Sunday is New Hair Day

I don't normally have time to do my hair. I brush it and put it back in a pony tail or a clip, but that's it.

That's why I have taken to trying a new hairstyle out pretty much every Sunday to church.

My go-to hair blog is www.maskcara.com. I've been working my way through a few of her tutorials, and today I tried the mother of all hair tutorials. I mean, this is mind boggling!

If you have hard to style hair, or if you style it and by the end of church it is flat, then you have got to try her Candy Coated Sea Spray recipe. http://www.maskcara.com/maskcara/2013/07/16/candy-coated-sea-spray/

This stuff is amazing! I would caution you to be careful not to put too much curl in your hair, because it doesn't lose the curl. This is not your normal hair product. This stuff really holds! Keep it wavy and natural and you'll be fine.

I went a little too curly, and now it won't lose the curl! Plus, it styled in half the time of the other tutorials I've tried. AMAZING! AND this is SIX hours after I styled it.

photo thanks to my webcam. And there is a purple towel in the background I hung over the light to try to block the back light coming in the window behind me so you could all see my face and not a black outline.

Go try it! And try her amazing make-up videos too!

UPDATE: I woke up this morning with a royal rats nest for hair!!! I had to brush it because the AC guys were coming, and then it turned into a royal frizz-ball rats nest. Be careful how much spray you use, and plan on washing your hair the day after!

We're Burning Up

It's 102 degrees outside. We still have no AC. We have not had the luxury of AC at all yet this summer.

I am still pregnant.

Pregnancy + Summer + no AC=?

I'm trying to have a good attitude, really.

I'd like to find my landlady and strangle her.

Too bad she's in California enjoying her 92 degree weather.

Pinterest! How Dare Thee!

HA! HA! HA!

I'm laughing even before this posts starts.

Oh shoot!

Did you know, not all of the amazing things you read on Pinterest always work out? Why didn't I know this? I've never had a "Pinstrosity" before, but OH MAN have I ever had one now!

It all started when I read the amazing "paint your couch" pin. It was a magnificent pin. And sometimes I get super annoyed with my college dorm furniture. So of course my mind started spinning with thoughts about how I was going to transform my furniture. I bought some of that upholstery grade fabric paint that they are always talking about. It came in the mail and I was super excited, and yet oh so scared. What if it didn't work like everyone said it would? So I did a little more research. I felt fairly confident, so I went for it.

First I sprayed the top of one couch cushion, then the sides. Hmm. It didn't cover very well, and I had just used one whole can. I waited half an hour and got out a second can. *spray, spray, spray* One more can gone. Still, the orange was showing through. I started to panic. I was all in now, so I got out the second cushion. *spray, spray, spray* One more can gone and only half of the second cushion was covered and still barely covered by the gray it was supposed to become.

FULL PANIC MODE! I had only bought six cans of this stuff. Time to get back on Pinterest! *Read, Read, Read* I had a new idea!

I was going to try the "Rustoleum water-based Stain" method. I ran to the store and picked up a quart of stain in gray. I rushed home and started applying over the top of the cushions I had just sprayed. ACK! Still not quite covering. I painted and painted until it got dark, and still I had only covered over the top of the cushions I had been spraying earlier. I had not turned the cushions over to paint the other sides yet and I was almost through an entire quart of stain!!!

Time to take a break. I decided to stop. I let the stain dry overnight and then this morning I put them on the couch. I sat down. YUCK! They were so stiff and scratchy! I got out the sandpaper. *sand, sand, sand* Much softer, but still so stiff and smelly and the orange is back and showing through the gray! ACK! What have I done?!?

*Trip to the fabric store*

Time for plan C. How about reupholstering the couch? I bought some plain gray fabric.

And this is where I am now. I have a pile of fabric, an orange couch with two smelly gray/orange cushions, and I'm sitting here thinking "If I had only just left it alone".

UGH!

HAHAHA! I think this is so very funny! And this is why I love being creative. Not every project turns out. And yes it stinks to put forth that much effort, but this is how I learn. I'd never learn how to do anything if I was scared of failing.

Have you ever had a Pinstrosity?

p.s. On a really annoying note, my platelets are down, and it looks like I will have a birth similar to Phoebe's. Super great, right? I hate that I have to worry about this again.

Lawnmower man is not going to be happy with me...

I looked out the window this morning and what did I see?

Dead grass everywhere looking at me.

I checked out the sprinkler clock and low and behold

Everything was off and growing mold (okay not really, but the clock had been off for a few weeks)

June Was Crazy

I don't even know where to begin, but MAN June was a crazy month!

I don't think I have ever in the life of this blog not put up at least one post a month, but somehow it finally happened and I missed June.

I'm getting ready for a reunion for my side of the family. It's been a lot of last minute stuff, because as you all know, that's how I roll. And yeah, my sister Laura and I are in charge of it together. I'm sure she has wanted to kill me a few times, but that's just how we are. We're good now and everything has come together awesomely. I'm super excited!

And I meant to post this here a while ago, but a sister-in-law kindly reminded me that I still haven't spilled the beans about what we are having. Better late than never, right? We are having a BOY! There ya go. I'm always skeptical, but it doesn't matter what we have because I'm ready either way. We just want the end result to be a healthy baby.

We were also able to see Trevor's brother's family sealed in the Boise Temple last month. It was a sweet ceremony and one I will never forget. Love family!

My parents came home from their mission in Indiana. It's nice to have them close again. I'm thinking they are happy we had their air conditioner fixed when we lived there because HOLY COW it is so HOT lately!!

The air conditioner in our car and house are broken. It stinks. Mostly it stinks to try to sleep at night. It's really not bad during the day. I was holding out and I wasn't going to turn it on in the house until July, but Trevor caved and turned it on last Thursday. Bummer that it's broken. And since we have had so many trips, we aren't going to be home long enough to have it fixed until next week. So until then we will just be hot like normal.

I feel like I'm leaving so many details out, but I've got to go keep the laundry going and get more family reunion stuff done. I'll put up some pictures next time!

Alyson