First time in a long time.

First time in a long time.

I can honestly lay claim to not having been awake, nay awake and coherent, past 9pm for a long while. But here I am. Wide awake at 12:18am on a Sunday.

Perhaps I can blame this alert state on spending a reminiscent day with a great friend, contracting undiscovered diseases from thrift stores and devouring delicious food. It's as if someone picked me up and shook all the ugly away. I kinda like it. Being shaken. And not this kind of ugly. We've yet to master the physical unkempt state that leaves me more than comfortable. Like sweat pants, greasy hair, and zitty comfortable. Barf.

This week I'll be keeping myself super duper, craft my fingers raw, busy preparing for Handmade Parade. My checklist includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1.  Have giant logo labels made to slap on my bags.
2. Finish tons of buntings (in order to have ONE of each style for on-the-spot purchase and three flag samples for special order)
3. Transform all of my fabric scraps into marketable rosette brooches.
4. Crochet a badrillion (real word even though spell check disagrees) flowers and headbands.
5. Fashion my table an amazing mustard/grey/silver tablecloth.
6. Work to make myself, as a female, look fantastic beyond reason.

See all that crap I still have to do?!

How do I go about adding ease of completion to all of these wonderful "to-do's"? I spend $11 on a new end table and bench for the living room that needing refinishing (think lacquered yellow...YAY!). Yep, I'm clinically insane. Or SUPER Type A. Neither option shines the brightest but I'm more than okay with that. I'll be documenting the process of each piece's transformation on Twitter and providing a full, pictorial review right here.

Disaster or not, I'm expecting to hear lots of jaws slamming against keyboards all across the world. Work with me people. Especially you, Australia!

Equipped with my finest Z-catcher, I'm off to hit the hay for a fume-inhaling filled day of what I'm sure is to be utter chaos.

I can't wait.