillow he said that he wanted one, but I decided that he needed something different than the owl, even though he wanted me to make it out of old uniforms, which I still might have to do!  Here's the fun pillow that I came up with...I love making my own patterns!