Git 'er done

Do you ever have one of those days when just a leeetle bit of redneck sneaks out?  Yep, git 'er done. I woke to a 4 degree morning feeling quite productive. After getting Rowan to school (git 'er gone), I tackled the kitchen mess, started laundry (even thought the piles had not even cascaded over the sides of the hampers yet!), and actually put away most of the random, "deal with it later" piles that seemed to be in every room. And I made a pasta salad for the teacher dinner. Oh, and I showered too. (Git 'er warshed!) I told myself that if I could really git 'er done today, then I could do something fun during nap time. Well, after I caught up on Quicken finances and harassed my Daisy parents with a jillion email reminders about this and that. 2 o'clock came and found me with receipts entered, dishwasher humming, and emails sent. Time for fun!


I wrapped 3 birthday gifts yesterday (git 'er wrapped! Oh fine, I'll stop doing that.) Rowan was invited to 3 parties in the span of a week, and I am seriously thankful for my closet gift stash! The gifts are stacked in the dining room, but our "tag and card" drawer came up seriously lacking. We've got some horsey ones that are pretty baby-ish looking, and I felt like I wanted something a bit more girly. I hate to spend money on birthday cards that get looked at for 5 seconds (if even) and then trashed, so *light bulb* (do you hear the Hallelujah chorus in the background?), I can make gift tag cards!


I grabbed my stash of scrap paper bits, a few sheets of white card stock and my cutting tools. GO!

First I cut the cardstock into 3 strips, almost 3" each. I cut each strip into 2, which gives me 6 cards per page. I folded them over, then started digging through paper. I cut my first pretty paper square to be slightly smaller than the white card, then I tried to figure out how to fancy it up. Light bulb, people! If I use skinny scraps, I can cross them over the square like ribbon on a package.  (Hal-le-lu....jah!)

At first I was finding the obvious matchy papers, but then I decided to push the boundaries a little and try some different color combos. I had so much fun making the first 12, that I decided to do another 6! As I played with paper, it really started to sink in how difficult it must be for quilters to choose the fabrics for their pieces. To get that just right balance of "go together" and "contrast" it takes quite a bit of hemming and hawing. (Don't ask me what "hawing" really means either.)


So I hemmed and hawed in my clean kitchen, with bits of paper flying this way and that and constructed my oh so cutie gift tags. And yes, another light bulb! My Girl Scouts could totally do this.  File that way for the future...

It's Wednesday afternoon, and we've got an hour of chaos between school pick-up and Rowan's ballet class. Wednesday means Brynn has to be in the car for a good chunk of her crankiest time of day, I have to spend an hour in the ballet lobby pulling her away from all the no-no's, nobody eats until late, and mommy usually caves and gets us McDonalds. Which is totally justified tonight (isn't it always?) because Brad is out of town until late and I'm single parenting today!  And dude.  I totally forgot about the laundry I started...
Tomorrow, I'll git 'er done.