SAINTS!!! shirt

So other than being a total ass for the Superbowl, I also made this shirt with a matching bow. Here's how you can do it:

1. ƒirst, rustle yourself up a sweatshirt or t-shirt you want to paint on. I got lucky, and found this black one for $1 on sale at the Rugged Warehouse, but I assume a Goodwill will do you just as well. American Apparel shirts are great for this purpose.

2. Make a stencil. I found the Saints logo's I used by simply typing in "Saints logo" on Google.

For example:

I printed it out, and traced it onto a thicker paper. An old paper shopping bag would do the trick nicely if you haven't happened to have an internship where your only job is to pass our fliers, and you got bored after 75 or so and hid the last 25 at home. Here are my stencils:

In this picture, they've already been painted on.

3. Lay out your sweatshirt and pin your stencils down flat. This works best if you have a piece of cardboard and pushpins. Just pin the design right through the shirt onto the cardboard. I wanted the fuzzy effect, so I didn't really pin it down at all. Your image will be more crisp if you do though. Anyway! Go to work with spray paint. Make sure you have covered all of the edges of your stencil so as not to get any stray marks on your shirt. Again, I was not very careful about this. The spray paint won't stay forever, but it lasts through a year or so's worth of washes, and it works. You could always use t-shirt paint and a roller to accomplish this step. Whatever floats your boat. I'm an instant gratification kind of gal, so the spray paint gets my engine going.

4. Trim the shirt. cut out the neck, off the sleeves. Heck, make it a crop-top if you so desire. I probably woudn't have cut the sleeves, but they were kind of funny and tight at the wrists. I'm not knocking my shirt though, those fussy sleeves are probs the reason the shirt was on clearance for a $1 anyway. Put on your shirt. Love it.

Here's my finished product:

Also, notice the headband? I'm a freak for bows right now. Yes, the kind you wore when you were a kid. Somehow, they are a lot easier for me to keep on my head now then when I was a kid. I sprayed a ribbon of the appropriate size and length with the gold spray I used on the shirt. It was a little stiff, but it did the trick: accessorized my hair to match my shirt. Job well done, ribbon bow.

SAINTS!!!

So! The Saints won the Superbowl! I know, I know, this happened 2 days ago, and is technically old news. However, I was atrociously ashamed yesterday about my Superbowl behavior, and didn't really want to get out of bed, let alone blog about how happy/proud I was. I went to a party with a bunch of people who weren't fans of either team, and were there just to watch. I knew it was a mistake, but I should have guessed that bringing the Cruzan 151 that mysteriously popped up at our house would be a mistake as well.

At one point, my beau leaned over and happily said, "I think people are drinking the rum!" It sat on our shelf for so long that we weren't sure if it would ever see it's life's purpose of getting people drunk/buzzed acheived. Looking back on it, I think Dan was mistaken. I think that it was me who drank all that rum. Anyway, I'm glad that those people aren't my friends. They wouldn't want to ever have anything to do with me and football again.

Also, I had a terrible terrible nightmare that stemmed from me trying to train my dog not to get on the couch. I used a pillow to shoo her off because I heard somewhere that you should never use your hands to do anything but pet a dog. I felt so guilty about it because honestly, I didn't hit her with the pillow, but she seemed so out of sorts about being shooed by a big neon yellow pillow that she was more terrified than the time I beat the couch up to prove to my dog that she didn't need to associate with it. Anyway, the dog's still on the couch, and I have pretty much given up because of the dream. In the dream, my shooing guilt surfaced in me making a joke in really poor taste to my cousin about spanking my dog to teach her, and I got a blast of hate mail. When I woke up, I was so scared that it happened in my guilt/Superbowl 151 stupor that I searched everywhere to make sure it hadn't. Thankfully, it hasn't/didn't/will never happen. My pup is my baby, and is totally spoiled rotten. I mean, I make her food from scratch. I won't even cut up raw chicken and cook it to feed my boyfriend, sooo....

This is Gela as a puppy.

Amazingly broke after a ridiculous adventure to the Amazing Race

About two weeks ago, I was thinking about how The Bachelor is the craziest show out there because the contestants and bachelor talk about marriage so freely. I mean, surely some of them have seen any VH1 ...of love show out there. Most of the time the person looking for love isn't even with the person they pick by the time the entire season has aired. From that thought, I had a whole stream of consciousness that eventually lead me to looking up The Amazing Race casting calls. Surely enough, they were right in the middle of casting, but the closest call was in Yonkers NY, which is totally far away. Not knowing you could simply video yourself and send that in, I convinced Lauren to make the journey with me.

We thought we could do it on about $60 each. Plus, my Mom through in $50 to make it happen. We got to Raleigh (4 hours) and realized that we didn't have a video to submit (and thought that it was mandatory). We got to Richmond (8 hours?) and realized that our funds were going much more quickly than anticipated. We got to Reston VA where we were going to stay for the night (10 hours) and realized that we were much hungrier than the can of tomato soup we brought and thought we could live off of for dinner that night.

The next morning, I saw a crazy crash on the road. I hope those people are ok. We had a fight about an hour outside of NY, and tried to turn around but thought we were lost. By the time I felt that we should just pull off and try to get a free wireless signal, New York NY was outside of our window. It completely crept up on me. I figured that we had several hours to wait in line, and hopefully we could pull it together.

The day went totally up from there. Our linemates, Victoria and her hubby Stephen, were totally adorable, and indulged us in all of our silly jokes. They also offered us fries like, 100 times in the span of 2 minutes which was super nice. Then we met these two middle-aged twins who claimed that on their application, the famous person they both thought they were most like was Bill Cosby, so we called them the Cosby twins. Also, the casino that the auditions were in gave us $10 each! Turns out that that doesn't really translate into real money. They only paid us $2. Then, we stopped at a bagel shop, which gave us a free bagel and mini-cheesecake. Aweesssommme!

The ride home started at 4 pm and ended at 6 am. And, a snowstorm started and lasted the last 6 hours. It was hateful.

We're hoping that our Southern charm gets us on, cross your fingers!

Also, I had a job interview, and it went really fingers! Double cross your fingers!

xoxo!

I have a job interview! After much persistence (I applied, then stopped by, then called, then called again) I am going in tomorrow for an interview as a Merchandising Specialist! College Degree in action! I want to get into fashion, PR or events planning, so this job is on the course to my dream life!

I am feeling on top of the world! I'm going to try to finish working on the headboard I started making what seems like ages ago, and maybe even find some yarn to make a big chunky throw and matching pillows with. (I got the idea from this badass throw, and think I will try to accomplish the goal on the 10 hour drive to audition for the AMAZING RACE!!!) My bedroom will be transformed soon, hopefully! I've been on this kick lately where I have all of these ideas, but haven't brought any to fruition because Dan and I are going to move in the next six months. For example: I don't want to make a new kitchen table out of salvaged wood because we are moving, and it will be a pain to move. Or, I don't want to buy this book about stenciling walls called Stencil 101 Decor by Ed Roth which looks AWESOME because I don't want to paint the walls back white in 3 months. UGHH!

I also made these dog treats from my fav homegirl Martha last night! They were so adorable, and I think my pup loves them. So, I am going to try and bribe her into learning some manners with them today. I also have plans to got to Columbia, SC to visit my little sister Cynthia for the Superbowl, and will take some that I made in the shape of a chicken to her beau. Maybe I'll take the pig. I thought I had a heart shaped cookie cutter, but no such luck.