My Overambitious Weekend

This past weekend I made some big plans for myself.

I had a 3 day weekend as a treat to myself and wanted to make it EPIC. So It started with plans with some fantastic friends to see The Hunger Games at the midnight premiere. By the way, Me, Leesa, Lissah, Adam, and Mi Madre had a blast and were only a tad delirious when we got out of the movie around 3 am.

For the rest of the weekend I had made plans with cousins and aunts in the other H-town. I was going specifically to help my Aunt Amanda, who has a fabulous blog that she gave up on a while back, to paint horizontal stripes down her LOOOOOONG hallway.

 see how super long??

And we had also talked about making some rag baskets to use for Easter "while waiting for the paint to dry" HAHAHAHAHAHA... What in the world was I thinking when I proposed that craft idea?? Anyway, we were still delisional on Friday and went on the hunt for the supplies we would need. We were using a tutorial from here. This lady used a "honeybun" of fabric which would typically be used for quilting. We went to a little fabric store, they didn't have honeybuns or jellyrolls (which are the larger form of the honeybun). Now I would like to throw in the little detail that neither me nor Amanda are sewers/quilters/etc so we didn't really have any ideas on where to look. We went from the small local fabric store to Hancock Fabrics, where we were met again with blank stares when asking for a honeybun. So, I put Siri (my iPhone, sorry I don't have a more unique name for her) on the job. We googled and found that the average "honeybun" is 1 1/2" wide with strips approx 44" long and typically contain 20 strips (i think). So then we did basic algebra in the middle of Hancock Fabrics to figure out how much yardage we would need and got to looking for some coordinating fabrics. Talk about stressful! We didn't really know what direction we wanted to take and felt like we were on some strange project runway challenge searching for coordinating patterns frantically in Mood. We ended up going to the back of the store just mindlessly looking in the remnants and I found a few fabulous prints that worked perfectly together (they will be featured in a future blog post). Amanda and I had determined that the fabric at Hancock was entirely too expensive for us for this project. They were having a store wide sale, but we happened to choose a variety of 5 fabrics that were all NOT on sale. There was one print that we HAD to have because we knew that the Hobby Lobby fabric section (which was our next destination) had absolutely nothing like it. We went to Hobby Lobby with my fabulous remnant fabric selections in tow to match to because this one gauzy floral print had become our inspiration piece, it had the perfect colors. They were girly and springy and PERFECT. We were successful from that point on. And I was sucked in to the vortex of HobLob and also bought some circle cutters for fondant (something our HobLob has NEVER had in stock and I always wanted), and gold leaf for a nail art I saw on Pinterest.


So what else did I do this weekend? A ton! After searching for fabrics I met up with some of my family members to eat at this burger place that they love and while we were there we saw Gary Grubbs a celebrity that I had never heard of in my life. Then me and two of my cousins went to the store to but Chex mix and ice cream cones. We were going to make cupcakes in the cones, and cake batter puppy chow. We were successful on both counts. and everyone loved the cake batter puppy chow. That is a recipe I got from Pinterest. That ended Friday.

Saturday was the big day! The stripe painting day! Amanda had measured her wall, and used more algebra to see how wide her stripes needed to be. So when I got there we got started on measuring off from the ceiling and taping. This took a bit of trial and error for the first line we felt more confident with drawing the line and taping off, all the while making sure it was completely level. Then we got to where we just needed tic marks across the wall and played "connect the dots." My job was making all the tic marks, Amanda went behind me and taped. Not gonna lie, this was stressful business. When we started making headway we decided we could only worry about the task at hand and couldn't even think about the possibility of painting the stripes. The taping was completed and I took a short break in the middle to make another batch of cake batter puppy chow for us to snack on. We also made some excellent sandwiches! But we did not get to start on our baskets.

Then what happened? I went to dinner with another aunt, we ate at this amazing restaurant, Newk's. Me and her got a pizza and a salad to split so that we could have the best of both worlds. I was apprehensive to eat the pizza because in the past anytime I have had a pizza from this fine establishment I got sick within 12 hours of eating there. But this time I was fine. Then we went to Target and I got a cute chambray shirt dress. Then another of my aunts and my cousin met us at Target and we went to this fro yo place.

I am pretty sure I gained like 300 pounds this weekend from all the eating of junk that I did.

Sunday was church day, and Grammy made some country style ribs with some flaky layers biscuits. Delish! I chilled and headed home that day.

So let us recap the plans:
1. tape off and paint horizontal stripes down long hallway
2. make rag baskets to use for Easter
3. baking night with Lindsey!

and here is what actually happened
1. tape off lines for stripes down long hallway
2. baking night with Lindsey!

Hope you enjoyed going on my adventure :)

Love,

FranklyBecca