Blick Art Supply Printable Coupon

Here is a link to a printable coupon from Blick Art Supplies. This coupon is good for one non-sale, in-stock item and can be used only in a Dick Blick store, not valid for online. If you have a Blick store near you, this coupon will give you 40% off your one item purchase. LINK Expires 1/24/10

Redecorating in my sleep

Have you ever talked or done anything weird in your sleep? When I was a kid, I used to sleepwalk. That worried my parents, because my bedroom was upstairs. I never fell down the stairs - I seemed to know where everything was. At some point, I stopped the sleepwalking. As I got older and even after marriage, I would talk in my sleep sometimes. It was usually gibberish.

But one time, I actually did something.

About 20 years ago, my husband woke up to me saying repeatedly:

"Take it...TAKE IT...Come ON, TAKE IT!"

I had lifted a heavy picture off the wall above our bed and although I was lying down, I was holding it up by the two bottom corners, and it was wobbling right over his head (I guess I was redecorating in my sleep)

It must have been scary to wake up from deep sleep to find his wife holding a heavy picture frame over his face!

It was years before we agreed that I could hang another picture over the bed. It was part of the negotiation that I would hang the picture up high, out of arm's reach.

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Happy New Year!

I'm sure there are 4,346,964 bloggers with this same blog post title today. How unoriginal I am.

The girls had a friend spend the night. I had bought all kinds of food that is generally bad for you. The variety bag of chips. Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies, Little Debbie cupcakes. Coca-Cola.

I also bought some kazoo-sounding Happy New Year noisemakers. That was fun, but I didn't anticipate my boys blowing them first thing this morning.

It's a fun noise - if YOU are the one making it. But if you are the mom with sinus and ear congestion, you do not like the noise. You will tell the children they can't play with those right now, or mommy will have to go to a special facility.