mad craftin’

We have this room downstairs. It’s kind of like a basement and has become the catch all for everything that has no place in the house. I was finally inspired to clean it out last week, in an effort to create a kind of studio space.  It’s definitely not cute and just kind of pieced together with what I had… but everything now kind of has a place.

before (GROSS!)

after

I’m actually really digging my lockers that I scored at the state surplus, now a vibrant Longhorn orange (hook ‘em) (sorry, I’ve been watching too much Friday Night Lights on Netflix and I am totally into football for the first time in my life–just when I leave Texas).

I was actually able to put my new “studio” to use for the first time with a few simple projects. I’ve been so uninspired to create anything with fabric this summer, so I had to go back to the real basics and make some good old bandana pants for Bird. The boys were jealous of her new threads so we had to dig up two of their new school t-shirts and have some freezer paper stencil fun.

And now (to make this post even longer…) I have to tell you a story. Bird was totally obsessed with a strange video on YouTube about a cat named Burger and Fries. He’s super mad because he has the stupidest name for a cat. Ever. For months and month, every time we turned on the computer she asked to see Mad Kitty. I couldn’t check my email without watching this loathsome video. What made it even worse, is that it became a game in which my kids all tried to act like mad kitties. The noise generated was something on par with real cats in heat. seriously.awful. Anyway, Mad Kitty kind of took on celebrity status in our house and that’s how my new label was born. I can see a faint glimmer of  Mad Kitty’s name in stars (just please don’t call it Burger and Fries).

Here’s the video, but be leery of showing it to your toddlers for fear Mad Kitty will take over your life.