tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45315903202457847662026-03-31T02:10:57.838-05:00Academic. Domestic. Awesome.Amber Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09687693447004717695noreply@blogger.comBlogger295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4531590320245784766.post-31412137059051259542013-09-06T08:56:00.001-05:002013-09-06T08:56:02.994-05:00

Yesterday I mentioned my desire for a small utility reel to make into an end table to my buddy Clifford. I'd been keeping my eye out for one for like a year with no luck. I found this in my office this morning. Sometimes you just have to know the right people. :)

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I did. For reals. Well, in theory, technically, but I did and I feel pretty darn good about myself. I know this might be a thing that other married people do all the time, but I don't, or haven't very well in the past. I'm actually kind of a closet decorating sociopath. No really. I know you think I'm this sweet wonderful person who is bubbly and perky and cheery. Turns out if you actually have

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Hey there. It's been a while.  This morning I got an article torn out of BUST magazine in the mail. It was titled, Cut from a Different Cloth: Amy Sedaris' New Fabric Line will Give you a Crafting Boner Now that is a fucking title.  Which reminds me. I've decided not to censor myself on my blog anymore. I drop F-bombs like sprinkles and that's okay. It's part of who I

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Okay guys. This is totally random, but I saw it today and it struck me as a little funny since I just bought foundation yesterday. Did you notice that first part? Beauty product buyers are 96% more likely to be a DIY enthusiast. Check. Eighty-eight percent more likely to be married. Check. SUV driving, parent, pet owner? I'm pretty sure by body conscious they don't mean aware and

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Okay guys. Here's the deal. I haven't been posting as much lately. I've been trying out this new thing where instead of doing things and obsessively posting about them I use that posting time to do more things I want to do. Like last night, I put Norie to bed, watered my garden while I talked to my dad (a.k.a. listened to his hilarious narration of Tosh.0), and went for a jog with the puppos.

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You are AMAZING. Do you realize that? No really. You are an absolutely amazing human being and the world is lucky you're here. It needs you. It needs you to be your most authentic self, the amazing person you were meant to be. Without you the whole thing isn't quite right. I'm serious. And I'm going to do something about it. I've been saying I'm sequestered off working on a BIG AWESOME THING

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I got this crazy idea last week that I just needed to cut some things out of my life and focus on one or two main priorities so I could get them done. All kinds of things got dropped in favor of focusing all my energy on THE PROJECT (i.e. that BIG AWESOME thing I would tell you about but I can't on my blog. If you know me in person you already know about it. I'm just not ready to talk about it on

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Hey peoples. I haven't posted a lot lately. I'm working on something. Something BIG. And AWESOME. And I can't quite tell you about it on my blog yet, but between it and cleaning the house for Norie's 1st birthday party (it will take the whole month left) and focusing on spending more time with Austin and Norie I haven't had time to post. I'll be back. Just give it time. I promise.

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It's official. I'm obsessed. Remember that app I mentioned in the Great Garden Giveaway post last week? It was the Vertical Vegetables and Fruit Smart Add-On from Smart Gardener.  SmartGardener.com Quick Tour Simply grow great food. from Smart Gardener on Vimeo. It is everything I've been saying I want. I told it where I live and how many people are in my family (I only said two

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Okay, so now that the excitement of Norie's first steps has been documented we're back to that post I mentioned Tuesday and meant to post yesterday. Every fiber of my being wishes I had done something really impressive in the garden last weekend. Okay, not quite every one. A ton of them are huge fans of the fun things I did instead of gardening like going to see a live production of The Sound

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I had a blog post for today all queued up, but it will just have to wait until tomorrow. Yesterday I told my mom that I post on the most interesting or exciting thing I've done in the last 24 hours. My project for tomorrow it pretty cool, but this blows it totally out of the water. To stay true to my word I simply must post this. Yep. That's my daughter. Walking.

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Yep. That's right. A straight up woodchuck. In my yard. I saw it yesterday when we let the dogs out and they chased it over to the neighbors. It ran under their deck. The whole thing happened really quickly and I wasn't quite sure what it was at the time. My brain said small beaver with a furry tail. I knew that wasn't a real thing, but that was pretty much what I saw. My husband had said

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A while back I was about ready to lose it if I didn't get to do just a little something creative so I took on a tiny project with a piece of thrift store art I bought a couple of years ago. Like thrift store art plus stickers tiny. I had some sparkly pink stickers that came with one of the page kits I bought for my pregnancy scrap book, but hadn't used yet. The only problem was I had to decide

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Hey guys! I miss you. Norie was sick all last week and I spent this week trying to catch up with life. I'm almost there and have several reasons to be extra motivated about life so expect a flurry of new posts in the near future. Anyway, back to the post. I love my mom's new blog header. I love it so much I went crazy and sized it for her facebook page and even made her business cards to

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I only purchased two things during my little Craft Weekend. Both of them were books (go figure). There was a buy one, get one sale in one of the booths at Rerun Consignments & Mall in Council Grove and for $7.95 I just couldn't pass them up. I am absolutely in love with the cover art of Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing, but the inside is beyond amazing. If I actually read that I'll

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No, not that Craft Weekend. I'm still on the waiting list for THAT Craft Weekend. This one was just me, my sister-in-law Jamie, Norie staying over at my mom's to junk and craft and eat Mexican food. It was cut short by the unseasonably wintery weather, but we had a great time anyway. Unfortunately I was so busy trying to keep Norie from freezing to death (why do I always take her on fabulous

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If you follow my blog you know I've been trapped in a state of garden planning paralysis lately. A good friend suggested I get over my hangups...and garden. As in do the thing I really enjoy without over-thinking the shit out of it. He's really wise. I like the idea, but you know that is really not my style....but I have good news. There is a whole set of 4'x8' garden templates on the Kansas

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If we're Facebook friends you heard Thursday that I was planning a trip to the Goodwill Outlet while I was in Denver this weekend. In case you missed that post I'll give you the run down. My mom and I were driving to Denver for the weekend and on the way she mentioned that there were several Goodwill Outlet stores in Denver. My brother-in-law had mentioned them to her and since she'd never been

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Norie made a picture at daycare. Austin hung it up. I asked why he hung it upside down (half sideways really, but clearly oriented in the opposite of the direction some would have hung it up.) He looked at me like, "what do you mean?" He has a point. It totally looks like a caterpillar in a hat. If you're having trouble think Alice in Wonderland.

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Ever since Norie was born I have been pumped about swimming lessons. They were the BEST when I was a kid and so far she seems like she'll be a super water baby too. Last summer she was too young to go to the city pool (there are cooties in there you know), but she did get some kiddie pool action in at day care. From all accounts she LOVED it. She also loves bath time. Like a lot. Once she was

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Remember back in February when I posted about my snow day project? It's still not done. Not the curtains. I finished those up in four-ish days working during naps and after Norie was in bed. That sounds really quick now, but at the time it felt like forever. I ran out of thread and bent two needles including one as I back-stitched the very last seam of the very last curtain. Grrr. I even

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I am totally mentally paralyzed by my garden plan. Since December I've been trying to read my Week by Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook (which is awesome by the way) and do what it says. So far its just been trying. I haven't actually done anything. When I'm lucky actually get the week's list of to-dos read. When I'm not, I don't even get that far. It makes me really frustrated because in

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Here's another flashback project post. I really love these shelves so I'm not exactly sure why I never posted about them. They hold a ton of books, fill some wall space, and we made them out of scraps from the Dream Dollhouses. We used these plans from Ana White to make two 24" shelves and one 36" shelf. Yes, Austin helped with this building project. Usually I'm way to controlling to get help

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Hopefully you're ready for a blast from the past. Now that Norie is nine months old I feel compelled to finish my pregnancy scrapbook (or at least finish the pregnancy part since she has been an independent life form for just as long as I was pregnant). In going through my pictures to figure out which ones were going in the scrapbook I found several projects I never posted about. First

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I'm spending mine hanging out with Norie and working on curtains while she naps. What are you up to today?

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