Make your own art

I love the fact that we decided to have original art made by ourselves throughout the house. We mostly have photographs but, I also made these.

And they were so easy to make. I made them in the computer using Illustrator to draw the them. Then I put them in small frames, (which only cost a dollar each) to display them on the shelf with the books, I love them and love the fact that I made them myself.

Create yourself a logo

If you had a company you would have certain things that identify you. You will need to create an image for it. And definitely you must have a logo, that is a graphic that helps people identify your business. 
So I thought a long time ago, why not, create a logo of myself, an image that represents me. I also created the used the nick name CathyCat when I was in school. Some people called me like that, others used my other ID, Catherine, which I have since I was born.

This is my logo.



Basically I made a drawing of myself with the feature that stands out the most, (not my nose) my hair. I have big-curly-freeze hair and you can notice that in most of my pictures.

TIP: You can take your feature or trait that stands out the most and make a logo of it. You can also make a logo of a word or motto you made up or something you like.

Say thank you with a note

When someone offers me a service and I feel very satisfied with their work I want to express my gratitude for their help. I think the best way to say thank you is with a note.

In our case, we really appreciated the efforts of our lender and realtor in the process of buying our first home, they really made it easy for us, guiding us, since we didn't know much about this. So we made them this card with an illustration of our house and a sign that says SOLD.  





If you don't remember our house this is what it looks like:

Recliner versus sofa

Ramon and I realized that our old sectional wasn't going to fit in our new house so we decided to buy a new seat. The problem is that we can't make up our minds because we both want different things. Ramon wants the comfort of a recliner, since he loves to watch movies comfortably, while I prefer the look and variety of colors of modern sofas. 

Top: (The least ugly recliner we found in the store). Bottom: (A gorgeous leather sofa which I still find very comfortable).

 Ramon also likes the orange-reddish sofa, he thinks it looks good but it seems he doesn't want to compromise comfort. Uhhmm.. I see a little of indecision here and I like it. He really wants to be comfortable but yet he wants a nice looking seat. Let's see what happens. You will know!

TIP: If you want a happy marriage you have to learn how to compromise, otherwise you'll always argue for everything (I still have a lot to learn, friends).

Lucky I saved this!

Since the day I learned that probably we were moving soon I started saving all the shipping material of anything we bought those days, thinking that soon we would have to start packing for moving and that material could be useful. Well, even though we had a messy corner in the living room for almost four months I don't regret it, it was worth it. I can't believe all the things I've saved and how useful they have been.

These are some of the things I've recollected with time and the best thing is that I didn't have to spend a dime:

- Huge plastic bag for mattress.

- Some cardboard boxes.

- Styrofoam.
- A huge brown paper (great for wrapping glass and ceramic).
- Air cushions.
- Foam pads.



One of my Geisha dolls stares at her twin while waits for her turn to be wrapped in foam.

We also got boxes from my father in law, who recollected a bunch of them and saved some for us. All of this packing supplies for free!!