Stuff Portrait Friday: Giving Away the "Hobby" Horse I Made Myself...

It's Friday! And that means that it's time, once again for "Show Your Crap Day" (a phrase that gives me the chuckles, which I hijacked from Easily Amused). This fabulous game is sponsored, as always, by Kristine.

Our mission, which I chose to accept, was to find and photograph the following:

1. Something you did or made yourself.

My childrens' nursery.

We moved to this house when I was 7 months pregnant with my first son, and I was highly motivated to decorate a nursery JUST ONCE (read: too lazy to do it more than one time). That called for something gender neutral, but still cute. I couldn't find anything pre-made that suit me, so I thought "Hey, I can sew! I can paint! I can do all this stuff myself." Famous last words.
Yep, made it all: bumpers, valances, canopy, cribskirts, lampshades, paint, border. (Daddy McAustin put together the furniture while I was out of town one weekend, and that served as great inspiration.) I finished the final touches on the wall mural and the slipcover for the chair a mere 7 hours before my water broke. How's that for good timing?

2. The tools of your hobby.

This could have gotten a bit dicey, but hey, this is a family show, so I'll go with what I spend the majority of my "free" time doing/cursing at/playing with.I love photographing my family and our surroundings.

3. What you want to get rid of.

Oh, where to begin........
With the imminent arrival of Princess McAustin (who will inhabit aforementioned, previously-loved, broken-in nursery), we are in the process of moving the boys to a new room, the one formerly known as our guest room, or "Nana & Papa's room". That requires the reincarnation of our current office as the multi-purpose office/sewing/giftwrapping/bookstorage/place-for-all-stuff-without-a-home-that-we-want-to-keep station, where brave houseguests can choose to crash on the oh-so-comfy sleeper sofa - and have free DSL access! And all that stuff from those closets had to go SOMEWHERE, so to the garage it was banished.......

I know. Not pretty. Downright frightening. But craigslist is our faithful friend, we have already gotten rid of a ton, and it.will.all.get.cleared.out. See anything you want?

That does it for me. Did you play? Leave me a comment so I can check out your stuff, and go look at all the other players' at Kristine's. Have a great weekend.

I am publishing EARLY, at 3:31 am to be exact. Little Bit went to bed early last night with one of those sudden, freaky, unexplainable toddler fevers which have no other symptoms except extreme crankiness, and has awakened at this hour needing more Motrin and a cuddle. I truly believe if I could harness the heat energy radiating from that hot little body I could cool my entire house! He's back asleep, and I can only hope I will be so lucky....