Stuff I Wrecked, and Then Hung on the Walls

I have been busy this month.  I am Martha-Stewarting-it-up.  Though Martha Stewart might Herself-it-up differently than I do.  For example, she might hone her culinary techniques by adding to her repertoire with new and exciting recipes, but I already have lots of exciting recipes.  So for me it means using the recipes I already have, but practicing them.  As anyone who has been over for dinner knows, I'm not naturally graceful in the kitchen.  I love to talk, but I can't multitask talk with cooking.  This means that as dinner nears, I get spastic and start using more pots.  So I've been doing cooking drills until I can make them in half the time, with half the stress and half the dishes.   My favourite recipes are all pastas with cream sauces, so October has become 'Honorary Dairy Month' as well as 'Starch Awareness Month: Are you getting enough pasta in your diet?'

I have also been crafting.  Or home decorating on a dime, as I like to think of it.  More dimes than necessary, because I keep wrecking stuff, but you get the idea.  Mainly, October's crafts have been 'Adventures in Modge-Podge'.  Modge Podge being a weird and complicated kind of glue.  What an exciting time October has been.

Light cover.  I believe my potential in this one is evident.

In this modge-podge I attempted tea-bagging the edges to make it look distressed (tea-bagging.  Where do crafters come up with these terms?  It's like they've never talked to 14yr old boys.  Click here for a more commonly used and lewd explanation of 'tea-bagging'.  Except you, Dad).  If you look closely on the far left, you can see the floral picture does look distressed, but not in the good way.  This was also an experiment in decorating.  Martha tells you to put dissimilar objects together to create decorative dissonance (she doesn't say that, I made that up).  I believe I have succeeded in that by placing together the distressed floral modge podge Fail, some dead coral that Adrian accidentally killed while fishing, and the smallest jug of barley wine ever.

More wall hangings.  I accidentally got newsprint on the one on the left, so I tried distressing it to hide the letters.  Martha makes tea-bagging look so easy.

Well.  It's better than blank walls.