tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90042284800449722212024-03-20T16:05:25.262-07:00Robin's NestAdventures in the the nest of a Mama Robin.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-46620812225180179752013-10-15T07:14:00.001-07:002013-10-15T07:14:23.733-07:00Lonely in MotherhoodI was a party girl. Key-word: WAS.<br />
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You can ask anyone who has come to one of our parties, I know how to host a good shin-dig. Food, music, drinks, games, decorations. I love it. In college we would have theme parties. I owned an old, worn and not-at-all-pretty condo. Let's just say, it wasn't any prettier after our parties but I didn't care. It was a party-house and everyone knew that. The stairwell to the basement was our "art gallery". Every party we would put paint out and let everyone's creativeness flow. We had people re-create famous art (starry night) or just paint their name. I painted a giant <a href="http://gargwiki.net/Freakazoid!" target="_blank">Freakazoid</a> above the stair-well to greet you as you went down to the "dungeon" (It really was a dungeon, there was only one window in the basement that even a child couldn't fit through if they had to escape. Don't worry, there were no children in my dungeon). So that part of the house was pretty, everywhere else was a bit of a war-zone. I got really good at getting vomit-stains out of the carpet which further proves my theory that drunks and small children are very alike. Were they helping prepare me for motherhood? What nice friends I have.<br />
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I didn't often go out 'clubbing' but when I did I danced up a storm. I drank, partied, danced and socialized. It's sad that I have to describe these activities as past-tense, but that is the way it is now. I've been thinking a lot about why my life has come to be a jumble of past-tense activties. Why don't I throw parties anymore? Why don't I go out anymore? Even something as simple as going to a yoga class. I used to do that. See? Past tense again. Why don't I go to fitness classes anymore?<br />
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Part of the reason is my own choice. I haven't gone to fitness classes or gone out clubbing because I breastfeed my daughter and up until a couple months ago, she wasn't sleeping through the night. I'm sure if I had tried harder she would have slept through the night sooner, but for our family scenario that is just how it worked out for us. For a lot of things, Sloan and her boob-addiction is the reason I don't get out of the house for more than a couple hours - alone. I am fine with it because I am willing to breastfeed her as long as her and I are still comfortable with it. That's my choice and it is in the best interest of my baby - for that I will sacrifice going out and doing "adult-stuff" sometimes.<br />
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It doesn't explain why no one comes to see me, or wants to see me. In the last 2 years we have barely had any visitors (except the first month after bringing Sloan home). When our friends come to our small town, they will visit everyone else. If I want to see them I usually have to go to someone else's house and when I do they talk with my daughter rather than me. I have joked since Sloan was born that I am the "after-thought" for everyone. I make a joke of it because it hurts too much to accept it as truth. No one puts me first - not even me.<br />
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I am no stranger to loneliness. I know it all too well. Maybe that is why it gets me so easily now. It brings back terrible childhood memories of being alone, living in the country, with no near-by friends to play with.<br />
I was a kid with a lot of imaginary friends. They kept me company but not happy.<br />
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I'm an adult now and I no longer have imaginary friends to keep me company when there is no one else around (It sounds like I want them. I don't. That would be weird....right?) . What makes it worse is that I work from home. I interact with the children in my home child care, but it isn't the same as having an actual conversation with another adult. <br />
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I've always been a people watcher (probably why I make a great teacher. I am an observer which is a key skill in teaching.) I love it. Seeing diversity, similarities, the way people behave in general. It is fascinating to me. Living in a small town, there is not a whole lot of people watching to do. I miss it. Just being able to get out and be around more people would be amazing. <br />
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I feel like I'm not passionate about anything anymore (other than my family - I am tremendously passionate about my daughter and husband). I feel like I don't have much of a purpose anymore other than providing basic needs for me and my daughter. I don't really know how to shake this feeling. Is this postpartum? Have I been in denial about how sad I actually am? I was told in high school that I am an amazing actress. If they only knew how good I actually am, they would see I have been acting this whole time. I have been pretending to be happy when I am really not. This is not my first struggle with this un-shakeable sadness, but it's different this time. When I was a teenager, I could wallow in my self-pity because teens have time to do that. As a mother, I barely have time to eat breakfast let alone sit and cry and think about why I'm sad. Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe it's a bad thing. I've been pushing my own feelings aside to make room for other people's. I am an after-thought even to myself.<br />
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I guess it really hit me when I realized that I used to (past-tense again) have 50 or 60 people at my parties and now there is no one. Last year would have been our 8th (or maybe it was the 9th?) annual Halloween party but since Sloan was only a few months old, we decided not to have it and just relax at home. I put up the invitation a few weeks ago for our Halloween party this year (I'm a planner) and I've heard so many excuses from people as to why they aren't coming. Maybe I'm being selfish. Maybe people are just growing up and moving on and I haven't been able to do that. They are finding new friends, new experiences....new parties.<br />
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I feel left behind. Even being surrounded with so much love, I feel lonely in motherhood.<br />
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It has been 12 years since Mel passed on from a car accident. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. Time does heal wounds, but sometimes they can easily be torn open again. My heart is heavy every year on her birthday and the anniversary of her death. I have a fear deep down that this type of tragedy might happen to my daughter. Being in 2 car accidents myself - one major, one minor - I already have anxiety about other drivers. Mel's picture, the same one I have shown here, is in my daughter's room. It makes me cry with happiness and sadness when Sloan says hi to Mel's picture. Luckily I have vivid dreams and Mel sometimes comes to visit. Love and miss you, Mel.<br />
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I recently posted about being a fisherman in training and this is one of many Pike that I caught this year from our annual fishing trip. Its a small one that we ended up letting go. My husband had the catch of the week. Over 6 pounds! Check it out <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/09/fisherman-in-training.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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I believe it is important to have traditions with family. Something to pass down onto your children and say "I did this with my parents". Sometimes the simplest of things are the most memorable for a child. Popping a balloon on their birthday, getting the first piece of cake, having "wine" (spritzer water or ginger ale) with Christmas dinner. These are the traditions that are memorable and worth passing on.</div>
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My most favourite traditions are experienced in our family vacation we take every year. </div>
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Thirty years ago, before I was born, my parents started going to a place called Honey Harbour. They would take my sister to Trail's End cottages and go trolling in the boat, swimming and at the end of the day they would have a fish fry with what they caught. This tradition carried on after I was born. We would go to Trail's End every summer, until they leveled the cottages and built houses (that they call cottages) that they charge an arm and a leg for. After they changed, we stopped going. We found another reasonable place 5 minutes from Trail's End, called Picnic Island. We have been going there for the past 15 years.</div>
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Picnic Island is beautiful. There are cute cottages all with different names. This year we were in "Sunny Tuft" which is bright yellow. There is a small fry hut, a grocery store and a dock gas station built on a large rock which is Picnic Island. You get to it by walking over a little bridge.</div>
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This family vacation is filled with tradition. There are certain things we always do when we are there.</div>
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When we were at the cottage this year, it was chilly. The first couple weeks of September usually are. so having a fire at night was a great way to keep warm, but no matter how hot or cold it is we WILL have a fire. It's tradition. You've got to have a fire at the cottage. Even if it is 35C at night and you have to sit 6 feet from the fire, you have a fire at the cottage. My husband, Dave, is a "firebug" as his mom calls him. He constantly needs to be poking the fire. This year, he copied a friend of ours from years ago, and melted a beer bottle in the fire. The smile on his face made me think he was 10 again. That silly, childish smirk of "look what I did". He was so proud of himself. It is pretty neat to get the coals so hot they turn white and make a little furnace to melt glass. I guess I would have a goofy smile too if I did it. </div>
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I grew up a spoiled kid. I will not eat anything but fresh fish. No fish sticks for me. The fish I eat; I caught myself, my dad filleted, has only been dead a couple hours and when I take a bite, it is only one fish, not many fishes in one bite. People who say they don't like fish need to come to the cottage with me and my parents. My dad will show you how fish is supposed to taste, not that crap from the grocery store. This year, Sloan got to eat her first piece of fresh fish. She loved it so much she basically inhaled it, saying with a full mouth, "More!". She had awesome fish poops the next day. Grandma got to change that diaper. </div>
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In order to catch that delicious fish. We need to go out in the boat. My parents have a pretty nice fishing boat now, but we started out borrowing my grandpa's old tin can boat. I almost fell in the water on that boat. The chair at the bow broke (like the one in the picture - on a pedestal) and luckily I landed on the floor rather than in the water. It was terrifying. I still sit in that seat at the bow of the boat every time I fish though. It's tradition.</div>
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This boat is way more comfortable than the old tin can boat that tried to kill me.</div>
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This is my favourite part of the entire vacation. Sitting in the boat with my mom and dad (and the last 10 years - my husband), holding onto a fishing rod, feeling the gentle vibration of the lure while looking out over the cottages, and islands. I have learned an amazing amount of knowledge on fishing from my dad. He taught me everything I know about fishing and continues to teach me every time. He still gets excited every time someone gets "fish on!" The excitement of suddenly feeling a fish biting your lure, setting the hook and the fight to the boat is amazing. My dad told me I still get "the face".</div>
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Don't throw the weeds you catch back into the water. My dad told me not to do this because they will just end up on your line when you <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_%28fishing%29" target="_blank">troll</a> your line past them. My mom's reason is far different. When I was little my mom told me that her dad would never put the weeds back in the water because they had seeds on them. He kept them out of the water so not as many weeds would grow next year. Maybe his small action did help to create less weeds....back then. This small deed won't do anything these days - with seaweed on steroids - but I still put the weeds in the boat when I reel them in. It makes the fire smell like lake water when we burn them at night.</div>
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Live wells are very handy. On our old tin can boat we had to use a chain that we clipped the fish to and kept in the water beside the boat. There have been a couple times where we forgot to bring the fish out of the water before we started to go faster...we didn't have a fish fry that night, let's just put it that way. Live wells are great because you can keep everything you catch and throw back the smallest ones at the end of the day. And you don't have to remember to bring them back into the boat so they don't become sushi.</div>
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My husband finally caught one! He has only caught a couple fish in the few years he has been coming with us to the cottage and this year he got the biggest one! It was delicious. </div>
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The end of Summer and beginning of Autumn (around September) the fish get a little crazy. My dad says that something just turns on in their brain when the water starts to get cold that tells them "I must eat everything that moves". So sometimes you catch fish that you don't think you'll catch. .....</div>
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This year I watched closely as my dad filleted the fish. I have never done one myself, but one day I will. I know the basic concept of it, I just have to practice. Almost every year he teaches other random cottagers how to fillet a fish. He gets really mad when people butcher a fish and waste most of the meat because they don't know what they are doing. This year he taught our neighbour cottager how to fillet pike properly.</div>
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We don't keep everything we catch. We try and only keep the big ones (while following the fishing license rules) and throw the small ones back. Sometimes we have to keep a fish because it is wounded and won't survive if we put it back in the water. I gouged this one pretty good. The lure got caught in it's side which is really strange. We figure this fish had a blind eye and had to learn to strike differently. They usually follow behind the lure, it looks like this one followed parallel to the lure. </div>
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I learn so much every time I go fishing. The fish and their eco system is ever changing and in order to boat and fish the waters you need to adapt. When we first started going to the cottage, the water was much higher than it is now. It's scary how low the water is sometimes. This is a boat house probably built 50 or 60 years ago, maybe more. That's where the water used to be.</div>
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10 years ago there was barely any water in between the dock on the left and the large rock island on the right in the next picture. 30 years ago, that rock island on the right would be mostly covered with water.<br />
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I have been a fisherman in training since I was big enough to hold a fishing rod. I have learned and continue to learn so much. I have learned to respect the water, fellow boaters and the fish we catch. Before we eat our fish fry, we thank the fish for its deliciousness. My husband became a fisherman in training when he joined my family. My daughter will become a fisherman in training when she is old enough to hold her fishing rod. It's family tradition. That's how the Cameron's roll. For this year, we gave Sloan a great first taste of our traditions and memories and I hope she will enjoy them as much as I did growing up. For right now, she is more interested in the sand than being in the boat. That's okay, she's still in training.</div>
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I have an idea. A goal. A dream of sorts.<br />
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My husband mentioned that a small volunteer-based, local radio station might be put in our town.<br />
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<i>Dave: You could have your own show. 'Saturday Afternoon in Robin's Nest'.</i><br />
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<i>Me: Heck yeah! I could play so many Raffi, Fred Penner and fun kids songs and read stories and games and maybe turn it into a podcast too and.....</i> (This went on for a while....)<br />
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It was interesting timing. I had mentioned to my husband a week or two before that if I could do it in our small town (not going to happen) I would completely love hosting a kids show. I loved watching Patti on TVO kids when I was little. Now they have 'The Space' on TVO. That is something I could totally get into. I love teaching and entertaining kids. Anyone who knows me, knows I am not afraid to be silly. I'll do almost anything to get a laugh out of someone - young and old.<br />
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A radio program in my own town is a much more tangible dream....if it goes through. It is in the idea phase right now.<br />
Of course there is funding, gathering volunteers and all the paper work that goes with setting a radio station up. I'm sure it won't be any time soon, which gives me time to put a plan in place. Maybe I'll watch Sesame Street and TVO to gather some ideas. Get books ready, song lists, rhymes....<br />
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I'm excited.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-54671219351764377922013-09-17T09:52:00.001-07:002013-09-17T09:59:49.735-07:00Marine Land ~ Wordless Wednesday with LinkySeptember 6th and 7th we went to Niagara Falls, Ontario to go to Marine Land. We left early Friday morning, spent the morning and part of the afternoon at the theme park, checked into our hotel and toured downtown Niagara Falls. Sloan enjoyed the birds more than the Falls and seemed to notice the bugs on the aquariums rather than what was in them. Overall, we had a great time. It was everyone's first time at Marine Land. My husband and I didn't go to places like that as kids. In fact, our fourth (dating) anniversary - which was 7 years ago now - we went to Niagara Falls for the first time together. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Half red, half orange ladybug. Strange!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sloan got me up early enough to watch the sun rise over the Falls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being right beside Niagara Falls is powerful.</td></tr>
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I accomplished stuff! WOO!<br />
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I recently decided that I need to get my <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/08/setting-goals-aka-getting-my-ass-in-gear.html" target="_blank">butt in gear</a> with life in general. I <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/08/setting-goals-part-deux.html" target="_blank">set some short-term goals</a> and actually accomplished some of them and more.<br />
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<b>First goal - Have a yard sale.</b><br />
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Soon after writing my goals and posting them I trecked down to the basement and started bringing my <strike>junk</strike> treasure up to the garage to get set up. Considering we really didn't have much stuff to sell and it was fairly last minute, we did alright. We got rid of a lot of big stuff and it went to people who could really use it.<br />
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An old friend and former co-worker from my YMCA days in Kitchener responded to my Facebook post about our yard sale. She said she was in desperate need of an office chair for work and noticed the picture of ours. Knowing how bad her back is and how comfortable the chair is, it was a perfect match. <br />
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When I was cleaning up the left overs of our yard sale, 2 women pulled up and asked about the coffee table and end tables (with crappy paint jobs) which I had set all the small <strike>junk</strike> treasures on. I had been using them for my home child care when I had it set up in the basement, but with the babies I have now, there is no way I'm hauling them up and down the stairs just to play in the basement - so they were currently not in use. We settled on $18 for all 3 and they told me they were going to their "camp" where they have a lot of people visit. They will get more use with them than me, so I'm happy I got rid of them.<br />
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Now I have less stuff in my house and more moula in my pocket.<br />
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I still have to take some stuff to the thrift store and take a couple
old tube televisions to the electronics drop off, but when that is done, this goal is complete!<br />
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<b>Second Goal: Do some gardening during the yard sale.</b><br />
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This didn't really happen because we ended up getting a lot of customers so I chit-chatted a lot. I pulled a few weeds, but nothing compared to what I NEED to accomplish. Ugh. It is pretty much fall now so I don't have much time left either....<br />
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<b>Third Goal: Clean garage during yard sale.</b><br />
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I tidyed a bit while getting ready for the yard sale, but like I said above, I did a lot of chit-chatting instead of cleaning or gardening.<br />
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<b>Fourth Goal: Write 2 blog entries that week.</b><br />
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They aren't anything special but I did complete this goal. You can see my Wordless Wednesday post <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/09/summer-happenings-wordless-wednesday.html" target="_blank">here</a> and another post from the week <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/09/im-not-babysitter.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
I really want to write more often, I'm just having trouble organizing my thoughts to actually complete a post in good time. I had been writing and contemplating the <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/09/im-not-babysitter.html" target="_blank">I'm not a Babysitter post</a> for about a month.<br />
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<b>Fifth Goal: Walk my dog more often.</b><br />
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This may seem silly, but I really have been slacking on this. She is used to 3-5 walks a day and I have maybe been getting 1 or 2 in a day. She still goes out in our yard, but I feel bad. When Sloan arrived, Wicket got pushed aside. We still love her and pet her, but she is an old girl. She turned 15 in July which is around 92 in human years so her eyes and ears aren't working like they used to. She didn't always notice Sloan on the floor. I may have freaked out a little and yelled at her when she almost stepped on my newborn bundle. She was number one and then everything changed when Sloan came: less walks, less playing, no more laying on the carpet (Sloan's play area). Now that Sloan is walking and oh so gently pulling the dog's tail, we keep Wicket in the front hall - for her own safety. She likes being by the front door anyways. She is going deaf, so when the door hits her when it opens she knows someone is here. Sloan is at an age now where she likes to "pet" the animals. (Sloan's definition of petting the animals: Grab fur and/or flesh and pull. OR Open-hand slap them repeatedly.) She also likes to play with Wicket's tags and collar. For her own sanity and safety, we keep Sloan away from Wicket.<br />
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I know my dog doesn't have a lot of years left - she is a Grandma-dog! I need to make sure I still show her love and one of the best ways of doing that is taking her for a walk. Seriously, we had to stop saying walk because she would get so excited. We even had to stop spelling w-a-l-k as code. She knew. She LOVES walks. We had to start calling walks "seven". Now that she is hard of hearing, we don't have to worry as much.<br />
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I've been trying really hard to get Wicket's multiple walks in. Now that I have re-opened my home child care (bye-bye maternity leave *sigh*) it has been a little more difficult to work around the babies' schedules. They are on nap shifts. So Wicket hasn't gone out as much as I would like. Once I get back into the groove and get the babies on a schedule together (it is M's first week so it will take her a while to get used to not being with mommy) I will be able to take Wicket out. This is an on-going goal that I am very determined to do.<br />
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<b>Other Goals</b><br />
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I got a little bit of crafting done last week too. I made some t-shirt yarn which will later become a rag rug. My husband and I started a painting together and I started a present for an old friends' new baby girl. Pictures of all those adventures will come later. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-65742796738763200662013-09-10T11:46:00.002-07:002013-09-10T11:46:46.942-07:00Hair Donation - Wordless Wednesday with Linky<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-56419915201963479432013-09-04T17:38:00.000-07:002013-09-04T17:38:50.822-07:00I'm not a babysitterIn my field of work you will receive a lot of ridicule, intentional or not. When children are not in a formal school with desks and <strike>chalkboards</strike> whiteboards, all of a sudden in the eyes of parents, you are not a teacher, you are a babysitter. Having graduated from the ECE (Early Childhood Educator) program 7 years ago and working in child care the entire time since graduating, I have come across my fair share of ridicule.<br />
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Since opening up my own home child care in 2011, the term "babysitter" gets thrown around a lot more. All of a sudden, because I am caring for children in my home, I am not a teacher, I'm a babysitter. "When will you start babysitting again?" people asked me when I was on maternity leave with my daughter. Before my daughter it was, "How is the babysitting going?" or "How many kids do you babysit?". I politely smile and answer their query and gently remind them that I do not babysit; "I think I will start doing child care again in the fall."<br />
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It's a little quibble, I know, but it demeans me and the time and effort I put into my career. Not my job, my CAREER. This is my life's work. Teaching children about the Earth, nature, animals, themselves, respect, compassion, honesty, common sense and everything else they need to know to become well-intentioned and functioning participants of society.<br />
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I spend more time with people's children than they do. It's sad, but that is what parents have to do to support their families. I know there is a lot of guilt on the shoulders of parents who work long hours and don't get to see their kids that often. Which is one of the reasons I chose this field of work as my career. When I was a child, I sometimes went a long time not being with my parents. We were in the same house, but we weren't together. Let me explain. My parents were antique dealers, which means they had to go to auctions to get a lot of their product. Auctions that were sometimes hours away and went late into the night. (you have no idea how hardcore antique dealers are). My bus trip home from school was a long one (the one to school was long too, just not AS long as the ride home), so by the time I got home around 5pm my parents were already gone to an auction and didn't get back home until 2 or 3AM. Because they were hard workers (long hours and having to lift furniture weighing hundreds of pounds) they were very tired. My mom would usually sleep while my dad helped me get ready for school in the morning. Go to school all day, then repeat. This didn't happen all the time, but there are definitely busier times of the year for multiple auction sales. I remember walking into my parents room as a child and just standing there, watching them sleep. I knew they were tired, but I just wanted to see them. I just wanted to be with them; listen to their breath, watch the sun reflecting off of my mom's hair. They probably did the same to me while I was sleeping. We were in the same house, but on different sleep shifts. Being a latch-key kid made me realize that when I "grew up" I wanted to be able to stay at home with my kids. I missed my parents and I didn't want my future children to feel the way I felt. Being at home alone, living in the middle of nowhere with only 2 close neighbours didn't help my feelings of lonliness either. It's scary when it gets dark in the country. <br />
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At 17 years old I already knew what I wanted to do with my life. I chose ECE to better prepare myself for opening up my future home child care. I wanted the knowledge, the experience, the confidence and I was a teen who wanted to get away from small-town living for a while (which was a blessing in disguise - it turns out I hate cities and moved back to my home-town a few years after graduating college). <br />
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Now that I have the knowledge, the experience, the confidence, I consider myself an in-formal teacher. I don't have desks, I don't have a lesson plan. I teach the children about what they are interested in, but I still TEACH. I don't plop them in front of the T.V. while I eat bon-bons and talk on the phone. I am an educator, a teacher, a resource. I am NOT a babysitter.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-40991380097359379162013-09-03T10:14:00.000-07:002013-09-03T10:29:07.683-07:00Summer happenings - Wordless Wednesday with LinkyI've been busy the last 2 months and haven't posted much. I recently wrote about <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/08/setting-goals-aka-getting-my-ass-in-gear.html" target="_blank">getting my butt in gear</a> and posting more often (among other things) but it seems I have a lot to catch up with. So hear are some adventures we have gone on the last month. <a href="http://adventuresinthenest.blogspot.ca/2013/04/sandcastles-in-sand.html" target="_blank">Epic sandcastles</a>, ancient ships, birds of prey and the fall fair have kept us busy the last few weeks.<br />
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After Sloan's birthday we went to our friend's cottage at Wasaga Beach.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">entries in the tallest sunflower category. My husband is 6'1.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">biggest sunflower head</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have opinions on this "participation ribbon" trend, but I'll save it for another day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">beautiful quilts make me want to learn how to quilt!</td></tr>
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At the fall fair, there was a lovely mini-market of local organic produce, honey, eggs and crop share programs. Here are the websites of the wonderful farmers I met:<br />
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<a href="http://terraverdehomestead.weebly.com/index.html" target="_blank">Terra Verde Homestead </a><br />
(owned and operated by a family I know - took care of their kids for a little while)<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TinRoofRustedFarmPlantNursery" target="_blank">Tin Roof Rusted Farm</a><br />
(their website is under construction currently - this is their Facebook page)<br />
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<a href="http://levendalefarms.ca/" target="_blank">Levendale Farms</a><br />
(I bought a Lemon Cucumber from them - unique looking and delicious!)<br />
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<a href="http://www.ontariofalconrycentre.com/" target="_blank">Ontario Falconry Centre</a><br />
(Sam is a professional Falconer and lives to entertain and teach children about his birds - he does birthday parties too!)<br />
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<a href="http://www.wellington.safecommunities.ca/" target="_blank">Wellington County Safety Initiative</a><br />
(Just found about this at the fair. Important and great initiative!) <br />
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1) Get as much stuff together as possible and have a yard sale. This includes, making signs and posting them, bringing stuff up from the basement that I have already set aside, scanning the rest of the house for crap I can get rid of, getting change, bags and newspaper for purchases, setting up, then taking whatever is left over after to the Cancer Patient Services Thrift Store in town. Hopefully this is a good weekend for a yard sale - long weekend and the fair is in town.<br />
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2) Do as much gardening as possible while outside taking care of the yard sale. This only makes sense, because I will be outside anyways. Might as well get something done.<br />
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3) If it is raining, clean the garage instead of gardening (I was going to write<em>“</em>instead of doing number 2<em>”, </em>but my inner 10 year old quickly realized what that could be interpreted as, so I put gardening instead. Hehehe....number 2...)<br />
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4)Write at least 2 blog entries next week.<br />
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5) Walk Wicket (my dog - for those non-nerds out there, my dog is named after the Ewok on Star Wars) a minimum of twice a day. I have been seriously slacking on walks lately. We have a fairly big backyard, so she does get lots of outside time, but she still needs her walks even though she is an old girl (she turned 15 on Canada day. I think that is around 90 in human years. Grandma dog!) <br />
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These are very short term goals. I am starting off small. I am, though, working on some longer term goals that I hope to post soon.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-7290885158891867002013-08-29T08:43:00.003-07:002013-08-30T07:04:25.545-07:00Setting Goals. AKA Getting my ass in gearI have been lazy lately. I mean, other than taking care of another human being, I have been lazy. Although, the way she climbs my leg to be held makes me wonder if she is entirely human.<br />
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I have not just been lazy on my blog, but I have been lazy with my projects that are half started (and have been for months and some even years), I have been lazy about walking my dog, lazy with getting things together for the yard sale I have been wanting to have all summer, lazy with doing gardening and housework....the list goes on, trust me. I am sure many other fellow mothers can relate to feeling behind or lazy, like me, but I have realized why I have been feeling (and acting) this way; I have not set any goals for myself.<br />
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I have realized that I really need to buckle down and get my butt in gear and in order to do that I am going to have to put myself back in the mind set of a student. Deadlines, expectations, scheduling, goals.....I need that again. <br />
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The last year I have had the time of my life taking care of my daughter. I love her - there are no words to adequately describe how much, so I will just leave it at, I love her. I love spending time with her, teaching her, watching her brain work and figure things out. Even though sometimes I think she is a creature sent from the evil pits of Hell to steal my soul by not letting me sleep, I love her and being with her. In becoming an observer I have thrown schedules out the window and have just been going with the flow and I have stopped doing the things that I used to spend a lot of time doing, and enjoyed.<br />
Creating - if you check out my <a href="http://pinterest.com/robinsharpe/boards/" target="_blank">Pinterest boards</a> you will see some of the objects that inspire me to create.<br />
Gardening - I still have not finished what I started in the Spring and the weeds are taking over. Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew. <br />
Writing - I started this blog to get back into writing (and reading) and I have not set any goals for it. I want this blog to be something I can look back on and be proud of. I would also like other people to see it - friends, family, strangers - and want to stick around. I would like to think the adventures I write about and show are interesting to people, but most of all, helpful.<br />
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So far, what I have posted has not been helpful. I mostly post about my daughter, because, truthfully, I had no idea what else to write about and obviously she is the main part of my life right now, since it is just her and I 70% of the time. As cute and wonderful as she is (save the times she turns into Demon-spawn when I put her down for a nap) I know that a very small audience is going to find pictures of my daughter pulling the tail of the cat interesting and make them want to stick around for more. Although, I am sure it would make the people who pa-rouse Youtube for cat videos stick around. Maybe I need more cats on my blog..... <br />
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So, the next few days, weeks, months, I will be setting tangible goals for myself to accomplish. I hope to post them because that will really hold me accountable. I am a visual learner so lists are good for me (especially with this lingering mommy-brain, lists are very helpful).<br />
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Have you set any recent goals for yourself?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-71887574263321357052013-08-13T17:11:00.001-07:002013-08-21T18:17:55.460-07:00First Birthday Already! ~ Wordless Wednesday with Linky<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNDWN8KDVSM" target="_blank">This video</a> is an eye-opening visual to how it can happen. It is very rarely neglectful parents that leave their children in the car. It can be something as simple as a change in routine or sleep deprivation that can cause our brains to go into autopilot.<br />
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If you are afraid of accidentally leaving your child in the car, you can leave a visual trigger for yourself in the front seat (teddy bear, diaper bag, etc.) or put your purse or cellphone in the back seat with your child so you have more than one visual trigger for your brain. For more information you can go to <a href="http://www.kidsandcars.org/" target="_blank">http://www.kidsandcars.org/</a> <br />
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Good parents make mistakes, don't be too quick to judge a person as "neglectful".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tree peony - Shimi Nashiki</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Double White Lilac</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Double White Lilac blossom - smells amazing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">dug all the weeds out of this corner.</td></tr>
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<!-- end InLinkz script -->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060686506110481063noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004228480044972221.post-61281215111021344152013-06-18T10:36:00.001-07:002013-08-21T18:19:21.037-07:00Wedding Season has begun ~ Wordless Wednesday with LinkyThis weekend we went to the first of 5 weddings this year. It was amazingly beautiful and the one I was by far the most excited for since these two have been together for almost 9 years. We all thought the same thing when Oz proposed to Amanda - Finally! <br />
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So here is some of their beautiful day. Not many pictures but I took lots of video.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My handsome husband, Dave and beautiful daughter Sloan.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aunt Cassie, Sloan and Uncle Ryan (Best Man).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photographer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steph-Person-Photography/510199192356674?fref=ts" target="_blank">Steph Person</a> and Cassie.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freaking out a little bit because the Officiant wasn't there yet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here she comes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And they're married!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute details.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Their guest "book"with their last name - Ghent.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sloan liked the roast beef.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sleeping through the loud music with her Baby Banz headgear.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They had a photo booth. So much fun!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dress!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bride and groom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and the cupcakes were delicious - so many flavours!</td></tr>
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<b>I didn't ask if my baby was breathing after I delivered even though I didn't hear her crying.</b><br />
It was one of those moments that I really didn't think about until well after it had happened. I was in my own world after delivery and had no idea what was going on, I just knew that I had the feeling of sweet sweet relief after 3 1/2 hours of pushing. I guess I just had an intuition - I knew she was okay so I felt no need to ask. While I was pregnant, I imagined myself asking all sorts of questions when she came out. "Is she breathing?", "How's her colour?", "What's her APGAR score?", but I didn't. "Bad" mommy moment #1.<br />
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<b>I didn't count my daughter's toes or fingers until 2 days after she was born.</b><br />
I have heard many moms say that the first thing they do when they get their little bundle is count every little finger and toe and make sure they are all there. I didn't even think to do it until before we were leaving the hospital 2 days later. When I admitted it to my mom she replied, "It's okay. I counted them right away." For all I knew, Sloan had 14 toes and 3 fingers. "Bad" mommy moment #2<br />
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<b>I squished her little newborn head.</b><br />
I was in the grocery store, carrying her because she wanted to nurse before we went in the store and then fell asleep in my arms, when I tried to push the cart through the check-out aisle, it got stuck so I leaned into the cart. By doing this, I accindentally squished her head against the cart. I haven't noticed any weird flat spots...yet. "Bad" mommy moment #3.<br />
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<b>I left her on a (low) bench for a millisecond and she fell and hit her head on a concrete floor. </b><br />
This was one of those moments when as soon as I turned around to grab my sweater and took my hand off of her I thought to myself "I shouldn't take my hand off her, she could fall." Well, she was on the floor before I even finished that thought. She cried out of pain, I cried out of guilt. "Bad" mommy moment #4<br />
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This is just a first edition, because in the world of Mommy-hood, I know I will have more "bad" mommy-moments. I can only hope that my future-bad-mommy-moments will be as miniscule and quick and easy to get over as the ones I have confessed already.<br />
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Beautiful, but can spread like crazy.</div>
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As well as some dandelions and a vine weed that I am unsure the name of. So, as you can see I had a lot of work to do digging up these invasive little plants and making sure I ripped out most to all of their root system. I'm not done with the little buggers but now some of my garden looks like this:<br />
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Wahoo! Progress!</div>
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<b>I'm addicted to Pinterest. </b><br />
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I share this addiction with many people out there. I just can't help it. There are so many amazing DIY tutorials, recipes, fashion and stuff - in picture form! I could spend hours just looking at all of the amazing pictures and website they lead me to. In fact, before and while I was pregnant, I DID spend hours at a time on Pinterest (when I wasn't nesting). Even when my daughter was a newborn, I would spend my late-night-nursing-sessions at the dining room table on the laptop while my teeny tiny baby ate. I now barely have time to brush my teeth, let alone go on the computer while my daughter is awake. So most of my Pinterest'ing is done while she is sleeping.<br />
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I have always been a visual learner, so pictures are important to me. When I discovered Pinterest I was in heaven. I can skim through 100 pictures in a minute, find something that catches my eye and go to that website (as long as it was pinned properly). If you go to my <a href="http://pinterest.com/robinsharpe/" target="_blank">Pinterest Page</a> you will see that I have a LOT of pins. They range from food to future house plans to specific holidays to (my favourite) crafts. My <a href="http://pinterest.com/robinsharpe/things-to-make/" target="_blank">Things to Make</a> board is getting a little out of hand since I have only accomplished a few of these projects. Instead of pinning more stuff, I really need to organize the rest of my boards and actually accomplish some of the things I've pinned.<br />
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These are my completed projects so far:<br />
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Plant stands made from old magazines<br />
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This one is on the bathroom counter and hides my husband's beard trimmer in the corner.<br />
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This is the top view. Since this is 4 separate magazines, I decided to hold them together with bobby pins. If I ever need to move it I have to take it apart anyways because the bobby pins are not a permanent fixture, but it keeps them from shifting too much if they get bumped (especially good for the tall one beside the toilet). I used <a href="http://video.about.com/budgetdecorating/DIY-Magazine-Table.htm" target="_blank">this video</a> to help me figure out exactly how to do it. If you search "DIY magazine plant stand/table" or "recycled magazine plant stand/table" you will find lots of pictures of these stands and written directions on Google. Like I said earlier, I am a visual learner so I understood it much faster by watching someone make one. Some of the tutorials say you don't have to use glue, but I found the pages slipped out from each other if you don't use glue.<br />
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Another completed project was a rag rug I knit with t-shirt yarn I made using <a href="http://www.craftpassion.com/2009/05/recycle-tutorial-making-of-t-shirt-yarn.html/2" target="_blank">this picture tutorial.</a> <br />
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It is super wonky because I used t-shirts of varying fabrics. Some stretched far more than I wanted to and a couple (the white and grey parts that are the widest in the middle) barely stretched at all. I'm okay with it being wonky, it just let's people know that it is home made.<br />
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My most recent project was not at all inspired by anything I found on the web. I bought these metal garden mushrooms a couple years ago at the dollar store and left them out over winter so they got super rusty and a couple of them broke. So I decided to jazz them up a bit before putting them back in the garden.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then spray painted them various colours. I experimented a bit with the different colours.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now they look much better in the garden and add a bit of colour before my flowers bloom</td></tr>
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So, there you go. Evidence of my little addiction. An addiction that I have no desire to do a 12-step program for. Just look at the results - who would want to get rid of that kind of addiction? Certainly not me.
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