Crafty ADD - or "Why my house is always a mess"
I started to clean today, I really did.
My apartment is disasterous - as per usual, much to the chagrin of my very neat-ish hubby. So I thought, oh I'll be nice and pick things up a little bit so that hubby can come home to a decent looking house, instead of usual, previously mentioned pigsty.
Then I walked into the kitchen and saw this:
and this:
Plastic bags leeching the cute out of my happy homemaker existence. I don't even really use plastic bags anymore. I have re-usable ones from the grocery store. We simply hang on to these plastic baggies to re-use as trash bags, or take things to peoples houses, or stuffing for packages and such.
I took the bags down from the shelves/fridge to find we had enough of them to serve the aforementioned purposes for our lifetimes:
Insert this face here.
There was sewing to be done immediately. I used this tutorial - (you'll have to scroll down a bit) - as a guideline. I thought that 30" long would be gigantic for a plastic bag dispenser, but boy was I wrong. The massive finished project could not contain all of our plastic bags...there is still a small bagful on top of the fridge - sheesh. I'm still pleased with the results:
TA-DA!
This thing is so stuffed to the seams, I could do serious bodily injury with it. I used two of my precious Super Buzzy fabrics - the matroyshka and Russian village prints, and some scraps from my stash. Now I have to make re-usable bags for Matt to keep in his car - clearly we don't need anymore plastic in this house.
So the moral of this post is that I never get anything done around here because I get distracted and start a project, or read, or create a trail of little messes or any of those three in combination. I'm trying to improve, but hey, such is life. And now I have a cute plastic bag dispenser - so my kitchen sort of looks prettier. Maybe I should make a waterproof drape for the sink to cover up those dirty dishes...hmmm.
My apartment is disasterous - as per usual, much to the chagrin of my very neat-ish hubby. So I thought, oh I'll be nice and pick things up a little bit so that hubby can come home to a decent looking house, instead of usual, previously mentioned pigsty.
Then I walked into the kitchen and saw this:
and this:
Plastic bags leeching the cute out of my happy homemaker existence. I don't even really use plastic bags anymore. I have re-usable ones from the grocery store. We simply hang on to these plastic baggies to re-use as trash bags, or take things to peoples houses, or stuffing for packages and such.
I took the bags down from the shelves/fridge to find we had enough of them to serve the aforementioned purposes for our lifetimes:
Insert this face here.
There was sewing to be done immediately. I used this tutorial - (you'll have to scroll down a bit) - as a guideline. I thought that 30" long would be gigantic for a plastic bag dispenser, but boy was I wrong. The massive finished project could not contain all of our plastic bags...there is still a small bagful on top of the fridge - sheesh. I'm still pleased with the results:
TA-DA!
This thing is so stuffed to the seams, I could do serious bodily injury with it. I used two of my precious Super Buzzy fabrics - the matroyshka and Russian village prints, and some scraps from my stash. Now I have to make re-usable bags for Matt to keep in his car - clearly we don't need anymore plastic in this house.
So the moral of this post is that I never get anything done around here because I get distracted and start a project, or read, or create a trail of little messes or any of those three in combination. I'm trying to improve, but hey, such is life. And now I have a cute plastic bag dispenser - so my kitchen sort of looks prettier. Maybe I should make a waterproof drape for the sink to cover up those dirty dishes...hmmm.
posted by Geek+Nerd at 10:19 PM
4 Comments:
Sarah - That is the funniest post I've ever read!!!! You are hylarious!!!!LOL
I started knitting string bags to put our bags in! Thank you for the comment x I love the look of your blog too.
Ahhh yes! My Sister across the water!! We too have rabbit like plastic bags. I too need to make a dispenser!
Love it! I really need one of these. We have started using re-useable bags but we still have a huge stash of plastic bags that need a better home than the wine rack (they are taking up valuable room!).
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