...your "day in the life" photo is of a vacuum cleaner. Yes, this is what describes my life today - a vacuum. I bit the bullet and purchased a new vacuum cleaner today. And if you could see the floors in my house, you'd agree it was not a moment to soon. Not just any vacuum. A Kenmore Progressive Direct Drive - voted "best bag less vacuum" by Consumer's Report (do I sound like a Sears salesperson yet?).
All joking aside, this thing rocks. I had vacuumed a small carpet with my old vacuum before I went out to Sears to get the new one. So, to practice out the new fancy features of the Kenmore, I vacuumed the same rug. I don't think you can see the almost 1 inch of dirt that came out of my "clean" rug! Dust mites be damned - I'm gonna get you now!
I wish my niece and nephew were around to play with the nice big box. I love boxes. While through a child's eyes they can be anything - a car, a house, a fort; I see organization and simplicity. I really don't need another box though so, sadly, it will go for recycle next Tuesday.
On the crafting front, I finally finished up some new Lark Studio promos I've had around forever. I had read about a product called padding compound from this post back in 2004 (see? I told you forever). I was going to buy some, but I'm really tired of having so many leftover supplies. And, the more I found out about the product, I realized I would have needed to invest in some other tools or contraptions. So I passed. But, I still liked the idea of notepads and came up with a "quick and dirty" way to get them done. I lucked onto some really cheap 3 x 5 inch 50 sheet notepads by Mead. Since they were commercial notepads, they were already "sealed" with padding compound. I also lucked onto a small supply of book binding tape from Making Memories on sale at my local scrapbook store. And guess what? The book binding tape was in Lark Studio colors - purple and blue. I printed my notepad covers, cut them to size, attached with the binding tape and tada! Lark Studio notepad promos for well under $0.50 each. Not too bad, eh?
