Projects.

Well, it's been a busy semester at the Chambers home... Ben has been busy with tests, presentations, work, and more tests. I have been busy with work, cooking new pintrest meals, attempting to keep the house clean, and more work. I also have periodically in a bad mood so I try not to blog during those times. I figure it's just not worth remembering the random PMS moments that are stupid to begin with. So... I remember the good ones. And today I am in an especially grateful mood. So I thought it'd be best to blog. :) First off, in our random few moments of spare time (that we have to schedule into our week) Ben and I finished some projects and got lots of cleaning done. 

Have I already mentioned that we organized the storage under our bed? If not, we did and it's been wonderful. I know exactly where [most] everything is.. and if I forget, I just look at these pics and can remember.

Aside from the cleaning, I am done cutting up my t-shirts for my quilt and just need about a half-yard more of interfacing to iron on the pieces. I'm hoping to take my machine to CA and sew some of my quilt with my mom (IFwe can actually go to CA for Christmas--fingers crossed!). While waiting to sew my quilt pieces together, I've been making table cloths. Here is the first one on the table. and the one I'm about to make before I got to bed tonight.. I LOVE this yellow fabric!

As for Ben, he has wanted to make some end tables for our bedroom ever since our landlords gave us a TON of free wood.. So, we decided to do it. Here's the process and finished products:

 We also bought little tubs so we could put storage underneath them. Mine has all my socks, tights and other random clothes I never wear. I think I'll be able to part with most of it after this winter (depending on what I use and don't use). It's nice to have a little extra space in the dresser.

 While Ben was making those and when he didn't need me to hold something in place while he sawed or drilled, I was busy cutting up my paint samples to make a menu calendar for our kitchen.

 Here's the finished product. It's in a frame which makes it dry-erasable. It's pretty precious and I like being able to see what's on the menu without having to search the house for my little scrap of paper I wrote it on..

I think that's it for the projects. We've had a great few weeks and I'm feeling very accomplished. As my mom has told me and Ben has learned, I always need to be doing something... Luckily, Ben understands and is sometimes the same way. We have fun doing projects together. Well, I need to go write another post on something else... that's all for this one. :)